Re:The Year of Exploration: My Journey to Founding Quesma
by jakozaur on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:23PM
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The article was already quite long, and adding Quesma's part might even double it. I spend a few months working full-time before raising the money for the final idea.
Indie hacking might work for some businesses, but many companies need funding, and it is a viable path to create new companies.
Re:The Year of Exploration: My Journey to Founding Quesma
by madamelic on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:32PM
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Yes, fair. Would you be willing to expand on why you feel Quesma requires funding to get started?
This seems like an extremely software-focused business that could have an MVP written by the technical founder while typically I'd expect hardware, deep science (self-driving to name one), etc to need to raise money for obvious reasons.
What is Quesma's planned offering that requires an initial team larger than 1 to be able to bring to market?
Re:The Year of Exploration: My Journey to Founding Quesma
by jakozaur on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:55PM
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The data product has a very high-quality bar, even for MVP. You can't lose data, slow things down, need a lot of table stakes functionality, etc. I'm not even going to start with SOC2 compliance...
There is a healthy amount of scepticism about one-man products in many enterprises due to quality bar, ability to have a quick turnaround, etc.
Like... where are the results? Where is the solution?
Indie hacking has a lot of faults but at least they jump in on a solution immediately rather than spending time looking for a co-founder and to raise a round.
Maybe you skimmed over a lot of actual work but this seems very self-congratulatory and like the article was written with the conclusion in mind ("join our waitlist") rather than being informative or targeted at any one audience.