u/DearRub53

I’ve been sharing bits of my journey here, but I want to be fully honest about what actually happened.

For the past 6 months, I’ve been building an anonymous app called TBH.

I went all in on mobile first. Designed everything, built the features, pushed through bugs… but when it came time to launch, I hit a wall I didn’t expect.

Banking issues.

App Store limitations.

Funding problems.

Basically, everything that has nothing to do with building the product.

I was stuck. The app was done, but I couldn’t get it into people’s hands.

At one point, I started working on a different SaaS (WinBrief) because I thought I needed something more “serious” to make money and move forward in life.

But then a friend said something simple that flipped everything:

“Why don’t you just make it a web app?”

That was it.

No gatekeepers. No App Store. No delays.

I dropped everything else and started rebuilding TBH for the browser.

I thought it would take a day or two.

It took 7 days of straight grinding.

Rewriting logic.

Fixing that auth sessions problems late at night.

Handling edge cases I never had on mobile.

Setting up the stuff.

But now, it’s live.

It’s an anonymous messaging + photo app. I added media support because I didn’t want it to be another boring text-only app — I wanted people to actually share moments, not just sentences.

I found it boring I couldn't receive more messages from my aquiantences since I'm a nerd, so I'm designing this app to get the most traffic possible.

As for WinBrief, I’m pausing it.

I realized trying to build two products at once while one is unfinished is just a good way to fail at both. I’ll come back to it later once TBH is actually moving.

Right now, I’m just focused on getting this in front of people and seeing what happens.

It’s honestly a weird feeling after 6 months of being locked but stuck most of the time… to finally see real users interacting with something I built.

For anyone who’s been stuck behind “external problems” like platforms, funding, or approvals — sometimes the move isn’t to quit.

It's to change path