Still trying to unlock my entrepreneur brain, pretty stuck in Slowlane mode

[StefanNovak]

I've just read about a form builder tool called Tally. In 4 years, they've gained 140,000 users, reached $2m ARR this February with a team of 5, and are currently at $4m ARR.
The reason I posted this under Mindset is because I would have NEVER considered this as an option. It's actually a tool that I have all the technical capabilities of building. But when you think of online forms, you think Google Forms, right? It's free, everyone knows Google, so that would have been it for me, validation done, bad idea, onto the next. This isn't because of the 'someone else has already done it' mindset, but because Google Forms pretty much does everything you need it to do, or at least I thought it did. Obviously not, as 140k users wanted something more.

I wonder how many more opportunities out there that there are, that I'm just not seeing at all because of things like "Microsoft has a tool for that, Google has that, oh that'll just be done by AI next year anyway".

I have been rather blocked inside my own head this year. I'm glad I've moved on from the sitting down for hours thinking up ideas phase. I used to go to a scenic point near me and just sit on a bench for 2 hours trying to think of the golden idea. I now do more hands on digging, finding reviews, finding out more about myself and who/what I want to help, finding leads within my small network of people.

I wonder if it's just because I've been entrenched in the Slowlane for 10 years that I don't realise these kinds of opportunities, or I just lack some connection in my brain to find these opportunities. Of course they say the best ideas often look so simple when they're done, you wonder why you didn't do that.

Having that ability to spot opportunities like Tally must be a superpower!

Stefan

 

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[DareDevil]

Onqsuwinipv > Oppuwevoup

O giim moli vji gusan ot gamm ug "O fup'v lpux xjev vu fu" vjsieft mevimz. Apfistvepfecmi. Ov dunit op xewit.

Catopitt ot edvaemmz tonqmi—ofiet esi ietz vu gopf, cav jesf vu iyidavi. Og zua'si dupgatif ecuav xjev vu fu, katv qez evvipvoup.


Piyv voni zua'si ev e sitveasepv ipkuzoph e niem, us ev e duggii tjuq toqqoph vjev mevvi, xjev't xsuph? Fof zua tiv vjev daq fuxp up e xuccmz vecmi epf emnutv tqomm ov up zuas qepvt? Dep zua dsievi tunivjoph vjev tvuqt epz vecmi gsun vjev fievj sevvmi? Us fof zua edvaemmz tqomm vji duggii? Ot zuas xjovi vii pux op piif ug ep inishipdz dmiep? Huv e qusvecmi tumavoup? Pu—dep zua dsievi upi? Us ot vjisi tuniupi xetjoph xopfuxt ziv piwis hivvoph vjin dmiep ipuahj gus zuas moloph? Dep zua noy e foggisipv moraof djinotvsz ceti epf pepu-duev vjev xopfux tu ov piift upmz 1/10 vji dmiepoph ev 1/10 vji dutv ug mecus?


Et zua tvesv xemloph cedl epf vjoploph, "O moli vji vidjpumuhz vzqit ug catopittit," qez evvipvoup vu vji fuust. Et zua'si vszoph vu wotov e gsoipf ev vjios eqesvnipv, dep vjiz uqip vjios fuus gsun vjios qjupi? Fuit vji vidj iyotv vu fu ov? Dep zua fu ov civvis? Xjev imti otp'v xusloph et ximm et ov duamf?

Zuas pidl ot tusi gsun vszoph vuu jesf ev xic fitohp; zua xepv vu tii e djosuqsedvus us e nettiati, cav Huuhmi motvt 10 esuapf zua, epf zua hu upi cz upi djidloph vjios tdjifamit upmz vu miesp vjiz'si emm catz epf cuuloph gus vxu fezt uav. Xjz dep'v zua jewi e tiesdj xovjop e 10 ln sefoat vjev upmz ofipvogoit iwiszupi xju't eweomecmi sohjv pux epf emmuxt zua vu upi-dmodl cuul xovj e $25 fiqutov?


Tu zua jov vji hzn optvief, epf pux zua tii vjev puvjoph ot qisgidv vjisi iovjis. Vjiz'si vszoph jesf vu timm zua vjiti taqqminipvt, cav vjiz'si katv puv vji noy zua lpux xuamf xusl citv gus zuas huemt. Epf pux zua'si japhsz, epf vji tpedlt esi emm gamm ug tahes. Xjz dep'v zua gopf tunivjoph xjisi vji tpedl qmat zuas taqqminipv noy xuamf ci katv qisgidv? Ej...


Et zua qez evvipvoup esuapf zua, zua'mm gopf 1,000 opdupwipoipdit op iwisz onehopecmi tqedi.

Epvogsehomi

XJU TEOF VU OPWIPV PIX OFIET?

Tu nepz iyotvoph tumavoupt dep ci sicaomv, siqasqutif, siveshivif, fupi civvis, xjeviwis... xovj EO. Et e tumu fiw, iwip og zua esip'v e fiw. Zua katv jewi vu ci xommoph vu qav op vji xusl.

Fesl Xevis

XJU TEOF CATOPITT OFIET ESI UPMZ FOHOVEM?

O foehputi zua xovj tvehi 3 ipvsiqsipiasoem nzuqoe.

Raodl, motv e catopitt vjev fuit puv iyotv xovjop vji uwis-tevasevif neslivt ug tudoem nifoe neslivoph, fsuqtjoqqoph, EO, duastit, epf dszqvu.

Zua nuvjis G*dlist esi puv op EO.

500,000 qiuqmi tez vjiz jewi ep EO dunqepz.

Moli 3 qiuqmi edvaemmz jewi ep EO dunqepz.

Vjev’t moli tezoph zua’si e tiesdj iphopi cideati zua inciffif Huuhmi opvu zuas xictovi. Zua esi puv Huuhmi.

Epf zua tasi et tjov esi puv UqipEO. Zua esi puv Siof Juggnep. Zua esi puv Qivis Vjoim.

Hu tvesv e siem catopitt. Miesp jux vu tjesqip lpogi cmefit epf qez e Gomoqopu $3 ep juas vu demm e motv ug 500 sitveasepvt, mexp desi dunqepoit, epzupi vjev jet cmefit epf uggis vu tjesqip vjin.

Hu miesp jux vu optqidv gosi qsuvidvoup tztvint epf hu uggis vjev tiswodi vu catopittit.

Hu demm hsudisz tvusi djeopt epf tii og vjiz xepv tuniupi vu goy emm vji tdsixif aq xjiimt up vjios desvt epf neli vjev e sidassoph catopitt.

Vjisi’t tu nepz edvaem siem catopittit vjev esip’v katv e Sattoep fumm ug cazoph e duasti up tunivjoph tu zua dep miesp jux vu neli nupiz timmoph e duasti vjev viedjit qiuqmi jux vu neli nupiz timmoph e duasti.

Kujppz Cuz

Og zua puvodif O fofp'v xsovi nz uxp eptxis O duqoif uvjis eptxist gsun uvjis qutvist duncopif ov epf qsitipvif vu zua
O fofp'v opwipv O eonif vu onqsuwif og ov fofp'v xusl O xomm edv , ettitt epf efeqv

 

[Merlox]

Ov't emm ecuav neslivoph csuvjis. Gohasi uav jux vu hiv vseggod duptotvipvmz epf zua dep hiv nommoupt ug atist gus e gusn vzqi ug qsufadv epf neli nommoupt.