As a tech founder what are some things you’ve learned over the years?

This, so much this . Here is my small rant :) Marketing is a royal pain in the ass, specially since Google search engine does not make any fecking sense at all. I see a few competitors of mine for fabform.io rank higher in Google even though they only have a couple of backlinks. Makes no sense whatsoever. Google makes marketing extremely hard. The quicker Google dies the better for everyone it will be. Rant over!

I think selling is the biggest problem for any solo technical founder.

You hit it out of the park with this "Building a product is hard, but selling is harder".

As a dev or tech person you are always kept away from sales/business and that's makes you think what you do is the only thing required for keeping a business alive. This might be true for tech companies but even then if Tech is the heart of the company, sales/marketing are the things that bring in oxygen.

My biggest takeaway from trying to start something of my own is -> If you want to unstoppable, learn to build and sell

I would like to share some insights from our Founder and CEO on his experiences and insights that he had learn on his journey of shaping Internxt. There is so much to learn on this blog and I hope everyone can learn from this!🙂

Good read! I totally agree about "building a product is hard, but selling it is harder". Sometimes you think to yourself, "shouldn't a great product sell itself?" But unfortunately, it won't, and as a founder of a small company you'll need to dive into marketing. I feel lucky that I found marketing to be an exciting topic to explore, and I'm still exploring it :)

Another thing I learned: when you build a product, it's like your baby, you believe it's perfect and sometimes you develop it the way YOU see it, not the way your customers would like it to develop. I've learned not to depend only on my own (or my team's, for that matter) vision, but also to reach out to customers and do customer development interviews, to ask for feedback and to make it easy for customers to leave feedback.

I was a developer before leaving my job to focus 100% on bootstrapping. In the beginning, I was too focused on the idea and building the product. After interviewing multiple indie makers I realized that they do things very differently. They focus more the audience and marketing. I actually compiled a step-by-step guide that showcases this new way of building products.