- We had a good view of what to do product-wise - the key thing that is different for us is the open source model.

- I'd stress how important it was feeling inspired by the idea. Ian from Mattermost was really helpful, as were Dalton and the YC partners. Enjoying what we were working on probably tripled our speed.

- I'm meh technically, so we focussed on making sure Tim (CTO) could focus on exclusively the development. We split it up pretty clearly to create the right environment. I did the design, product, website (Elementor/WP) and docs, Aaron focussed on getting user feedback.

- We spent $1k on marketing, to speed up user engagement early on, so that helped get some bugs out.

Will do a blog post if there's more interest in the journey.