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Rob Walling

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3342 total appearances

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Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Absolutely. Essentially, you're not at that point where this is a certainty and you're still changing a lot about the business. Which brings me to my next question. Why join TinySeed?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Absolutely. Essentially, you're not at that point where this is a certainty and you're still changing a lot about the business. Which brings me to my next question. Why join TinySeed?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

It absolutely does. That was a hard pill for me to swallow as I came up as an entrepreneur, and it sounds like for you as well. I'm working construction and I look around and I say, oh, it's not what you know, it's who you know. And that pissed me off because I felt like an outsider. And I was, and you just have to figure it out, right?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

It absolutely does. That was a hard pill for me to swallow as I came up as an entrepreneur, and it sounds like for you as well. I'm working construction and I look around and I say, oh, it's not what you know, it's who you know. And that pissed me off because I felt like an outsider. And I was, and you just have to figure it out, right?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

And sometimes it's a decade of grinding to figure that out or to build a network from scratch on your own. And other times you can come alongside and join a network, which it sounds like what you've done with TinySeed is joining the network there that already exists.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

And sometimes it's a decade of grinding to figure that out or to build a network from scratch on your own. And other times you can come alongside and join a network, which it sounds like what you've done with TinySeed is joining the network there that already exists.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

At TinySeed, we've worked hard to build a supportive culture for all types of founders. So this comment really made me smile. I'm curious over the past month or two, what has been a low point or something where you think back, this kind of sucks. This makes me think, do I really want to do this?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

At TinySeed, we've worked hard to build a supportive culture for all types of founders. So this comment really made me smile. I'm curious over the past month or two, what has been a low point or something where you think back, this kind of sucks. This makes me think, do I really want to do this?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Like a step one business. It's a marketplace.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Like a step one business. It's a marketplace.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

does sting, but it's a $500 issue. It's a $500, whether it's a mistake or just a $500 road bump, right? There are times when there are $50,000 road bumps, right? But it's probably less of the $500 and more about your aspiration for this to work. I mean, you wanted it to work, right? You wanted to sell five copies, 10 copies, whatever the number was.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

does sting, but it's a $500 issue. It's a $500, whether it's a mistake or just a $500 road bump, right? There are times when there are $50,000 road bumps, right? But it's probably less of the $500 and more about your aspiration for this to work. I mean, you wanted it to work, right? You wanted to sell five copies, 10 copies, whatever the number was.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

You had a number in your head probably, and it wasn't one sale. Yeah.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

You had a number in your head probably, and it wasn't one sale. Yeah.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Well, if I can pause it, I think price wasn't the issue. Yeah, clearly. Price wasn't the issue because dropping it by 75% sold one copy. It's obvious people were not buying because it was expensive, you know?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Well, if I can pause it, I think price wasn't the issue. Yeah, clearly. Price wasn't the issue because dropping it by 75% sold one copy. It's obvious people were not buying because it was expensive, you know?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Such a good lesson to learn.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

Such a good lesson to learn.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

How about a high point over the past month or two?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

How about a high point over the past month or two?