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I think one of the hardest parts of building SaaS is when you are doing all the "right" things but seeing no movement. The product works. You keep shipping. You try different growth channels. You change the onboarding. You work on distribution. You read what other founders are doing and think maybe you just need to execute better. So you do more. And then you look at the numbers and they barely moved. I've been building Sola Bible App for a while now, and this has probably been the hardest part for me. The frustrating thing is I don't feel like I went into this completely blind. I've spent years building software. I work deeply in AI and AI agents. I've spent four years in Bible school, and my faith isn't just the niche I decided to build in. Following Jesus is the center of my life. So Sola sits at the intersection of three things I've spent a huge amount of my life thinking about. Software. AI. And my faith. I thought that combination would give me an advantage. I understand how to build the product. I understand the technology underneath it. I deeply understand and care about the problem I'm trying to solve. And what makes it even more confusing is that every user I've actually talked to loves the product. I hear people tell me how much it has helped them understand the Bible, go deeper in Scripture, and build a better relationship with God. Those conversations make me feel like, okay, theres something real here. And then I look at the numbers and think, why is this moving so slow? The natural answer in SaaS is usually the same. Try another channel. Post more content. Talk to more users. Ship another feature. Improve conversion. Keep going. And I believe in that. I said I would never give up. But theres another question I've started asking myself that is a lot harder. At what point does "never give up" become being unwilling to admit that something you're doing isn't working? Because I don't want to quit just because something is hard. But I also don't want to waste years doing the same thing and calling it persistence. I feel like I have all the tools and the opportunity. I can build. I can move fast. I understand AI. I understand the domain. There are more resources available to founders right now than probably any other time in history. And still, some days I feel completely inadequate. Like somehow I should be able to figure this out, and the fact that I haven't means I'm failing. And theres another layer to this for me. I'm married. I have debt. I want to provide for my wife and eventually my family. I don't really care about becoming rich. I want to be financially free. I want my wife to feel secure. I want to know that all this time I'm putting into building something is actually creating something for us. So when things aren't moving, it feels bigger than MRR or downloads or whether a marketing experiment worked. Sometimes it feels like I&#3

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/26 23:08:25