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Re: I am done. I give up
#12The thing is you are not the minority. Those who are successful are a very small minority who just had the stars aligned at the right moment at the right moment with some luck. When you consider it, those promoters are selling you picks and shovels so that you can find your gold. But similar to the gold rush, we know that very small amount of people actually found gold and from those who found it, a smaller amount was able to sustain that.
I'm sorry that your enterprises have failed but this doesn't surprise me. I'm happy that you changed your direction (imho, it's not giving up) to something different. It's very hard to find the point where you let it go while success seems such a very short distance away like you can reach your hand and grab it. But it's so frustrating that even if you are approaching your goal, you can't just close the distance and it's still far away.
There will be people who will label you as a "loser" as you "gave up on your dreams", but you are not actually. You are just one of millions of people who were trying to make it but didn't. I doesn't matter if your idea was great or not, if your execution was perfect or not, if your audience was willing to pay or not, if the time was right or not, sometimes it just doesn't work. And it's still OK.
Best of luck to you.
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#13> It's okay to admit defeat and move on to something else.
It is better to have tried and failed than not having tried at all.
I live the comfortable life of a decently paid employee, but I always wonder what could have been had I chosen a different path.
Good luck with whatever and wherever your life takes you next!
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#14You aren't alone. These influencers sell an unachievable dream that they themselves do not even live. I wish you all the best in whatever it is that you choose to do.
It is true. influencers show the highlights of their journeys mostly. while at the same time if they were doing so well, they wouldn't be needing to sell a course teaching you how.
don't be so hard on yourself. sadly the market is rational when mature, and a lot of social media driven ideas have already hit that stage of low alpha.
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#15It must be the time of the year that makes people reflect and change the trajectory of their efforts in the year to come. I'm there with you. Most people say don't call it a failure, you didn't fail, despite it feeling like that. Everything you have done has gotten you to this point in your life, for some of that you have to be grateful, you have to look at the good things in your life and say, if it were not for this journey I would not have these things in my life. The experiences matter, the journey matters and the outcomes along the way are not as binary as you'd think. In your eyes you've failed to build a successful company, but if you reframe that by changing your expectations then you'll see how much you've grown, how much you've changed and that without trying to build these things you may have lived a life of regret, a lesser life.
Head up, chin up. Take some time to breathe and reflect, but don't let it consume you. The best years of your life are still ahead of you. The journey isn't over. Maybe it's not the entrepreneurial journey you want, but it could be something else that lets you embody that other ideas, people and places.
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#16Hello, I'd would love to talk with you if possible, juanpablosarmi on Twitter.
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Re: I am done. I give up
#17Sorry to hear that. How long were you trying for? A lot of these guys were at it for years and years before they found success. It can be brutal in the beginning.
I think it's unfair to characterise the "digital nomad influencers" on Twitter as making it seem easy. I know a few of them personally and they work incredibly hard. You can tell by the speed at which they ship new products. They work a lot.
That said, building a Twitter audience of indie hacker types is massively overrated. It's a huge amount of work and the space is utterly saturated. These people generally don't buy stuff and if you try a lot of different ideas then the chances are that many of them are not in your target market.
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#18Yep it's that hard. I respect your decision. Go do something else. Find yourself again. Replenish. Find a new life direction.
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#19You aren't alone. These influencers sell an unachievable dream that they themselves do not even live. I wish you all the best in whatever it is that you choose to do.
It is true. influencers show the highlights of their journeys mostly. while at the same time if they were doing so well, they wouldn't be needing to sell a course teaching you how. don't be so hard on yourself. sadly the market is rational when mature, and a lot of social media driven ideas have already hit that stage of low alpha.
I used to spend time on indiehackers and it's lousy with those types. Anyone selling 1) a course 2) a newsletter or 3) a community is a charlatan in my eyes.
Maybe an unfair view but those are the "get rich quick with no effort" ideas that these people are into.
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#20I'm sorry you didn't find the success you were looking for as an entrepreneur. I've been there, burned out and desperate, and it's a horrible way to feel. But at least you did try and if you take the time you need to heal, you'll have energy to do sonagain in the future.
Maybe it won't be entrepreneurship, however. The world is huge and there's an unlimited number of ways to define success besides creating a successful business.
Mental and physical health and good social connections are one such way. If you can find your way back to those and recognize that as the success you need, at this time, then I for one will be applauding you.
Once you've climbed that mountain another purpose will find it's way to you.
On a personal note, I think the world would be a better place if less people defined success as personal wealth and power, and more defined it as improving the society around them. When you have energy to be active in the world again, maybe you could try looking at it that way instead?
What kind of service can you, and your skills, best give to this world and its people, animals, and environment?