i really think
#buildinpublic is the marketing channel to sell the product, saw only few genuine founders sharing honest and raw lessons from their journey.
while i am not doing currently buildinpublic, i saw some request to share our mrr, i will reveal the numbers later, for now i want to share it's rollercoaster ride, journey is full of ups and downs, graph tells a lot.
we did three pivots for
@getfeedspace , each one taught us valuable lessons, and each previous pivot's REFLECTION was the reason the subsequent pivot did better..
three lessons
1/ get the fuck out from your fantasy brain and face reality as soon as possible by talking to customers, because admit the fact that you are not doing or researching on breakthrough, you are building application layer on top of the existing infra. you just need to get it right based on customer insights
2/ don't just optimize the product for less clicks, but optimize for less thinking. customers don't want to think a lot, it's 2025. they either stay or get out of it since there are many options available on internet. earlier internet was different, people didn't have choice, they have to deal with shitty ui/ux etc. now they don't have to. understand the nature of having OPTIONS available and build product keeping in mind.
3/ internal team dynamics matters the most, i spend most of my time explaining team what business we are in, what's called better customer experience, setting up the benchmark is one of the most important steps i would consider. once we have the benchmark, all the rest of the released that went live, made aha moment for customers.
remember in 2025, there is nothing unique about product, especially in internet world except if you are building your own LLM, i mean now a days that's also open source..
so your product has to have gravity that can pull people from other solutions to yours, that can not be achieved by making your product 20-40% better, but it has to be 10x better.. think everything in terms of 10^10, not % or x