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1 year after quitting the Slowlane, it's still rough!
MINDSET EXECUTIONGoing to push past your use of the n word... This is a great reminder, thank you. We were sticking to email because it got us our first 3 clients but that doesn't mean it's the best place to find people. Most sales happen in person with people you already know and I need to remember that...- EntreEden
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1 year after quitting the Slowlane, it's still rough!
MINDSET EXECUTIONExplains your user title That CEO honestly laid it out plainly for us exactly what he did (so we don't even have to reverse engineer!) -- the problem is that he has over 10 years focusing on marketing/distribution and it's hard to beat him on the thing we struggle with the most (distribution)...- EntreEden
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1 year after quitting the Slowlane, it's still rough!
MINDSET EXECUTIONThat's a good question and something I'll admit we're still trying to figure out. Our assumptions are: Any type of branding that is intended for long term growth (not immediate sales). For example podcasts, social media managers Games of course, if they have any type of game on their site...- EntreEden
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1 year after quitting the Slowlane, it's still rough!
MINDSET EXECUTIONThanks for sharing, Andy! We're currently focused on tailored cold outreach. That helped us get our first 3 customers but then we hit a wall. I reached out to the CEO of a competitor who's already at $5M ARR to ask for guidance, he said the problem was that we're thinking too small (digital...- EntreEden
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1 year after quitting the Slowlane, it's still rough!
MINDSET EXECUTIONgood question -- i had enough savings to take a couple years off so i figured i'd go all in (also was naive enough to think i'd reach $10k/mo in ~1-2 years) luckily it's easy to go back to my job and i'm currently trying to decide if i should go back- EntreEden
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1 year after quitting the Slowlane, it's still rough!
MINDSET EXECUTIONTL;DR Learnings the last 15 months It's fine for your ideas to change (and they should) but it'll make your life way easier if you pick a problem space OR customer niche to focus on. That way your learnings add on top of each other instead of it feeling you're starting at 0 with a whole new...- EntreEden
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AMA: Full Time Staff Software Engineer
PEOPLEI totally agree with this, it's something Slack still struggles with. Thanks! I definitely want to keep in touch, would love to check in and see your progress every once and a while and maybe we can keep each other motivated- EntreEden
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AMA: Full Time Staff Software Engineer
PEOPLEThanks for the response DMass! There have been quite a lot of layoffs, my team alone lost 2 out of the 6 engineers we had. Overall I think my pillar lost 10% of its engineers. I personally was not impacted, though. Slack employees are the real power users of Slack, so I think it's way easier...- EntreEden
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AMA: Full Time Staff Software Engineer
PEOPLEThanks for reading MJ! I don't know if there was a specific FTE, but it was an accumulation of a few things: 1. Seeing the $ amount ARR I was providing Slack for projects I worked on (e.g. these features are worth millions, but I am not getting paid millions) 2. Reading self-help books on...- EntreEden
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PEOPLEYou all have provided me TONS of information and guidance towards my path to financial freedom. I do not yet have much to offer (yet) as an entrepreneur but I wanted to see if I can somehow return the favor to anyone who could use anything from what I do already know. I've learned if you take...- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONOnce there's enough users it'll be easy to share some anonymous high level analytics! I'll definitely keep y'all updated on the journey, thanks for the support and feedback- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONThis is gold! Thank you for giving me a ton of ideas to iterate on and, "Try it. If it doesn't work you can always switch it back." that's a great point, not sure why I didn't just think about that. I like the idea especially of doing the emails out much later after the submissions start coming...- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONThank you so much for the feedback! I've actually been using ChatGPT for responses especially when it's slow Couldn't have come at a more perfect time. And a good point about the name (it was even longer before) but I'll start thinking of something that rolls off the tongue more. Also I...- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONThank you so much for the feedback! On not seeing the answers: The reasoning behind having them hidden was to incentivize people to write answers (this was especially important in the beginning to get people to add stuff). After submitting you can see others answers. But it's a good point...- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONThanks for the tips @Skroob! I'll work on the iOS version up next, I imagine the hard part next will be convincing people to download it :P :D- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONThe closest ones I could think of is Yik Yak or Blind when it comes to anonymously confiding in a way. They both have their own niches (colleges / tech communities respectively). I'm not sure what they do outside of having a niche to get people coming back, maybe the niche in itself allows for...- EntreEden
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Why won't people come back to my app?
IDEA EXECUTION QUESTIONHey all! I'm new to the fastlane and have been working on some side projects to test out some ideas I've had. The current one I'm working on I've called: Internet Confessional Summary of app: You anonymously confide in the internet and find community in others’ confessions. Once you answer you...- EntreEden
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