I spent $120,000 building my first product.

After a year of work, I couldn’t sell a single subscription.

It failed. Now it’s frozen.

My second product launched just three weeks after the idea came to me.

A week later, I had my first user interview, and two months later, I got my first paying subscriber.

Now every email from Stripe makes me smile. I’ve never felt this kind of joy from $1,000. But I feel it now from every $29.

Big thanks to the early users of fatgrid.com for the support 🙏

Founders, learn from others’ mistakes.

And from the voices of common sense, like John Rush
.

Don’t spend months building and burning cash before talking to users.

Build what people want.

Not what you think they want.


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