Sparsh Sahu

I talk startups
Building @thelostfounder_ 🧭
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[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

I'm building a social network for founders who are still figuring it out.

Not the funding announcements.
Not the exit stories.

→The 6 months spent building something nobody wanted.
→The 12 signups after launch.

I couldn't find that circle myself — so I'm building it.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

That's not a distribution strategy, that's a lottery ticket. Building is 20% of the job now. If your "plan" was also just hoping, come tell your real numbers at https://t.co/mxU9W0lOQq and get honest feedback from builders who've been exactly there.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

I spoke to a solo dev last week who spent 4 months building a genuinely great tool.

Clean UI, solid backend, real problem solved.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

He launched on a Tuesday. Posted it once. Then waited. Days passed.
A few friends signed up out of politeness. The signups stopped.
He told me "I figured if it was good enough, people would just find it."

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

Be honest.
When you launched, what was your actual distribution plan?
Or did you just post it and wait?

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

You didn't have a distribution strategy.
You had a hope.
Those are not the same thing.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

That silent commitment day is the realest moment in building, and almost nobody talks about it.

If you're in that stage right now — decided, but unannounced — come talk it through with builders who get it at https://t.co/mxU9W0lOQq

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

A builder told me the exact date he "started" his startup. Not the launch date.

Not the incorporation date.

A random Sunday, 11pm, when he made a private repo and didn't tell his wife for two weeks.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

He said the hardest part wasn't the code. It was carrying a secret decision alone no cofounder to validate it, no friend to ask "is this dumb?", no one to notice if he quit tomorrow. Just him and an empty repo.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@TobiasSchuemann Building a social networking platform for builders, indie hackers, founders to come together share there ideas, get product feedback and more at https://t.co/mxU9W0mmFY

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@SheCallsMeAddy How about a place where all the founders and builders around the world comes together?

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

Four Applications in two days going pretty well

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

I'm giving myself 30 days to prove if my community deserves to exist.

The challenge: Get 100 builders into TheLostFounder by Sept 30.

• No paid ads
• No buying followers
• No pretending

Just me, building from zero and documenting the entire journey. 🧵👇

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

The most important day of a startup has no witnesses.

Not the launch. Not the first sale.
The day you quietly decide "I'm actually doing this" — and tell absolutely no one.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

Genuine question: did you tell anyone the day you actually committed to your idea, or did you just quietly open a new folder and start?

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@brightafia That's is the philosophy that I'm working on.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@vikrambuilds Threads?

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@simplydt How to crack distribution and find the right users?

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@euniceajim Build fast ⏩ Launch fast ⏩ Fail fast
This should be the loop imo

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@buildwtim Great insight man

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@TTrimoreau Take a break find what mistakes you made fix the things that didn't work out.

[Sparsh Sahu @sparshsahuu]

@cinamarina Those silent nights when only me and my claude is present in the room🤕