None that have failed
How many failed startups have you launched?
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Re: How many failed startups have you launched?
#12Sadly - too many.
Still pushing what has now turned into a pet project, serves many free members, but none that feel its worth paying for.
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#131. The idea and implementation was decent, but very hard to effectively get companies to pay for it and would have been destroyed by the bot apocalypse on the web. Also, turns out I don’t really want to run a SaaS. Still happy I challenged myself, shipped and convinced a few people to pay for it.
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#162 formally. First one lost money, second one made money but killed it off.
Failed projects though?
Probably in the 30s-50s number now, including my latest project which I spent 6 months on - almost all my spare time.
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#19For people who are looking for a mostly succesful steady product, find a niche that others would not even consider because of how boring it is. Usually you end up doing research about the most boring logic that ends up being kind of fun. The people who QA will happily tell you why your product is broken, because it'll beats anything manual they're doing right now.
Any examples handy?
Re: How many failed startups have you launched?
#20Only 1 at the moment. A media platform for posting articles that you could charge people access for, sorta like Medium or Substack. What I realised pretty quickly was the following:
1. Getting paid to pay for text based on content was extremely difficult, and there's a reason things like Blendle didn't work out.
2. UK investment into B2C startups is minimal compared to in the US, since the former tends to be a lot more... substainable than the moonshot focused investment landscape in Silicon Valley.
3. While I had some experience as a web developer at various agencies, I wasn't really technically skilled enough to implement the kind of features and systems I'd need for a system like this.