u/Embarrassed-Fly6921

Hey guys, I'm thinking about starting a startup company, if that's what you call them. Ive recently been developing a product that I think could compete in today's market. Ive been developing it at home and am ready to risk it all and put my heart and soul into it. I've been looking into the business side of things but there are still some questions I haven't found answers to. I want to ask you guys what your experience was like:

1. Where did you get the money to start a company? I've been looking at business loans and quickly learned that most banks won't give you a loan unless you've been operating and making money for a minimum of 2 years.

2. If you didn't get a loan how did you get the money and meet/ get people to invest?

3. When the product was in a deployable state how did you market your self?

4. When you were marketing in the very beginning, did you have to give other businesses free versions of your product?

If you guys have any tips on getting started, do's and donts, banks or investors to look into, it would be very much appreciated!

Hey guys, I'm thinking about starting a startup company, if that's what you call them. Ive recently been developing a product that I think could compete in today's market. Ive been developing it at home and am ready to risk it all and put my heart and soul into it. I've been looking into the business side of things but there are still some questions I haven't found answers to. I want to ask you guys what your experience was like:

1. If you didn't get a loan how did you get the money and meet/ get people to invest?
2. When the product was in a deployable state how did you market your self?
3. When you were marketing in the very beginning, did you have to give other businesses free versions of your product?
4. When you were marketing in the very beginning, did you have to give other businesses free versions of your product?

If you guys have any tips on getting started, do's and donts, banks or investors to look into, it would be very much appreciated!

Hey guys, I’m thinking about starting a startup company, if that’s what you call them. Ive recently been developing a product that I think could compete in today’s market. Ive been developing it at home and am ready to risk it all and put my heart and soul into it. I’ve been looking into the business side of things this but there are still some questions I haven’t found answers to. I want to ask the guys that have made it and what your experience was like:

1. Where did you get the money to start a company? I’ve been looking at business loans and quickly learned that most banks won’t give you a loan unless you’ve been operating and making money for a minimum of 2 years.

2. If you didn’t get a loan how did you get the money and meet/get people to invest?

3. When the product was in a deployable state how did you market your self?

4. When you were marketing in the very beginning, did you have to give other businesses free versions of your product?

If you guys have any tips on getting started, do’s and donts, banks or investors to look into, it would be very much appreciated!

Hey guys, I just need to let it out. Me and my ex dated for about 6 years and we officially ended things in November 2025 but the last time I ever saw her was in Jan 2026.

I fully admit I was a piece of shit, and I have no excuses for everything I did. I wish I could go back in time and tell her all the things I was feeling because I know if I just expressed my self I wouldn’t have self sabotaged our relationship.

Fast forward to March 2025, we broke up but never really stopped seeing each other. During that time and the year before, I had a realization that a change needed to happen if I didn’t want to loose her. I just didn’t know how to make that change from within. I figured giving her space was the best thing to do at the time because I didn’t want to force her to do anything she didn’t want to do.

Anyways, in November I found out she had just started dating someone else and later on in January of the new year (just two months after) they were already living together. Ever since then I just haven’t been okay.

I’ve been trying to move on and keep the momentum going by making a change (I started my own business this year) but everything I do I just think of my ex. I want her to be happy and know I need to let her go but a big part of me hopes she still thinks about me as much as I do. We dated 6 years and I know those feelings can’t go away in just a couple months. I know that’s selfish of me, but I just don’t know how to get those feelings out of me.

Ever since the day I last saw her, I have just felt so pathetic, worthless, alone and that my life doesn’t. I’ve tried going out on dates with other girls but I stopped because every time I would go out I would just think of her and after the dates I would start crying uncontrollably. I don’t know how to stop this.

I understand it’s all part of my punishment and I deserve what I am going through. But right now, I’m at the lowest point of my life and have been hoping that everyday is my last. Interesting enough, me starting a business is partially just because I still feel like I have things that I need to prove to her in that I was always going to be the man she wanted me to be. But it’s been so incredibly hard.

Lately, my mental health has become non-existent. It’s crazy to me because I never understood how people could be so depressed and suicidal after a break up, but I get it now. The amount of shame and self hatred I have for my self is an unbearable weight to carry.

Now, I’m constantly dreaming of her and thinking about her. All because of this, i can’t sleep longer than 4 hours, have had more episodes of sleep paralysis, loss of motivation, and a constant cloud of depression, sadness, loneliness, shame and anxiety just looming over me. I go through weeks of feeling kind of good but then weeks like this I just feel uncontrollable, reckless and that my life is spiraling. More often than not, I have more bad weeks than good ones.

I’m at a point in my life where I feel like I don’t have anything and I’m willing to put it all on the line to make my business successful just to prove wrong.

I know it’s a long road to self forgiveness but man I just feel like the world is constantly torturing me with a string bad luck happening to me. Or maybe I am torturing my self and I just don’t know how to stop. I need help.

Hey guys, I just need to let it out. Me and my ex dated for about 6 years and we officially ended things in November 2025 but the last time I ever saw her was in Jan 2026.

I fully admit I was a piece of shit, and I have no excuses for everything I did. I wish I could go back in time and tell her all the things I was feeling because I know if I just expressed my self I wouldn’t have self sabotaged our relationship.

Fast forward to March 2025, we broke up but never really stopped seeing each other. During that time and the year before, I had a realization that a change needed to happen if I didn’t want to loose her. I just didn’t know how to make that change from within. I figured giving her space was the best thing to do at the time because I didn’t want to force her to do anything she didn’t want to do.

Anyways, in November I found out she had just started dating someone else and later on in January of the new year (just two months after) they were already living together. Ever since then I just haven’t been okay.

I’ve been trying to move on and keep the momentum going by making a change (I started my own business this year) but everything I do I just think of my ex. I want her to be happy and know I need to let her go but a big part of me hopes she still thinks about me as much as I do. We dated 6 years and I know those feelings can’t go away in just a couple months. I know that’s selfish of me, but I just don’t know how to get those feelings out of me.

Ever since the day I last saw her, I have just felt so pathetic, worthless, alone and that my life doesn’t. I’ve tried going out on dates with other girls but I stopped because every time I would go out I would just think of her and after the dates I would start crying uncontrollably. I don’t know how to stop this.

I understand it’s all part of my punishment and I deserve what I am going through. But right now, I’m at the lowest point of my life and have been hoping that everyday is my last. Interesting enough, me starting a business is partially just because I still feel like I have things that I need to prove to her in that I was always going to be the man she wanted me to be. But it’s been so incredibly hard.

Lately, my mental health has become non-existent. It’s crazy to me because I never understood how people could be so depressed and suicidal after a break up, but I get it now. The amount of shame and self hatred I have for my self is an unbearable weight to carry.

Now, I’m constantly dreaming of her and thinking about her. All because of this, i can’t sleep longer than 4 hours, have had more episodes of sleep paralysis, loss of motivation, and a constant cloud of depression, sadness, loneliness, shame and anxiety just looming over me. I go through weeks of feeling kind of good but then weeks like this I just feel uncontrollable, reckless and that my life is spiraling. More often than not, I have more bad weeks than good ones.

I’m at a point in my life where I feel like I don’t have anything and I’m willing to put it all on the line to make my business successful just to prove wrong.

I know it’s a long road to self forgiveness but man I just feel like the world is constantly torturing me with a string bad luck happening to me. Or maybe I am torturing my self and I just don’t know how to stop.