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Hey HN community!

We’re thrilled to officially bring Edition to everyone today. Here is why we’re building this:

Publishing content & structured pages are still cumbersome & hard for many people — there has been a lot of ongoing innovation in this areas but we strive to make it even simpler, faster, easier & powerful.

We want to: * Empower anyone to publish pages effortlessly with our easy-to-use no-code editor. * Help community builders scale their efforts in providing more value to their members by bringing content & community together. * Deliver tools to customer success teams to nurture their customer communities.

We’ve a long road ahead of us and we’re excited for this day! Please share your feedback or questions for us.

I'd argue against this. I find videos to be useful to showcase the product especially if its in the early stages which is what it seems like from their website.

But I agree trying out the product, would make more sense. In that case I would shoot an email to request the trial if it really solve the problem.

If you have some initial traction and recurring revenue in place already, you can raise money without going to VCs and scale your business at your own pace.

Whether you are a solo founder of a bootstrapped business with a $1k in MRR or a startup founder with $100M in ARR, there is an option available for you to raise money without giving away your equity.

A couple of examples from the complete list below:

(KickPay)[https://kickpay.com/]: If you are in eCommerce space and have enough inventory but need access to capital before you “sell” your inventory. KickPay is a great option for you.

(PodFund)[https://pod.fund/]: If you are a Podcast creator who is noticing some traction and revenue and are looking to scale your efforts, do check out PodFund.

You can check out the complete list of companies below. I hope you find this useful.

https://district.substack.com/p/26-firms-offering-non-diluti...

I have put some of the tips and resources that I found helpful while learning to Sale our product as a technical founder.

I am curious to know how did you learn and started to sale your product?

What strategies worked?

What didn't work?

What would you do differently next time around?

I think this is ultimately a personal choice. People argue that whether do you want to own 10% of $1B or 100% of $100M.

> "My personal ambition is to build a product that people love and which gives me a decent revenue to hire a few people and to continue working on it."

From your last sentence, it seems to me that you already have made a decision in your head. You are leaning towards building a sustainable bootstrapped business.

I guess focus on building the product, providing value, start selling your product early on and let the market define whether its a billion-dollar company or not.

Highly recommend checking out the following websites: [1] www.indiehackers.com [2] https://getmakerlog.com/stories [3] https://district.so/bootstrappers

More often communities fail because most of the members are just thinking about extracting the value out of it. You reverse that thinking & carefully choose to bring only those members who can add value, that way everyone walks away with 10x the value than they walked in with.

To achieve this, we are looking for ambitious Bootstrappers with diverse backgrounds who can add value to the community with their learning and experience.

We just opened our application for the first cohort: https://district.so/bootstrappers

[1] Full blog post here: https://district.substack.com/p/-a-members-only-community-fo...

As second-time founders and having gone through a couple of startup accelerators, we understand the immense power the network brings.

It takes a strong network to build and grow a successful business. A great network helps a lot in an overall journey of the founder - in hiring, finding your first customer, help you grow your business, etc. and generally these have a snowball effect where the advantage grows exponentially over time.

Now the startup ecosystem has evolved a lot in the last 10-15 years where most of the startup founders get access to a strong network through startup accelerators like YC, TechStars, 500 Startups, Village Global, etc. and it continues as they raise more funds through VCs.

But when we embarked on a journey to create a bootstrapped business this time, we realized this network effect is largely absent. Yes, there are plenty of resources, forums, and groups out there, but that's not the same as having a strong network or a community. A strong community is more than just a group.

So we asked ourselves how can we create this strong network for the Bootstrappers? That's what we are setting out at District. Starting July 11th we are getting together a small group (no more than 50 people) of very ambitious early-stage Bootstrappers together and help them with various resources, workshops, weekly goal tracking. We will also bring strong network leaders, to help you through this journey so you can learn from them.

We are looking for people who can add value and bring diversity to the community. We are opening up our applications soon and we'd love you to be one of the first.

Join other founders so you can be notified when it opens up!