People s motivations for wanting something of their own vary quite a lot.

So far, though, I ve most often heard these three answers:

• To make a lot of money.

• To work really hard until 30 so I can relax later in life.

• Time and location freedom.

Hey PH, I'm Dylan. I'm building Four-Leaf, an AI career prep platform that organizes everything around each job application.

The thing that bothered me about existing tools was everyone prepares for interviews by reading answers on a screen. Then they freeze when they have to say it to a real person. Typing "tell me about a time you led a project" and speaking it under pressure are completely different skills.

I think we all lie every day (even when we say "Good night" to someone, and we don't even have to mean it sincerely).

We also lie on our resumes, we don't fully disclose everything on our tax returns, and we sometimes fake income.

I ve spent my career with one simple mission: I build apps.

But as any entrepreneur knows, building the product is only half the battle. The other half is proving it works. I noticed a massive gap in how we verify success. Most tools only look at Stripe, but modern business is messy it s PayPal, it s Apple, it s global.

That s why I m soon launching VerifyMRR. I wanted a "Universal Truth" layer for builders like us.

I ll go first: Posting my side project before I felt ready. It led to unexpected feedback, support and paying users.

Curious what small moves made a big difference for you

I remember reading an essay by @rrhoover about how he moved from his native Oregon to San Francisco after university studies, where doors full of networking opportunities opened up for him.

I saw the same thing in my country after graduation. About 80% of my classmates went to the capital, where there are the most opportunities in marketing and tech. (Or they went abroad.)