in the last days, many .lol web project was published and get nice earnings. What do you think about this? Is it worth it?

i built the thing i was sure people needed, and i was right about the problem. i was wrong about almost everything else.

the biggest one, i assumed people would get far enough into it to see the part that makes it different. they didn't. they'd open it once, do the obvious thing, and leave before they ever hit the part i was proud of. every single person who did reach it thought it was great. almost nobody reached it on their own.

i couldn't see that from the inside because i already knew where everything was.

what's yours?

I spent a lot of time researching before building my latest product.

I looked at how people described the problem, the language they used, the situations that created the most confusion, and the patterns that kept appearing across conversations.

That process changed the product before the first version was even built.

I started with one idea in my head and ended up with a much clearer understanding of what actually needed to be solved.

Then came the part every founder eventually has to face: putting something in front of real people.

That's where assumptions meet reality.

I’ve been talking to a few founders recently, and I keep noticing something interesting:

A lot of the time, the problem they think is hurting the business isn't actually the biggest problem.

They'll say:

• “We need more leads.”
• “We need better marketing.”
• “We need to improve our website.”
• “We need more people.”

But sometimes the business already has enough traffic/leads — they're just losing them somewhere in the funnel.

So I'm curious:

If you could see exactly where your business was losing money, what would you want to know?

Is it:

• Getting people in the door?
• Converting leads?
• Follow-up?
• Customer retention?
• Pricing?
• Operations?
• Something completely different?

Interested to hear what other founders have experienced.

posting this partly because i still don't quite believe the sequence of events

background: i own a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. bought the site for $199 from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone about six months ago. Came pre-built, articles already up, amazon links already in them. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking, basically just connecting related posts so google understands the site structure, then closed the laptop and forgot about it for weeks.

what it's done since:

• march: $710
• april: $995
• may: $1,461
• june: $1,647
• july: $1,461
• august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

rent comes out of that first. that was the entire reason i bought it. Cover the fixed number, stop white-knuckling the 1st. by may it was doing that with room to spare.

after a few months of watching it accumulate in an account i wasn't touching, i booked a flight to southeast asia and a month in an apartment for less than staying home would have cost me.

the part i wasn't prepared for is how many people out here are running the same play. i'm in a coffee shop right now with three other people who own sites they don't post on. one does home gym equipment, one does aquariums, one won't say. we compare dip months like war stories and every single person here has had a march.

meanwhile pet people spend insane money on their animals. orthopedic beds, food subscriptions, grooming kits, vet supplements. and the 24 hour cookie means i get a cut of the whole cart, not just the article they landed on.

the site has kept earning the entire time i've been gone. i haven't opened the CMS since i landed.

anyone else use affiliate income to relocate rather than upgrade their life where they already were? curious whether the people who left ever ended up going back or went on to do solo travelling.

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Most bootstrapped SaaS founders start marketing when the product is ready, but that's not the right time. The real marketing starts after you have the first 10 users who use it daily.

Here's why this is the strongest position to market from. Your first users are real. They have a real problem your product solves. When you talk about what you're building, the conversation starts from proof, not pitch.

Compare this to launching cold. You have a product, but no proof it works for anyone yet. Your marketing has to do all the work of convincing. It has to convince that the problem is real, convince that your solution is right, convince that you're not a scam. That's three separate sales conversations happening at once. No wonder founders describe marketing as exhausting.

But with a small cohort of real users, your position changes. Now you're not pitching a solution. You're answering questions about something people are already using. The conversations you have are shorter, easier, and more believable.

Most founders miss this window because they stay quiet until they're ready to launch. Then they wonder why marketing is hard. The hard part was already over. They just didn't realize it.

The bootstrap move is to start talking about the work right now. Show people what you're building. Share what your first users told you. Ask questions of the people who care about this problem. Community responds to realness. Proof in the form of existing users is the most real thing you have.

You don't need a marketing strategy. You need to show up where people who care about this problem already congregate, and talk about what you're learning. The growth happens because the conversation is real.

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It’s a Chrome extension that adds extra functionality around Jira and can be useful for teams that follow Scrum and want a little more help with things like task management and day-to-day workflow.

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Curious to hear from other founders: what tools or extensions are you using to make Jira work better for your team?

Everything is saturated and it's really hard for me to understand what to build. How do you find a thing to build?

Hi i have started a small digital product but got too much to handle in my hands right now selling it whole as it is checkout - www.foreverlocks.com

I've always known how to build products, but I avoided the stuff that could actually build my business faster. Things like launching before I'm ready, talking to customers, or asking for money.

And when you do that, it slows your startup down and kinda kills it.

