Screenshot 1 ^ Screenshot 2: Users are exploring 330 chapters (collection of links) and visiting 125 links on average everyday --- 🔍 Context We launched Nawvel in May. After working on it for 3 months. By August, I stopped using Nawvel with the same intensity. When this happened with the previous 2 versions we built, I took it as a sign. This signalled that we're not going in the right direction. But instead of scrapping it, we pushed a couple features we wanted. And let it sit. For months. We didn't do any SEO. Stopped promoting it on social. Fast forward to today, 6 months later, We had 1,200 users sign up. In the last week. Ngl, pretty cool to see that the right people are finding nawvel. --- @Andrew Kirby, I added the Sunday Synthesis to the library. @Ashmita Vala, 84 people explored "Games to improve design skills" @Siebren de Vos, 84 people explore "UX writing" @Indranil Roy, 120 people explored "Finance & Wealth" @Manu Suraj, 140 people explored "Getting started w/ stocks"

Some of you may know that I was building an online-library website builder, nawvel. I stopped building nawvel 6 months ago after 3 consecutive seasons (5 months long product development cycles each). When we stopped, we had 1,200 registered users, 104 people who contributed to the library and 2,400 active email subscribers. For the last 2 weeks, I was away on a holiday - my first real holiday in the last 3 years. Real holiday to me • no work obligation • complete digital detox While I was away Screenshot 1 - Nawvel randomly saw 750+ daily active users in the last week Screenshot 2 - The friendsbnb skool group saw a steady (70% in the last 2 weeks) decline in active usage. Screenshot 3 - My community of product makers crossed 500 people. This confirms some of my suspicions. To build a product - • The scalability is unmatched. • I can get random surges of usage if the right people find my product. • It doesn't redirect my attention back towards nawvel. • I'm personally out of the product game for the next few years while I help other brilliant founders in their product journeys. To build a community - • grassroots organising, movement making, manually recruiting your community builders. • In FriendsBnB, we may not have 1000s of users but the quality of people is unparalleled and unmatched to anything I've ever built. • It's not how big the audience is but rather WHO the audience is. • Everyone in this group is an absolute killer. __ For reference - The last time I disappeared from skool, I wrote this post late September. It was around the time I decided that I want to build a high value, productive community of solopreneurs and business owners. That group is friendsBnB.

Hello! Welcome to FriendsBnB. I'm Jha and I've met an incredible group of people on the internet. Some of you are solopreneurs, Some makers & indiehackers, Some synthesizers & shippers, Some coaches & consultants, Some digital builders & content creators. There's one thing in common. All of you create, build and make. Whether with content or code, you want to build and monetise your audience. You desire to work for yourself. You desire to reach financial freedom. You desire to connect with those who have the same goals. That's why I've launched this skool community. FriendsBnB is focused on connecting and supporting productive people who are playing the great online game. __ How it works 1. Productive community of friends Connect with capable and productive people who want to achieve financial freedom. Faster alone, further together. 2. Challenges to learn & grow Start, then learn. Noiseless URL experience in our Skool community. Actionable challenges in your own time. TBD. 3. Curated learning and doing Source personalised recommendations for learning and action from the community. Everything is not equally important for everyone. Do what's essential. 4. Business & Banter Work hard. Play hard. __ We're all going to make it.