The $0 Startup Or Building On Budget

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When I quit my job to build apps during the 2019 COVID pandemic, I knew it would be hard.

I didn't know it would be incredibly difficult.

And I never expected it to sometimes leave me in tears.

One idea I had early on—when I decided to use my free unemployment time to build—was a social app that connected users based on their internet interests.

Simple enough, the plan was to connect isolated people trapped indoors due to the pandemic. We were going to connect people in the same city who watched the same YouTube channels, listened to similar artists on Spotify, used the same Reddit forums, etc.

As a nerd, finding out other people who had the same niche interests as me felt like a dream come true.

With a conviction that my app was sure to be a hit, I tapped the only developer I knew who'd work...

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