Jimi Barkway

Shipping like crazy while I travel the world 🌍

Building affiliate software for SaaS founders.
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Your first users will ask for a bigger product.

They always do.

Your job is working out which half to ignore.

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Your launch is not a big day.

It's just the first day people can find you.

Most founders plan a wedding. It's a Tuesday.

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Still waiting? Write down your reason.

Read it back.

If it's about how you'll look, that's not the product.

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You are not almost ready.

You're scared. I was too.

Here's every excuse I used, and what it cost me.

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The risk was never a rough launch.

It was one more month spent on a critic who was never coming.

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@ThePeterMick @growth_pigeon Yep. If onboarding needs a long checklist, the promise is too broad or the first win is buried. More tooltips won't fix that. Get a new user to the promised result in one sitting.Ysitting.

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Your rival is not another app.

It's the choice you keep putting off.

Pick one. Then ship it.

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@MehulFanawala Yeah, though the real constraint is usually finding a problem people'll actually pay recurring money to solve, not the building part.

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@Blockcastcc @anndylian @Jason The $433M inflow number's interesting but I'd want to see whether those ETF buyers are actually holding or if it's just flow through existing positions, since that'd change what "institutional" really means here.

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@audiencon Yeah, I built a tool that solved a real problem beautifully and got maybe fifty users total because I never talked to anyone about it.

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@OptivraTech7 I'm building a scheduling tool for remote teams, though I've found the real bottleneck isn't the product itself but getting early users to actually give feedback consistently.

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@UdoyLabs I'd add that the best connections happen when you share what you're actually working on right now, not just your interests.

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@rohangotwal Yeah, and the loneliness of debugging a production issue at 2am while also being the only person who understands the codebase hits different.

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@Big_KhaLid07 @QOLTtoken @PCCSCares @0xPolygon That's a long runway, but what's the actual use case beyond holding the token itself.

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@SKatalystAI I'd add that even with a UG, talking to a Steuerberater before launch saves headaches later, especially around what counts as business income versus hobby losses on your taxes.

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@sahariarsajibux Building solo from Bangladesh puts you in a position to solve problems most founders overlook, so curious what gap you spotted first.