A startup without pink glasses
Hello, Habralyudi! Many people write about their successful startups, as a result of which many start-up startups see the world of startups in bright colors, and I want to tell an instructive story of one interesting start-up unfulfilled by me (bootstrapping) so that newcomers like me would not step on a rake (at least mine).
In the autumn of this year I decided to buy a netbook (for work and study) and first of all I opened the great Google in order to find a suitable model in the city’s online stores, which, by the way, turned out to be quite a few. The model picked up the next task that worried me - to find a store in which the price for it will be minimal. The next day, full of energy, I went to computer stores. Having lost almost a whole day and almost all physical and moral strength, I still bought what I wanted. Tired, but glad I was going home, thinking about how good it would be if there was such a service on the Internet that collected information about prices in stores for goods and sorted by price! So, actually, the idea of ​​a startup was born.
And then I interviewed all the friends in touch, whether such a service would be useful to them and whether they would use it. The result met expectations - most of the friends responded positively. Inspired by this, I, without delaying the time, began to implement the idea (by the way, on that netbook). Joyful thoughts about how things would be going round in my head, utopian (unfortunately) pictures of thesite page with reviews of satisfied users, etc. presented themselves. The search for like-minded programmer friends has ended epic fail, but it didn’t upset me much, on the wave of happy thoughts, I thought that I’ll do it alone.
After a one-and-a-half weekly work, the service turned out, which in my opinion was already ready for testing by users.
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What was in it: categories of goods with photos and descriptions, user registration (two types: user and organization), including the entrance through social. networks, top stores with the best prices (users could vote, which influenced the store rating) for each product, comments, cities (when selecting a city, only shops of this city were displayed), adding goods and stores by registered users, social buttons. networks.
Then I took up the addition of goods and promotion. I was abootstrapper alone, I didn’t have finances, two months of working alone didn’t give any results in principle - 10 people a day were maximum, not a single product or store added by users, not a single comment. Then my hands went down, I was not going to ask for money from investors or to take a loan - apparently, I was still not sure of success. The project was successfully abandoned by me until "better times."
And the moral is: “alone in the field is not a warrior” - firstly , support is needed (even just moral) initiatives by at least 2-3 people - secondly , money, of course, is not the main thing, but without them, it is thirdly .
PS: I do not pretend to the truth in the first station, but I hope you have been useful. I am ready to listen to your criticism, take note. If there are people who are interested in this idea, take it, for me personally the need for such a service has not disappeared. Again, I'm not going to take it.
How it all began
In the autumn of this year I decided to buy a netbook (for work and study) and first of all I opened the great Google in order to find a suitable model in the city’s online stores, which, by the way, turned out to be quite a few. The model picked up the next task that worried me - to find a store in which the price for it will be minimal. The next day, full of energy, I went to computer stores. Having lost almost a whole day and almost all physical and moral strength, I still bought what I wanted. Tired, but glad I was going home, thinking about how good it would be if there was such a service on the Internet that collected information about prices in stores for goods and sorted by price! So, actually, the idea of ​​a startup was born.
What's next
And then I interviewed all the friends in touch, whether such a service would be useful to them and whether they would use it. The result met expectations - most of the friends responded positively. Inspired by this, I, without delaying the time, began to implement the idea (by the way, on that netbook). Joyful thoughts about how things would be going round in my head, utopian (unfortunately) pictures of the
After a one-and-a-half weekly work, the service turned out, which in my opinion was already ready for testing by users.
')
What was in it: categories of goods with photos and descriptions, user registration (two types: user and organization), including the entrance through social. networks, top stores with the best prices (users could vote, which influenced the store rating) for each product, comments, cities (when selecting a city, only shops of this city were displayed), adding goods and stores by registered users, social buttons. networks.
So what?
Then I took up the addition of goods and promotion. I was a
The moral of this story is
And the moral is: “alone in the field is not a warrior” - firstly , support is needed (even just moral) initiatives by at least 2-3 people - secondly , money, of course, is not the main thing, but without them, it is thirdly .
PS: I do not pretend to the truth in the first station, but I hope you have been useful. I am ready to listen to your criticism, take note. If there are people who are interested in this idea, take it, for me personally the need for such a service has not disappeared. Again, I'm not going to take it.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/136278/
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