u/old-new-programmer

Image 1 — 74 Days and credit score is improving
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74 Days and credit score is improving

I’ve now gone the longest without gambling that I can remember since 2020.

I’ve been throwing all extra money at debt and my credit score is improving. I’m lucky to have a good job and never got behind on my debts but they still eat away at me. Seeing positive results is awesome though.

My health is bad mentally and physically from my job but at least I don’t have to throw gambling into that mix, which was making me feel way worse.

I hope everyone can achieve similar success.

u/old-new-programmer — 8 days ago

Hardware is hard. The startup I am a part of is extremely complex. Think EV-level autonomy problems on a smaller scale.

We have zero customers. No one has signed up to say they would even be interested. I have thought about backing out numerous times as it is costing us a decent amount of our own money just to get started.

When we show the idea to people is almost universally liked and they can see it have a place. Is it in our intended market? Who knows. No one has done the validation to prove that.

I'm just feeling stuck in this loop where I doubt our current direction is the right one and this feels like a hobby project that will eventually try to find a customer, if one does exist.

It feels like the classic solution looking for a problem.

Should we be validating with mock-ups and decks before we keep building or should we just keep going until we have an MVP we can bring to customer sites? How typical is building first with hardware heavy solutions?

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u/old-new-programmer — 10 days ago