Another solo founder...
There are benefits to working alone (insert Mr. Incredible Meme here)
No need to worry about salary or splitting the company. You can pivot really easily and you have 100% control of decisions.
Persisting as a solo founder
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I have a question about this. Is SEO really still relevant and necessary? Is it really effective? I've been wondering about this for a while. It seems to me that everybody is doing it anyway, and that in the end what counts is that many pages link to your page. Meanwhile, search engines heavily penalize certain "optimizations". If you have a page that loads instantly and contains all the standard meta tags and keywor…
A lot of people don’t do technical SEO right. It sounds like you’re asking about whether there is something other than technical SEO and links to do right? Not really. If you write good content, with relevant keywords, and people link to it, that is good SEO. Not clear what distinction you’re trying to draw. There may be some scammy stuff with short term results, but you’re always one step away from an algo change or…
There's gotta be like a github repo somewhere that lays out the actual technical aspects of SEO, without any of the bullshit. Anyone know of a project like that?
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#53Looks good, but I don't understand how you can compete with Google & Apple with a photo organizer app.
You may want to use Flutter or similar tool so you don't have to write it twice.
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#54> While not all of them genuinely care, some do, and these conversations force me to reflect on how well I’m doing what I’m doing.
The act of describing what you're doing clearly enough that a 3rd party can make sense of it already helps, no matter who your conversation target is and how much they care.
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#55Solo Founder.
I have done Meditation, gratitude journals and focused transitions. It all helps.
However, for me the activity that helps the most is hard workouts early in the morning. Once I get going, I am fighting against gravity and fatigue. I am no longer thinking about my past, future or even the day. Just focused on the moment.
I am in a similar boat as you OP. I am very happy on a daily basis, building the product. I am also pretty financially stretched so that adds a level of stress. I hope your product is a giant success.
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> taking 7 months to build and not shipping anything So I spent the first couple of months chasing an on-premise alternative to photo storage[1]. Then I realized that the product was difficult to sell, and required a substantial investment of capital so I pivoted to an E2EE alternative on the cloud. I also spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to raise investment, which I regret at this point. > how long are you…
Oh that looks great (but.. lol) I'd lead with "Share your family's photos, access them everywhere you want them" rather the rather conspiratorial "corporations cannot be trusted". At least if you want to appeal to families. But what do I know! I pay $99/year for Mylio which does importing, syncing & basic editing between devices, but my goodness it's slow - the only saving grace is that it's faster than Lightroom. My…
> Mylio
Mylio looks really cool, thanks for sharing!
> spend 50% of your time marketing
As a thin-skinned introvert, marketing doesn't come naturally to me. But yes, I've been trying to internalize this and in fact this blog post was a step towards putting myself out there.
> I have an embarrassing prototype of my product out right now
That's fantastic! I hope things work out the way you want them to. :)
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> even telling me that he himself only sleeps 2-3 hours per night just so that he can do more physics. It's always fascinating to see people make claims like this, despite all evidence showing that it's impossible to maintain. Some extreme genetic outliers may be able to sustain performance with around 5 hours of sleep per night, but no one is going to last very long on 2-3 hours per sleep each night.
How do you rule out if the professor is an extreme genetic outlier? Seems like the kind of place you’d expect to find such an outlier.
Has there ever been a documented medical case of someone surviving on less than 3 hours of sleep a night indefinitely?
I've read a lot of sleep studies, and besides some non-scientifically published variations on Buckminster Fuller's 30 minute nap every six hour sleep schedule I haven't read about someone getting such low amounts of sleep.
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> taking 7 months to build and not shipping anything So I spent the first couple of months chasing an on-premise alternative to photo storage[1]. Then I realized that the product was difficult to sell, and required a substantial investment of capital so I pivoted to an E2EE alternative on the cloud. I also spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to raise investment, which I regret at this point. > how long are you…
How much time do you estimate you've spent developing the product?
Barring a few weeks that were spent dealing with family situations, the last 7 months was spent full time building orma.in and then ente.io.
If your question is from an engineering perspective, I'd say ~65% of my working hours were spent in writing and rewriting code.
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#59I can relate ente in Malayalam ️️
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you rule out if the professor is an extreme genetic outlier? Seems like the kind of place you’d expect to find such an outlier.
Has there ever been a documented medical case of someone surviving on less than 3 hours of sleep a night indefinitely? I've read a lot of sleep studies, and besides some non-scientifically published variations on Buckminster Fuller's 30 minute nap every six hour sleep schedule I haven't read about someone getting such low amounts of sleep.
I've been on that little sleep for months. It takes away from any clear thought. Very unproductive. Not something anyone should do on purpose.