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I spent 10 months building before selling
Key takeaways
• Tech stack? Users don’t care
• The more time your solution saves, the more users are willing to pay
• Niche down
• Relationships matters
Thread...
Key takeaways
• Tech stack? Users don’t care
• The more time your solution saves, the more users are willing to pay
• Niche down
• Relationships matters
Thread...
1/ The AHA moment
• Freelance projects might lead to needs/ideas
Similar to how @tylertringas' Storemapper started
https://tylertringas.com/storemapper-bootstrapped-to-50000year-in-2-years-with-live-metrics/
• Freelance projects might lead to needs/ideas
Similar to how @tylertringas' Storemapper started
https://tylertringas.com/storemapper-bootstrapped-to-50000year-in-2-years-with-live-metrics/
2/ I’m an entrepreneur!
Now, I just need:
• Name
• Logo
• Website
• Product name
• Leaflet
• …
1 month spent on this!
Now, I just need:
• Name
• Logo
• Website
• Product name
• Leaflet
• …
1 month spent on this!
3/ I was a Java architecture in the past, will build everything from scratch
• Learn ObjectiveC
• State-of-art architecture
• Too many unecessary features
Was running out of time. No income.
9 months later, baby was born! Clients are coming!!
• Learn ObjectiveC
• State-of-art architecture
• Too many unecessary features
Was running out of time. No income.
9 months later, baby was born! Clients are coming!!
4/ Build and they will come…
• Clients didn’t want to create anything. I could’ve saved time and money
• If we’d built a dashboard for an industry, we would’ve talked the users’ language (We would be experts)
• Clients asked about price, we didn't know the price
• Clients didn’t want to create anything. I could’ve saved time and money
• If we’d built a dashboard for an industry, we would’ve talked the users’ language (We would be experts)
• Clients asked about price, we didn't know the price
5/
Took us “only“ 10 months to get the first client (the former colleague). They used only a tiny part of the massive product.
Took us “only“ 10 months to get the first client (the former colleague). They used only a tiny part of the massive product.
6/ What would I do today?
• Meetings before building
• Build a community around KPIs for an industry http://rosieland.substack.com
• Hard code to get data
• No-code where possible
H/t @david_perell @goodmarketinghq @indiehackers @rosiesherry
• Meetings before building
• Build a community around KPIs for an industry http://rosieland.substack.com
• Hard code to get data
• No-code where possible
H/t @david_perell @goodmarketinghq @indiehackers @rosiesherry
