I didn’t sleep for the past 3 nights.
I’ve been building my EdTech startup for two years now, and boy, it’s been a rollercoaster. We pivoted 3 times by now - the last one was a radical pivot in the middle of the summer as the numbers showed that our initial growth hypotheses were wrong.
We’ve been building a new product for the past 3 months. Our goal was to launch the beta app 2 months ago back in early September but due to some technical decisions and unfortunate circumstances, our app was riddled with bugs, and we just couldn’t leave the friend and family alpha testing stage and move to beta. We’re still not on appstore 😭.
This is so frustrating! It’s a complex product, and we’ve built something exciting but things keep breaking down. As a small startup, we try to move fast and ignore code scalability of stability but that has bitten us in the ass.
I know that such valleys and downs are part of the journey and I do my best to embrace “what I can control and what I can’t control” stoic mentality, yet some days it feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
Such moments make you doubt yourself…
So I joined the startup that I’m in a year and a half ago. Was the 4th person to join and since then we’ve pivoted like three times. We’ve had multiple delays in launches due to techinial problems, getting it on the AppStore was a proper shitshow, and we developed too much without acc thinking of this is what the user needs.
With our current product, one thing we make sure is to building the minimum viable product that we know solves a core problem and then build with user feedback.
More than happy to test out your platform if you need any insights.