What were your worst mistakes the first time you founded?

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It's not my first time, but I've sometimes the impression that I do the same mistakes again and again without recognizing it.
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Salman Younas
For me, it was => not sharing the idea and getting feedback as early as possible.
@salman_younas How long did you wait and what happened during this period? And did you build after sharing anything on that idea or did you lose the determination to implement it somehow eventually?
Salman Younas
@timz_flowers I was about 2 months into the development of that particular product. It was the best idea ever, but only in my imagination. I shared it with my peers but it was too late. They pointed out some universal flaws that I hadn't thought of previously. Eventually, I ended giving up on that product.
@salman_younas Salman, thank you for your honesty. I think the most important aspect in that honesty is the one towards yourself, as you can iterate your imagination to a higher level by honestly analysing it and improving it to deal with more complexity and to come to better conclusions and intuitions. But one question is remaining for me: imagine you would have known the flaws in advance to creating the idea - would you have been able to tweak it and improve it in way that an even better product would have been possible?
Salman Younas
@timz_flowers Sam, it wasn't just possible to continue on the product and I had to give up on it. If I had known those flaws in advance, I wouldn't even had started working on it.
Tim J
We took advice from our investors to heart and it steered us away from building something either of us would use.
@timbjones What is your conclusion based on this experience?
@jiebu_li @sreekanth850 don't understand?
Sean Kane
Building for scale in the initial developments, before fully proving the model. Yes, it would have avoided some refactoring, but ultimately it put the cart before the horse.
@sean_kane1 haha, yes I understand that problem entirely. Thank you, I will ever have this funny pic before my inner eyes: "the cart before the horse". Ok, I'm perhaps also driving with such kind of vehicle at the moment... now we have to learn in the middle of the manoeuvre to make an elegant turn around, without losing track while accelerating speed.
Paco Chim
Spend to much time designing the product instead of building it
@francisco_chim What is in your understanding the difference between designing and building?
Paco Chim
@timz_flowers Well, i spend to much time with trying to make the pixel perfect layout on Figma insted of take the code and start to building the thing.
@francisco_chim totally understand that, ok thank you
Paco Chim
Hire a freelancer dev that steel al the work and sell to other people
@francisco_chim Oh, that's a really bad experience, sorry to hear that, Paco. What is your takeaway from that event? Could you tell me, what you decided to change in future projects to avoid these kinds of occurrences?
Paco Chim
@timz_flowers Hi sam, well that was a very dramatic experience cause i lost all my savings BUT, i learn in the bad way this: Trust in your capabilities and learn the stuff that can save you a lot of money, so, i learn to code, to build my next thing and in this way the things get easier, because i can build a team of devs and communicate with them in a natural way. So that steel of this guy, change my life.
@francisco_chim Great to hear that. So you grew through a bad experience to a person with more skills and capacities to explore your real potentials. I'm sure you will succeed on a much higher level, thanks to your insightful attitude to learn from bad events for the good.
Ahmed Elsamadisi
I read books! I go why would someone do that. I make the mistake and think ... I should write a book and tell people about these mistakes. The biggest mistake is not taking care of yourself. If you are CEO your energy is so important and affects the team so always remember that when you are pushing yourself. Today, we launched on ProductHunt and my team literally told me that I need to make sure I sleep in because when I don't sleep enough I get anxious and that leads to the team being anxious.
@ahmed_elsamadisi Ahmed, what is the product you have launched?