Hit my first $1k month. Took 14 months, two pivots, and an embarrassing number of "final" redesigns.
To anyone grinding on something nobody's noticed yet: it compounds slower than you want and faster than you think. Don't quit the week before it works.
Solo founders — how do you decide what NOT to build?
My backlog has 200 ideas. Every one feels important. Saying no is harder than writing the code.
Unpopular opinion: most "build in public" growth is just other builders watching each other.
Real users don't read your changelog. They care if it solves their problem. Useful for accountability, terrible as a growth strategy. Change my mind.
Rewrote my landing page copy for the 4th time. Cut it from 600 words to 90. Conversion went up.
Turns out nobody reads the wall of text you spent a week writing. Working on a habit tracker taught me my instinct for "more explanation" is almost always wrong.