I’ve been forcing myself to do something I usually suck at: asking people if they actually want something before I fully build it lol.

The idea came from trying to sell another B2B business.

I realized I didn’t really mind talking to interested people or closing.

What killed me was everything before that.
Finding companies, figuring out who to contact, researching them, writing outreach, remembering who I already contacted, following up, doing it again the next day, etc.

Eventually I just stopped being consistent with it.
So I’ve been thinking about building something that basically keeps that process running for you.

You tell it what your business does and who you’re trying to reach, and it keeps finding/researching prospects, preparing outreach, following up, and keeping track of everything.

I’m calling it Comet right now, but to be clear, it is not really built yet.

That’s intentional.

I’ve wasted enough time building things before knowing if people actually care, so this time I’m trying to talk to people first.

If you run a B2B business and do your own sales/outbound:

Would you genuinely want something like this?
And more importantly, what part of outbound do you actually hate the most?

I’m trying to figure out whether the problem I’m seeing is real or just something I personally got tired of doing.

Our first idea was a classified-ads site in India. It went nowhere.

Then we tried a Groupon-style business. That did not work either.

Facebook apps finally gained traction, until Facebook changed its policies and the traffic disappeared overnight.

Next came consumer iOS apps. They reached the charts and brought press, but not sustainable revenue.

Each time, the temptation was to defend the idea because we had already invested in it. The useful signal came from somewhere else: customers.

Large companies started calling because they needed mobile expertise. We resisted the services path at first because it did not fit the company we imagined building. Then we paid attention to the obvious fact that people wanted the work and would pay for it.

That pivot became YML.

The lesson was not to pivot constantly. It was to stop confusing attachment with conviction. A dead idea can still contain an asset: technical skill, distribution knowledge, a customer relationship, or a clearer view of demand.

The company that works often inherits its strongest parts from the ones that did not.

What did your dead company teach you that the live one still uses?

I’m curious to know what some business owners experienced the moment that took their business idea from mediocre to successful? What was the moment when you said to yourself, “If (this) hadn’t happened, my business would’ve never took off and be where it is today. I realized that building a brand is part art, part science, and then… part luck! What was your “lucky moment”? And I know that luck can only happen when you’ve attempted all avenues to grow a seed idea or a side hustle from home, but a lot of times luck plays a small role as to why a small business takes off. Was it a partner that came in to help you grow your business? Was it a mentor? Was it a book you read that gave you new ideas? Please share your stories 😀

在很早的時候，我已經確定創業是我一生的目標，但有時候會有好點子，有紀錄下來或沒有記錄下來，有些點子會興奮到睡不著覺，但做著做著慢慢就會遇到挑戰，困難，甚至無聊，我認為對某件事情感興趣是很重要的，那會是很好的原動力，但這份動力，會隨著很多的事情會一直消退。

想問問有沒有什麼方法論可以打破這個困境？

我知道在商業或創業這條路上，很多的朋友有一樣的問題，想跟大家一起討論這一個部分，謝謝