u/SpareButterscotch810

I need a reality check because I think I'm getting absolutely fleeced.

Right now, I’m "leading" the technical side at a startup. Here is the exact breakdown of the operational dynamic:

• The Tech: I am building the entire product completely alone from scratch. Zero engineering support.
• The Growth: I am handling the marketing and distribution strategies to get eyeballs on it.
• The Resources: I am personally providing about 80% of the resources/infrastructure to keep things running.

The Revenue/Equity Model: I get 12% equity. The remaining 88% goes to the other "founders" who are providing next to no support, no technical leverage, and no clear distribution velocity.

I sat down today and realized: If I am already coding the entire product, managing the deployment stack, and driving the growth myself... why am I giving away 88% of the equity to a group of people who are essentially acting as spectators?

I’m seriously considering walking away, wiping the slate clean, and just deploying my own MicroSaaS products as a solo developer. If I'm going to take 100% of the execution risk, I might as well keep 100% of the equity.

Am I missing some hidden value of having a team here, or should I pack my bags and push to the terminal solo? What would you do in my position?

I’m going to be completely honest because I’m hitting a wall here.

Everywhere I look on my feeds, people are casually talking about hitting $10k MRR, $50k MRR, or flexing their charts. Meanwhile, I’ve built and shipped multiple fully functional products, put in the hours, and I haven't landed a single paying client yet. Zero.

I realized my technical stack is solid, but my distribution stack is non-existent. I’m a builder, not a marketer, and it’s painfully obvious now.

I don't want generic advice like "just post on Twitter" or "cold email people." I want to know the unglamorous, raw reality:

• For those of you who actually have paying users, how and where exactly did you land your first 5-10 clients?
• What did your day-to-day distribution workflow look like in the first month of launching?

Please shower some actual, practical learnings here. I love building, but building in a vacuum is getting exhausting. Help a fellow founder out.