Thread by @leonagano

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

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1/ The AHA moment

• Freelance projects might lead to needs/ideas

Similar to how @tylertringas' Storemapper started

tylertringas.com/storemapper-bo…

2/ I’m an entrepreneur!

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!!

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

5/
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 rosieland.substack.com
• Hard code to get data
• No-code where possible

H/t @david_perell @goodmarketinghq @indiehackers @rosiesherry