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LeoNagano · Feb 21, 2025

Here I am, 45 yo, launching another product, trying to make some money...

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Well, that's my product #22 since 2008, but from 2008 until 2015 I was focused on a single product that I created and ran until 2015 when I sold it.

So, in practical terms, I started building more products in 2017. That means 21 products in less than 8 years. Only 4 of those made > $100.

17 of them failed. People often say each failure makes you learn something new. I'm sure it's the truth but it's also super tiring. You need to restart all over again when a project fails. New motivation. New goals. New dreams.

Like many of you, I feel the frustration.

I'm now excited about everything AI. I even bought a tiny project last year, another wrapper, that uses AI to convert text to voice. It makes a small amount each month and I'm trying to grow it.

Then I launched another wrapper, that creates sound effects from text prompts. Another failure.

Last week I launched Owlendar, which is a tool (AI agents) that "tries to solve my own problem": it automatically researches keywords, plans, writes blog posts and publishes to my blogs' platform.

ps: if you want to test Owlendar, feel free to message me.

I also don't want to pay $100s for a SaaS subscription to do it for me. My projects aren't making enough money. I don't want to be cashflow negative just to test if SEO can solve my problems.

Anyway, being a founder is not easy by any means, but I also don't want to give up.

if you're curious, here's the list of my projects.

I'm not here to brag or anything. I'm not a millionaire because my first product made $2.8mm. Let's remember it was throughout 8 years. And also, I had 3 fixed employees + freelancers + office space + server costs........

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