What I learned after launching (and shutting down) my first MVP
One year ago, I launched my first MVP: Dawenly.
A content-writing service powered by a real team, not AI.
At the beginning, people liked it. But getting real paying clients was much harder than I expected.
Many believed they could get the same results using ChatGPT, and they didn’t really value the work behind high-quality content.
Some took full analyses from me and disappeared. Some pushed me to lower prices. Eventually, the project wasn’t sustainable, and I stopped it.
This wasn’t my first attempt.
Before that, I built a fitness-tracking app for six months and also ended up shutting it down for reasons I still don’t fully understand.
Still, I enjoy building. I enjoy solving problems. So I started again.
Today I’m working on Webskeet, an SEO service for the Arabic market:
It’s not a “big startup idea,” but it helps me understand real problems.
My plan is to collect all the pain points clients face with SEO and later turn these insights into a real product.
If you’re curious, here’s my older MVP, Dawenly:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/dawenly?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social
That’s where I am now — rebuilding, learning, and trying again.
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