Persisting as a solo founder

Post by eruci » Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

pknerd wrote: post #260

eruci wrote: post #251

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I originally started https://foodpages.ca and dinehere.us then built https://geocode.ca to provide local search functionality, then expanded worldwide with geocode.xyz and 3geonames.org, also got into collaborative fiction writing with fictionpad.com and price comparison engines with comparify.xyz & askvini.com (which I sold on flippa) and real estate aggregator sites (shitet.net and landhub.ca, landhub.us). Currentl…

Thanks for your kind reply. I might like to have some guidance for starting as a solo founder. Is it possible to ask you a few questions via Email or something? How may I contact you, provided if you are willing? Thanks

Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

double0jimb0 wrote: post #210

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The toughest part of this is finding a product that people are willing to pay for. The sunk cost fallacy kicks in, and everyone doubles down on pushing the product and iterating until they finally have no choice but to admit failure. I think YC does a great job of getting people to ask what is the absolute least amount of work I can do to validate an idea. Can you send texts instead of build an app? Can you do it all…

100% disagree. People good at this “know it when they see it” on the “finding a product that people are willing to pay for”. They don’t find this part hard. What is hard is keeping mistakes/ignorance marginally less fatal than the ground you gain in your successes... forever.