if you believe the title of this for even one second
then you're actually NEVER going to make it
self delusion is the first prerequisite
i come from a family of wagies in latin america
my cofounder is a high school drop out from cuba
is luck involved?? sure of course
but the trick is maximizing your surface area of luck
here are the questions you should instead
ask yourself to ACTUALLY make money:
- how fast are you willing to let go of your comfort
and ego in order to make something people want?
I used to think i knew better and built stupid stuff
nobody wanted for years when in reality i knew
absolutely nothing about the market and apps
- how honest are you willing to be with yourself
to realize you've been wasting time in the wrong
things all along?
I used to waste hours reading business and
motivational books and only focusing on coding.
The minute i obsessed over my users and
distribution everything changed
- how willing are you to have conversations with
people that know more than you and ACTUALLY
follow their advise
I was top of my class and graduated with a 4.0 GPA,
this made me think i knew better than everyone.
BIG MISTAKE. I knew NOTHING, and this set
me back years. Learn from people that have
the results you want
- how willing are you to do things you don't like
to fulfill your mission?
I made enterprise mobile apps i didn't want to do, I
locked myself in my room for 3 years cause i was
broke and determined to make it. I stopped talking
to 90% of my friends cause I never went out and
didn't care. I did agency work I absolutely hated.
My "success" didn't come for free, I needed money,
I needed to make my vision work and i was and I AM
willing to do everything it takes, even to this day.
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APP IN THE ENTIRE WORLD
- how willing are you to invest money into your
project the minute you can?
Probably what set me back the most, I wanted to
do everything myself without investing money.
Stupid mistake, invest as soon as you can, change
your mindset around money, you need to spend
money to make more money, there's no way around
it.
In the age of AI i will never, not for one second, believe
that anyone can't be successful if they are truly
committed to it.
this is the reason i fell in love with AI back in early 2022