Success almost never happens overnight.
Sure, luck exists but relying on luck is like waiting to win the lottery.
This guy spent 14 years building before hitting $132K MRR.
So stop comparing your timeline to someone else’s highlight.
Build → distribute → repeat.
Share what you’re building smartly.
Keep going long enough and success will find you. 🫡
Nevo David (@wickedguro)
> Age 21, released from the army, got a job building WordPress websites at $2,025 per month.
> Age 23, moved to another job with a higher salary, working with PHP and Laravel at $3,037.
> Age 25, moved to another job working as a dev team leader with JS, routing-controllers, NestJS, $5,738.
> Age 27, became a digital nomad, same job, part-time $2,869. Building Thai Tours, a B2C tour-booking app, failed miserably.
> Age 29, Covid happens, kills the app (luckily), trying stuff, created Linvo, sold tons of LTD, and crashed the company by not getting a subscription with a huge debt in the bank.
> Age 30, Going back to my country, signing unemployment, working on Linvo v2, 24/7 in a coworking. And met cool founders. that tried to recruit me, I declined.
> Age 31, was in too much debt, started working for them as head of growth (marketing) - full time, at $11,476, and learning about open-source and open-source marketing. Doing no entrepreneurship, just learning. Brought them to 31k stars.
(best decision of my life, learned so much stuff)
> Age 33, Quit. Building an open-source consultancy, high ticket, with 4 clients, each $4k per month. Get so much stress, my veins pop out. And running Gitroom.
> Age 34, Building Postiz while doing consultancy for one client, pushing everything I have learned with open-source, getting to $3k per month + $4k for consultancy.
> Age 35, Bringing Postiz to $132,527 MRR.
Your life can flip in a second with everything you have learned over the years. never give up. keep learning. try stuff. burn. burn out. Give up life. Find new strength. build something awesome.
— https://nitter.net/wickedguro/status/2067932365545165183#m