I vote for more business help on HN

unfortunately, this reminds me a little much of how my life used to seem. hopefully the author can find succeed with their startup.

"used to"? Mind sharing what changed? Did you achieve what the OP tries to, did it happen by itself?

Authenticity is important, but don't a lot of startup founders generally behave in their own way, and get known for it? Maybe that's a self selecting group tho...

take the middle road. Jumping to launch a broken product isn't good, but waiting for perfecting isn't either. If it is workable, you hit a minimum feature set or anything, launch!

Also, do you get a prize for launching in Nov?

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