Just shipped Founderbook Phase 1. Building in public is terrifying and addictive. 1/ No one will care about your product until you care about them first. Community before product. 2/ The best investors don't need a warm intro if your traction speaks. Get to $1K MRR and doors open. 3/ The hardest part isn't the code. It's the days when you question everything — and you have to push through alone. That's why Founderbook exists. Nobody should have to build alone.

Update: we just closed our $500K pre-seed round! 🎉 Warm intros from other founders in my Founderbook pod made the difference. Cold emails to VCs had a 0.4% response rate. Warm intros: 67%. The network is everything. Find your people, build together, share opportunities.

Hit $2K MRR today. 8 months of building. 3 pivots. Zero funding. Founderbook community kept me accountable every single week. The Build In Public channel alone is worth 10x the membership.