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Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by tluyben2 »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #24
sheinsheish wrote: post #15

Don’t give up after the first try. I understand it costed you money and time. Money is what you need to survive. Do you have second thoughts? Dilemma? Like going back to it and trying again, this time slow and during your free time (=when not working) ??

I agree, he said 10 weeks and 3 tries. That's hardly 1 normal attempt.

But 10 weeks for 3 ideas is not enough... 10 weeks for 1 idea, maybe... If it's something that sells something, like SaaS. These ideas did not even have real monetising strategies behind them from the looks of it.

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by sokoloff »

anjc wrote: post #21
grenoire wrote: post #3

Although a bit harsh in writing, JustStartNoob's comment [0] is honestly a good analysis. The guy had an idea and tried to force it through as hastily as possible with the sole goal of 'making it.' Unsurprisingly, it didn't work out. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/comments/dkyq92/how_i_was...

> "I spent stupid money throwing shit at a non-stick wall, realized the wall was non-stick, so started spending money throwing shit at a different non-stick wall instead". This is the worst possible interpretation of OP's venture, and must be written by a 12 year old if $1900 is "stupid money" Edit: I'm not saying that $1900 is not a significant amount of money to many people in the world. But it is NOT a lot of mone…

For the benefit of others, the totality of that comment is much richer and more thoughtful than the snarky snippet you quoted.

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by danilocesar »

mattigames wrote: post #14
danilocesar wrote: post #7

This reminds me that fateful question that we, software engineers, use to hear from our moms/dads/family: "Why don't you start a facebook?"

This amuses me to no end, I have never got that question, the closest thing was "you do websites right? do you know how to hack someone's Facebook?"

I've heard this a few times. I know some friends had this question too. There are some variance, but the context is the same: "Look this guy, he started facebook when he was 19 and he's now a billionaire, why don't you try the same?"

Maybe it's my social context...

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by LeonM »

mattigames wrote: post #14
danilocesar wrote: post #7

This reminds me that fateful question that we, software engineers, use to hear from our moms/dads/family: "Why don't you start a facebook?"

This amuses me to no end, I have never got that question, the closest thing was "you do websites right? do you know how to hack someone's Facebook?"

I run an email security business, we do fraud prevention and monitoring for businesses and brands. I get multiple inquiries a week to "hack a mailbox"...

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by tluyben2 »

anjc wrote: post #21
grenoire wrote: post #3

Although a bit harsh in writing, JustStartNoob's comment [0] is honestly a good analysis. The guy had an idea and tried to force it through as hastily as possible with the sole goal of 'making it.' Unsurprisingly, it didn't work out. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/comments/dkyq92/how_i_was...

> "I spent stupid money throwing shit at a non-stick wall, realized the wall was non-stick, so started spending money throwing shit at a different non-stick wall instead". This is the worst possible interpretation of OP's venture, and must be written by a 12 year old if $1900 is "stupid money" Edit: I'm not saying that $1900 is not a significant amount of money to many people in the world. But it is NOT a lot of mone…

> must be written by a 12 year old if $1900 is "stupid money"

Well, many people cannot get their hands on $2k readily to just burn away. I mean there are many articles like [0] and that is only the US, this is ofcourse far far worse in poorer countries so for a lot (majority?) of people in this world $2k is in fact "stupid money". And these people are not 12.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/18/pf/lack-of-savings-cover-un...

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by mattkevan »

danilocesar wrote: post #7

This reminds me that fateful question that we, software engineers, use to hear from our moms/dads/family: "Why don't you start a facebook?"

Used to work for an agency where we often had people asking us to build their grand new idea.

There would be NDAs and lawyers and dire warnings of secrecy until we finally got to the bottom of what they wanted. Basically Facebook or Google, but on a budget of about 50p and the vague offer of some stock.

Unsurprisingly, we’d tell them where to go.

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by ratsimihah »

genidoi wrote: post #27
mattigames wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This amuses me to no end, I have never got that question, the closest thing was "you do websites right? do you know how to hack someone's Facebook?"

Or even "can you fix my printer?"

Haha classic. For me that'd be: "I've got an app idea."

Re: I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

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Post by coldtea »

>Let me draw the bottom line. 10 weeks are spent to create and test 3 different hypotheses.

10 weeks are a little more than two months. That's nothing, wouldn't even be enough to build something good enough, much less to test it, and even less to test it 3 times.

So let me rephrase: "Only 10 weeks are spent to create a minimal product, and shallow barely-test 3 different hypotheses before giving up".

It can take years (plural) for such a service to pick up.

You can quickly test, of course, but don't expect this "10 whole weeks" of testing to tell you anything insightful...

You just know that your service didn't hit the jackpot and became viral from day one...

>Everything began from the moment a severe Reddit addiction started to develop, it went so far that I fully stopped visiting Instagram and Facebook.

I also LOLed at this in the intro. The problem with the Reddit addiction was that it prevented ...being as addicted to two other social platforms...

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