rekindling my passion for building
the last few months I spent building zeke.so. something weird started happening, I realized I was just going through the motions the last few weeks.
I had lost my passion for building. I went to some dark places. I was leading the team. I was supposed to be doing the marketing, getting the word out. but there was just inertia. I couldn't do my best work. this wasn't fair to the team.
and the idea itself? was built on shaky grounds. the user metrics stared at me in the face. something was going wrong. I can write a whole new blog post on the mistakes we made as first time founders. but we learnt a fuck ton.
right now, we are just focusing on building multiple products. exploring our interests. what do we want to bring to life?
in this rather tedious journey I've realized - I'm a builder at heart. thinking about product, solving problems gives me the kick.
I'm going to be running a series of experiments. following interesting builders. doing what feels right. doing it with love and passion. the journey is hard. life is short. you might as well do something you like.
my experiments:
- built an iOS version of freewrite
- working on a hackathon project (more details to follow)
- most importantly - I'm launching buildsmall.tech and I talk about my why here