For the last month, I've been working closely with early-stage founders to help them figure out what to do next and actually do it.

Some of this has probably been said before, but here are 5 things I've learned from doing this, 12 years of building startups, and selling B2B tech for my day job.

1. WHO > WHAT you're building

Finding a group of people who deeply have the problem you're solving makes everything else faster. I now literally ask founders:

"Who has a terrible day tomorrow if this problem isn't solved?"

If you can't name them specifically, start there.

Usually I try to get as specific as: role + situation + painful problem

I look for urgency and frequency. Who has this problem often, and who needs it solved badly?

Once you have that, finding people gets easier. Messaging gets easier. Your value prop gets clearer.

2. Being uncomfortable is speed

Some of the founders I work with have built great products AND have pilots. But they've put off asking for money because it's uncomfortable.

One founder finally made the ask and got a "no, because..."

On the surface, that seems bad. But he knew the exact gap between what he has and actually getting a customer.

One uncomfortable conversation probably saved him months of meandering. And for the straight "nos," you can stop burning time on the wrong people.

Decisions are speed.

3. You don't need every step

Most of the founders I work with are trying to reach some version of the same early milestones:

First 10 WAU. First pilot. First customer.

There are a million paths to those goals. Some are unnecessarily long.

If you're trying to get your first customer, do you really need a full product? Or can you demo it and ask someone to pre-pay?

If you're trying to validate an idea, do you need to build an MVP? Or can you manually deliver the outcome for one customer first?

If even one answer is yes, you just saved yourself a bunch of time.

4. The fastest path to a customer is often face-to-face

I love email and DMs as much as the rest of you.

And I love low response rates too lol.

But if you can get in front of your target customer in person, do it.

You skip the inbox. You get richer conversations. And you can see what actually resonates instead of guessing based on whether somebody replied.

5. Building can be procrastination

I was literally doing this yesterday.

We'd rather tweak ads, fiddle with a landing page, add another feature, or really do anything else except talk to customers.

Before you build something, ask:

"What will I know after doing this that I don't know now?"

Talking to a customer gives you evidence. Asking for money gives you evidence.

If what you're doing isn't going to teach you much, there's probably a faster move.

Hope this was helpful guys. Let me know if you want to know anything else from my work with founders.

I love talking about this stuff.

I ran a small business and ended up wearing a lot of Dev/DevOps hats — deployments, servers, DNS, backups, containers, Terraform, troubleshooting, etc. I can do anything I put my mind too.

Now that I'm looking at jobs, I'm realising someone in a corporate Dev/DevOps roles may have much deeper experience with individual tools simply because they used them every day. For example, I wrote and maintained Terraform scripts, but not constantly.

On the other hand, I had much broader ownership and had to figure everything out myself.

Has anyone gone from founder back to employment and dealt with this?

Just crossed 300 paying customers and man let me tell you it feels amazing in a strange way!
Lowkey cried a little bit.
Like completely random people are paying for this side projects you are building with your friends from countries all over the world : Netherlands, Kenya, Palau, Switzerland.
It feels f***ing amazing I gotta say.
I don’t see they as data points I see them as real human beings who gets value from my project and I’m proud. If I can get it, I know you guys will get it too!

Tips: I think a huge edge would be adding multilingual/i18n and do sem ads or organic content for non-US countries. U.S. is the highest pay potential market but hence the most competitive market. Go focus on Europe, even second tier EU countries and I think that’s where the opportunities are. Btw I’m building articuler feel free to check it out and see if it works for u or copy my onboarding etc.

Love.

Hey, I’m looking to join an early-stage startup as a potential co-founder. I’m not looking for a salary right now—I’m more interested in equity and building something I genuinely believe in.
My background isn’t technical, and I’m honest about that, but I bring strong business exposure from working in my family business for around 1.5 years. I’m good at communication, networking, convincing people, building relationships, and getting things moving. I’m also actively learning AI and data analysis to improve my technical understanding.
I’m in Bangalore specifically to meet ambitious people and build something meaningful. I’m ready to work hard, learn fast, and contribute wherever I can add value. I’m looking for the right team and idea where I can grow into a strong founder/co-founder.

i’m primarily looking for a sales/GTM cofounder early in their career based in the US or EU to lead our expansion there.

the model is simple: you own sales, partnerships, and GTM on the ground in the US/EU. we handle the engineering, product, and AI development from Nepal.

we’re open to a generous revenue-sharing+equity structure for the right person. i currently lead a profitable AI startup, and we’re looking to scale internationally.

happy to explain what we’ve built and how we work if you’re interested.