Prakhar Pratap Mall

the gap between founders who make it and those who don't is smaller than you think. it's not the idea. it's not the funding. it's the willingness to look stupid in public more times.

i really used to believe working hard on the right idea was enough until syndie nearly broke me. spent months doing everything alone trying to force it to work. unironically changed how i see building. sometimes the product just isn't the hard part. maybe execution is all there really is

Why do most founders not obsess over distribution? I thought that's the one thing every builder should be thinking about every single day. But only a handful actually do. I don't get it.

i think it's funny how the startup world has shifted - back then if you were building a profitable business you were basically a genius and now every founder is either "backed by YC" or it's not humanly possible to grow without raising millions LMAO

Easy startup hack: Instead of waiting until you "feel ready to build"…just open the laptop and build. Ship the thing.

I can't remember a single useful thing I learned in my 4 years of college about actually building something. But every founder who had already failed once told me exactly what I needed to hear, and I should have listened before burning months. Something went very wrong with how we romanticize the "figure it out" phase. Failure is just old wisdom you paid for yourself. Better to borrow it first.

graduated in 2024, left my first job after 3 months to build a startup a few things i've learned that might help other young founders: 1) your college degree is a credential, not a compass it tells people where you've been, not where you're going most people use it as a substitute for thinking 2) do the uncomfortable thing first everyone says "take risks when you're young" but then optimizes for safety anyway the risk isn't losing - it's spending years being comfortable and going nowhere 3) default to shipping, you have time to fix things later almost nothing you build early is irreversible the cost of not starting is always higher than the cost of a bad v1 4) the people you spend time with set your ceiling not in a motivational poster way - literally your average conversations, habits, and ambitions slowly become theirs 5) fitness is not separate from your work running 40k a week taught me more about consistency than any productivity framework 6) create things in public the internet rewards people who show up, not people who wait until it's perfect 7) most advice is written by people whose path looks nothing like yours including this one the only real rule is to keep thinking for yourself

Easy startup hack: Instead of waiting until you "feel ready to build"…just open the laptop and build. Ship the thing.

i think it's funny how the startup world has shifted - back then if you were building a profitable business you were basically a genius and now every founder is either "backed by YC" or it's not humanly possible to grow without raising millions LMAO

Why do most founders not obsess over distribution? I thought that's the one thing every builder should be thinking about every single day. But only a handful actually do. I don't get it.

i really used to believe working hard on the right idea was enough until syndie nearly broke me. spent months doing everything alone trying to force it to work. unironically changed how i see building. sometimes the product just isn't the hard part. maybe execution is all there really is

if you wasted your early 20s chasing the wrong job, the wrong city, or the wrong version of yourself, the good news is a single hard reset can recover all of it. but that reset has to start now.

I wish to confess that I once believed wholeheartedly in the romantic startup myth - late nights coding something brilliant, eureka moments, investors chasing you down. The reality of cold emails, churn, and support tickets nobody warned me about. Unlearning this took longer than I expected.

Not from a rich family Not funded by anyone But you want to build a SaaS? You will grind, brother. You will grind ALONE. Don't let anyone sugarcoat it.

I'm 20, currently building my own SaaS () To all the bootstrapped founders out there... What "hard lesson" would you give yourself before starting? The stuff no one talks about

i really used to believe working hard on the right idea was enough until syndie nearly broke me. spent months doing everything alone trying to force it to work. unironically changed how i see building. sometimes the product just isn't the hard part. maybe execution is all there really is

ok not gonna lie, I skipped my long run this week and only hit 18km. Still, this is the most consistent I've been with training in my entire college life. I'm not stopping, I'll keep SHOWING UP.

I'm 23, currently building my own SaaS () To all the bootstrapped founders out there... What "hard lesson" would you give yourself before starting? The stuff no one talks about

Notion + Consistency = Content Creator Notion + Roadmap + Metrics = Product Manager Running + Discipline + Tracking = Endurance Athlete Gym + Progressive Overload = Physique Builder Twitter + Building in Public = Indie Hacker Cold Outreach + CRM + Follow-ups = Sales Machine Figma + User Research = UX Designer Consistency can literally make you dangerous

the gap between founders who make it and those who don't is smaller than you think. it's not the idea. it's not the funding. it's the willingness to look stupid in public more times.