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I've been publishing my work that never got PMF. Maybe it'll give you some inspiration for a later endeavor. You were one of my "competitors".
https://blog.graphicalmethods.com/ai-persona-media-testing-a...
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The trick is to attain leisure while also having the resources to live safely and comfortably.
Is it? I have friends who have very little money. Ok, they live safely, but not comfortably by any stretch. They value their leisure and live a good life. I'm also friends with people who became very rich. In their own ways, they all continue working hard.
> They value their leisure and live a good life.
There's an inherent contradiction here unless you believe you can live a 'good life' (which I would expect to be free from excessive discomfort?) while also living 'not comfortably by any stretch'.
You also have to consider what 'safely' means here. Sure, it means walls and a door so that you don't freeze to death or get eaten by dingoes or (insert local hazard here), but beyond the immediate, it also means having resources to obtain medical aid if required, ensure food supply and other necessities even in the face of unforeseen circumstances, etc.
It's possible to 'live a good life' with no resources while everything goes in your favour but it rapidly gets awful if that changes.
On your second point, I'd imagine that the people who became very rich did so because they're constitutionally unable to just relax and coast.
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What would you like to know about the process?
Anything other than programming would be super helpful. There are a lot of software engineers who are able to build great products. Also knowing how to market and sell them is where only a few shine.
Congrats man! Just as a side note, "paras" means best, in Finnish, so that'd make you the Best Chopra!
Congrats!! Ahrefs says you reached 3.4mln backlinks and 18k linking websites: https://ahrefs.com/website-authority-checker/?input=https%3A... How did you achive such incredible numbers? I noticed you localized the landing pages to English/Spanish/German/Portuguese. I did that too when founding polyblog.io and multilocale.com but never got results incredible as yours. I noticed you use Yoast SEO, the sitemap.xml is no…
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What would you like to know about the process?
I'd love to learn about PMF and which posts from HN were most helpful. Even a few pointers in the thread here would be awesome.
Congrats! What made you commit and build this project when you were 22 year old vs million others SAAS you could have built at that time? Say, a CRM to compete with Salesforce, or a new web based Excel or web based Photoshop tool?
This was my 5th startup. During my college days I kept launching startups (Kroomsa, Precimark, MyJugaad.in). Failure of all these made me introspect and I realized I was trapped into the engineer's fallacy: build things without knowing or caring about how to market them. This pushed me to learn marketing and I fell deeper into the rabbit hole. So, my next attempt was build a marketing suite as I was learning a lot ab…
Congrats @paraschopra ! This is an incredibly inspiring story for many of us. A couple of questions: 1. What would be your one piece of advice for someone looking to bootstrap a company? 2. How can one identify B2B problems worth solving? And how do you go about acquiring and selling to those customers? 3. If you were starting today, which domain would you choose?
Hire only when your revenue exceeds costs. Might be hard but this instills the discipline of always operating at a profit.
>How can one identify B2B problems worth solving? And how do you go about acquiring and selling to those customers?
Look for inefficiencies in workflows. If you save companies time or effort in a big way, they will pay up. To acquire customers, you need to super-precise emails (I never did outbound but I'm unsure my style of content marketing will fly today)
>If you were starting today, which domain would you choose? The one you feel most passionate about. But remain open to significant pivots. First idea never works, but it is essential to choose something you can really get into.
Congratulations! You’re the best! It would be a great tradition to donate to a random startup after each exit. Why isn’t this part of startup culture? Any PG-like article about that?
https://invertedpassion.com/escape-velocity-grant/
Plan to accelerate it.
Must be sad to have to let things you built go, especially knowing how often selling them starts a downward spiral leading to their demise.
I feel inspired and excited about life and what experiments this money can help me do (which otherwise wouldn't get funded).