I built and sold a successful SaaS, published two books, and help founders help themselves. AMA 👇

@raphaelchen95 My wisest choice was to try a lot of stuff. Saying yes to opportunities even when it wasn't clear what I'd use them for. I went to university twice and dropped out twice. I have no degrees, but I spent years learning stuff at those academic institutions. I studied computer science first. Then, political science and philosophy. Very much unrelated, but they come together in my writing about building SaaS products for engaged audiences and communities. This was never planned. It just happened naturally. I don't believe in career mistakes. The only mistake you can make is not to leverage your unique skill set. It's at the intersection of all the things you're good at where you'll shine the most. There are few people out there who care about Entrepreneurship, Programming, Empowerment, Social Dynamics of Communities, and Writing at the same time. That's my unique spot. You have your own distinct but equally unique spot. Leverage that!

@dawidzamkowski I bet that with some PARTICULAR companies, there is a focus on hiring juniors. I don't really know which industry would fit that description, but I bet you will have more insight there. Instead of trying to sell the job board indiscriminately, I'd do some research on who hires the most juniors (over any other seniority levels) and focus just on those industries. The CV review service is also a great idea. It also indicates that you understood their problem: they want to find a way into companies as soon as possible. Anything that makes their CV more professional or "likely to succeed" is a good upselling opportunity: professional design, editing, proofreading, "embellishment suggestions". Anything that makes you stand out more. I think you can definitely explore this direction more. Another idea would be to flip it all on its head and offer training for juniors to enter completely different industries. Coding bootcamps, internships, freelance gigs as online educators or copywriters. Increasing the opportunity surface of people looking for work is always an interesting idea.

@csaba_kissi I already did! I built PermanentLink to solve my own problem with link rot in eBooks. https://permanent.link/ Beyond that, who knows :D I'll focus on writing for the time being, that seems to give me the greatest opportunity to teach at scale.

@nerak_yoj_silos We all start as learners. The difference between people is how much they want to graduate from that.

@rhodiusn Everything is a challenge, but thankfully, you can build systems to deal with them. I recommend documenting anything you do to solve problems so that when you run into the problem again, you can solve it quickly and reliably. Over time, this can turn into automated processes, and then what was once a challenge is not a challenge anymore :D