🦄 Why 90% of Startups Suck – Flip Yours & Make $1500+/Month

35% of startups fail due to no market fit

I am THE KING... of making things the world doesn't need. Like this Aussie phone number selector...

... you can use arrows to make it easier.

Years ago, I made an open source theming library, Themestress and it sucked! This probably brought the world to over 1 million JavaScript theme libraries.

This is a classic example of no market fit - unless my framework had something remarkable about it... which it didn't.

Another project I made was Duffelbag.io. Because another below-par inventory management software is what the world was yearning for.

YOU NEED AN MVP!

So it turns out, I'm not bad at making things... I was just good at making things that people don't want.

WTF is MVP? It means Minimum Viable Product. It is the "diet" version of your product. Instead of creating an insanely feature rich product, you make a basic version that does one small part, but REALLY WELL.

If I had focused on a single, unique value proposition, maybe Themestress wouldn’t have joined the abyss of JavaScript theme libraries that no one uses .

Defining your MVP forces you to zoom in on what truly matters. It’s about stripping away the dumb stuff (that I would probably include ) and getting to the core of your product - what’s the one thing it absolutely has to do to make people’s lives better? Nail that, and you’ve got something worth building.

Product Market Fit - Your idea is probably useless

Sooo... you made the MVP, but does anyone give a s#!t? Is it solving a real problem? Well, then maybe it isn't useless...

You know when the HR department think the best kind of party would be one full of team-building mini-games, and they wonder why no one shows up? Thats a bad product market fit.

Validation is the process of getting your product out there fast, seeing if people bite, and then tweaking the recipe until they do.

For example, Duffelbag.io might have survived if I’d realised sooner that the world wasn’t exactly clamouring for another inventory management system. The faster you validate, the quicker you can either double down on what’s working or pivot away from what’s not.

Build Fast

Now that you’ve got your MVP and you’re ready to see if people actually want it, time becomes your enemy. The quicker you get your MVP out there, the quicker you can fail fast and SAVE MONEY.

The ShipNow Boost Template is designed to get your website up and running in hours, not weeks. It’s like having a race car in a world full of tricycles. While others are still figuring out how to pedal, you’re already crossing the finish line.

If I’d had ShipNow when I launched Duffelbag.io, I could’ve failed faster, learnt quicker, and either pivoted to something people wanted (like this which makes me > $1500 a month) or moved on to the next big idea. Instead, I spent too much time building something no one wanted. Don’t make the same mistake - get your MVP out there fast and start validating right away.

With ShipNow, you’re giving your startup the best chance to succeed - or to fail quickly and move on. Either way, you’re saving time, money, sanity and, because it's a one-time payment you can use the template again on the next venture. That's a lot of win.