Title: I have a lot of experience with side-projects and startups. I will briefly explain my experience. I&#x27;m coming from small eastern European country, so my perspective on everything might be different.<p>1. My country is too small and market is small. You can do something here, but everything is so limited that it&#x27;s terrible. 3.5M people and then when you target certain people who wants your product or service or app or website, you get super small amount of people<p>2. The Balkans (group of countries around my country where people speak the same language) is a better story, but every nation is so isolated. I asked yourself, how often do I use products&#x2F;app&#x2F;websites from the other countries and vice versa? Very rarely. Every country is in its own bubble.<p>3. European market. Every country has its own language, culture, mentality, etc. it&#x27;s hard to get into those countries especially if you don&#x27;t know the lang.<p>4. The US market is great because it&#x27;s unified, it&#x27;s easier to go viral, the language is the same, purchasing power is great, but it&#x27;s a bit of a problem because me as an European don&#x27;t know their habits and thinking, I have no connections or friends there, I don&#x27;t know where and how to start. The market is saturated, something is happening there all the time, and now you have to break through with something new.<p>5. The UK is ok market, they are more related and similar to the USA. For example OnlyFans is from the UK, MillionDollarHomePage the same etc.<p>I had quite a lot of partners, it didn&#x27;t really work out. But I think it&#x27;s me, I think I function better alone. Everything I tried failed, and I tried exactly in those countries that I mentioned. Worst of all, I wasn&#x27;t persistent enough.<p>I have the feeling like I&#x27;m trying impossible. I had no money or capital, everything I did I relied on word of mouth, but that&#x27;s shit. Without good capital that will support the marketing, it&#x27;s all a shot in a dark.<p>Sounds like I&#x27;m complaining here or trying to find excuses but I&#x27;m not, I&#x27;m still trying to make it. I&#x27;m just confused, I don&#x27;t know what to pursue, where to try, which market to try
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