u/Existing-Wallaby-444

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000328281/bei-dieter-nuhr-muessen-selbst-femizide-fuer-eine-pointe-herhalten

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000329021/dieter-nuhr-verlangt-loeschung-eines-kommentars-und-droht-dem-standard-mit-klage

1. **Building is the easy part.** The hard part is refreshing your Stripe dashboard 400 times a day waiting for a notification that never comes.

2. **Your mom signing up doesn't count.** But I'm still counting it.

3. **Validate before you build.** I didn't do this, but I've read it in enough LinkedIn posts to know it's important. So I'm passing it along as original wisdom.

4. **Cold DMs work.** Sent 847 of them. Got 3 replies. Two said "unsubscribe." One said "who is this." That's a 0.35% reply rate. Crushing it.

5. **Pricing is psychological.** I changed my pricing from $9/month to $8.99/month. Conversions stayed at zero, but *theoretically* it should have worked.

6. **Your network is your net worth.** My network is 14 Twitter followers and a guy I met at a WeWork in 2019. My net worth is -$4,200 in AWS bills.

7. **Ship fast.** I spent 8 months perfecting a dark mode toggle. The app has no other features. But the toggle is *buttery*.

8. **Talk to users.** I have 0 users. So I talk to myself in the mirror. The feedback has been brutal but honest.

9. **SEO is a long game.** I wrote 3 blog posts 2 days ago and I'm not ranking #1 yet. Google is broken.

10. **The best time to launch was yesterday.** The second best time is tomorrow. Today I'm rewriting my landing page headline for the 47th time.

11. **Churn is a silent killer.** I have 0 customers so my churn rate is undefined. Mathematically, that's either 0% or infinity%. I'm choosing to frame it as 0%.

12. **Raise prices.** I just doubled my price from $0 to $0. Still no takers. The market is irrational.

13. **A/B test everything.** I A/B tested my button color. Green got 0 clicks. Blue got 0 clicks. The control (also 0 clicks) is winning with p=1.0. Ship it.

14. **Build in public.** I tweeted "Day 1: Building an AI-powered to-do app." 380 days later, I'm still tweeting about building it. The building *is* the product now.

15. **MRR isn't everything.** And thank god for that, because mine is $0.

16. **Find a cofounder.** I've asked 6 people. 4 said no. 1 said yes but ghosted. 1 said yes but it turns out they thought I was offering them a job with a salary.

17. **Content is king.** I posted a thread about my "journey" on X. 2 likes. One was from a bot. The other was my mom (see #2).

18. **Niche down.** My TAM was "everyone with a phone." I've niched down to "left-handed dog owners who listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed." TAM is now 4 people. 3 of them are my cousins.

19. **The customer is always right.** I don't have customers, so I'm always right. And let me tell you, I have OPINIONS.

20. **Burnout is real.** I worked 16-hour days for 6 months straight. My product launched to 0 users. I stared at a wall for 3 hours. Then I tweeted a thread about resilience.

21. **Virality is a formula.** I don't know the formula. If I did, this post would have more upvotes than "we fired our entire engineering team and replaced them with an AI agent."

22. **Community is everything.** I joined 11 Slack communities, 8 Discord servers, and a WhatsApp group called "SaaS Bros India 🇮🇳🚀." I mute them all but the unread badges make me feel connected.

23. **Your first 10 customers are the hardest.** I've heard. Wouldn't know. Check back when I have 1.

24. **The real MRR was the friends we made along the way.** And by friends I mean the 3 other founders in my replies all doing "likes for likes" on each other's launch posts.

25. **Never give up.** Because if I stop now, I'll have to explain to my parents what I've been doing for the last 18 months, and I simply cannot do that.

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*Edit: Wow this blew up! Thanks for the gold kind stranger! Since you all asked, here's my newsletter where I share weekly insights from my journey to $0 MRR: here

REPOST: Deleted first post because it didn't include my text with a video. So I switched to an image.

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