Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
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Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
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Re: Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
#2wow, love the honesty of some of these, killer compilation
really liked this --> "From the start, I was aware that I was taking on a huge project that other companies have devoted entire teams to, but I chose to look at it as more of a mental challenge than a technical one. I knew I had the skillset to pull it off, I just had to keep myself motivated and on track."
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#3enjoy how there's perspective given from the responders with their current MRR as well. as a founder of a bootstrapped tech-enabled service startup with $135k+ MRR is cash flow. Accounts Receivable is a PITA and it still hasn't been solved (even with the likes of bill.com, harvest, stripe, paypal, qbo, etc...) - i'd almost pay for a company to outsource our AR to completely to represent us on initial AR, 30-90 day AR, collections, demand letters, and ultimately lawsuits if needed. bleh.
Re: Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
#4wow, love the honesty of some of these, killer compilation really liked this --> "From the start, I was aware that I was taking on a huge project that other companies have devoted entire teams to, but I chose to look at it as more of a mental challenge than a technical one. I knew I had the skillset to pull it off, I just had to keep myself motivated and on track."
Heh, that's mine and about my Sciter project.
Sciter is pretty full implementation of HTML5 and CSS, has scripting engine on board, etc. So, indeed, I am personally competing with teams behind WebKit, Trident, Gecko, V8 (JS Engine), Chakra (MS JS Engine) and bunch of others.
And recently with ReactJS (Sciter got Reactor - native implementation of ReactJs), Angular and others.
And that is really a fun project to work on - many different paradigms on the same code base.
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#5Is IndieHackers completely fucked for anyone else right now in Chrome 80.0.3987.106 on MacOS? The js and CSS static assets are getting blocked for some reason, even after disabling all my extensions and refreshing the page in incognito and without cached assets.
edit: Works fine in Safari, but the same thing is happening in Firefox.
Re: Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
#6Is IndieHackers completely fucked for anyone else right now in Chrome 80.0.3987.106 on MacOS? The js and CSS static assets are getting blocked for some reason, even after disabling all my extensions and refreshing the page in incognito and without cached assets. edit: Works fine in Safari, but the same thing is happening in Firefox.
I had the same issue with the link on both safari & firefox, I used the readerview on firefox as a workaround.
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#7The site is not working/rendering properly in both Chrome and Firefox.
Re: Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
#8love the honesty
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#9enjoy how there's perspective given from the responders with their current MRR as well. as a founder of a bootstrapped tech-enabled service startup with $135k+ MRR is cash flow. Accounts Receivable is a PITA and it still hasn't been solved (even with the likes of bill.com, harvest, stripe, paypal, qbo, etc...) - i'd almost pay for a company to outsource our AR to completely to represent us on initial AR, 30-90 day AR…
at that size, would it be better to just hire an in-house accounting/book-keeping person?
Re: Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
#10I'd add the struggle / time it took to really deeply comprehend what 'build, measure, learn' means in practice. And realizing that there is a more scientific approach to building good products. For example by using Hypothesis-Driven Development [1]. We wasted lots of time (and money) at the beginning with our own stupid assumptions.
[1] Hypothesis-driven development (HDD) https://teamsuccess.io/hdd