Building a product is easy. Distribution is the hard part.
As developers, we often forget that building a new product is relatively easy.
Okay, it can get a bit complex. But it depends only on us, and we know we can get there.
What is genuinely hard: distribution
- Getting known
- Selling
- Onboarding customers
- Convincing them to stay
- Doing it all again
None of it depends on us. Sometimes it feels like moving backwards, and weeks can go by without a single result.
My advice to any slightly technical founder
- Vibe-code an MVP.
- Find customers who are genuinely interested.
- Have a professional developer check your product to polish and secure it. At this stage it should still be simple: one to two weeks at the very most.
- Go back to distributing and selling, 100% focus.
- If the commercial results come in, ask your developer for a few adjustments or new features.
- And so on.
Your commercial success will come from distribution. Not from ten more features with no users.
Good luck to the founders out there!