Qudsia Ali

What are some challenges you faced when you started working on your product?

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Working on a new product can take an immense amount of planning and dealing with challenges before you even get started designing! What are the one or two most significant challenges you faced when putting your product together? Was it finding suitable funding? Deciding who you would work with or anything else.
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Dare M.
If you are making an innovative product, it will take longer than planned. It's always a challenge on how to proceed when it happens.
Akash Bhadange
I had a lot of struggles with discipline and prioritization in the beginning. Which used to make me feel that the startup has a lot of chaos. Now, the chaos is still there, it's just I learned how to deal with that! 😃
Actually NO. I had the original idea for the predecessor of skilledup.life (free talent for tech startups) on 1st April 2020. Went live by the 7th and had the first paying customer by the 20th I think. We stopped it at end of July, handed the money we made to charity and went live with SkilledUp Life on 1st Aug 2022. I did everything myself without having to code. I was on my own from 1st Aug 2020 to 11th Nov 2020, when I hired my first employee. Today, we are still on proof of concept until we get to 100 customers, £10k MRR revenue and 11,000 volunteers. The stats on today is 14 customers, £393 MRR and 5,811 volunteers. In the process, I have spent less than £10k in investment. All self-funded. No business plan was created. No financial forecasts. I did create a Lean Canvas just to amuse myself.
@qudsia_ali what issues are you facing?
Milla Leanne
Covid xD
Johan Steneros
Bootstrapping a team without funds. I have found it hard to recruit top talent by just offering sweat equity.
Johan Steneros
@qudsia_ali Yeah this is the only way for sure. It is still hard though to find top talent like that. Most people also want a salary compensation to start with.
Maya Ben Zid
There were a lot of them and some are ongoing. Taking a walk down the memory lane I'd mention: 1. Launching the product soon after the COVID pandemic broke. There was still a lot of confusion and fear so encouraging the team to be productive took our founder extra work. 2. Educating prospects on why they need our product: the benefit behind our solution (a virtual office) isn't immediately obvious to everyone so we had to find ways to explain how the platform benefits teams. 3. Working as an international team - getting used to time zone differences and language barriers took some time. 4. Hiring: we had to scale fast so the pace of looking for and onboarding new talent was (and still is) crazy.
Max Velin
I was short of working hands. The business plan and the entire strategy were well thought out, of course, but I had not thought about the performers. So I decided to use the team extention model to hire qualified personnel. It is a cost-effective solution that provides you with a technical expert without the need to build your own team. My business is much better now.
Dan Müller
To understand the real user problems and needs so I can build working solution for them. The difference between what people say and how they later behave is often surprising.
Giuseppe Di Nuccio
Assuming that you've already found a hypothesis of good product/market fit and an unique value proposition for your product (i.e. the "secret sauce" that only you can offer) there are two continuous challenges I always had to cope with: 1) during the implementation phase, validating the product and constantly refining/adjusting it, based on the feedback given by potential users: hard to find users and even harder to collect meaningful feedback and insights 2) promote your product to reach the right audience. SEO, Marketing Campaign, Paid Adv, PR, etc., etc. they represent an ocean that always takes a lot of time and work, and is difficult to navigate
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