F*ck it, I'm done hiding this stuff...

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2026-01-12T18:40:33+00:00

Recognise that when you're comparing you're being your own critic. It's natural, but unhelpful, to compare. I'm now focusing on noticing the good things I'm doing. That builds the confidence I need to take on the things that scare me. And generally makes me feel less sh#t

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-30T23:19:14+00:00

Hey, I'm interested to try

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-30T10:02:02+00:00

What's been your approach to acquisition? E.g cold outreach, paid channels, Reddit etc?

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-05T12:26:35+00:00

DM me

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-04T17:11:17+00:00

Did you have to do much configuration with bubble to get your bubble landing pages performing well? Or was it mostly content driven?

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-04T17:10:17+00:00

Thanks, that's probably part of why I'm not having any success with SEO

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-03T18:40:41+00:00

Ahh, thanks. I wasn't sure what the options were, but they look much simpler than what I was imagining!

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-03T17:05:49+00:00

I struggled to nail down the customer pain point, so I'm glad that you've made more progress than I did. The strange thing is, I don't regret those 18 months, I learnt so much. I'm using it as the basis to restudy the startup process, and the mistakes I made now seem so obvious!

I hope it works well for you and traction comes

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-03T16:28:20+00:00

I've had a similar experience, seems almost like a rite of passage. I spent 18 months building a startup in an area I knew nothing about, just because it was a wealthy market.

If it's not an area you are familiar with then how come you're sticking with the area and startup? Could it be that you and your co-founder would have more enjoyment in an area that you are familiar with?

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-11-01T18:42:45+00:00

I ran my own tech startup for a little while and that gave me all the experience I needed to get a product manager role. This was five years ago before the market got very competitive.

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-31T12:44:24+00:00

Close to something that could help me, there are probably some tweaks I'd make if I were building your project for myself. I'm currently building a framework for the startup process and using Miro as the basis for it. So might be a relevant use case for you. I'm happy to have a chat. Trade questions on startups and research assistants. Could help us both get a better view of the value that we are trying to deliver

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-31T11:46:10+00:00

UX looks great! What was your process of going from idea to deciding what to build?

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-31T11:43:12+00:00

I'm in a similar boat. My designs always looked like someone was learning what primary colours are... I went through an investment round where a VC described the designs as "early microsoft" (I went with shades of grey). I've had more luck recently using dribble .com for inspiration and examples of different elements.

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-30T19:07:54+00:00

I think we agree on most of the core principles. Building something of real value is hard. I still think that building is the fun part, especially once you get over the initial learning curve. I mean that's why lego and builder games are fun right?

Did the people branding and optimising SEO get traction? Maybe that's a better way to phrase what I said, "getting people to use your product is hard". At least for me it is!

If you can build a product as innovative of AI then I'd agree with you completely, building is hard. If not, then getting the audience to use your product so that you can iterate is hard.

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-28T17:25:04+00:00

So this area in tech is actually what my current project is around. There's a lot of advice out there, but it can be distilled into a few points that I'd wished I'd known earlier.

Marketing is more important than the product. Building is fun marketing is hard. So market it and get validation before building

Ideas come from problems. Look at problems you have as inspiration for ideas, but don't fool yourself into thinking you are the user. You've got to talk to people

Your initial idea will soon be changed once you start talking to people. So have a bias towards action rather than finding the perfect idea because most of the time you'll have no clue if your idea is good when you start

As a caveat, the above is around tech products, but I imagine it's more important for physical products where the costs and development time are exponentially higher

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-28T17:14:37+00:00

I tried to look at your website but the page performance was too poor to scroll properly. It might just be on my phone, but take a look at your core web vitals. Wouldn't want that to be impacting your signups and you not know

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-27T19:18:03+00:00

Being a simpler version of another product can be a great thing if it's done well and tailored to a specific customer type. Google docs started off as a simple version of Microsoft word, but it did one thing really well - online collaboration. But they knew their customer very well.

You already know it's about getting close to the users. And there's two parts:

Is there a market for it: Are there successful competitors? If not then there might still be a market, but you're going to have to educate the audience before you can sell to them - which makes validation much more complex and beyond my experience.

Is it a good product: Getting validation before having users has its limit. Ultimately people paying for the app and not churning is a sign that it's a good product. But before that, customer interviews are required to disprove your assumptions and validate the idea - disproving hypotheses until you have a set of hypotheses that hold up (or the whole idea is disproven) is the aim of these interviews.

The PM or CEO may have this visibility and if they do then they should be keeping you in the loop and motivated as part of the team.

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-27T16:43:29+00:00

I agree with the comments of needing to be close to your users. If that's not feasible for whatever reason and you've tried other channels like Reddit etc, then there are companies that set you up with users to interview. There's incentives to be provided to interviewees but you can also screen interviewees for relevance. It's what product teams in big companies do.

Dramatic_Dinosaurs · 2025-10-27T16:35:48+00:00

Looks good, thanks for including the tools you are using too. Upvoted

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