ships like a machine yes his products being genai wrappers, some are partly yes. in his interview with lex fridman he explains how he built his recent photo ai one, yes most of it is wrapper on some ai service, but his team goes the extra mile of training models on their own so it looks more photorealistic than the generally available ones he built products before ai like nomadlist and remoteok. his hit and miss rates are as real as it gets x.com/levelsio/status/14573152744665948…

You've probably already seen, levelsio's tweet: twitter.com/levelsio/status/14573152744… I also like one of his old posts: levels.io/12-startups-12-months/ Yeah, building something people want (and are willing to pay) is pretty hard, and trying to sell early/often is a good way to reduce your market risk. I'm more on the "build something I want", and as soon as I have something "I like", iterate on the communication/go-to-market, more than the product. I think this is more aligned with founders like Brian Chesky that launched (and failed) multiple times, but kept on going because they really believed in their idea (though I'm still on the failing part). There are many Ask HN posts about launching which you might find useful: payperrun.com/%3E/search?displayParams…...

I would also suggest the same as others in this group and say get a job. That'll hopefully help clear up some mental space away from having basic needs satisfied and let you streamline your product without having to worry about immediate results (and trust me when I say, at "most" companies, having a stable job and holding onto a side hustle is not impossible) Only thing I'd say is avoid falling into sunk-cost fallacy, and remember that it's not always the best "technical" product that wins but also a lot of stuff outside of your control (timing the market eg. Google Wave, tech simply not growing fast enough eg. MagicLeap, the worse product having better VC/marketing etc.) so love your products, but unless you have a guarenteed soft-landing, don't bet your life on them. Perhaps relevant: twitter.com/levelsio/status/14573152744… Also website/product feedback: - Hire a copywriter to fix language on your website. "Edit free by drag & drop", "the effective-proven study methods", "Organie Knowledge" etc. makes it look quite amateur. You may also want to work on SEO a bit more to get more organic traffic and maybe add some content around the techniques the app uses for memorization. - Add a future pricing page. Everything free "for now" makes me think that if I get this and start using, one fine day you'll charge an amount that's too high for me and I'll lose my notes because I don't want to pay in the future ($1per month vs $20 a month is all possible). Let people know how much you expect this to cost them. Not written in stone of course, but it helps a lot.

First, take care of yourself, then think about entrepreneurship. I'm reminded of the pinned tweet from the Nomad List entrepreneur[0]: > Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew > Over 95% of everything I ever did failed > My hit rate is only about ~5% > So...ship more [0] twitter.com/levelsio/status/14573152744…

Irrespective of what you think of Levels, he's shown me that it's a case of keep trying. He has 215k followers, has tried 70 different things, and only done well with 4 of them [1]. I'm in the same boat - I've tried many things, and most have failed. I currently have a side project with 1k users making no money, and I'm going to try monetise it - but I expect it to most likely fail. And I'm okay with it. There's joy in being creative, making, growing, marketing, trying, learning. I can't remember where I read it, but once a founder makes their money, they often get lost in life. The common advice is then: "now do it again but this time enjoy the journey". > They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy [...] [but] It's fucking hard and it takes more than just a positive attitude to make it. Welcome to startups! Another great quote I read was "Bam! Overnight success story! It only took 7.5 years" [2]. [1] twitter.com/levelsio/status/14573152744… [2] siliconvict.com/articles/5-lessons-star…...

I like to follow Pieter Levels in this regard. He’s very open on what works and what doesn’t. Yes he has thousands of followers now, but that didn’t come easy. He tried a lot, only 4 projects out o 70+ made money: twitter.com/levelsio/status/14573152744…

A lot of people want to replicate Pieter Levels success x.com/levelsio x.com/levelsio/status/14573152744665948…