Leap of Faith

Founder Check Ins

Hi there, it's been a while again! I'm so glad you're here, and I thank you for a moment of your time reading this.

Ironically, I wrote a blogpost in April titled "Founder Check Ins" where I talked about where I've been at with Didact and how the journey has been coming along. As a solo bootstrapper, it can be quite difficult at times - more like quite slow - getting traction on everything that is required to run a devtool business and build a massively complex product like Didact. In that blogpost, I spoke about how hard I've been working on Didact, becoming radio silent too often and my desire to change that, the struggles of bootstrapping, and more. I highly encourage you to read the post if you have a spare moment!

Leap of Faith

More importantly, though, I have some very exciting news to share with you. This summer, I have officially gone full time on Didact. I am taking the leap of faith and pouring all of my heart, soul, and time into this product to bring my years long dream of having a dotnet job orchestrator to life! And let me tell you, I absolutely could not be more thrilled to be doing this right now than I already am.

I made a short YouTube video about it here if you'd like to check it out:

I'll be posting #buildinpublic updates in the form of "Captain's Log" videos (I'm a big Star Trek TNG fan) on YouTube among other methods outlined later in this blog post.

Meaningful v1

I have been slowly dreaming and designing Didact for years now (yes, years). It has been an incredibly slow but extremely meaningful process. This is not the sort of product that I ever wanted to rush out; even for a v1, it needs to be actually useful to you as its user and have a meaningful difference from the current dotnet background job solutions that exist today. Not only that, but I require, as its founder and designer, that Didact conforms to my own expectations. As Jason Fried masterfully wrote on the Hey.com blog, a founder should build v1 for themselves.

Previous Launch Date

I must apologize to you because I wanted to launch Didact earlier this year back around early Spring time. Life, however, got absolutely crazy for several months, and I realized that I needed to fill some drastic gaps in Didact's flow library workflows around that time. These two factors combined, I realized that I needed to push the launch to a later date this year, but I never got around to sending you an update about that delay. Again, my apologies for that! Life got very crazy for me for a while, but thankfully circumstances have changed to my favor.

Now that I am full time on this product, I have the time and capacity for this product that I never had before these past several years.

New Launch Date

Because of all this, Didact's long, long awaited v1 launch is just around the corner. Specifically, I am now targeting August 2025 as the launch date of v1, so that's about a month or so from publishing this article.

Feedback Board

As I mentioned above, I refuse to ship Didact's v1 without it being meaningful and useful to you as the end user. That being said, there are still a whole slew of features that I want to add to the platform in subsequent versions, and, more importantly, I know you are going to recommend a whole slew of features to me, too.

If you have some ideas for what you want to see in Didact, I would encourage you to check out the Didact feedback board, go make a quick account, and create and upvote any feature requests that you find interesting.

Build In Public

As I close in on v1 and, moreover, as I continue to build and perfect Didact in its following versions, I want to explore the #buildinpublic marketing channel. I've found many fascinating, exceptional founders and fellow solopreneurs through their #buildinpublic journeys, and I've often wanted to follow suit myself.

Truth be told, I also find making social posts, blog posts, YouTube videos, and especially YouTube livestreams quite therapeutic. One interesting fact about me is that I'm a teacher at heart; I absolutely love explaining difficult concepts to people and seeing their eyes light up with joy when they finally comprehend that difficult something.

I think that will be a huge advantage that I bring along with Didact: I'm a teacher at heart, so I'll be putting massive effort into the docs, YouTube, and support with users/customers!

If you'd like to follow along Didact's #buildinpublic journey or simply stay informed of the product's progress, make sure to check out the socials below:

• Didact's YouTube (very active)
• Didact's X page
• Didact's subreddit (very active)
• Didact's LinkedIn page
• Didact's Bluesky page
• Founder's X page (very active)

Early Adopters

So if you're interested in Didact and want to check this amazing product out, then do yourself a favor and mark your calendars! August 2025 will be here soon, and I will be actively seeking conversations, interviews, and feedback from Early Adopters (that's you, hopefully).

Also, I wanted to provide an added perk for you: as an Early Adopter, should you want to use the premium version of Didact with its enhanced features, production support, and so on, then you will receive special discounted pricing only available to Early Adopters as my token of appreciation!

If you are not already an Early Adopter now, it's dead simple to do: just visit the Pricing page and enter your email into the newsletter/waitlist.

v1 awaits!