I’m building a free, no-signup tools website and recently started sharing my journey here.
Building the tools felt easier than figuring out distribution and trust.
I’m curious — what’s been the hardest part for you when building or launching something?
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Adding a bit of context from my side 👇
The hardest parts for me so far haven’t been technical.
They’ve been things like:
– Getting initial trust without a brand
– Deciding what not to build
– Figuring out distribution without ads or spam
Curious if others faced similar challenges, or something totally different.
Going to work.
I mean by now surely we should have been able to free humans from monotonous, repetitive, dull work processes by the means of automation and robots. The remaining must definitely not take up 40 years of a human's life at 40-50 hours per week...
I feel this a lot. We’ve automated so many things, yet daily work still eats up huge chunks of life.
Which part of that feels the most wasteful to you right now?
It feels like we are stuck with the immediate post world war idea that every single human being must work their ass off, and we don't realise that 80 years later it does not apply.
Look at the technological and scientific advancement of the last 100 years. It's exponential, right? With responsible management, this should mean that peoples' lives gets gradually easier, the amount if required work decreases while the quality of life increases. Why do we see the opposite? Why do we work more for less real value than 20 years ago?
That whole shit is a lie. Every day of your life when go to work is stolen.
I get what you’re saying — it really does feel like we’ve optimized for productivity,
but not for time or quality of life.
Tech keeps getting better, yet a lot of the busy work somehow survives or even grows.
It’s frustrating.
Out of curiosity, in your own workday, what kind of tasks feel the most pointless or draining?
The ones that make you think, this shouldn’t still exist.
Meetings. I hate long Meetings without any value. I want something that transcribes the Meeting for me, so I can read about it later.
Completely agree — long meetings with little value are exhausting.
Would a simple transcript be enough for you, or would summaries and action items matter more?
Phew, that's a tough question. It really depends on the context of the meeting and if it is one, where action items are decided on.
That makes sense — context really changes what useful looks like.
For meetings where decisions are made, having clear action items feels critical.
For others, even a lightweight summary might be enough to avoid re-listening or re-attending.
Out of curiosity, in your experience, what usually breaks down more:
capturing decisions, assigning ownership, or actually following up?
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