Speaker unverified: belief

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…You built the site. You didn’t go to Squarespace, you didn’t go to Webflow. What was the thinking behind that? I had a couple of reasons for that. Part of it was I had a bunch of other ideas that I’d come up with and my brainstorming. Indie Hackers scored the highest on my rubric because it was so quick to build. But I felt really bad because here I am the software developer, from building all of these other startups, I learned so much stuff from building startups over the years and failing time and time again. I learned how to design, I learned how to do frontend development and backend, server admin stuff, and here I was going to start a blog. I was like, this is such a waste. I want to throw myself some kind of bone to make this fun. Because starting a company should be fun. You should enjoy the journey, not just the destination. I said, okay, I’ll do a blog, but I’ll allow myself to just build my custom blog from scratch. Even though that’s going to add another week and a half to my launch time or whatever. I’ll allow myself just that little bit of fun. Part of it was branding and strategy planning. You weren’t yet thinking like, Stripe revenue Connect or building a community.…

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