How to fail but not give up. My story :)
Uladzislau Rymasheuski
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Hey, I'm Vlad, founder of Askpot. And my startup failed in September '23.
I'm a solo founder and I need to do all the staff - marketing, sales, coding including frontend and backend, SEO optimization and so on. That's pretty challenging but I love it!
Here goes my fail story.
I was building finance chat for QuickBooks where you can retrieve any report just typing question in plain english. I was coding hard for 3 month and product was ready in early September.
And just imagine my face when I saw press-release from QuickBooks where they were introducing this chat feature built in their app.
That was end of my startup. That how I thought at this moment.
I was taught a tough lesson - when you build something that is hardly bounded to some other app - your startup can be killed just in a minute.
So few days later I started to think what to do next. I've look through niches and .... started to do competitive analysis. And this was my "A-ha" moment. I just understood that how time-consuming this task is!
So it was the first day of New Askpot - Competitive analysis tool that can automatically collect all the data for qualitative competitive analysis.
And just less than 2 month from that we are live on Product Hunt!
So don't give up! End of one thing is a beginning of something other!
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Anar Hagverdiyev@anar_hagverdiyev
Service Shark
Vlad is a very interesting story! Was Quickbooks's finance chat better than yours?
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@anar_hagverdiyev thanks! The main feature of Quickbooks chat was that it was inside their app, while you need to register separately in our app, so we cant handle the competition