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This week we all took a day away from our usual tasks of building GoSquared<\/a>, and made seven new SaaS companies in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds unrealistic, and well, we didn’t exactly incorporate our businesses, or all have fully working products. But, what we did do was get into the mindset of a group of people we haven’t entirely focused on before. We made ourselves feel the pain, the nerves, the excitement and the momentum of those early stages of starting a new project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was signing up for your own product, on a pretty extreme level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We learnt a ton about ourselves, our ideas, our ways of working, but most importantly: we understood how GoSquared truly felt and looked for people just setting out on their journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s what happened.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:10 am<\/strong> – Your project name and one-sentence description needs to be posted in the Slack channel
9:30 am<\/strong> – Launch day Kick-Off
2 pm<\/strong> – You need to have a shareable website
4 pm<\/strong> – You need to have shared your website publicly with potential users
5.30 pm<\/strong> – Present what you have done today and your learning from the experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all managed to get something live. A website shared publicly, and a linked GoSquared account. These projects came from personal pain-points, interests, or even a couple of pre-existing (but very early) side-projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

📺 Screenshow<\/a>: always up to date screenshots, effortlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

☠️ GDPR Deleter<\/a>: a better way to process GDPR deletion requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🏝 Business Can Be Better<\/a>: a platform to manage your company’s social responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🏡 HomePlan<\/a>: a tool to manage your home improvement projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🖥 CanIZoom?<\/a>: measure whether your internet will cope with Zoom calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🔮 TryReflection<\/a>: 3 questions, every day, to help you retain more knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🇮🇹\u00a0Like a Local<\/a>: a platform to connect with regional language and local dialect teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear of sharing.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For some of the team sharing their project online felt like the most daunting part of the task. Alongside people not wanting to pay for products or tools in this early stage, sharing publicly was the team’s top blocker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of us were lucky to have had previous experience posting and engaging in public spaces. Our CEO, James, being the most comfortable with this form of public speaking, while others on the team never tweeted or posted online before in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the posts we made on Indie Hackers (after a few nudges):<\/p>\n\n\n\n