Prasann Pandya
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Building the future of reading & learning @myreaderai (70k+ registered users) | Nomad 🎒| Yogi 🧘♂ | Reader 📚 | Minimalist ◽ | Very outspoken
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Presenting "Reader mode" on . Jump to exact pages within text to read as you ask a question.
Works with all your books at once. If the answer is in a different book, the reader auto switches to page within the new book.
Try now:
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Calling it now:
After coming back to SF, it's clear to me we are in an AI bubble. Too many AI founders are building picks and shovels just because VCs want them to. Very few founders building from personal problems and passion, most just building because that's what everyone
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Rejected from
@ycombinator
again. To be honest, I think most VCs in the valley would rather fund smart kids who don't know how to do laundry and won't quit their job without funding cushion than strong founder willing to risk it all to build something great.
In last 5 years, I
Got rejected from
@ycombinator
@HF0Residency
@southpkcommons
but I keep building because I don’t look for external validations. In fact, quit my job before I even applied to any.
Shoutout however to
@beondeck
for accepting me!
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1 year later:
- Most things didn’t go according to plan
- Rejected from all accelerators
- Had to get out of SF due to visa issues and cost
- Bank account went to $0 end of last year
- 90% of people thought I was crazy to keep working on
@myreaderai
with so much competition
But
Life update - Just quit my high paying silicon valley dream job last month to work on full time even though I have no funding, the idea is still raw and I am on work visa. A thread:
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Keep rejecting real builders like me, keep funding kids with brand names who don’t know how to do laundry and more and more people like me will stop applying.
Sooner or later, we will build the next YC, a place where you are not judged by which school you went to and which
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Moved out of SF due to visa issues and costs. Quit my 200k job without any backing. No funding support. Bank account went to $0 in Dec. Back up now.
Started nomading to cheap places, currently in Mexico. Being in SF is nice BUT when you have so much internal motivation, you can
Always living by this regardless of if I have any support or not.
Just shipping everything I want to see exist: , , and more to come….
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We built a Phone AI agent for taking restaurant orders, reservations and booking appointments. You can just give it a task and it will collect all the required information. We are doing a pilot with 10 businesses from Nov 1st, 4 spots are already taken. If interested, fill out
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Until last year, I kept my mouth shut and just focused on building. But then I kept noticing a clear pattern that was too hard to ignore. It didn’t matter how talented builder you are or how much grit you have, it mattered way more what brand names you had.
I then started
Keep rejecting real builders like me, keep funding kids with brand names who don’t know how to do laundry and more and more people like me will stop applying.
Sooner or later, we will build the next YC, a place where you are not judged by which school you went to and which
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Nicely put! The startup game is rigged against the outsiders. Very few like me who quit a $200k AI Engineer job at a great company without any backing, brand name and with visa issues. But I am just built different.
You need baseline prosperity to even attempt startups. Insiders know it, outsiders don’t.
Some observations in Silicon Valley :
- Many founders in Bay Area come from a sound financial background. A founder got viral for paying himself 0 salary in SF, his mom is a CEO of public
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Hot take:
The GPT store is going to fail just like the plugins. I want to use products with specific UX and not use everything in chat interface.
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Their reasoning, there’s multiple Phone AI companies and we didn’t stand out. I don’t know what did not stand out to them 🤔:
- the fact that we have a working seamless product with few businesses already paying for a pilot,
- the fact that I have single handedly built
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If you are young (<25) and considering whether to start a company or not, don't. Smarter thing would be join a fast growing AI startup. You will learn a ton, make great connections, get way richer and will be way easier for you to start 5 years down the line. Imagine being the
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First off,
@garrytan
is a role model and a huge respect for everything he is doing.
I get told this a lot. Already did: 60k+ registered users, 10k monthly active. Built a yoga platform before this, it processed $100k in transactions.
Now people find other problems with my idea
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Current VC model only funds startups that can 1000x.
The new future is decentralized. Small product teams making 10-50 million ARR. How can we do better than just making people bootstrap? Thoughts?
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Let's build the strongest community ever for NO BRAND founders (who didn't go to MIT/Stanford/Harvard or work at FAANG) since they often have a much harder time finding support. DM for a link to join.
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My last job in SF was a senior role with more than $200k package working as an AI/ML engineer at a fast growing company with unlimited vacation and full remote work.
Left all that to do my own thing even though it forced me out of US (for now).
The decision to me was a
@sreeenidhi
I don’t. I quit my job in SF. Stayed for a bit on travel visa. Currently outside US. Long term will apply for O1.
