Something I've been sitting with on a Saturday night as a solo founder:
The technical problems in building Genie 007 — voice AI that works on any website, learns your tone, runs locally — those got solved around month 4. The product works. I know what to build next. I know what's broken. That part is clear.
What hasn't gotten easier is the narrative problem. How do you explain what you built to someone who doesn't know they need it yet?
Three seconds to explain Genie 007. Five minutes to understand why it matters. That gap is the whole sales problem.
I keep asking myself: Am I telling the right story? Are the right people even finding this? Have I niched myself into a corner I can't escape?
I don't have a clean answer. Just that I'm still working on those five sentences — and thinking about it most on Saturdays when the to-do list finally goes quiet.
Anyone else in this place? Where the product is solid but the story still feels like a work in progress?