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Jon Yongfook @yongfook
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I think the #24hrstartup challenge is a great idea. Don’t know why people are getting their knickers in a twist.
We’ve had hackathons for ages. Nobody complained about those? It’s the same thing basically.
Except @thepatwalls has taken the hackathon concept, and turned it into a distributed, remote event that anyone in the world can watch. It’s super smart.
Pretty much all of the internet’s best ideas are when you take something that was previously accessible only to a few (e.g. watching people build apps) and turn it into something accessible to everyone.
Uber - private drivers for everyone. Airbnb - unique houses in any city for everyone. Snapchat - jealous of your dog for being a dog? Now you too can be a dog.
I’m not participating in the #24hrstartup challenge as I have my plans for the month and don’t want to disrupt them too much. But it sounds super fun and I’ll be checking in on the event as it goes.
There will come a day when a billion dollar company is created live, before everyone’s eyes at an event like this one.
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1/ I’ve had a few days to reflect on the last 4 months of my startup challenge and I think it’s time for a pivot / recalibration

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2/ The challenge began with me wanting to practice execution again, after almost 3 years in a senior corporate role where I didn’t touch any code. I missed building things, had the luxury of free time, so it seemed like a good goal to just “practice shipping”.
3/ Now, after 4 consistent launches in 4 months I feel I’ve proved to myself I’ve still got the knack. I can still build and ship a decent MVP within a given time constraint. But I’m not happy.
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Not many people go from launch to sustaining lifestyle in just a couple of months. Maybe that happens to some in survivorship-bias-land. But back in the real world it takes a lot longer. My last SaaS took 6+ months to get to just a few thousand $ MRR.
And that was when I was focused on ONE SaaS product and spent a good amount of time on content marketing every day.
I’ve said many times that revenue isn’t my short term goal. I’ve launched a free open source app, an app that charges $1, an app that has pricing but isn’t charging anything yet, and a job board in a competitive niche. These aren’t the actions of someone focused on revenue 😅
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Without a doubt, yes. But then who is to say which strategy is right? Build another MVP or focus on an existing one? I feel like I will “know” when it’s the right time to really focus.
In the end whether you’re successful from iterating one product consistently or successful from trying many things and seeing what works - it’s all down to the chaos monkeys anyway 😅
I think the 12 startup method suits me best because I haven’t quite decided what industry / area I want to focus on. So it’s all experimentation. Even if I wanted to focus on one thing I don’t know what that one thing would be. Yet!
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I was accused of being a bigot for asking if the scientific fact of biological sex is not *real* but wholly subjective (a view which underpins gender self-ID) why should age or race be “real” either?
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