How I grew as a solo founder

If you are a solo founder like me, I have some things for you to consider when you’re thinking of going solo too!!

1. You can do it yourself

• Try using no-code tools like figma flow
• If you’re B2B, you can use Figma Flow to get the LOIs, getting the prototype you can create in one day. You don’t really need the product built yet.
• If you’re B2C, you can do manual labor and existing tools to test it out—you don’t really need a dev to prove out traction. Work accountability startup? Use Slack or Discord. Video clip editor? Manually clip it when people film it and send it to you. Figma to React? Do this yourself or get an outsource worker before automating it.

1. NEVER!! pay $10-50k building your app

• Try solving your initial problem with existing tools and manual labor first and see if it actually generates the revenue or traction you want. I’ve seen so many founders pay this much money only to fail, when I could have tested it on existing tools and learn the same thing!

With enough traction, nobody cares if you’re technical or not—not even YC! One of our members, Rishi, was a non-technical solo founder who went through YC and raised $1.5m and got pre-sales by selling his product before it was built. Sarah, too, was a solo founder who got an engineer to be her CTO, after she got traction.

best of luck from founderscafe.io !!