A product where startup founders can share their journey
What if startup founders could share their journey while building their product? I'm sure many of them share it on a blog or their personal website, but it's only viewed by their subscribers.
Personally, I am very interested in learning the journey than the actual product. Comments?
IH fills this role somewhat
...somewhat :)
@pradyumna I agree 100%. I've been fascinated about this for a few years now. Most stories we read are about companies that already "made it". They are out of the messy, scrappy early days.
More stories about the journey of building a business will make it easier for people to decide whether they should go the entrepreneurial path.
By the way, we've been documenting on our blog and it has been a great way to learn from our experience in retrospect + with advice from the community!
Stunning, @maringerov! Love how you have posted every important aspect of the journey - from branding iterations to your first AMA. I wish there were more of such resources where people could learn from. I strongly believe this will provide a better user response owing to the tight feedback loop. Kudos to you, sir!
Thank you so much :)
Check out wip.chat.
If you start a discord channel I'd definitely join.
First of all, wip.chat is not free, secondly, its usefulness is pretty questionable.
Was more of thinking of starting an OSS for the same :)
Beat me to it - was going to say this as well!
Yes, the news always talk about the company when it's a "boom". And while may be monotone the creation of a product it's interesting see process of one, because not always we know how to start, right?
@kik_e exactly 👍
The media puts the tipping points of success on a pedestal, ignoring the whole journey and work that has gone into making that possible.
Often, we can learn more by looking at the early days, rather than looking at company's that are already a success.
Yes, we learn more in the beginning and with the fails. Share me your story @JulianSamarjiev , how did you start DULO?
We have the whole thing documented (and still documenting as we go along) here.
But in a nutshell:
Let me know if you want to know anything more specific, but the best place would really be our Origins series. As that was the idea all along, to have everything documented 🙂
Wow Juliano, your trip looks great! So, did you start a blog at the beginning, but over time, the idea changed to create an online store?
Thanks!
No, we are just documenting the whole process of building the business from day 1 on that blog. The main thing is the business, but having an archive of what happened might be useful for other people starting out. It's also fun to look back 😄
Yes, it's fun! Good Luck @JulianSamarjiev ! Text me if you need something 😄
Likewise @kik_e 👍🙂
I've been doing this via YouTube*. Others on their blogs, wip.chat, Medium, podcasts, etc. It might be interesting to consolidate these and hilight certain ones. The unsanitized stories of building companies can often be fascinating.
Hey @pradyumna!
I had the same idea and started Makermilestone as a blog (www.medium.com/Makermilestone) to validate the idea and build a user base before creating a website or an app.
Why am I building this? Startup-focused news platforms have articles that focus on funding, acquisitions, controversies.I want to stay updated on every single milestone (big or small) that a founder/maker hits, in the journey of building a business (that I'm interested in), and learn from it.
If I'm not wrong, there are platforms like www.Publicly.io and www.wip.chat , where makers post product updates rather than the startup/project's milestones.
Do check out Makermilestone and tell me what you think about it ✌
I agree, it's always very interesting to know how they started, what they did, how it worked. Almost every company has a blog, but in many cases it's not real chronicles, it's a mix of articles, how-tos and other stuff not about working on the product. It would be great though to have some aggregation tool or service to read about a real progress from different companies starting from very zero.
Thank you all for the amazing comments.
I feel that in addition to curious viewers getting to know about the roadmap of interesting products, this could very likely be beneficial to aspiring/first-time founders giving them guidance, an in-depth insight, and a wiki (of sorts) while they go on to develop their products.
On the flip side, I want to know how much of an open ended culture would founders want to have?