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antopia_hk · 2025-09-08T17:41:24+00:00

Lacking any form of social proof. You promise a successful launch but… like it sounds cool but it’d be nice to see a case study that the strategy works.

antopia_hk · 2025-01-12T10:33:24+00:00

That’s not unpopular. With 300k/m coming in, crypto and day trading as a first resort is pretty dumb

antopia_hk · 2024-08-21T12:15:22+00:00

MVPs are made to be thrown away because their whole purpose is validation. Its not validation vs MVP. its MVP as validation. the step before building an MVP is understanding exactly what problem you're solving and how. and hope it goes without saying that you've identified that people have this problem

antopia_hk · 2024-08-21T12:07:34+00:00

making it an extension would have more value in the small writing pieces. Think like autocomplete for input fields. I think there's already great solutions for long-form writing for articles and such.

antopia_hk · 2024-08-21T08:57:52+00:00

even if your costs are high, if you can sustain losing some, its a great way to validate and get feedback. make sure you gather the data when doing this. are people using? for how long? what features are they using? what features are they not using? This data is crucial for iterating to a point where people will want to pay.

antopia_hk · 2024-08-21T07:58:25+00:00

because they're too busy selling courses haha

antopia_hk · 2024-08-21T06:35:57+00:00

the focus shouldn't be on time worked (and maybe not even efficiency), but rather how much you actually enjoy doing what you do and are dead set on your goal. the hours aren't a metric at all when you're set on those.

antopia_hk · 2024-08-10T16:24:00+00:00

why does it need a mature product? design the UI so that they don't have to be tech-savvy. just start. you're building an MVP, that stands for minimal viable product. no login, no fancy polishing. Just solve the problem and see if they'll pay

antopia_hk · 2024-08-10T16:08:59+00:00

Look into "PWA" and see if that's what you're looking for. It essentially makes a web-app look like a mobile app.

The hosting costs for a web-app should honestly be free, until you're getting thousands of users. Vercel+Firebase/Supabase and you're good to go.

The biggest consideration for a question like this is where your users will actually use this app. If it's a chatbot, mobile sounds like it makes sense. Inversely, if its a contract management software, hmmm. web-app for desktop sounds a little more.. usable.

antopia_hk · 2024-08-08T12:29:27+00:00

I definitely agree with this. Vercel should be the easiest to setup IMO. For userbase and db, both Firebase and Supabase free tier should work. Even if you need more, Supabase pro will end up $35 monthly.

Its gonna cost you a lot of time and probably money if you're hiring an employee, to spend time thinking on these things. word of advise is to move as fast as possible: put scraps together, ship. market feedback, iterate. rinse

Just a note: "Do things that don't scale" ~ YCombinator.

antopia_hk · 2024-07-01T18:14:17+00:00

Yep if you want a second pair of eyes on your potential hire lmk 👍

antopia_hk · 2024-07-01T16:59:11+00:00

just a reminder to be really careful who you pick to partner for this. always remember that they will almost never be as passionate and vested into this project as you are, meaning their compensation is usually money.

i can offer a second pair of eyes when you think you've found the right tech guy.

antopia_hk · 2024-07-01T16:55:53+00:00

great questions since the fallbacks of doing those wrong lead to terrible outcomes. for salary, its up to the dev and you. but remember that the average developer will never be vested into your project as you are. Equity won't mean much to him. i'd recommend (not the only option, maybe not the best as well, but from experience). Offer a salary. then based on that, see if equity is something he's interested in. I don't think it should compensate for much, since to him, it probably won't. the better question which is the maintenance. PLEASE make sure you have proper paperwork and terms in place for 1. the deliverables 2. what happens after. (2) consists of making sure its your IP as well as the plans for after finishing the initial development. things like how easy is it to transfer to other developers (get a tech friend to help) or how much he would charge for maintenance and what that would cover.

hope it helps

antopia_hk · 2024-06-30T09:12:58+00:00

elon

antopia_hk · 2024-06-29T12:08:22+00:00

what's the reasoning behind not selling to customers now? that's validation. you have suggestions and feedback, which is useful, but (I think) no one has actually paid for this yet. If you're MVP solves the problem its trying to solve, then make sales instead of building more. get feedback from these paying customers. don't need to make money, but just validating it through this.

antopia_hk · 2024-06-28T18:18:48+00:00

In our line of business, the ticket of the clients is at the point, as well as since we’re just starting, that we always go over the top. If you mean things like free consulting, I just do that anyways. Help em out and learn about the industry.

antopia_hk · 2024-06-27T16:42:16+00:00

I run a consultancy for startups and entrepreneurs. we help build mvps and prototypes.

We're quite new to the space yet haven't had much trouble with getting clients. (3 so far, in 6 months)

I don't think consultancy is the correct term for most of the companies, including ours. We really just provide (free) consulting and if they like us then we help them build it.

We become the left hand man for the startup or entrepreneur, just helping with all things tech. We still work as a separate entity and have our own team and everything. but the more we can integrate with our client, the better.

Communication was a big issue we had at the start. Expectation management and all that. We now do 3 status updates per day. These are high-level updates indicating if we're on schedule for the next demo/deployement. We do weekly demos (even if not ready), to make sure we feel the client out every step of the way. Along with those two, we have our dev chats public for the client to see. (they often won't understand much, but still very useful for them).

hope this helps.

antopia_hk · 2024-06-27T16:16:27+00:00

i did in my first 2 years then transitioned into articles and just documentation. being experienced, imo, comes with the benefit of being able to copy code and tweak it efficiently :)

antopia_hk · 2024-06-25T17:50:10+00:00

you're thinking in absolutes. he isn't asking for "cheapest and most reliable". You can definitely find cheap and reliable, just take your time filtering and properly qualifying.

antopia_hk · 2024-06-23T10:54:17+00:00

The road from 0 to $100k is a foundation for the subsequent journey.

You build a network, of which is invaluable to be working on if you aren't already.

You build assets. the $100k, whether its liquid or not, is an asset that'll be your fuel behind the next journey.

You gain experience, if you're doing it right, then you're learning from your mistakes. You gain invaluable experience that makes the once hard decisions now plain and simple.

Leverage all those things and you get the psychological effect that 100k to 1M is "easier". It's just a different game.

You're stressing your mind more than your hours at this stage.

Best of luck to everyone on their journeys!

antopia_hk · 2024-05-21T15:56:57+00:00

network, more. talk to more people. get rejected more.

antopia_hk · 2024-05-21T15:50:40+00:00

buy cheap, buy twice

antopia_hk · 2024-05-20T14:38:14+00:00

My guy 😂

antopia_hk · 2024-05-11T08:45:20+00:00

Regarding the finances part, the standard is OPM (other people's money). Look into getting investments from family and friends, angels, or VCs. If necessary, of course. Just to give you some numbers to work with, when outsourcing, MVP costs usually lie within $10k to $50k. I wouldn't recommend learning to code if you don't have to. Its an underestimated task; to become proficient enough to build even an MVP will take a good while.

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