I wanted to share this with you all, so you don’t make the same mistake.

I built 20+ beautiful products that can scale up to million users too, but nobody else used it except me.

I realized that a beautifully crafted product isn’t enough. People look out to solve their problems when they want to use your product, not looking for a beautifully designed product.

My first product forumforastral that built a decade ago succeeded and got 10k users, I just installed OS forum and started helping people by replying to every single query.

One day I decided, I want to make it look beautiful. I thought I’ll build my own forum in a new fancy way, ended up killing the forum slowly by focusing on making a beautiful forum, rather than helping people. It is still dying.

I then built 20+ beautiful products that can scale up to million users that nobody else used except me.

I am going back to basics and focus on solving the problem and helping people, rather than building a fancy tech product.

Follow me to know what I’m doing differently this time that I did not do for the past decade. Follow me to know my journey.

Time to solve problem, by talking to people, rather than last time, where I spent 3 months building a complex product that nobody cared when I launched it. Or in other words, nobody wanted it except me.

I pivoted Mevin while I was at the hospital taking care of my dad. I thought about a product that’s grandiose while I was in the loo. I picked a small piece of the product to be solved in the next few days while driving back home. Will be talking and helping people rather than actually building product.

Kinda obsessed with “Build things that don’t scale” this time.

A one person team sometimes needs a short meeting with themselves.

I asked GPT4 to criticize my plan, it said, it’s all good and gave some generic questions to answer, I answered and it said it’s all fine. I asked Claude to do the same, it just roasted me to the core.

People simply blame on 9-5, but can you work 24/7 by building a product in public?

I’m pivoting. Pivoting to a non AI product. Which has been the most discussed problem all over the internet.

Everybody wants to clone the platform, by not solving the core problem. Which led to their failure too 🙃

Do you agree?

You do not own your content, not even your audience. Once your account is blocked by twitter or LinkedIn all the effort that you put for the past few years have gone to waste.

Received a testimonial, another feather in my cap ❤️

Happy to see when someone love working with you 🥲

Thanks @PDanese 🙏 https://t.co/yZkYuRHT4R

Would you pick up a hard problem to solve or a build something that's easier to build and make it better?

The first 1.5 months of building MevinX went simply by fixing UI/UX issues,which was totally wasted a lot of time. Then the next 1.5 month went into trying to build something extraordinary algorithm that failed.

Currently focusing on building an audience and most importantly talking to a lot of people.