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Ok, that's a good point. We are offering 2 week free trial, so I think we will know a little more next week. We have been using ads to drive traffic to our site. We are spending like $2 per sign-up and not sure how sustainable it will be in long run. We are thinking of conferences or community events where we can meet more users. We want to talk to more users and get more feedback, but I'm not sure how to approach this.

This is making me really nervous.

I don't know how to tell if we have product market fit or not. My co-founder believes we have product market fit. My co-founder talked to 10 people when he was researching. 5 people showed strong interest and we started developing. We aren't tracking any metrics. KPIs haven't been defined yet. We have had many instances where a single opinion changed the design/requirements.

It doesn't matter. Maybe 1/100 company doesn't ask DS&A questions these days.

Most corporate dev jobs are dull. Most of the codebase is mostly for loops. There's no relevance to day-to-day job. But these jobs pay well because of which competition is high. So interviewers are trained to measure as many signals as possible. If it's big tech company then there would be 7+ rounds instead of usual 5 to measure more signals.

No one cares what you built at startup either. There's lot of red tape in corporate. Many good ideas get blocked or shut down because of politics. Chances of building something are slim if not hired in a greenfield project.

Leetcode is now deeply embedded as part of dev interviews. In current market there are 300-800+ applications for any given dev role. You gonna have to play this game if you are looking to go back into corporate.

This is a good study plan to follow if you want to get in shape for dev interviews: https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/coding-interview-study...

Fair. We've worked well together for past 1.5 years, but I suspect it might be because our roles & boundaries were clearly defined. We didn't have that talk when we kicked off this venture.

Early on I broached the topic with list of questions such as how do we disagree, how to handle breakup, hot buttons, practices/guidelines around finances. I need to push again to get those answers.

No. I should've asked to be added to those zoom meetings in hindsight.

Discovery process. I wasn't in any of user interviews, but a short discussion on insights from those interviews would help me. I didn't understand first set of wireframes tbh, so I asked a lot of questions and it sort of got frustrating trying to pull information out of his head. I didn't even realize they were wireframes until late.

Am I learning new things? Yes. But not sure if I'm learning enough to be effective. There's still lot of industry jargon terms, processes, norms which I don't understand. I only understood part of IA doc that was shared, nor the PRD. Am I somewhat enjoying the process? Until now, yes. I just don't like not knowing what's happening.