In August 2024, Alex Clarke and I had this great idea for a business. We would build a ticketing platform and make millions. It was so easy, so obviously a no-brainer that it couldn’t possibly fail.
(Spoiler alert) It has not failed; quite the reverse actually. But fuck has it been hard.
The bad
We’ve been through quiet the storm. Late, late nights persistent bugs, API meltdowns and worst of all: sabotage (you know who you are) but the worst thing in my opinion is lack of progress.
Don’t get me wrong, we have a working system that has sold thousands of tickets, but it’s taken months longer than we anticipated at the start. To get to a launch ready position.
The Good
Anything is possible. If you bloody minded enough (I’m one determined bastard) to keep going regardless of the obstacles. Once you get through them you only move onto the next one. But once you realize this, nothing will stop you because eventually it will work.
I know a lot about this sort of techy stuff anyway, having built websites for years and years, but I was surprised just how much I have learned by going through this process. I can’t speak for Alex but I’m sure he would agree that the best way to learn is to be thrown into the depend and start building.
The most important thing I’ve learned is to have conviction in your ideas and belief that it’s going to work. If you plan it out properly and do your research you can’t really fail. Even now, thousands of tickets in – I say to people that we are building this thing, and they seem very suspect. Like either they don’t believe me, or don’t think it would work.
But hey, that’s their problem.
Hope this inspires you to build something. And I hope it’s a tough ride, because if not, it’s probably not worth doing.
