
Venturly
Revenue-sharing for startups & freelancers
Made a landing page in a two-three weeks time altogether, and deployed a website in couple more hours.
Put some links on reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, said 'Hi' to a few people that work in the area of alternative funding for startups... Not much activity. At the moment I got swamped with other things in life, so decided to postpone any further work on the product.
Big lesson is that I should have contacted the people for who the product was being built for - the freelancers. Contacting them via AngelList, Upwork, 99Designs, Dribble etc, where I could talk with them about their pain points and to test the value hypothesis of Venturly. I could have learned more, but this product was never much in my focus and served me as a side thingy to test a few things.
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When starting a company, you don't have a lot of money. I found myself thinking "it'd be great if I could pay people later, once the idea has succeeded and grown, then I would pay them even more for the risk and help".

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