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@sagarcasm
He had 5 years of injuries where he couldn’t play and one bowling finger cut in half and is short. There’s always more to the story.
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Got rejected from
@ycombinator
@HF0Residency
@southpkcommons
but I keep building because I don’t look for external validations. In fact, quit my job before I even applied to any.
Shoutout however to
@beondeck
for accepting me!
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This blew up. While I have your attention, if you are looking for something real: I am actively fundraising for
@myreaderai
, 75k+ registered users, 10k monthly active with $0 spending in marketing. More than ramen profitable so also hired a part time dev. Fully bootstrapped.
3rd
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Everyone going crazy over
@retellai
, we had phone ai working in Oct 23 with low latency, RAG, interruption, multi languages with a team of 2 with no funding.
Rejected by
@ycombinator
👏🏼
@nikunj
@retellai
@ 2023
GPT4 + RAG (complete menu from real store)
In Hindi and English with user interruption
with
@prasann_pandya
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What platform do you guys use to deploy your Machine Learning/Deep Learning models to production?
Do you prefer using managed services or do you prefer building a custom solution? and Why?
#MachineLearning
#AI
#DeepLearning
#ArtificialIntelligence
#DataScience
#Pytorch
Algorithmia
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Microsoft Azure ML
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Flask+Docker+Kubernetes
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Amazon Sagemaker
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Founder life is tough with many ups and downs but then I look at the apartment I live in Mexico City that I can afford through revenue from my own product and it all feels worth it!
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@garrytan
First off, you are a role model!
Already did: 60k+ registered users, 10k monthly active, been building for 5+ years. Built a yoga platform before this, it processed $100k in transactions.
Now people find other problems with my idea while some 20 year old MIT kid who built some
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I don't care if your product uses GPT-4 or 8 or Claude or whatever. I only care if the product solves my problem.
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The new AI-based future:
-
@perplexity_ai
for web search
-
@ChatGPTapp
for brainstorming
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@JuliusAI_
for data analysis
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@CognosysAI
for agents
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@arcinternet
for browsing
And
@myreaderai
will be for reading and learning. Nowhere close to any of these products but stay tuned!
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Dear SF, I have missed you!
After almost 7 months, it’s good to be back.
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Hot take:
Models and infra layer will get commoditized. UX, distribution and data will be the moat.
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The first NOBRAND founders meetup! Something special is starting!
@nobrandfounders
@atalovesyou
Let's build the strongest community ever for NO BRAND founders (who didn't go to MIT/Stanford/Harvard or work at FAANG) since they often have a much harder time finding support. DM for a link to join.
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Life update - Just quit my high paying silicon valley dream job last month to work on full time even though I have no funding, the idea is still raw and I am on work visa. A thread:
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Day 3 back in SF and just met the CTO of CIA, no joke!
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While everyone's busy applying to
@ycombinator
, we just keep shipping!
Don't need any backing to do great work. Keep funding bozos without a backbone just because they went to school x and watch us take over the world from sidelines!
cc:
@nidhishgajjar
Coming soon!
Learn languages by having daily conversations with AI at your level.
Sign up for the waitlist for a huge discount when it's out: .
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@DhravyaShah
Being from top school tells you nothing about being a good founder. Two very different things.
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@Ahmed_Jemaa_aj
It's not about being defensible. People are just building what looks cool rather than what they care about.
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Last year I was a nobody.
This year my tweets somehow reach the entire valley. Never had a Twitter strategy, never will.
I just speak truth as I see it without any fear. Somehow people resonate and make it viral. Grateful 🙏🏼
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I used to believe prompt engineering is a passing fad but the more I go deeper into using LLMs, the more I realize it is same as designing your own algorithms.
Thoughts?
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🚨🚨
Introducing Airlight () - a lightweight super-browser with spotlight like UI.
Access your most used web apps (
@perplexity_ai
,
@ChatGPTapp
,
@CognosysAI
,
@github
, and more...) from any screen just like spotlight search.
Built by two indie hackers
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@SudsG5
@mitgeniusz
@myreaderai
Sorry, you never know on Twitter who’s being genuine. I started nomading in Oct, bank account went to zero in Dec. Luckily right after it went to 0, Myreader started making some profit so I was able to continue nomading. Switched to Mexico in Jan so it’s been cheaper.
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I am on a mission: To build the simplest product to learn any language in the fastest way possible.
This is my day 1 in Mexico trying to order 😂 (Jan 26).
