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Gotta vent out - building a tech startup is hard (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by sher42@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I didn't sleep for the past 3 nights.

I've been building my EdTech startup for two years now, and boy, it's been a rollercoaster. We pivoted 3 times by now - the last one was a radical pivot in the middle of the summer as the numbers showed that our initial growth hypotheses were wrong.

We've been building a new product for the past 3 months. Our goal was to launch the beta app 2 months ago back in early September but due to some technical decisions and unfortunate circumstances, our app was riddled with bugs, and we just couldn't leave the friend and family alpha testing stage and move to beta. We're still not on appstore 😭.

This is so frustrating! It's a complex product, and we've built something exciting but things keep breaking down. As a small startup, we try to move fast and ignore code scalability of stability but that has bitten us in the ass.

I know that such valleys and downs are part of the journey and I do my best to embrace "what I can control and what I can't control" stoic mentality, yet some days it feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Such moments make you doubt yourself...

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[–] codexwt@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The "secret" is to validate as much as you can, without writing the actual code. It's not a guarantee in any shape, but will save you lots of money. Try to get some people on the waitlist as soon as possible. If it doesn't work, it will be every bit as hard to get them to buy/use your product. Pivoting is fine, but always launch and get the feedback as is, instead of delaying. It will allow you to pivot faster. Working on 3 features? Choose one and launch, get the feedback and add the others in the next release. Remember: "Shipped is better than perfect"