| The thing I found comforting was reading stories and listening to podcast interviews with other founders where they talked about how many failures they had before they landed on the right business.
The first 50 episodes of the Indie Hackers podcast had a big influence on how I approached bootstrapping. The episodes that stood out in particular are:
- Pieter Levels: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-no...
- Tracy Osborn: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/029-tracy-osborn-of-hel...
Josh Pigford (who sold Baremetrics for $4M) has also documented all of his failed ventures:
https://joshpigford.com/projects