Q non-venture funded things, it's not like a choice if you're bootstrapping about whether or not you charge for your product, right? Um, and so just like, where would you advise yourself? You know, say you have a time machine, you could advise your younger self. What would you have told yourself around monetization? It would have been like, you know what? Wouldn't change anything. Like, yeah, that's a valid option.
A It's, yeah, it's one of those things, because I, there's a lot of mistakes I made, of course, and, and so I, when I think about the mistakes, I think, well, I should have done it differently, and then there's another part of me, though, that thinks, well, with the information I had at the time, I probably still would have made the same decision, so the reality is I don't think things would have changed, and it's also hard to know if I did that, would that have actually been worse than what happened, and totally fair, so the things that I, I, I think we made a mistake on that I, I take responsibility for are a few different things. One of them, one of them is we should have dedicated a little bit of time and focus on revenue. And in the beginning, before we were funded, we were, you know, I was paying the Heroku bill out of my own credit card and it wasn't expensive, like a couple thousand dollars a month, maybe at one point. And I was like, well, I don't want to pay this. So let's like do job ads.
AI assessment note: “we should have dedicated a little bit of time and focus on revenue”