Five years back I asked a small group of founders to try something.
Post a daily standup. Three questions.
- What did you ship yesterday?
- What will you do today?
- Where are you stuck?
Hundreds of founders joined over 2,000 days. They posted 44,110 standups.
The most committed founders wrote the most ordinary first entries.
One founder posted 33 words about finishing newsletter templates. Over the next five years, he posted 1,875 more standups.
Another fixed a bug and wrote “Chilling on Netflix.” 1,813 standups followed.
A founder arrived and mentioned fixing some minor bugs. 1,001 standups followed. Somewhere around entry 500, his product crossed $100,000 ARR. He logged the milestone between a gym session and a Spanish lesson.
On day one, each standup looks the same. A builder shows up, writes what they did and hits submit.
The difference is day two. And day thirty. And day three hundred.
I mined years of standups and wrote a book about it. 2,000 Days of Standups: Building in Public ships April 13 to Trends Pro Members.
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What did you start that looked small then lasted years?
