Two Reddit posts changed how I think about the product I’m building
I’m building a small product called Don’t Quit Blindly.
The original idea was simple:
help side hustlers figure out whether their business is actually ready to replace their salary.
Then I wrote two Reddit posts about side hustles, quitting your job, and how easy it is to confuse one good month with real business stability.
The first one crossed 20k views.
The second one crossed 6k.
The reach was nice.
But the useful part was the comments.
They gave me a much clearer picture of the real problem.
At first, I thought the product was mostly about helping people answer:
“Can this side hustle make enough money?”
Now I think the more important question is:
“Can I trust this enough to make a life decision around it?”
That sounds similar, but it changes everything.
The comments kept pointing to the same themes:
- one good month is not the same as stability
- a bad month reveals more than a good one
- retention matters more than one-off revenue
- if you can’t explain the good month, you can’t trust it
- if it only works when you’re operating at 110%, it’s still fragile
- sometimes the urgency is coming more from escape than from conviction
One comment in particular stuck with me:
“Would you still be building this if you had to stay at your job for another year?”
That question hit hard.
Because a lot of people don’t just want proof that the business works.
They want emotional permission to leave.
And those are not the same thing.
So the product is starting to shift.
It feels less like a tool for “more confidence”
and more like a tool for better judgment.
Less about hype.
More about trust, repeatability, and decision clarity.
If anyone’s curious, this is what I’m building:
https://dontquitblindly.com/
Has outside feedback ever changed the way you framed the real problem behind your product?
