Stop practicing failure and call it learning
Too many of us build no real success
Time: 4.40 Minutes
Most people think they should launch a bunch of startups quickly to find what sticks. But that’s backwards.
The successful founders you actually know? They obsessed over one solid idea for a year or more, not sprayed and prayed with monthly launches.
Even this successful Indy Hacker agrees on the long run:
Sure, we can all name the few people who did the rapid-fire launch thing and succeeded, but we remember them precisely because they’re so rare.
Meanwhile, basically every unicorn and successful bootstrapper took the obsessive deep-dive approach. There are too many to even list.
Startups aren’t A/B tests. They’re hard. Good ideas are scarce.
Even when things work, it takes 6-24 months to gain real traction. You need obsession, not dabbling.
Launching ten failed startups teaches you to set up boilerplate infrastructure. That’s not the same as learning to build products people actually want.
One year at a successful startup teaches you 100x more than all those “reps” at failure.
Success is the better teacher. Failure doesn’t even reliably show you what to avoid, sometimes people do the exact same thing and win.
Don’t try copying outliers. They’re outliers because their path doesn’t replicate. Stop getting “reps” at failure and calling it learning. (of course you learn something on the way but…)
Find one actually good idea.
Get obsessed.
Cherry-pick useful frameworks and insights from others, but be yourself. Stop building weak ideas halfway and pretending it’s progress.
So have a good start into 2026, stay curious and build deliberately.
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