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After weeks of delay, we built it all in 36 hrs⚡

We started with the idea mid-June, and validated the idea in late June. But since then, we've ran into some brick walls. I think some of it was a bit of fear, wondering whether it would even work out. And some of it was not trusting in the positive reception we received when trying to validate the product on Reddit.

But then a few days ago, I read this tweet by James Clear, which has since been deleted.

The tweet said: "When struggling to start, work on a smaller part. When struggling to finish, ship a smaller whole."

That tweet resonated with me and got me fired up. So on the morning of Aug 19th, we buckled down and asked ourselves, "What's the simplest form of this product that we can ship?"

Then we got to it.

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    Congrats on the launch! How did you validate the idea out of interest?

    Good luck!

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      Great question, and thanks!

      Basically what we did was post the idea to entrepreneurial subreddits like r/growmybusiness and r/indiebiz. We had a waitlist on our site as well. So we measured the amount of people on the waitlist vs the amount of unique page views. Plus, the feedback from redditors helped as well.

      Hope that helped!

      Are you working on anything interesting?

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    Congrats! Looks like a very interesting idea!

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      Thanks! We just launched on Product Hunt 🚀 Fingers crossed 🤞🤞

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    Awesome, nice work. It's all iteration from here.

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      Thanks @witten! & Yup, iterating based on user feedback

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    Congrats, the first step is usually the hardest!

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      Thanks! & Yeah, seems to always be the case 😅

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      That's an excellent idea. We'll see how many users prefer that. Thanks for the feedback!

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