Tim Parsa

Sorry @cadoo I meant to tag https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Our product hunt page is outdated. Will update this week.

This is a coold startup validation template: https://validate.slyk.io/i/RPU2F...

Nice Dan.

The founder/startup/vc paradigm has a 90%+ failure rate. Why is that? It's complex, a three-body problem of founder, community, and capital formation. More founder resources: venture hackers, nfx, TWIST-- the more founders have their eyes opened to the asymmetric upside of building a tech startup. More founders, more ill-suited founders who punk out and give up-- startups aren't actually...

To validate your startup idea, i.e determine whether it's worth expending your precious and scarce Founder Energy on, answer these four essential questions: Is it pitch-worthy? Is it join-worthy? Is it earn-worthy? Is it prepay-worthy? A startup is a machine that turns Founder Energy into Cashflow from the sale of a tech-powered solution. The goal in validating a startup idea is to find...

A startup that expresses your unique soul-- your combination of virtues, values, life experience, and ambitions is the most effective and efficient path to wealth and satisfaction in a world of infinite leverage (code, content, crypto). To not build a startup that solves a problem you care about for a community you care about is a huge missed opportunity.

I've built many startups, some of which have achieved hypergrowth like Uphold, Airtm, and Cadoo. I wish I'd built an incentivized community of collaborators with skin in the game prior to building an MVP on all of them. Community is the platform for your Network. The two M's in community stand for memes and money. That's why I built Slyk-- to make it easy for any project, startup,...

CPC FTW!

Great job @jfalcon. Feature request-- I'd love to see a way for clients to propose a project and then have the Freemancers provide a quote. Freelancer platforms provide discovery for talent but take a big cut of the earnings. Freemance is a way for independent freelancers to build the products and services they need to thrive. It's been amazing watching this project evolve and grow....

The best way to prepare for a fundraise is to create a community who are aligned with. your success and reward them for helping you grow the way you want to grow. VCs want to derisk their bets based on traction. Traction comes from knowing the problem you are solving, knowing the users you are solving for, and creating a community of believers, collaborators, and and early adopters who can help...

Raising money for a startup is like birthing a pineapple, so congrats on the launch @daniel_rongo and team. First time founders need guidance. Repeat founders need intros. Funden does both and if the quality on the former is good and the networking enabled by the latter is too, then shazam-- that's literally hundreds of hours of founder time and tears that can be saved for every startup looking...

Solid work @kronop. Founders need to bootstrap and this looks like a great collection of free-to-start tools. I'd love to include https://slyk.io/ in the list. Having built a bunch of digital products that have achieved the holy grail of hypergrowth (not to mention many that have not and have gone nowhere), I've come to see the most important first for founders is to build community, which...

1. Regret is just as painful as rejection, but lasts way longer, so take action always-- shoot your shot. 2. Your parents love you but are clueless-- find out who you are and sally forth from that point of self-knowing, not from whatever trajectory your upbringing as set you on. 3. Prioritize your health, physique, and diet-- this is the foundation for everything else and by becoming truly...

The foundation of my flow state is a decent night's sleep. Then wake up and get the dopamine flowing with cold shower and some push-ups. Mediate for ten minutes-- more would be better, but who has the time? Then another set of push-ups or curls or pull-ups. Now it's time to bang the keyboard. Music-- no words, just vibes, usually off of youtube-- focus music or chill beats or lofi-- this...

This is where I'm gonna go when I need to flow, which is always. Thanks and congrats. All that's missing is a coin to reward people for committing to flow and helping you grow. The more you flow, the more you grow-- right? HMU to collaborate-- I have so many ideas for you guys.

@edward_sturm congrats on building something that is a very important counter-force to all the temptations in our lives. You might want to check out Cadoo which I built with @colm_hayden. We've wrestled with a lot of the verification issues to avoid cheaters-- proof of work-out-- and currently integrate with Terra and https://www.getguru.fitness/. Once you nail the proof of workout to avoid...

Very useful collection. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to document your learning curve. Founders often flounder in the journey from idea to mvp to growth. It's so important to build a foundation of community and then build on top of that until you hit hypergrowth with PMF.