Our signup numbers look great, but session recordings revealed a harsh truth: over 40% of new users drop off during our setup wizard.

We thought our step by step tooltips were helpful but they actually act like speedbumps preventing users from seeing real value quickly.

How do you audit your onboarding to strip away setup friction while ensuring users still get properly set up?

A platform ( canivibecodeit) recently went viral on X for showing which paid tools you could realistically rebuild yourself.

Design tools, ChatGPT, or Claude are obviously hard to replace. But invoice tools, forms, simple CMSs, or dictation apps seem much more realistic.

I often met people with the mindset:

"I'll work hard until I'm 30, and then I'll enjoy the fruits of my labour."

Many people wanted to get into the Forbes 30 Under 30.

During my time in international communities, I got quite a few offers to become a marketing co-founder.

I accepted exactly zero.

Usually, it was because:

Early on, I measured success by daily signups. But once we monetized, watching paid users cancel hit totally differently.

The hardest part was realizing that adding quick features to our backlog won't fix most of these cancellations. People aren't leaving because a feature is missing they're leaving because the product isn't smoothly inti their existing habits.

For founders managing paid tiers: how do you adjust your roadmap to fix fundamental workflow friction?