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[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

"i don't like doing marketing, it is hard and i prefer to ship features"

that's what my brain is telling me,
but I'm re-wiring it by congratulating myself,
to generate a dopamine hit,
every time i'm doing a tiktok post, writing a script or recording a video,
the goal: to achieve more actions like that.

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

@MichLieben Ads

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

How many hours have you put in your business to generate your first 1k$ ?

I'm currently at 600hours and I have made 6$ so far 😱

But the overnight success is coming...

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

@AIAdsApps Video

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

for mobile app founder, here's an interesting stats:

I used to run 4-day trials
felt smart
urgent

then I saw the data

17+ days (user active) converts 70% better
i was optimizing for comfort, not revenue

(Source RevenueCAT SOSA 2026)

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

I poured my soul and 33 days of my life into making an app and i've earned 5€ so far

I'm laughing so hard (and dying) when i see this kind of videos on youtube

"My app made 35k/month (built in 3hours)"

of course i'm going to click on it 🤣

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

I built a fully functionnal app
put it on the store
fixed bugs
and now instead of doing distribution,
i am obessed with building another one,

what's wrong with me ?

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

It has been more than a month that i'm building my apps and not selling my time anymore,

here's 3 lessons that i learned so far

- Don't take people for their words (self criticisism is a valuable skill)
- If it's hard, you taking a path that not many people are willing to take
- You are not burnt out because of the amount of work but the nature of it

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

@itsbauza love it, thank you for the breakdown ! useful

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

February has been an intensive month

I'm building my third app, and here's the simple lesson I learned from the first two:

Build a painkiller, not a vitamin

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

You’re going to be blown away by this:

Ask your AI to write your psychological profile

Not zodiac stuff

A real breakdown based on how you think, what you build, what you obsess over

It’s weirdly accurate

And slightly uncomfortable

Try it

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

How do you align your tasks with your mid-term goals on a daily basis ?

I find it hard to keep them correlated all the time

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

Planning your entire week is a trap

I wasted 3 hours every Sunday

Followed maybe 40% of it

Felt guilty the rest of the time

Now I plan 3 things per day max

Deliver more. Stress less

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

Day 2 of my Solopreneur journey

I'm waiting for the approval of my chrome extension https://t.co/mbZYnAeGQK and i have generated assets for the store page with my other tool named https://t.co/E79YVs8lQl

I'm still trying to figure how to drive traffic and looking on reddit to find my icp and engaging on subreddit

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

You're building something

Some days are brutal

But what's the ONE thing that makes you feel alive in this journey ?

The moment that reminds you why you started

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

marketing isn't hard, i just don't want to do it

so i ship another feature instead of finding my icp

add one more thing instead of making connections
code instead of posting

then wonder why i have 6 users after 4 months

any tips to embrace marketing ?

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

@faraz0x once you have embraced it, nothing can stop you ;)

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

@mohitnair_ @robj3d3 @CodeWizard Hey thanks @mohitnair_ we are on the same page 😅 let's continue to get comfortable and grow

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

Day 1 of building in public

Ok, this video was not planned, when i saw @robj3d3 and @CodeWizard i got inspired and thought, why not me ?

why are they able to share their journey in video and not me ?

so i grabbed my camera and made my first recording and share it with you

i'm going to document my journey from here on out

(please don't mind my accent)

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

Everyone shares the what when entrepreneurs win

I want the who

Who inspired them ?
What shaped their thinking ?
Which failures taught them most ?

That's the story worth telling.

[Hey Steven Builds @HeyStevenBuilds]

@robj3d3 @CodeWizard Damn, I appreciate your message @robj3d3 , thank you your support, keep going you too, you are inspiring