Vitali Baukunovich
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Vitali Baukunovich
@vitali-b.bsky.social
👨‍💻IT-manager by day, engineer by heart
🚀A SaaS journey from code to market
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November 14, 2024 at 9:21 AM
But Musk proved it can be done, and now many people are doing it:

Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Evan Williams, Sheryl Sandberg, and many others.

The main thing is to start doing something, and not to overcomplicate it.

#ElonMusk #indiehackers #Entrepreneurship #MarketingDigital
November 14, 2024 at 8:56 AM
And that's the most important thing.

In any important project, he brings with him a proven team that will build everything efficiently.

Thanks to this he can build 5 projects, not 1.

Which makes a lot of silicon valley investors angry.
November 14, 2024 at 8:56 AM
- He works a hell of a lot, even if he's not working 16 hours a day.
At the same time, he's WORKING, not sitting in a smoking room or drinking coffee half the time.

- He has a team he trusts.
Already understood, already working process, which can be built anywhere.
November 14, 2024 at 8:56 AM
So let's go over some rumors and opinions:

- He has all notifications turned off.
Which increases efficiency and concentration.

- He has no messengers.
Just e-mail.
November 14, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Musk himself puts it this way:

- I work 16 hours a day
- I sleep six hours a day.

But you can't last long with that kind of schedule.
November 14, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Remember.
There are problems that get paid for. There's everyone else's.
It's not about India and Pakistan. It's about the product and the solution you're offering.

You can have a million users, but what's the point if it doesn't pay off? To scale the losses?

#startups #indiehackers #buildinpublic
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Next thing you know, the guy made more mistakes:

- Quitting his job for some reason
- Didn't build a sales funnel.
- He lowered his prices for some reason.

All that stuff.
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Here's what happened:

The service went viral in India and Pakistan, where they don't pay for software.

The guy made the classic mistake of “Well, if I have users, I'll monetize them somehow”.
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
How to fix things?

Good thing he didn't sell the apartment and the car, and he didn't raise angel investment.
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Anyway, he goes on to say:

I guess I'm trying to figure out what to do next. It feels like I rushed my decision to quit my job, especially with the condo mortgage, but that's where we've ended up. Any tips on how to get back on your feet again? Ideas to start developing again?
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
He decided he needed to drop the price some more because the conversion rate wasn't great. The money became even less.

(Actually, 4% is a perfectly marketable conversion rate, and what he did was a standard cognitive distortion, prices should have been raised).
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
- Quit his job to develop the project

Here's what happened next:

After he turned on monetization, growth went from positive to negative.

The number of users dropped to 9,000, and there were 400 paying users with a $4/month check.
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM