I Shipped My Product Solo

I always believed that someday I would have my own tech product if I met the right people to build with. A bit of a fuzzy dream. One I almost gave up on. Moved on to more stable and grounded things. Stopped bugging my techie friends. Maybe even stopped yearning for this so hard.

And then something flipped. I did it.

Years of accumulated knowledge from work. Tech, Product, Business. Thousands of concept sparks. A product idea cemetery of 48 half-baked projects. Countless hyped up conversations and friends nodding and smiling kindly. Five started projects. One burned friendship (and one that survived.) One PMFd idea that I abandoned. And, finally, one that came alive.
Today, it brought me my first $5. Or, $4.99. EBITDA.

What changed? Maybe I just stopped worrying about failing. I'm not sure how or why.
And the accessibility of the tech infrastructure these days is i n s a n e. The threshold was so much lower than what I imagined.

Practically, though, with each abandoned product idea, I learned to think with less complexity.
I thought smaller and smaller until I landed on an intersection of complexity and my skill (or maybe bandwidth, Idk).
My first ideas? Data-heavy enterprise platforms, no less. With all the SaaS bells and whistles.
This little thing that went live? It's tiny. My core funnel is like 6 events and 1 paid product.
I reduced the scope until I became the MVP. And then I felt like I was unstoppable.

And now it's live. And I'm euphoric.
I'm sorry, I may sound like an unbearable jerk right now. Too much hype. Very slappable. It's been a day. I need a drink.