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The part where I begged for funding is another story: https://blog.tooljet.com/raising-vc-funding-for-open-source-... Also the link to HN launch that helped a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421408
FYI, the Tutorial link in the footer of the tooljet site seems to be dead: https://docs.tooljet.com/docs/intro
Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
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#42There is no time for Worrying about titles -- I was "Jack of All Trades" for 4 years at the company I co-founded before I became CEO!
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#44> if someone from the team steps up and adds a lot of value that is expected from a co-founder, we will definitely promote the person as a co-founder How can someone get the title of a cofounder of an already (at least) 2 years old company which is already set up an running? I understand that traditionally this person then represents in investor meetings, but why does it need to be a _founder_ title of something that…
Agreed. To me, a co-founder is anyone pre-money. Anyone post-money is an employee.
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Very cool, thanks for sharing. Windmill looks well done. I've got a few ideas I'm mulling over in the dev tools space and would consider going the solo technical founder. Will definitely reach out for some advice when the time comes. Out of curiosity, any downsides to use the .dev tld?
I would prefer the windmill.com domain but a cool windmill museum has it. I have not seen any downsides except Google (who owns the .tld) kept refusing to approve our oauth because the approval team was convinced that .dev could only be for testing.
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#46It seems to me that every great tech company needs two things to get off the ground. A product that actually works well and execution on the business side. Few people have the skills to do both of these things well. Apple got started with the two Steves (Jobs and Wozniak). One built the first couple of computer designs. The other was a sales and marketing genius. If you have a product that is possible to launch in ju…
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#47[unpopular opinion] If you struggle with this decision then you have other problems. There is no time for Worrying about titles -- I was "Jack of All Trades" for 4 years at the company I co-founded before I became CEO!
Re: Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
#48[unpopular opinion] If you struggle with this decision then you have other problems. There is no time for Worrying about titles -- I was "Jack of All Trades" for 4 years at the company I co-founded before I became CEO!
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#49Be careful with advice like this. You don't know if the company has yet succeeded. A lot of it is quite logical but at the same time many things are an anomaly e.g the tool launched and closed fundraising within a short period of time. That's not always how it works out. Just because first commit to funding was 3 months doesn't mean you'll experience the same thing. I struggled for 4 years alone on an OSS project bef…