[brainless]

I have been a wantrepreneur for a very long time. Like yourself I have tried and failed multiple ideas. I have worked with about 10 startups (including some my own). I know (and have had honest reflections from others) that I have caliber to work things out. But I have realized the biggest issue is lack of perseverance - I jump ideas too often. Any idea (unless I am super lucky) will need years of patient hand holding. I give up/get bored easily.

So on Jan 1, 2018 I promised myself I will stick to one of my ideas. I did, now we are a tiny team seeing traction. Not revenue though. I had already started a second idea in between, that is how fickle my mind is. But I dropped it after detecting my brains own devil. So I am still sticking to the one I started this year. As a team we have good goals till Dec 2018 and then first quarter 2019. We have not planned beyond.

What I mean to say is: stick to one. Things may not go well, but keep trying solutions in the same product, experiment a lot. Give yourself at least 2 or 3 years of "honest" effort. I do not over work, strict 8 hours a day. I consult to raise the funds for our product. I have promised myself time till end of 2020 to see where this goes. I am 35 years old, been into startups since 22.

The bare minimum as of now: https://travlyng.com/

Edit: I used the wrong year 2017 instead of 2018. Sleepy head.

[jschulenklopper]

> So on Jan 1, 2017 I promised myself I will stick to one of my ideas. I did, now [...] So I am still sticking to the one I started this year. As a team we have good goals till Dec 2017 and then first quarter 2018. We have not planned beyond.

Which is a great idea - I tried to do the same, but it continues to be hard to suppress other nice/promising/interesting ideas that surface every once in a while.

BTW, perhaps it's because of our hyperfocus on that one idea, but in the mean time 2018 has already started some while back, and we're close to Dec. 2018. Plan accordingly :-)

[brainless]

I have a lot of attention, focus or hyperfocus issues. Plus poor social life for many years and also mild-depression.

The only way through has been the hard one - string discipline, pushing myself into building good long term friendship, traveling, having hobbies (learning drums now).

It is very easy for people like us to lose focus and jump to the next nice idea. I have lost so much time this way.

Sorry the timeline in my post was incorrect, had just woken up :P

[TomK32]

I'd love to subscribe to a newsletter but didn't see one. Sure twitter is nice and I use it a lot, but you have to be one more channels.

[brainless]

Thank you for asking for this. We actually want to add this, but are waiting to see if people actually ask for it.

We will add a subscription from our next article (in a couple weeks).

[akuji1993]

On your page, there is a mistake (Setember). Also you should probably switch the standard React favicon to your own one.

[brainless]

Thanks for pointing these two out. It is strange that the spelling error persists, some cache issue. Will fix them. Thanks a lot :)

[akuji1993]

You're welcome. Just some things that immediately caught my eye.