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It's a different framing but this frame hides a lot of crucial information like the fact this venture used venture capital (and probably VC connections too) and hired many employees. You can't really compare this to the solo-garage-weekend-project.

>A few months later, I left Pinterest to work full-time on Gumroad and raised $8MM from KPCB, Max Levchin, and other investors.

Yet he jettisoned all that and is back to running it as an indie hacker, so it counts ;)

Wow, reading both, this one comes across really deceptive. It absolutely gives the impression that he built this all by himself, nothing about the millions in VC funds that fueled a team of 20 or so employees working for years to flesh out features and grow the platform.

convo on that post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733

Yeah the see saw that is the other story is a lot more interesting too, also seems more accurate / context seems more apt.