When starting out, it's easy to write down ambitious long term plans for scaling and team expansion. But reading through those exact notes years later can be an eye opener when you realize your mindset has changed.
I caught myself working toward targets that I wouldn't even enjoy hitting today. It's tough to notice that subtle shift while you're busy running things day to day.
Have you ever caught yourself pushing toward an old goal that no longer fits what you want for your business?
Our meter used to treat every change the same. Ask for a new image, one credit. Change the text on an image you already made, one credit. It reads as fair on a pricing page and it quietly taught people to accept whatever came out first, because a fix cost the same as another roll of the dice.
We split the meter earlier this year. Generation costs credits, editing something you already paid for is free. Edits per user went up about 3x in the first week and generations barely moved, so the revenue hit was much smaller than the spreadsheet predicted. What we actually bought was people finishing work instead of abandoning it at 80 percent.
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Most co-founder advice is about finding the right person. Almost none of it is about what happens after you find them.
The conversation we did not have early enough was about what happens when we disagree and neither of us is willing to move. Not the small stuff. The big stuff: whether to raise money, whether to pivot, whether to sell, whether to fire someone.
We had assumed we would figure it out when it happened. When it happened, it took 3 weeks and nearly ended the company.
To improve our day 7 and day 30 retention, we set up a automated re engagement email sequence highlighting key features users hadn't tried yet. While a tiny percentage opened and clicked back into the app, the unsubscribe rate was surprisingly high.
It pushed us to question whether email drips are still effective for bringing dormant users back, or if they just remind people to cancel/unsubscribe.
What channel or trigger has actually worked for you to re-engage inactive users without feeling spammy?
I've been the sole developer at a startup for close to two years now. No code reviews, no one to ask when something breaks at midnight, no second opinion on architecture decisions.
The hardest part wasn't the coding itself. It was making decisions with no feedback loop. You ship something, it either works or it doesn't, and there's nobody to tell you if you did it the right way or just the way that happened to not break.
I've started keeping notes on every major technical decision I make what I chose, what I considered, and why. It's the closest thing to a code review I've found when you're solo.
Curious how other solo devs or tiny-team builders handle this. Do you just get used to it, or did you find something that actually helps?
