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HN post inspired me to quit my job and found my own startup

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Re: HN post inspired me to quit my job and found my own startup

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And yet… You corrected kahunas to cojones, and cleaned up the copy around nouning overwhelm so that it read like the article you found. Your original usage was clunky, and we were trying to give you valid feedback. You are sticking to your guns in the thread while making ninja edits in the copy. Feedback hurts, but at the end of the day, we’re trying to help you. You keep saying it’s not about correctness, but about…

I'd be crazy not to optimize the copy, for sure. I even mentioned that I would be doing so in an earlier comment I wrote here yesterday. I still don't feel that my original sentences were "wrong" per se but they were detracting from the original purpose of the post if they're attracting all the attention. And luckily, I've been doing this long enough that I was able to hit my sales goal even if that means I couldn't…

Cheers!

Re: HN post inspired me to quit my job and found my own startup

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Best of luck to you. I did this in Aug 2018. My app was already generating a few thousand a month (net revenue), and I still had an incredibly hard time. My biggest failure was 1) not finding a cofounder and 2) not targeting a big enough market.

Thanks so much! I'll keep those in mind as I move forward. Did things ever pick up for you? Or did you move on to other projects?

I threw in the towel and am now back in corporate life.
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