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Lets go!!!!! Im looking into this, trying to migrate from Airtable front end

When I created my first business Founders Cafe, the biggest problem I ran into was how to get more inbounds.

I spammed everyday on Reddit, Linkedin DMs, Slack and more.

I would get a few people trickling in here and there. But nothing consistent.

When I started writing blog posts on Medium, LinkedIn, that's when I noticed the biggest influx of traffic.

Suddenly people started applying. YC founders paid $4k and referenced that one article as to why they joined.

One person started paying $1,000/mo without even talking to me.

It was insane.

I knew I needed a way to scale out this content. All I did was write about was my frameworks, my interviews with other VCs/Founders, and my experiences.

All of this was recorded on Zoom/Otter.

So I ended up building out a tool to turn these recordings into revenue generating content. That business scaled to 240k revenue over the next 24 months.

I want to help other founders scale out their content, so that they go from spammming / outbound to having a revenue generating content system.

I believe that we all have thought leadership inside our companies, but we just need some help massaging it out into the world.

Nice! I spring clean on the weekends for my startup https://founderscafe.io

What about you? How often do you spring clean?

If marketing and selling are of no interest to you, and you just want to do the technical part, I know a ton of YC/Stanford/TechStars sales solo founders who would be down to collab. This one girl Sarah who raised $800k-1million and told me today that she's looking to hire her first engineer.

They are all in this YC-Level community https://founderscafe.io

I think that solo founders can accomplish much more today than they could 5 years ago, and the belief that solo founders are inferior to cofounders is old-fashioned to me. i wish that people could wake up and get with the times.

Stats show that startups with single founders tended to last longer and eventually achieve higher revenue.

52% startups that succesfully exited has 1 founder

Agreed!!!

Totally agree. I'm a technical founder and I failed for 2 years until I learned how to sell. Now I'm at 6k MRR.

I'm a solo founder. I dropped out of Stanford, made $180k through past projects, and whenever I worked with co-founders my projects have failed.

It's a common narrative that it's harder to be more successful as a solo founder. I don't agree because actually 66% of startups fail because of cofounder conflicts. Also startups with single founders tended to last longer and eventually achieve higher revenue (52% startups with successful exits is solo founded). So if you are a solo founder, your risk of failing goes down significantly.

As for having someone to share your struggles, I joined this solo-ish founders community called https://founderscafe.io and they are bascially my co-founders without any of the drama.

I also hired out all the skillsets I lack.

Being a solo founder is fucking awesome as long as you have your needs met (emotional support + skill gaps)

I'm a solo founder. I dropped out of Stanford, made $180k through past projects, and whenever I worked with co-founders my projects have failed.

It's a common narrative that it's harder to be more successful as a solo founder. I don't agree because actually 66% of startups fail because of cofounder conflicts. Also startups with single founders tended to last longer and eventually achieve higher revenue (52% startups with succesful exits is solo founded). So if you are a solo founder, your risk of failing goes down significantly.

As for having someone to share your struggles, I joined this solo-ish founders community called https://FoundersCafe.io and they are bascially my co-founders without any of the drama.

I also hired out all the skillsets I lack.

Being a solo founder is fucking awesome as long as you have your needs met (emotional support + skill gaps)

I'm a solo founder. I dropped out of Stanford, made $180k through past projects, and whenever I worked with co-founders my projects have failed.

It's a common narrative that it's harder to be more successful as a solo founder. I don't agree because actually 66% of startups fail because of cofounder conflicts. Also startups with single founders tended to last longer and eventually achieve higher revenue (52% startups with succesful exits is solo founded). So if you are a solo founder, your risk of failing goes down significantly.

As for having someone to share your struggles, I joined this solo-ish founders community called https://FoundersCafe.io and they are bascially my co-founders without any of the drama.

I also hired out all the skillsets I lack.

Being a solo founder is fucking awesome as long as you have your needs met (emotional support + skill gaps)

If marketing and selling are of no interest to you, and you just want to do the technical part, I know a ton of YC/Stanford/TechStars sales solo founders who would be down to collab.

This one girl Sarah who raised $800k-1million and told me today that she's looking to hire her first engineer.

They are all in this YC-Level community https://founderscafe.io

Customer development and talking to sales gods in my community.

Ohh!! I know a lot of nontechnical sales gods in my community that I could connect you to in https://founderscafe.io

I'm also SWE. I failed for the first 2 years. I took some time to fill in the gaps --business and product skills. Now I have $6k MRR. How serious are you about building a company and are you willing to fill in your gaps?

Have you thought about joining a founder community? I'm part of this one called https://founderscafe.io and it's a bunch of solo founders co-working together every day. There's also some YC alum like Rishi, Jon, Nemo, Nikhil, etc., who are really active here and have helped people with their startups & YC apps. So fucking worth!!

Dang that sounds really demotivating. No one likes being criticized - can feel hopeless/sad :(

Do you have people who can hype you up? I'm part of a founders community called https://founderscafe.io and whenever I hit a low, I have friends like Charles, Selena, Max, and Tom who sit on a call with me for as a long as it takes. I feel really cared for and better after talking it out.

What are you trying to do?

I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs)

so fucking worth

Crap I forgot to add the disclaimer that I built this. Sorry about that (not sure how to edit here)

@sabon I'm a full time solo founder (ex-Stanford, $180k made through past projects). I used Focusmate and hated it.

Have you heard of https://founderscafe.io

Basically gather.town but with an intimate group of founders from Stanford/Yc/Harvard etc. Thought you might be interested in it!