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What Stopped You from Launching a Bootstrapped Product in 2015

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What will you do differently in 2016 to make it happen?

Stop looking for productivity 'techniques' that others have found to work for them and just do the best thing I can think of now to get something done.

Momentum tends to work better than any one 'technique'.

I didn't feel the user interface was ready. Also, as the system is a database at heart it has to be absolutely rock solid.

Planning to launch on the 5th of Feb, which is the date (4 years) since I wrecked my knee and started working on this project to keep my mind busy. See https://velox.io

> Our platform enables beginners to code & experanced developers to deliver, fast!

typo: *experienced

Thank you!

Launched earlier this year with a $500 budget, now making ~1.2k revenue per month trying to grow it further. Still need to get a job though, $200/mo is not much fun for food in Seattle.

Still pretty cool--I'd be psyched w/ ~$1K/month, although obviously I'd be more psyched with more $.

What website are you referring to?

Too many hours devoted to employer. I already have something bootstrapped active (movinggauteng.co.za), but stagnating a bit. Wanted to launch a small December idea to take my mind off my 2 jobs. This year I'm aiming to work no more than 48 hours a week for employer, start making money on bootstrapped product, and enjoy my life more.

I didn't launch sooner as I was focused on too many projects. Finally buckled it down and drove my project to completion. Official launch will occur in a week or two: http://rallycoding.com/

Congratulations Stephen. I have taken your Udemy course, "Build Web Apps with React JS and Flux" and it is probably the best coding course that I've ever experienced. The level of support that you provide in the chat section of the course and by email is unbelievable. It's almost like getting 1:1 mentoring? I'm just starting your Native React Udemy course now.

Do you offer 1:1 mentoring?

Drop me a line, my email is in my profile, or you can find it all over the course on Udemy

Nothing! Launched and now have profit! Going Lean and doing customer dev before product dev was a huge factor for success.

Nothing, I launched, but I need to refine it and make it look better: bestfoodnearme.com

Concern about if what I built was too specific to me and if others would even use it.

Nothing. It launched. Then the co-founder quit and took it down.

It's coming back soon though.

I have no idea what to build.

I'm starting s podcast to help with this problem. The idea is I pick 1 small business / industry a week, and do 5 interviews with different business owners from that industry, asking about their business, the problems they face, etc.

Do you think you'd listen to something like this?

That sounds like something I'd listen to and would be super useful, sign me up.

Sounds great! Shoot me an email if you launch it.

hn at strapr dot com

start with me-too products. just go through the app store. make another todo list.

a lot of it is practice and experience; even if you don't have any ideas you like, you can get the practice and experience in while you're looking for the idea you believe in.

besides, sometimes those me-too products tend to have lives of their own.

I was consumed with a product I launched in 2014 :)

I was too lazy / busy to finish it.

Launch.

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