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> The top cause of death for indie startups is failure to delegate the tasks you're not good at and being overtaken by more social players.

Lesson learned.

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It's too bad that it took me 2 years to learn that one. Oh well, better late than never.

Kudos to your success. Refreshing to see a SAAS that generates enough revenue for you to live off of instead of an overvalued SV company with no profit.

Thanks! And I think you're absolutely right, people got a bit tired of all this unicorn nonsense.

It is refreshing and helps keep other SaaS developers from despair.

I don't know Russian. I'm going by Google Translate, which points me to some inconsistency in the choice of words used for menu div: at the top, they're Register, Log in and at the bottom I see SIGN UP, SIGN IN buttons. Register and SIGN UP are doing the same thing and likewise Log in and SIGN IN. I would rather be consistent with them :)

The difference between them is that it's nouns at the top and verbs in the bottom. But yeah, I think you're right :)

Lost in translation.

What is a "more social player" in this context? Somebody who does lots of networking and is good at hiring or is it related to social media like VK, FB, etc?

Yes, it's about networking and the ability to delegate.

I've been struggle with it for years. Felt like if I entrusted some part of work to someone else, they wouldn't give it 100% of their attention. Then I realized that it's true most of the time, but the trick is it they don't have to in order to finish the task.

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