Building a startup is hard 😅. Remember to celebrate the journey.

When you’re building a startup, nothing is ever enough.

More users, a new feature, a bug. MRR, churn. It's hustling all the time. and pretty uncomfortable sometimes.

I tend to forget the day to day, and just think about tomorrow.

One of my best memories with my co-founder was travelling to the US together.

Two trips, East Coast and West Coast. Ten-hour flights each way.

We met customers and friends, had NY bagels, and even got chased by some weird guy in SF at night 🤣

This weekend, he’s getting married. And I can’t wait to celebrate with him.

So it's a good moment to celebrate the journey!

There were weeks over the last two years when I spent more time with him than with my own wife 🫠

We went from two strangers in an Antler cohort to running a profitable, bootstrapped company.

Pivoted a couple of times (gets less painful as you go), built an enterprise B2B feedback repository platform @Dolphin AI that got product 5 of the day, a B2C/Prosumer AI tool @Pretty Prompt that got product 2 of the day TWICE 😅, scaled to thousands of users, and billions of AI requests purely PLG.

We kept it fully bootstrapped with 0 outside investment, 0 paid ads, 0 anything.
Best advice I can give to others: Find a co-founder or team, you share the same values, and still laugh together after a 10 hour flight across the Atlantic.

Today Charlie joins customer calls, handles support, and does growth as a CTO.

I push code into production, dig into analytics, and build as a CEO.

We keep learning from each other. And we still have a laugh while doing it.

I’m proud of what we’ve achieved. So this weekend, we’re celebrating 🥂

Everyone in PH is building something. Otherwise you would not be here! So make sure you celebrate the journey.

Share one memory/milestone below!