That’s just the way VC works. HN posters who have never raised a round of financing in their lives love to pontificate about how cheap money is these days and how easy it is to get funded. It does look that way from the outside. However, this is actively harmful to the psychology of struggling founders, because raising money is objectively difficult. The people who don’t treat it as such are in for a world of hurt and / or disappointment in the future.

Get customers. But also, ask founders for advice and seek accelerator programs for mentorship if VC is something you want to pursue. Financing is much more nuanced than HN / movies make it seem. There’s tremendous selection bias around advice because a good proportion of founders who succeed at it are unreasonably lucky. A good chunk more, though, just grinded it the hell out — and those in this category will often just tell you they worked really hard and got lucky.

Be persistent. Build your company. Luck comes to those who position themselves to be lucky.