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  1. MRiabov

    I'm 40, Grateful, and Ready to Think Bigger

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    >As a first-time entrepreneur, what advice would you give someone who is still searching for a need-driven opportunity and wants to start building without risking significant capital upfront? Any business is but a service. if you have a product, that's just a service delivered via a product...
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    MTF's Rebirth: Building a New Fastlane Vehicle

    EXECUTION 
    >Acquisition must be delegable, too. I can't be the one personally finding and contacting prospects. If I were you, when you define your ICP, set up a GTM engine. What that means is that finding leads is on autopilot using AI. Scraping ads library? you can do that. doing online research? you...
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    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

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    I guess the question is how to make it in software and not window cleaning. That's the goal. Maybe you could say that I'm not disciplined, but I deliberately shied away from scaling window cleaning - even thought I have hired an employee last year. I stopped giving out the review cards which I...
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    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

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    It's not just free, it's paid. In EU, it's a job. That you need to win. The pay is 2000 EUR/mo for 4 years + a credential . yes, actually, I'm getting 30-40EUR/hr doing windows (who could have thought). The problem is that I'm trying to exit it and move into a software job which long-run should...
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    What is a good way to validate a SaaS before building it?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    that said - talk with your users. that's the best way to learn if you are solving a problem. Also, a great shorthand is: are they already paying for the problem? If they are, there is likely a market. Remember that software is only ever a shortcut for human labor; that especially goes for AI...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Got to love the forum.
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    What is a good way to validate a SaaS before building it?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    I had the same problem and I was advised "the right it" years ago. also, I would add "click!" (both written by very solid software founders by the way). The latter is arguably more comprehensive and also shorter.
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    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

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    Hello, Some of you may remember me, some not, I've been out of TFLF for a year now. I've learned much more from execution and working 100-120 hours a week for all the 4 years than from any thread from this forum, and I had to learn on my own mistakes and advise from the few around me. I wish...
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    MTF's Rebirth: Building a New Fastlane Vehicle

    EXECUTION 
    @MTF suggestion - I'm a LLM software engineer by profession, and I recommend against using Anthropic or OpenAI models for copywriting. Anthropic injects watermarked text which makes the text noticeably use very unusual words; that's by design to make the LLM text detectable...
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    Step-by-Step Walkthrough - Launching a Web Agency from 0 to 1, Offering Low Cost Websites With No Upfront Cost

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    Dark Water, funnily enough I'm cofounding something similar right now for a particular niche, a page builder using Astro and Cloudflare deployment. 3 weeks into technical development (wanted to do the software part properly as I didn't want a sloppy codebase); there are also some bells and...
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    Continuous suffering: How the development stage can feel like

    EXECUTION RANT 
    I was in your position about two years ago... My product was a kitchen robotics product which I have dropped after 12 mo. My questions to you are: - How do you know that what you have done will solve somebody's problem? have you built it yet? - what takes you 12 mo to validate something? and if...
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    $73 Budget, One Prototype, One Shot: Building an Asymmetric Cop-Chase Game — Looking for Execution Feedback

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    if you want to get income from software, better join a company and later build something yourself. seriously. You'll get stuck in not being to deliver something good for months, quit, and will look back at these months with "why did I do this to myself?" or just laugh it off as a "the first...

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