Always go for less competition first.

100% this, he is even pictured in the social network movie as going against ads, he was the cool guy in the new billionaires world, even got the napster guy to join, it was a new wave of millennial ceos

Ya but all that was after he had traction.

I did change to english but because I grew up always consuming that content. I only started in spanish because it was easier, once I felt mature enough I changed. But it really depends on the niche and your content.. if it's just for work, native can work. My case is videos about digital nomadism and that's better in english because is something "anyone" can appreciate

how many of you struggle with prioritizing your time if you’re bootstrapping all-in on a startup build? when it comes to high-focus activities, are you OK so long as you are achieving results? i’ll put more in thread so i am not spamming channel! 🙏

I struggle hard. I think I have undiagnosed ADHD.

Time prioritization should be getting to market, then marketing. I am not sure I fully understand the question. Everything else you seem to be struggling with seems unrelated and you are just questioning if you should do it at all.

Build your first bullet point (a landing page + the button). If people click it, collect their email address.

Buy some ads and measure conversion, if it converts, _then_ build bullet points 2-7.

Ok, I feel like both rsfqiirqmeecwctgr and gawang misunderstood the U03DKFF4T8X's question. I feel that way, because I can relate very closely to what he's saying.

My read on it is that this is basically a procrastination via less impactful, but more comfortable actions.

I recall one trick is to always have something even higher priority, so that you can "procrastinate" by coding your startup 😂

haha

gecmc I sense that is the YC wisdom to build just bullet point 1, but same time I need this infra to do every other startup idea I have.. :) and I need focus to build it and early customers create noise :)

(Still reading the thread)

I'll weigh in from my perspective as a business and life deep Coach in case it's helpful to you. I have this conversation with business clients a LOT (you're not alone).
Sometimes we get stuck in the situation - “how do I fix this problem?” “What do I need to do?” “How can I be more efficient with my time?”
Those are great tactical questions and they need to be asked. But often they're the wrong question to begin with. I have the sense this could be the case for you.
Einstein said “we can't solve problems by using the same thinking we used to create them.”

With clients who want help with time management it's usually much more impactful not to jump into the situation. Instead, explore who you want to be in relationship to the situation. (Stick with me I know this can feel too far from the problem). What's the big picture? Where are you going and why? Who do you need to be to get there? What does it feel like to embody that way of being?
Those questions help to pull you up out of the weeds. To see a bigger picture from a perspective you simply don't have access to when you're in the weeds of the situation (or in the code :). If you can step into, explore and embody this other way of being you'll have clearer access to what's in your way and what is the next right action.
So usually that's where I take a client who wants time management tactics. And once we’ve made that shift to a higher perspective, things become more clear about right action and you can make a plan.
You can do that yourself or talk it through with a friend or coach. It's really just about coming out of the situation to find a higher perspective from a whole different mindset. The things in your way are different from the things in other people’s way so you're the best person to solve your problems.

Not sure if that speaks directly to what you're struggling with but hope it's helpful. Happy to share more if it would serve you. Good luck! Stick with it. Stay curious.

thanks!

This will sound super basic but is the issue you are just making excuses to avoid facing failure? Doing migrations before you even release just sounds like that.

considering i was initially marketing my brand as a cult, i am deliberately setting my expectations low 🙂

Ok

you point out a valid theory i am saying 🙂

I gave talks before because before I had any success I burned through 10 failures, people would ask what drove me and it was simple, I want to be an owner and not an employee.

I have met so many though, I would say the vast vast majority who can never execute but are already billionaires in their head.

swxmvhixmhgxgmgew oh no, my world view is much more nihilistically fight-club / i am a cockroach / my only goal is to live in a van down by the river

You're ok pooping the forest?

sebyjrmbllufsuhgg and i have failed before and landed at google and it was more humiliating than glorious, so those wounds i remember 😇

Lol

dude.. i was a TVC working for a Ukranian firm in 2016

TVC?

contractor

Ohhhhh I see

no.. but i still have all my tricks up my sleeve! 😇

How long did you work on it for?

Oh man, could chat offline it was 2014 when people were using PhantomJS which was jank.. the lesson learned is you wanna sell your least cost product in market and you need great infra to run data mining at scale.. hence all my talk about testing

How many years did you put into it start to failure?

