My Failure Resume

On the one hand, a bit heart breaking.

On the other hand, I wish more people shared their failures-- otherwise all we see is survivorship bias and people selling get rich courses "I made a million dollars doing this ONE TRICK and you can too! Only 9 payments of $999.99"

I only have 4-5 failures (compared to his dozens), but then I only started 4-5 projects :)

I co-founded Trusu in 2018. We were acquired in 2020 and that revenue came within the first year of that. I ended up providing over 100 million Facemasks around the world and South East Asia. Technically my company was 1 full time person and 1 full time contractor at the time of that revenue but obviously had a ton of help from the company that acquired us and spun out the company.

Even more impressive. Inspired me to get more fails under my belt.

When it comes to entrepreneurship the act of creating serves someone else, when you are an artist the act of creating itself has value.

So if you consider yourself an artist this is fine. If you consider yourself an entrepeneur, I will offer the following advice:

You take way too little time to build something.

Spend a year per site/idea, not a month.

Take Lazy Reminders. It might be a challenge to be profitable with this idea, but to get to a 1000 users in a few months should be easy. Could be useful in many ways, but now it looks more like a back of the envelope idea that's never been finished, way to soon to move on. Make it something a non-developer would use, the bar is a bit higher for consumers then coporates. You are competing with Google, Apple & Facebook UX-wise. You can go 50% less but not more. Corporates are more forgiving, they are used to shitty software (SAP thank you ;)) Also. Integrate with users existing workflows, at least one: slack / whatsapp etc.

Only after 1-2 years you get a proper understanding of your users and you really start to create usefull things they actually need.

Anyway nothing wrong with creating, but if you are measuring success based upon usage standard, you should spend more time on one project.

I like the message of this website. The individual failures aren't the point. The failure is too much ambition and not enough appreciation. It seems like the OP was running from something and they are warning us from wasting our lives chasing mediocrity.