March 26th, 2020
Today sucked.
The post-Corona cancellations for Pigeon are finally starting to roll in.
3 cancellations in 24 hours.
I think Pigeon will dip below $1K MRR soon.
I also had a nasty bug today that I spent over 3 hours on.
Days like this really bring on the doubts and echo the naysayers:
The post-Corona cancellations for Pigeon are finally starting to roll in.
3 cancellations in 24 hours.
I think Pigeon will dip below $1K MRR soon.
I also had a nasty bug today that I spent over 3 hours on.
Days like this really bring on the doubts and echo the naysayers:
- "You can't build a SaaS alone."
- "You don't know anything about good design or UI."
- "You're not technically savvy enough for this."
- "You're never going to win this battle."
- "Your vision is too big."
- "You don't have a market."
And the list goes on.
The bigger question: "Can I actually do it?"
I took a break after all this mayhem and searched "Kanye motivation". I found this video.
It pumped me back up again - Kanye talking about how he got into fashion when everyone told him he couldn't - or that he rapped when everyone told him he could only make beats.
I need to visualize more like this - embrace the haters - embrace the doubt - use that as tailwind to do the things that I (or others) believe that I can't.
Fear, fear's a powerful thing. I mean it's got a lot of firepower. If you can figure out a way to wrestle that fear to push you from behind rather than to stand in front of you, that's very powerful. I always felt that I had to work harder than the next guy, just to do as well as the next guy. And to do better than the next guy, I had to just kill. And you know, to a certain extent, that's still with me in how I work, you know, I just... go in.
- Jimmy Iovine