3 months into the startup journey
It’s been about 3 months since I started working on my own startup full-time (wow, time flies so fast…). I wrote about my experience of what life has been as a first-time founder: what I did, what I learnt, what surprised me etc.
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Thank you for this post! Always nice to follow someone else' journey 🙌🏻
Good luck diving in further in wonderful startup world!
Thanks! Hope it gives more people to learn what it's like to be in the beginning :)
I'm happy to see that the startup life hasn't destroyed your will to live. Not yet at least.
I worked on a product similar to yours not long ago and the market for that is rapidly scaling, so you are on the right track there.
One thing that I haven't done when I started working on my startup is that I did not market the product until it was done. What I should have done is started pitching the solution to companies, get feedback and get a pre-sell contract with them. It would have made things a lot easier.
@johndemian Thank you for the comment! It's a challenging journey but I am not burnt out yet, fortunately :) It's interesting that you worked on a similar product before, I would be interested to hear about your experience!
Totally agree that a pre-sell contract with companies, it's good validation that the idea is something people want or not!
Great post. It's always nice to see how other people are doing and what are their experience in a similar field to yours. Hope you continue with the updates.
@becks0509 Thank you for the comment! I will continue to update my journey and learning in my blog and Twitter https://twitter.com/921kiyo :)
Your blog was such a wonderful find for me. I read through a couple of blogs of yours and they were detailed. Loved it!
The Global Talent Visa's blog was quite insightful. Do you think one can qualify if he maintains an open source project having 200+ stars on GitHub and it is also offered as a SaaS?
@rajatsx Glad that my blog was helpful to you! For the open source project, the focus should be on the impact rather than the Github stars (of course having more Github stars is good): how many companies are using your project, how many downloads per month, did it win any external award etc. If you can get objective stats like these, I think you might have a chance! Have a look at their official guide https://technation.io/visa-tech-nation-visa-guide/ and see if you can meet their criteria. You never know until you actually apply for it (even if you get rejected for the visa, they will give you feedback, and you can try to apply again).
What a great read, love all of the detail!
Glad you managed to sort out the Visa issue so you could pursue this.
Good luck! 🚀
Thank you for the message! Yeah, the visa thing was tricky, but no longer a concern! UK is super friendly for starting a business :)
really enjoyed reading about your journey so far Kiyo, thanks for sharing
@moon_mcr I am glad that you liked the blog post :) I will keep sharing my journey as I go!
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Thank you for the message! Will reply to you in a sec :)
That's interesting to hear. Where do you come across these people? I presume meetups aimed at startups, and I assume London-based?
Yeah, it's mainly startup founders based in London. I am talking about the demand relative to CEO/business founders. There's no stats but just my impression, but I think the demand for tech co-founders seems to be higher.
I think this rings true browsing indiehackers too
Yeah, I am trying to encourage my engineer friends to take a leap to do a startup now :)
haha, yes! Get them all on indiehackers 😜
keep going and you will succeed :-) . Best of luck!
Thank you for the kind message! I will keep updating my journey in my blog :)