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by codingwagie 597 days ago
Before you quit, whatever idea you want to build, try to sell it. Go make a landing page, sign up on apollo.io, start sending sales emails. Offer to pay people 100$ per hour to speak with you. If you get sales with no tech, then maybe quit and build.
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I got 1 paying customer. I already built it. But I have to revamp it.
I dont know you or anything about the product, but before revamping, go get ten more sales. sales. sales.

this is coming from an engineer with adhd :)

…and then you have customers, who will start demanding things. Now your motivation is externalised. Stressful, but we do not tend to get things done without stress, and inertia is anyway stressful in a different way.
What does apollo do? Seems like AI tailored cold emailing.