u/I_know_few_things

Some say service work gives faster cash flow because clients pay for time and skills. Others say product work scales better later because it does not depend on direct client hours.

Service business seems easier to start because you can begin with skills you already have and find your first clients without building inventory. Product business often needs more setup before any sales happen, but it can work without constant personal involvement once it runs. What made you choose your starting point, and how did it play out in the first months?

Ideation sometimes slows things down. There are days when ideas feel easy, and other days when everything feels repetitive and hard to shape into something useful. Distribution also feels inconsistent, since what works in one channel does not always work in another.

How do you deal with this? Do you feel one part is clearly harder than the others, or does it change depending on the project or client work you are doing?

Marketing, sales, managing money, hiring good people... All useful, feel like there's a whole set of quieter skills that matter just as much and almost never get mentioned.

For me, the one I keep coming back to is patience with slow progress. A lot of the work pays off weeks or months later, and you have to keep doing it without much feedback in between. What would you say it is for you, and how did you learn it?

What didn't work for me was the generic advice like "just take breaks" or buying another productivity app. That stuff felt like a band-aid. I wonder to read what worked for different people since everyone's situation is a bit different.

What didn't work for me was the generic advice like "just take breaks" or buying another productivity app. That stuff felt like a band-aid. I wonder to read what worked for different people since everyone's situation is a bit different.

The one I think about most often was "post every day on every platform or the algorithm will forget you." I burned weeks producing content nobody cared about, and the only result was that I got tired of it. When I slowed down and posted less, the numbers stayed the same.  I'd like to hear yours, maybe something a boss told you, a tip from a course, or a popular opinion everyone repeat.