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How my side project became my full-time Startup!

Gijo Varghese on March 13, 2019

This is the story of how a side project I created for an e-commerce website, that later became a full-time startup. I hope every developer's drea...
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Alexandru Florea

Quite inspiring Gijo!
Looks like a promising and usefull product.

If you have the time please consider doing a follow-up in a couple of months with tips and tricks on how to manage the growth of the project.

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Gijo Varghese

Sure. Will do that

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Meet Godhani

Very nice article. I am also in same boat I have a side project. In your opinion what's the metric for validating your product. "Find 10-100 customers who love your product" means paid customers or just trying it out?

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Gijo Varghese

Let's discuss in detail. DM me

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Carlos García

Amazing story! Congrats!

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Gijo Varghese

Thanks

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Nikos Kanakis

Congratulations Gijo🎉

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Gijo Varghese

Thanks :)

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Andrea Lafertte

Amazing! I would love to know more about how the develop road was.
Congrats!

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Gijo Varghese

Thanks! This one was written in a hurry. I'll write down a detailed one on my personal blog

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Lucas Olivera

Wow, very impressive! I hope to achieve the same one day.

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Gijo Varghese

Thanks. All the best

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Matias Romero

Great!! Congratulations!

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Gijo Varghese

Thanks

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Shad Mirza

Inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

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Gijo Varghese

Glad you liked it :)

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Alessandro Diaferia

Incredibly inspiring post. Thanks very much for sharing!

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Gijo Varghese

Thanks. Glad you liked it 😊

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Akash Vaidya

Thank you for inspiring me!

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Gijo Varghese

Awesome. Happy to see comments like these :)