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kypro 2 days ago

I'm just going to be honest because lying won't help.

Realistically you will almost certainly fail because almost all startups fail.

There was a post on Indie Hackers many many years ago now where someone looked through all of the projects posted there over the years and found that something like 1% of them succeed (may have been less tbh – it was so long ago).

You are more likely to succeed if you have serious money to throw behind it or you are able to get investment, but if you're just a dude trying to start a businesses online with some savings you're more or less guaranteed to fail statically. This wasn't true of in tech in the 90s and 00s, but things have matured a lot since then. The fact you have users is actually impressive and imo you've already done better than the vast majority do.

I'm saying this because the first thing you should be doing if you're not already is assuming failure with an extremely high confidence. If you have no plan for failure then you need to start coming up with one now.

I've been through this myself. Startups were my life in my late teens and early 20s. I had a breakdown in my mid 20s because after some early success in my teens, I just couldn't get anything to work anymore. I was also isolating myself from friends and family and the realisation that I had basically lost some of the best years of my life behind a screen and text editor for nothing ate away at me.

Quitting is not failure. Here's what you need to do now.

- Come up with plan assuming your startup will fail.

- Decide the point at which you will stop.

- When that time comes execute your plan like a zombie through the pain.

Your emotions will tell to keep going one more day and your plan however good will almost certainly not be what you want to be doing because if it was you'd already be doing it. Just keep going and you'll come out of it in the end.

Good luck. Wishing you the best bro.