Why did you build it?

Similarly, I have 3 reasons for building Time Advisor:

1. I want it for myself. I feel life slipping away, and I believe in the ideas I have about building a time management assistant to help live in the moment and take more control of my time.
2. If I find it helpful, my gamble is that others would as well. Having an exponential impact on the world by helping others make the most of their time is a huge motivator for me.
3. I want more freedom. I still hold a full-time engineering position and have always felt boxed in. Bootstrapping a startup of my own has given me much enjoyment and I want to make that my living.

I am building https://twitter.com/thriftmvp an early / pre-revenue high quality MVP marketplace. There are a few reasons I am building this:

1. There are not any buyer-friendly marketplaces for such an early stage of products.
2. I keep seeing people building products and failing for reasons totally unrelated to the product the are building. Instead of completely abandoning this kind of work we should financially reward makers for their effort and present their products to people who could potentially do small pivots and make them successful.
3. Makers should not have to reinvent the wheel, so if they have a new product in mind instead of building it from scratch they could buy / use / tweak existing solutions that didn't make it.
4. This could go further than just being a marketplace. It could be a place for growth, identifying talent etc but that's a much bigger vision.

I built it in Google Spreadsheets first, just refining the formulas over a few years.

During the pandemic, I asked a friend who wanted to lose weight if they would start tracking using the spreadsheet and my coaching.

He lost 70lbs and has kept it off.

Then we thought, "hey, spreadsheets are pretty lame, what about an app that does this with more features instead?"

I'm building unblokd.com because I'm tired of being gaslighted on Stackoverflow.

I think there's room for a place where you can ask for help and just pay to get a solution from someone. Or earn helping others.

I'm building TIMEVA for 3 reasons.

1. Instead of building an app over 2 years (Light Bulb), I want to prove that I can build a useful, cool, simple app in 30 days.

2. I personally want a simple, super customizable, productivity timer to time block my work.

3. I want to practice community & marketing to generate interest in something I'm building.

• I grew up poor, on welfare, using food stamps, and struggled with childhood obesity.
• Everyone in my family suffers from metabolic disease in some form or another.
• My mom died recently from Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). She had elevated liver enzymes for most of her adult life but because she didn't drink alcohol and she was "thin" those values were ignored.
• I want to solve this for myself, my family, friends, coworkers, everyone.

I’m on a mission to get rid of popups on the web. 😄

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