Stephen ~ TechHustleHQ

Back from a 2-year burnout! 😅 hey 👋 #buildinpublic Back here after the weirdest period of my life. 😆 About 2 years ago (exactly 2 years in 3 days), I took a break from X. I was honestly just trying to take a 2–3 day break, but somehow I couldn’t bring myself to post again. Looking back, I think I was simply exhausted from all the frantic building I had been doing. So I never came back. Days turned into months. Months turned into a year… and then more. The saddest part about that time was that I would still log in and see everyone going hard — shipping things, launching products, building companies — and there I was… just… mhmm. I honestly don’t even know what I was doing. 🤔 I would doom-scroll YouTube watching founder stories and startup content on @founderstorypod and others. Tutorial after tutorial about random startup topics… but without actually building anything. The lie I told myself was: “I’m learning.” And sure, I was learning — but in vain, because I wasn’t implementing anything. Tutorial purgatory, I guess they call it. Now that I think about it, I probably saw it coming. I had read so many burnout stories here before. People I started this journey with also disappeared, and I always wondered what happened to them. Maybe they got busy. But maybe… maybe they were just tired too. SAD. This is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone — not even my worst enemy. Anyway, I’m back now. Ready to engage again and contribute to the community. And thank you to everyone who DM’d me while I was away to check in. That meant a lot. BTW, I’m currently building LaunchInAfrica — a startup that does exactly what the name suggests: "Helping startups launch in the African market." More on that soon. Glad to be back ☺️🚀

Got a piece of that Reddit backlash Yesterday 😂 Yesterday i made a little experiment on Reddit. I had an old project i made for a client that i turned into a SaaS. I then searched niche subreddits that match the product, then posted it in there🤣🤣 the post went mini-viral -- 3k views in like an hour .... But all i got was an angry mob of people - Despite that backlash, however, a few other people also reached out and liked to work with me on the project, and now we are having a conversation. So at the end of the day, a W is a W !😂

@SofiaMarin5555 congrats👏officially in the top 10%😂😂

i made my first dollar online! yay 😀 by the end of 2026, what do yall think this number will be at?

@victor_bigfield Thanks for the list, Victor... someone just suggested Peerpush for my product, going to give it a try and see.

places I go when i need to find early customers: reddit (manual hunting) redditgrow (ai does the hunting) indie hackers product hunt hacker news twitter/x replies discord servers slack communities facebook groups niche forums beehiiv newsletters youtube comments reddit AMAs substack notes linkedin posts cold dms appsumo listings build in public threads betalist just shipping and seeing who shows up what else ?

@dev_guid The Build in public subreddit. I think the community allows self-promotion - because people there be sharing their ideas and essentially giving product updates ... things would be different in a subreddit like SaaS

@TechHustleHQ what type of post did you write? just curious because reddit can be hit or miss with self promo stuff

JUST got 2 leads on my first Reddit post! A few days ago i posted here that i was going to try Reddit for the first time. well ... i did ... wrote a post in the #buildinpublic subreddit andddd got 2 leads for my startup (Launch In africa)... Turns out there's another not-so-brutal part of Reddit 😂😂😂

@belovdigital 😂😂😂😂it's honestly pathetic ...

Zoom app is way too annoying

My biggest inspiration - ---> Hackernews UI No design team, JUST Text only and 100k - 300k visits a day with😂

@tellenne_ @Reddit That's awesome .. will shoot you a DM.

@TechHustleHQ @Reddit hey, I went from 0 to 10K MRR last year using reddit, dm me if you want

I have had a @Reddit account for more than 5 years, but never really used it. Am now considering using it for B2B startups. Anyone in #buildinpublic ever used it with good results /?

@Nathaniel1fs @trust_mrr Congrats @Nathaniel1fs 👏

Just sold my first startup for $2100 at 17 with @trust_mrr Made it this year and marketed it trough tiktok only organic. Bought a boat with the money

If you’re on Reddit, drop your username — let’s connect!

@blessingCOnu @justbyte_ Also just connected with you ... code + chess ✅

@justbyte_ Sure, Aryan. Let's connect.

If you're into tech, let's connect

Don't get me wrong ... i don't have a problem with NAVAL -- i actually like his one-liners ...🤣but ...

NAVAL : " Code is the gravity of the internet. AI is just the friction that proves the floor exists. Fall upward." literally everyone in replies : "OMG he never misses" 😩😩😩

@manoj_ahi Thanks alot bro 🫡

@TechHustleHQ Hey bro, welcome back

Back from a 2-year burnout! 😅 hey 👋 #buildinpublic Back here after the weirdest period of my life. 😆 About 2 years ago (exactly 2 years in 3 days), I took a break from X. I was honestly just trying to take a 2–3 day break, but somehow I couldn’t bring myself to post again. Looking back, I think I was simply exhausted from all the frantic building I had been doing. So I never came back. Days turned into months. Months turned into a year… and then more. The saddest part about that time was that I would still log in and see everyone going hard — shipping things, launching products, building companies — and there I was… just… mhmm. I honestly don’t even know what I was doing. 🤔 I would doom-scroll YouTube watching founder stories and startup content on @founderstorypod and others. Tutorial after tutorial about random startup topics… but without actually building anything. The lie I told myself was: “I’m learning.” And sure, I was learning — but in vain, because I wasn’t implementing anything. Tutorial purgatory, I guess they call it. Now that I think about it, I probably saw it coming. I had read so many burnout stories here before. People I started this journey with also disappeared, and I always wondered what happened to them. Maybe they got busy. But maybe… maybe they were just tired too. SAD. This is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone — not even my worst enemy. Anyway, I’m back now. Ready to engage again and contribute to the community. And thank you to everyone who DM’d me while I was away to check in. That meant a lot. BTW, I’m currently building LaunchInAfrica — a startup that does exactly what the name suggests: "Helping startups launch in the African market." More on that soon. Glad to be back ☺️🚀

@jasper_yy Thank you Jasper , I really appreciate that. Tutorial purgatory is exhausting because it feels productive, but nothing actually materialises from that. 😅

Welcome back! This is so raw and relatable. "Tutorial purgatory" is a real trap—that illusion of progress is often more exhausting than actual building. Glad you broke the cycle. Launching in the African market sounds like a massive, meaningful challenge. Can't wait to see LaunchInAfrica take shape.

@FlowHaa Thank you Flo! Really glad to be back 😊

@TechHustleHQ Welcome back 🙂

very weird — feels like I'm just speaking into the void lol🤣