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What's tougher: finding your first paying customer or scaling your app?
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Jake Harrison
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Scaling app is tougher, since you can find one person to pay by chance, but you can not scale your app by chance
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André J
Building a product that people want is the root challenge. Commercial traction and scaling is just following a recipe if you can crack PMF
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Teodorescu Ioana Loredana
I think discovering your inaugural paying customer tends to be the more challenging task compared to scaling the app.
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