What motivates you to build your product? For me with @Bitgrain, it's my passion for creating with graphics. I needed a tool to make grunge posters myself, so I built one, and figured, why not share it with everyone else? What's yours ??
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Does bitgrain work better for print or is it mainly for digital and social media stuff?
Its to solve my daily marketing needs as well as my clients. The tracking of campaign data, analytics, the manual churn of content and etc is really too time consuming
@roy_kek yes that's a real problem, how does your tool solve that?
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I kept reptiles for years and tracked everything in spreadsheets. Eventually I just built the app I wanted to exist. The motivation is still the same: I'm the target user, so I know exactly what's missing.
@imad_elkhafi That's the best, being the target user, gives you a full sense of what's needed.
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@diptanshu_mahish Exactly no guessing what users want when you are the user. The hard part is remembering that not every user is you as you scale.
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For me, motivation has shifted over time. At first it was excitement and the idea of building something meaningful. Now it’s more about progress and freedom — seeing small wins compound, learning new things, and creating something that can grow beyond just trading time for money. Motivation changes, but having a bigger reason behind the work helps on the days when motivation itself disappears.
@kamrankhan well liking what Im building is what keeps me going!
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Building the tool you actually wanted to use is the purest form of 'Founder-Product Fit.' My motivation usually comes from that 'itch'—seeing a workflow that’s 2 steps too long and refusing to sleep until it’s 1 step. Grunge posters are a niche vibe, love that you're leaning into it!
Honestly, the best motivation is usually solving something you personally wanted to exist. A lot of strong products start from “I built this for myself first and then realized other needed it too.
Usually it’s the same pattern: I hit something frustrating or slow in my own workflow, and end up thinking this should be easier than this. If I don’t find a good solution, I end up building a small version myself then it turns into a product once I realize other people feel the same pain.
Honestly, at some point I lost interest in my own field. I'm an SEO specialist, and after years of doing the same things for clients, I started drifting toward digital illustration. Was looking for motivation to stay in SEO anywhere I could find it.
It came from where I didn't expect at all. AI changed the rules. Turned out I could build, code, design, write articles, all of it better and faster, without needing anyone else. That possibility became my motivation number one.
@galyna_arikh yes, being good at prompting is a really good skill now!
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@diptanshu_mahish Yeah, prompting honestly feels like the new core skill, way more important than I expected a year ago.
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Usually it’s pretty simple I get annoyed that something takes too long or feels harder than it should be, and end up building a small version of it for myself. If it helps others too, that’s when it turns into a real products.🚀
I love the scratch your own itch origin story! Most of the best tools start that way. For me, the motivation is usually about solving a repetitive task that I know a script or AI could handle better. There is a special satisfaction in seeing something you built save you time personally.
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Does bitgrain work better for print or is it mainly for digital and social media stuff?
Bitgrain
@isaac_dominic1 Both : )
Its to solve my daily marketing needs as well as my clients. The tracking of campaign data, analytics, the manual churn of content and etc is really too time consuming
Bitgrain
@roy_kek yes that's a real problem, how does your tool solve that?
I kept reptiles for years and tracked everything in spreadsheets. Eventually I just built the app I wanted to exist. The motivation is still the same: I'm the target user, so I know exactly what's missing.
Bitgrain
@imad_elkhafi That's the best, being the target user, gives you a full sense of what's needed.
@diptanshu_mahish Exactly no guessing what users want when you are the user. The hard part is remembering that not every user is you as you scale.
For me, motivation has shifted over time. At first it was excitement and the idea of building something meaningful. Now it’s more about progress and freedom — seeing small wins compound, learning new things, and creating something that can grow beyond just trading time for money. Motivation changes, but having a bigger reason behind the work helps on the days when motivation itself disappears.
What keeps you going?
Bitgrain
@kamrankhan well liking what Im building is what keeps me going!
Building the tool you actually wanted to use is the purest form of 'Founder-Product Fit.' My motivation usually comes from that 'itch'—seeing a workflow that’s 2 steps too long and refusing to sleep until it’s 1 step. Grunge posters are a niche vibe, love that you're leaning into it!
Bitgrain
@rivra_dev haha :)
Honestly, the best motivation is usually solving something you personally wanted to exist. A lot of strong products start from “I built this for myself first and then realized other needed it too.
Bitgrain
@david_richard35 EXACTLY.
Usually it’s the same pattern: I hit something frustrating or slow in my own workflow, and end up thinking this should be easier than this. If I don’t find a good solution, I end up building a small version myself then it turns into a product once I realize other people feel the same pain.
Bitgrain
@john__pop yes that's how it works : )
Honestly, at some point I lost interest in my own field. I'm an SEO specialist, and after years of doing the same things for clients, I started drifting toward digital illustration. Was looking for motivation to stay in SEO anywhere I could find it.
It came from where I didn't expect at all. AI changed the rules. Turned out I could build, code, design, write articles, all of it better and faster, without needing anyone else. That possibility became my motivation number one.
Bitgrain
@galyna_arikh yes, being good at prompting is a really good skill now!
@diptanshu_mahish Yeah, prompting honestly feels like the new core skill, way more important than I expected a year ago.
Usually it’s pretty simple I get annoyed that something takes too long or feels harder than it should be, and end up building a small version of it for myself. If it helps others too, that’s when it turns into a real products.🚀
Bitgrain
@elena_ciynthia2 Yess!
I love the scratch your own itch origin story! Most of the best tools start that way. For me, the motivation is usually about solving a repetitive task that I know a script or AI could handle better. There is a special satisfaction in seeing something you built save you time personally.
Bitgrain
@rivra_dev yes yes!