... more familiar for people. State school and institutes formed such an educational experience for most people on the planet. A pivot towards selling any content at all didn't help the startup because there were already many strong competitors there (e.g., Patreon). It was painful because I was counting on the success of this project the most and even, together with my partner, paid two developers who helped us build the product. My financial resources were reset again ... ... small market. But the main reason: nobody or almost nobody needed it. Turning point in 2023. After 14 failures, I took a break to understand what I was doing wrong. I came across an essay by Paul Graham

... founder are building vibe coding platform for mobile apps. Where you can build mobile apps with supabase as backend along with AI capabilities or just UI depending on your requirement. It all started with Paul Graham's advice. We launched FlexApp publicly on March 15th after our first demo went viral with 200 users on waitlist. We were on the right path: a niche tool to only build mobile apps. Soon hitting 50 new signups daily. All these signups came ... ... with massive LLM costs. Starting with just ~$4K, we burned through 30% of our budget in the first week with only $260 MRR. Our well-funded competitors