Using ONLY my app , my goal is to be conversationally fluent in Spanish in next 2 months. No
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When I quit my job last year in March, my schedule for the next couple months was wake up, meditate, take a walk and get coffee ☕️, work on Myreader for 2 hrs, Lunch, take a walk to park with good music and nap there for 30 mins, work again for 2-3 hrs, hang out at
@thesfcommons
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Hosting a small SF meetup for this on Thursday night to plan out how to best serve this strong community of builders. DM for an invite!
Let's build the strongest community ever for NO BRAND founders (who didn't go to MIT/Stanford/Harvard or work at FAANG) since they often have a much harder time finding support. DM for a link to join.
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Building a cool hacky prototype that gets hype in the valley bubble and building a simple intuitive scalable product for the regular non-tech consumer are two very different things.
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When I talk to investors or techies about Phone AI, they think there’s too much competition. When I talk to customers, there’s ZERO.
I am curious, has anyone here called a restaurant or a business and it was picked up by an intelligent AI agent? I can be wrong.
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On the other hand, I didn't give two shits about VCs told me and only cared about customers, and now I have a product that gets 500 sign ups a day with $0 spent in marketing and more than ramen profitable so I now hired a part-time dev.
Also, I wake up with unlimited energy
Calling it now:
After coming back to SF, it's clear to me we are in an AI bubble. Too many AI founders are building picks and shovels just because VCs want them to. Very few founders building from personal problems and passion, most just building because that's what everyone
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Been going to a lot of events and realizing that growing a product in a profitable way is actually a very rare thing in the valley. Whenever I tell someone I have 70k registered users, 10k+ monthly active with 75% profit margin, their eyes lit up like something they never heard.
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@nateobrienn
I am more productive with remote work. In-person is great for collaboration not for productivity.
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Built the best interface out there to chat with your books! PERIOD!
Chat with a book, or entire Library, or group of books, create contexts and jump to exact page that talks about it to read more! Can upload upto 20,000 pages and all your books stay in cloud to reference
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2 pm on a Wednesday in SF.
2pm on a Tuesday in Austin
Work from home culture here is STRONG ☀️
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@MattMickiewicz
It’s just your personal bias. Maybe they see something in yahoo that you don’t or they just don’t care about email providers as long as they get the mails. Need to avoid group think. See a lot that in the valley where everyone thinks the same.
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@SudsG5
@mitgeniusz
@myreaderai
You can nomad for cheap. But please feel free to not believe me. I don’t really care. 🙏🏼
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Be fearless and in the pursuit of truth. The world somehow has a way of rewarding you back.
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Coming to SF tomorrow for a bit, need some advice on raising for Myreader (
@myreaderai
). It's growing more than 20% MOM revenue wise without doing much. The market is there, product is not there yet.
If you are an investor, please DM me, would love to meet for coffee. 🙏
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@bhogleharsha
Just like last year, they don’t have the depth but they have the confidence to win games!
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And doing just fine in Mexico btw. I feel at peak when living in places close to mountains/hills.
Currently in San Cristobal de las Casas. I think it’s a better digital nomad town than Lisbon. Lots of cute cafes with good wifi, really good coffee and cacao, many food options,
Moved out of SF due to visa issues and costs. Quit my 200k job without any backing. No funding support. Bank account went to $0 in Dec. Back up now.
Started nomading to cheap places, currently in Mexico. Being in SF is nice BUT when you have so much internal motivation, you can
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@sreeenidhi
This one:
We built a Phone AI agent for taking restaurant orders, reservations and booking appointments. You can just give it a task and it will collect all the required information. We are doing a pilot with 10 businesses from Nov 1st, 4 spots are already taken. If interested, fill out
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Don’t want to be one of those guys but I have never been afraid to speak my mind against hypocrisy. We had something better with built in 1 month ready to go when we interviewed with YC. The only difference these guys have is they have big tech brand names
🪄
@Toma_voice
(YC W24) offers voice AI agents that let businesses automate phone calls and perform tasks over the phone, just like a highly trained human agent would.
Congrats to
@monikkinom
,
@Junyu_Huang
, and
@blandthony
on the launch!
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@shl
Not at all. Imagine having a bug in hardware device. You can’t just push a fix. Software is so much easier.
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Silicon Valley doesn’t fund gritty founders. It funds founders with brand names (MIT, Stanford, Google, Meta). Being gritty is a bonus not a requirement.
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Since I have your attention, check out my products:
@myreaderai
- Best product to talk to your library, upload any digital book or document, ask questions, get answers and jump to exact pages.
@airlightpro
- Lightweight productivity focused browser. Access any web app on any
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@tdinh_me
Side project. My brain doesn’t function if I don’t see a real world use case of what I am doing.
