AT some point, you get conviction, this will work and worth pursuing full-time even though 0 revenue to begin with.
For HuntYourTribe, after 2 months, we got 10 portfolios built by strangers and some even kept their link in Github profile. This is it!
Even with 0 paying customers, we decided to purse this startup maze full-time, now 10+ paying customers.
What's your inflection point?
wat. No, this is not true at all. Most successful startups work through many ideas until they already have potential customers to work with as they build. And if the idea doesn't come together and prove that is can generate revenue, people don't build it. They move on.
This idea that someone has a vision that nobody else has bought into and turn it into a startup unicorn is a rare exception to how things go. It makes a good story, but isn't how thing play out in reality 99% of the time. Don't fall into the trap of thinking the other 1% is a reasonable expectation of how your idea will go.
My conviction was seeing myself using what I built growing from a few times a week to everyday use. Then when one random signup hit the analytics, I watched that person come back consistently too. That was the shift.
The harder part is the gap between "people use it" and "people pay for it". Usage is validating but it doesn't pay rent :( hence I press on.