I knew it was a viable option in late 2011.. straddled it and component dev in 5 so maybe 2 years

That's not bad at all.

I learned a ton about engineering for sure

If it make you feel better. Mine were 1.5 years, 2.5 years, and 3.5 years.

Ya, you don’t forget a failure!

Though during the 3.5 one I moonlit the thing that survived.

Ya I am a cockroach in a van down by the river 😂

My biggest cost was lost income. I would of made so much more just having a job.

Sure, but you learn a ton doing a startup!

Ya primarily that old rich white dudes shouldn't be trusted because they got successful outside tech.

Wait what? 😂

Two of the startups I did were funded by dudes who got successful outside tech.

I have only heard stories about Malibu bros and Dallas oil mansions

Have a microproject idea to customize an aspect of an opensource project, it's BSD-3 licensed so should be fine, only question I have is there's a non-project that own's the open source projects name via trademark. So I'd be able to make a website to customize the project but not be able to use the project name at all given the trademark?

Question that helped me the most (I'm a dev) is whether I wanted to build a product or a business. Without initially realizing it, I almost always wanted to build a product. I delayed talking to customers and figuring out financials of the business. Instead, I was coding like there was no tomorrow. At some point I had to start doing everything else that wasn't development. It was painful, I didn't enjoy it, I didn't get immediate results, and I gave it up. This cycle happened a couple of times.

Many years later I realized that I actually wanted a product, not a business, i.e. there would be no business for me if the product wasn't immediately successful. If I was building something for personal use - that would be fine, but if my goal was to start generating income, then I should have focused on building a business rather than building a product I fell in love with.

Back to you. If I understood you correctly, you're convinced there's a customer for your non-existent product even though you haven't sold it yet. So it sounds to me like you're in love with your product and you don't want a business without it. Your business will most likely fail because you don't give it time and energy, simple as that.

"No Stan, you're wrong, I want a business"

Great, start building one. Businesses need to create value for customers (in most cases such value also generates revenue). You mentioned existing tools are as good as your MVP, but people need coaching - great, offer them coaching first. Figure out the easiest way of solving their problems, the shortest path to revenue. You might come to a conclusion that building a product is actually the hardest way of solving their problems (or maybe not). If you find a way to integrate your product into a business - great, but I wouldn't recommend doing it the other way around, i.e. integrating your business into a product because you'll end up with a product, not a business.

Btw, you don't have to abandon building your product, you probably enjoy doing it anyway. But you need to realize it's a hobby until you have customers. Hobbies are great, they make us happy. But if you want a business, you should probably spend more time on the business rather than a hobby.

Correct. Plus I'd imagine BSD-3 would also have a clause forbidding that anyway.

To be clear, you can mention the project it's based on. You just can't name the new project after the original.

Love it thanks owywazlm !!!

I think you're doing (and talking) way too much which is a 🚩 red flag. The 2 or 3 posters here are right. Set up a landing page and see if anyone pays first. You're way too deep in for not having paying customers yet. Correct me if I'm wrong and you do have paying customers!

If you look at his earlier interviews he seemed like a typical hacker kid.

That's before he got the robot chip implanted.

I assure you under this cold robotic surface is a warm beating heart...... but I am working on that. - grandma's boy

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Looks impressive, can you please DM me with your CV ?

thanks iwmqixvznt a slap to the head sometimes is what is needed! i blame this on too much time behind the code editor (which would make anyone crazy) :zany_face:

cured by some backpacking / hiking / outdoor time

I’ve started using Canny io and definitely like it! Has a great free tier and while the release notes/changelog feature set isn’t that robust, it more than makes up for it in functionality around feature requests & roadmaps

Yes to this! Have only ever had 2 “negative” reviews but jumped on them so quickly and people love it.

iybrgyolgoukpw Thanks for confirming my understanding!

For those that have incorporated C-Corps in Delaware. How many shares do you think is better to issue? 10.000.000 (standard) or less than 5.000 to start (considered ‘minimum stock’ and pay minimum Delaware Franchise Tax each year)?

As few as possible. Don't waste the money on taxes.

If you plan to raise VC money go with 10M

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I have a one-man c-corp and issued 10m, it didn’t cause any issues, and is the standard for a reason – If I raise in the future it’s one less thing to deal with.

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