About 4 years ago, I raised a bunch of VC money for my startup. The product was completely unproven, yet having early faith from a small group of smart people gave me all the confidence I needed to go out and sell. We got to $14K MRR, but a few years of hitting a wall, we eventually closed down. A year later, I was tinkering with a side project and decided to give bootstrapping a go. I turned it into a real product with auth, billing, and in retrospect, a ton of features that I thought were co...