How I built and deployed an app in one day

You have a great idea.

You want to build a product around it.

You encounter many difficulties.

You don’t give up.

You learn new things.

You finish the product.

You publish it.

Nobody buys.

And you wasted months. You gained no entrepreneurship experience because entrepreneurship is selling and you’ve done none of that. You just built a useless product.

I have been there.

It is the easiest time to give up.

I will tell you exactly how to avoid this in a few simple steps:

1. You cannot avoid failure;

2. Create products fast;

3. Build what sells and don’t get attached to your own ideas;

4. You cannot avoid failure;

If you don’t want to fail, entrepreneurship is not for you.

In entrepreneurship you create something and you want people to use it.

If they don’t it is not their problem.

Your product is useless. And that may hurt your feelings. But you have to be honest to yourself.

We all have a tone of stupid ideas in our head that we have to get rid off.

The best way to do that is to test them against reality.

Try to build that product and see if you are actually successful.

“But it will take me a lot of time to built all my products.” That is totally true.

That’s why in step 2 we will discuss about how to build it fast.

My story:

I started business with no idea about marketing or building a product actually.

I just wanted to sell AI chatbots to companies with a website, using a free platform ( Botpress) to create them.

Then I realized that my chatbots are not that good.

So I started coding.

After months of learning and coding, I managed to create chatbots that are better that but I couldn’t really sell them. And I wasted a lot of time( 2-3 months).

The idea is to test the ideas extremely fast.

2. Create products fast;

Most people want to create a perfect product before even thinking about launching. I would say that you should test only the main idea of the product.

For example, I have created a productivity app called Task Timer. The main idea is to give a time limit for each task. And then measure it. I believe that this is a technique to improve productivity. I made a working app that does exactly that, and I put it on Product Hunt.

No fancy design, no additional feature. One app, one idea.

If the main idea of your product is not tested, you are risking wasting a tone of time for nothing.

I built the app, I wrote the instructions, I posted it on Product Hunt all in one day.

For that, I recommend that you master the flow state and that you manage you product efficiently.

You know exactly what you have to do: a product that you think will solve a REAL problem.

Build it and launch it as soon as possible.

Based on the feedback you get, you will know what to improve and what ideas of yours don’t make any sense.

Nevertheless, you should always improve your skills, so overall I suggest:

• work on your skills;

• test only the base idea of the product, then launch it;

• improve it based on feedback;

3. Build what sells and don’t get attached to your own ideas.

I wanted to invent new stuff. To create some amazing new technology:

• new AI agents;

• a weather telegram bot;

• AI chatbots for websites;

• an AI writing app;

All of these have potential.

But do you know what has more potentials?

The apps that are already selling.

I entered Product Hunt and I looked over the best apps and I got the idea to create the Task Timer.

Just look over what other people sell in your domain and start with that.

The main conclusion is:

• look for what other people are selling (that’s what other people need);

• ALWAYS improve your skills;

• don’t aim for perfection;

Thanks for the read!

Take care!

Andrei