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6 years ago, it was very hard for me to come up with ideas. Now I get 2-3 ideas a day. What changed was I started closely monitoring all points of friction in my life. Anytime something is not smooth, I notice it. And I became better at it over time. It’s a learnable skill.
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Always living by this regardless of if I have any support or not.
Just shipping everything I want to see exist: , , and more to come….
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I am not the smartest person out there. I am just slightly above average. Didn't start coding till 3rd year university (not at age 10). Didn't go to MIT/Waterloo/Google/Meta.
But I am the most persistent. You put me on the street and I will still be building products.
I wake up everyday with too much internal fire 🔥 to make a difference. No amount of setbacks can extinguish. In last 5 years, spent 3 working on my own startups, all failed except Myreader.
The world needs your talents. Don't let anything deter you from it.
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Super nice to meet
@aishwarya_08
and
@nilesh_agarwal2
from
@Inferless_
in person in SF!
@Inferless_
provided the serverless GPU deployment that made uploads on
@myreaderai
10x faster last year and saved me a ton of devops headache. I haven’t even logged onto their platform in 4
Learn from
@prasann_pandya
's
@myreaderai
journey - 10K users, less than $250/mo on
@Inferless_
. 💡
1. Quick deployment? Minutes, not days.
2. Big savings? Up to 84% over AWS.
3. Easy scaling? Absolutely.
Do you want to Scale smartly with GPUs? Check out our step-by-step
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It’s been 1 year since the launch of
@myreaderai
paid plans and revenue have grown more than 20% every month since. All organic, $0 spent on marketing.
Planning to double down and raise. DM me for a memo.
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🚨🚨
New product alert:
Introducing Hola app - learn any language through real life conversations with AI.
Did you ever want to learn a new language, tried Duolingo and other apps and felt it was too slow, childish and annoying?
We did some research and found the best way to
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Last year, I was trying to think of ways to build products that are VC fundable. This year, I don't give a f***.
Just going to keep shipping great products and wrap a good business model around it to make them profitable. Full focus this year on building.
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At times I wonder, I should apply for some course at Stanford and then drop out so I can put Stanford dropout on my pitch deck. My chance of raising will increase 100x.
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Grateful for
@myreaderai
and for all of you here, my only support system over the past year while constantly getting rejected from everywhere! Thank you for your support! 🙏
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My cofounder (
@nidhishgajjar
) talking to our Phone AI Agent in Hindi.
Our agent is ready to be used in any language for order taking, outbound calls, booking appointments and many other use cases. Just reach out:
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Loving the energy at ChatGPT Hackathon! #
#SF
#AI
Thank you for organizing!
@rachel_l_woods
@nonmayorpete
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Woke up with tons of messages of people wanting to join.
I don’t care what school you went to (and unlike others, I truly mean it), only thing that matters is how much grit, perseverance and inner motivation to build you have!
Over time we will show NOBRAND founders are the
Let's build the strongest community ever for NO BRAND founders (who didn't go to MIT/Stanford/Harvard or work at FAANG) since they often have a much harder time finding support. DM for a link to join.
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When you have nothing to lose and are self-sufficient, no one can have leverage over you
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Everyone is trying to instill fear in you. Fear about failure, about losing money, about wrong timing, about taking the wrong decision.
Being fearless I found is the best way to live.
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I get a lot of messages saying people who went to good schools are actually better builders somehow. Join in here and will show them Nobrand founders are the best!
Let’s change the stupid pedigree system. A good builder is a good builder regardless of which school they went to!
Let's build the strongest community ever for NO BRAND founders (who didn't go to MIT/Stanford/Harvard or work at FAANG) since they often have a much harder time finding support. DM for a link to join.
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Who's a VC in the valley that talks about funding gritty founders and "actually" does it? Getting a lot of inbound interest but I don't want to raise from brand name panderers.
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After lot of previous startup failures, I decided to ignore almost all sane advice while building
@myreaderai
and only did what felt right to my heart. It's my most successful product!
- Did it solo, no cofounders
- Too broad, didn't focus on any nish (legal, finance, medical,
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Before
@myreaderai
became ramen profitable,
- Worked 12 hrs a day for 10 months on a startup in 2018, complete failure, went $10k in credit card debt.
- Built a yoga platform during covid, 1 year of hard work, $40k personal investment (everything I had), all lost, no profits or
I launched 1 product every month for the past 2 years.
But before that:
- 1 year to make an app with 0 user
- 1 year on a VC startup for $0 revenue
- 1 year on a habit tracker for $600 MRR
280-character success stories hide years of failures.
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