Boxsy
Your AI-powered fundraising OS & sidekick
Not because of strategy — just life.
Some rough personal stuff hit people I care about, and it knocked the wind out of me a bit.
Still showed up today though.
Spent the afternoon working on Boxsy — fixing things, organizing priorities, pushing the next tasks forward.
Funny how posting consistently sometimes feels like pressure… but sharing the reality of building matters.
Progress isn’t always fast.
Sometimes it’s just showing up again.
Back at it.
Still working this evening — plenty more to do, as usual.
Got some interesting feedback from an investor today around location, focus, and the deck. 🎉
The kind of feedback that makes you stop and think: How much of this should I actually apply? And how fast?
Trying to separate signal from noise — and also wondering slightly nervously: Is this another pivot waiting to happen?
Curious how others approach this:
When you get investor feedback, even if you are not fundraising, do you act quickly — or sit on it for a bit before making changes?
Fundraising expectations feel very different today compared to a few years ago.
At one point, an idea and a strong deck could open doors.
Now it feels more like:
MVP built
A few users
Some traction
Maybe early revenue
And honestly, it makes sense.
Investors want signals — not just potential. One of the biggest mindset shifts I’ve had as a founder despite all the peer pressure to raise:
Focus on traction first. Fundraising second.
Traction changes the conversation completely.
Curious: Did you raise with just an idea, or did you need traction first?
Mea Culpa - Missed posting the last two days.
Turns out posting manually instead of scheduling tools has consequences 😅
Today wasn’t about building features — it was about resetting.
Talked to my Mom back in France.
Did grocery shopping.
Started dinner in the slow cooker.
Then sat down and organized all my to-dos by category:
Personal
Boxsy
Book
Script
And started knocking off the high-priority items and a few quick wins.
Still behind. But I’ve learned something as a founder:
Progress isn’t about catching up perfectly. It’s about keeping momentum — one step at a time.
Normal programming resumes tomorrow.
Curious — do you batch your work, or reset weekly like this?
One of the most exciting moments as a founder is when users start asking for more features.
“Can you add this?”
“Can you ship that?”
“Can you move faster?”
It’s validating. It means someone actually wants what you’re building.
But it also creates pressure. Because at the same time, you’re juggling:
Bug fixes
Investor follow-ups
Customer messages
Applications
Planning what’s next
Some days it feels like everything matters at once.
That’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.
Speed alone isn’t enough. Organized speed matters.
That realization is one of the reasons we’re building @Boxsy — to help founders move faster without losing track of everything else.
Curious: What was the first feature request that made you feel real pressure as a founder?
Had one of those founder moments this morning.
We discovered that over the past two weeks, we actually had more signups than what showed up in our subscription system.
Bug.
Some founders signed up. Used the product. And we didn’t track them properly.
Which means now we’re scrambling to follow up — after the trial — when the leads are colder than they should be.
Not a great feeling.
But it made me think about something bigger: How many important things do founders miss simply because there’s too much happening?
Investor follow-ups
Application deadlines
Customer requests
Not because we don’t care.
Because there are too many moving parts. Lesson learned:
Fix the bug.
Fix the process.
Reduce dependency on memory.
Curious: Have you ever discovered missed leads or follow-ups too late?
Launch day is supposed to feel like a big moment.
You ship.
You announce.
You refresh your inbox.
And then…Nothing.
No signups.
No emails.
Just silence.
I remember refreshing dashboards more times than I want to admit. At first, it feels discouraging. Then you realize something important:
Launching doesn’t mean customers will magically show up.
Distribution matters just as much as building. That moment changed how I think about execution. Not just building products — but making sure people actually know they exist.
Curious: Did your first launch bring customers immediately, or mostly silence?
Running out of cash as a founder is one of those lessons that sticks.
You think you’ll raise.
You think you’ll get acquired.
You think you have more runway than you actually do.
Sometimes you’re right. Sometimes… you’re not. And when you’re not, things move fast.
From what I’ve seen, many founders don’t fail because the idea was bad. They run out of time — or runway — before execution catches up.
That realization is one of the reasons I started building Boxsy.
Not to remove risk — that’s impossible. But to help founders stay more organized and ahead of surprises.
Curious:
Have you ever had a moment where runway became very real, very fast?
The grind doesn’t really stop once you start building.
Even on Sundays.
Had one of those moments this morning where I felt pretty exhausted and thought:
“What’s next…?”
Then laughed at myself.
Still pushing. Still building. Still trying to create something that helps founders operate better and waste less time.
Some days feel heavier than others — but progress still happens.
Curious: Do you take real days off as a founder, or do Sundays still look like workdays for you?
Started the morning testing new flows before the week kicks off.
Honestly, Saturday mornings have become one of my favorite building windows.
No meetings.
No Slack noise.
Just quiet time to break things and fix them.
We’re working on a few things at Boxsy that should make life easier for founders dealing with fundraising chaos — docs, pipelines, tracking, all the messy parts.
Still testing. Still refining. Still learning.
If you’re working on something similar or running into operational headaches, happy to compare notes.
And if you’re curious, you can check out what we’re building here:
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