Rowan Elizabeth

At what point does a product become ready to talk to investors?

When you have users?
Revenue?
A clear business model?
A certain number of people using it?

Especially for solo or small-team makers, it feels twice as hard to reach all of these points alone - while continuing to build the product without income and bootstrapping everything.

At some point, it starts to feel like an infinite loop:

I ve been thinking about this while working with an interview-practice platform that already runs as a web application.

The core experience works well on desktop, but the way people use the product on mobile is quite different.
Interview practice can involve voice interaction, microphone access, short practice sessions, progress tracking, and returning to the platform regularly.

That makes me wonder -
whether simply making the website responsive is enough for this kind of product.

At what point does it make sense to give users a dedicated mobile experience rather than continuing to optimize the browser version?

I ve been building AI systems for a few years, and one question keeps getting harder as agents become more capable:

Where should the human actually stay in the loop?