[xiaoma]

Unfortunately I wasn't selected, which is why I've asked here. I know I had some poor focuses in the past (e.g. trying to do a collaboration with an offline business in my industry to bootstrap an online one) and I'm trying to get some advice here on HN.

I have a free product launched (and then pulled because my API provider dramatically increased prices). I'm about 3/4 of the way to building a paid content-based product to ideally fund development of the free one.

So basically my most promising avenues I see are to

    1) focus 100% on the paid product
    2) eliminate the API provider as a dependency and go all out on the primary free product (risking running out of cash in a couple of months)
    3) try to raise 12k in funding so the runway extends to the end of the year.

My current choice is to focus 100% on the paid product. It's not clear how to put that into a growth goal though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14048063