How did you become a founder?
Nick from FirstHR
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Kisson Lin@kissonlin
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I'd always wanted to build something, since I was 13. Being an entrepreneur is never a question for me, it is the answer to my life :)
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@kissonlin I have a similar story :)
Success.ai
Launching soon!
I became a founder after identifying a gap in SaaS marketing. With years of experience, I launched SaaS Marketing Gurus to help SaaS products succeed. The journey has been challenging yet rewarding, turning ideas into impact.
@hamza_afzal_butt Good luck, Hamza!
I just started helping small businesses with advertising on the Internet at the age of 15, and by the age of 18 I already had an agency. I didn’t even think about it, but in the end I became an entrepreneur.
I just realized one day that I was really tired of working for someone else and wanted more independence and money.
Elon Jump
i bought a domain name
How I Became a Founder (Spoiler: I Outsourced My Brain to AI)
2022: Decided to blog about AI. Problem? My WordPress site looked like a digital crime scene 🕵️♂️ (thanks, free YouTube tutorials).
If you can’t hire talent, become the talent (even if the talent is held together by duct tape).
2023: Started building websites for small biz owners. Highlights:
Started selling readymade design templates on my own site. 🎂
Started freelance web designing with my youtube learned skills. 🐩✨
2024: AI tools got scary good. So I:
Became a prompting warlock 🧙♂️ (outsourced coding to robots).
Shipped Unrealshot AI (turns selfies into CEO vibes) + Lexistock AI (fixes cursed photos) + Saze AI (Churning Out Content Generation).
Started a YouTube channel teaching AI to people who think “LLM” is a rapper. 🎧
Moral of the story:
If you can’t beat AI, make it build stuff for you… and pray it doesn’t take over.
Your turn!
👉 What’s your “I had no clue what I was doing” founder moment?
👉 Should I teach my YouTube subs what “GPT” actually means? (Spoiler: It’s not “Grandma’s Potato Tacos” 🌮)
@harvanshchaudhary You have come a great way. Good luck to you!
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Having something you love and the desire to make it happen.
@zhiqi_shi Excellent motivation!
Launching soon!
I became a founder of @Brilo AI (launching soon) to revolutionize customer support with AI-driven solutions. Seeing the challenges teams face with efficiency and scalability, I envisioned AI Agents that enhance support workflows and provide seamless customer experiences. My passion for AI and entrepreneurship drove me to build the world’s first AiCSR (AI Customer Support Representative), making Brilo AI a reality.
@brilo @yatheen_brahma I think AI is very useful in this area. Good luck to you!
I created a program from Youtube and then keep enhancing it and made product
@nidhish_bhavsar From side project to business. Great way.
Found a problem and tried to solve it
@martinmidly Founder's approach.
I became a founder many years ago because I saw the opportunity to make something cool for developers in the early days of the Internet, when it was hard to build stuff that met the possibilities.
And then I was hooked on bringing ideas to life, and not all of them worked or took off, but ChiliSoft did.
After that I started a company that made it easy for nonprofits to manage fundraising for low cost and didn't require training--it was a passion project we built to over 12,000 nonprofits.
@charlie_crystle1 This is a truly excellent project and result. Best of luck!
Got tired of dealing with corporate bureaucracy
@_azharkhan_ Corporate bureaucracy gets to you, even if you're a startup founder :)