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Keep going when competitors have customers; blame your execution, not demand

Stuck with it until a pivot found traction

Workedvalidation

What they did

Kept the product alive through two flat years because competitors in the same space had many customers, reasoning the problem was his execution rather than demand.

What happened

Persisted until the pivot found traction
Stage
Plateau years

In their words

I was stuck at $100 for 2 years until I made one change. Now my app makes $10K/month

Play from 8:41
8:35

Pat WallsAbsolutely. What kept you going with this idea specifically? How did you know that it might work out 2 years later?

8:41

Piotr ObidowskiOne, this is my first product ever released, so it was really hard for me to, you know, just remove it from the Internet. And the second one was I was looking at the competition. They've worked. So the competition is working, right? There is a lot of solutions. They have a lot of customers. I thought to myself, "It had to work." Why it's not working? I have to find why it's not working for me. And after 2 years and this pivot, it actually works also for me.

9:08

Pat WallsLet's change topics slightly. What is this What's like the tech stack and tools behind a solo product, side project like yours is doing $10,000 MRR?

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