Sales is hard. It’s 10X harder than development as it’s a new skill we’ll be acquiring. At-least true for me. It’s also heartbreaking when you pitch your idea to potential customers but they don’t resonate. You think people will jump onto cold emails but very few reply. It’s really really brutal going day in and out and being lucky enough to find customers who are willing to take a chance and pay.
When you’re solo, you are the chief everything officer. You are the sales person, the account manager, the customer support, the product manager, the designer, the developer, the always on-duty SRE, and the business admin who keeps up with all the paper work and legalities.
Going solo is hard. But it’s also very rewarding. The learning curve is off the charts.
