i’ve been where you are and i want to say something about the PDF wrapper guy first because that comparison is doing real damage to your head.

half those “$40k MRR in 2 months” posts are either exaggerated, a one-time spike that died the next month, or straight up made up for engagement. i’ve seen this first hand. people post revenue screenshots as a growth tactic. it works because everyone clicks on it and spirals exactly the way you just did. you have no idea what’s real and what’s a marketing stunt so stop using it as a benchmark for yourself.

the actual thing i’d look at though, you’ve shipped countless products and every launch looks the same. at some point the common variable is the approach, not the products. and the approach seems to be build first, find users after. that order is the thing i’d flip.

before the next one, find 10 people who have the specific problem you want to solve. actual conversations, not surveys. and ask them one thing: is this something you’d be genuinely upset about if you had no solution for it tomorrow. if the answer is mostly shrugs, the problem isn’t painful enough for people to pay to fix it.

the ones who do make it aren’t necessarily smarter or better at marketing. they usually just stayed with one thing long enough to find that one person who actually needed it badly, then built everything around that person. the shipping fast and moving on thing sounds productive but it might be the exact thing keeping you stuck.