Ask HN: Hit a wall with our product team. What next?
7 by JohanCutych | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I’m lost on what to do next and I would love to hear your opinions... This post is a bit longer to give you some context. We are a product team building products for almost 8 years. We are on a journey of creating a sustainable way of living by doing what we love. We started by doing basic digital agency work. But we didn't like working with clients from all fields. We hated the hassle over every penny with clients who didn’t value our work. Next came the idea of building the next unicorn. After a few trials, we figured out we don't want to sacrifice so much of our lives to it. Then we thought we have enough skills and experience to build a sustainable bootstrap product that will make us a good living while doing what we love. Building a product that matters to people. But again, this wasn’t easy. Especially for us who don’t have the expertise in some vertical to understand its problem enough to build a solution for it. We’d have to stay years in one problem space to truly understand it, connect with key people, and deliver great solutions without funding capital. But that needs cash and passion for that space, which we honestly don’t have. We love building great products, and we are really good at it now (I can share references if you’re curious). So we struggle with monetizing our passion. But we are trying to be as honest as possible with ourselves. My question is - How a team that loves and is great at building products that solve problems under big constraints (we are only a 3-man team and always worked without funding) can help others on their journey? I feel like we need to pick a niche, where we can offer our expertise. Kind of a SWAT team for your company. But who is “your” company and how do we pick the “niche”? I feel like I lack an understanding of the problems companies face and how we can help them. Was anyone in a similar situation? Do you see ways your company would benefit from working with us?