| 6 months ago I first had the idea for my latest project. I wanted to create a platform where founders get everything they need to build their products. The core of it would be an AI that learns about their project as they build. Now I’m proud to say that we have 4000+ founders on our platform. But let’s back up a bit so you can see how I got here. Here’s a high level overview of my story: - Ran a successful SaaS with two friends but had serious issues scaling it further than $30k/month - I had 0 coding skills at this point and got tired of the whole project being so dependent on our developer. Things weren’t moving fast enough - July of 2023 I finally decided to take things into my own hands and learned to code - Spent 5 months going through the App Academy course - December of 2023 I had a decent foundation and I started building the first project on my own as practice. Was super exciting. - February of 2024 the project was done. I felt it had some commercial potential but I wasn’t sure how to market it yet - The same month I get a call from my brother. It was a Friday afternoon. He was looking for a career change and I had briefly suggested us working together so he followed me up on that. - March of 2024 my brother moves from Sweden (our home country) to join me in Budapest. - We work our asses of trying to market the product I had built - We remained hopeful for a long time but in July of 2024 we finally throw in the towel. No one wanted the product. Stressful times… - We took that failure and my previous experience and tried to learn everything we could. What had gone wrong? What could we do better? - The mistakes we had made were clear, and we realized tons of other entrepreneurs were making the same mistakes. So we built a product around that. - Actually, we didn’t start by building, that was one of the mistakes we had made before. We started by validating our idea. And that’s how we got here. Now we have paying customers (recurring) from 40+ countries and I’m loving the grind of improving the product. Being the developer of the project fits me much better as it gives me full control of how fast we can make improvements. Just thought I’d share my story for people that are considering learning to code or becoming an entrepreneur. If you’re interested in the product it's called Buildpad. |