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嗨，各位 HN 用户，我是这里的长期读者，第一次发帖。我正在构建一个 SaaS，2024 年从工作岗位离职后开始。我曾在一家 FAANG 公司（血汗工厂之一）工作。离开 FAANG 后，我加入了一家位于德克萨斯州的中型公司。在亲眼目睹了离开 FAANG 是多么糟糕的决定后，我主动离职了。我在两家公司都是从工程师转为经理。我不反对管理，但现在我已经足够老了，应该在 L5 级别的软件工程师岗位上。我逐渐意识到，工作比创业更舒服。在过去的 6 个月里，我从未停止工作，并且一直工作 15-16 个小时。我不得不做很多事情，比如编写一定程度的代码、销售、市场营销、行政工作、合规、跟踪账户、管理客户流失。这简直没完没了。这是一段非常糟糕的经历，但我们（两人团队）甚至还没有赚到维持生计的钱。我们曾有两个客户，最近失去了一个。真是太可惜了！我们从一个不知名的风投机构（低于 10 万美元）那里筹集了资金，但这简直是一场灾难。他们实际上拖累了我们，误导了我们，并要求我们按照“他们”的方式做事。我真希望自己从未申请或接受过融资。这让我对风投产生了厌恶之情。他们没有任何人脉关系，事实上，他们还在我们遇到的一些投资者面前诋毁我们，导致一些投资者完全消失了。现在，我们面临着一个困境。在关闭公司之前，我们准备再做最后一次尝试。问题如下： 1. 我们所处的领域我们没有任何专业知识。我们是技术人员和通才（数据、机器学习、人工智能、Python、C++）。实施和技术解决方案对我们来说从来都不是问题。我们能构建。2. 我读过并意识到，如果没有人脉关系，就没有生意。要么你拥有现有的创始人、客户人脉关系，要么你通过 YC 等风投建立人脉关系。多么美好啊，你构建的任何东西都有买家排队等候，或者至少提供很好的建议和早期的验证。我们应该完全转向一个新的领域吗？我们没有一个特定领域的专业知识（会计、税务、供应链等），但我们对技术软件有很好的了解（想想数据管道、机器学习、人工智能模型）。如果我们为软件做软件（例如 Cursor、Lovable），我们担心闭源可能会对我们不利。你认为开源是否是赚钱的更好途径？我们可以重返就业市场，但从我所了解的情况来看，另一边的情况并不乐观，人们需要大约 6 个月左右的时间才能找到工作。我想再试一次。我们陷入了困境，没有多少指导。你有什么建议吗？

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Hi HN, Long time reader here. I am posting for the first time. I am building a SaaS after leaving my job in 2024. I was at one of the FAANG (sweat shop one). After FAANG I joined a mid-size company in Texas. I left on my own accord after seeing how terrible decision it was to leave FAANG. I was an engineer turned manager at both companies. I am not against managing but I am old enough now to be in L5 SWE role.I am coming to realization that job was more comfortable than building the startup. I haven't stopped working for last 6 months and consistently worked 15-16 hours. I have to do so many things such as write code to some extent, sales, marketing, administrative work, compliance, keeping track of accounts, managing churn. It just never ends.It's been a hell of experience but we (team of 2) are not even bringing in survival money. We had two customers and lost one recently. What a shame!We raised money from an unknown VC group (sub $100k) but it has been total disaster. They actually pulled us down, misguided us, and demanded things that we do things "their" way. I wish I had never applied or took funding. It has left a bitter taste in my mouth regarding VC. They have no network and in fact they bad mouthed us to a few investors we met with that resulted in some investers ghosting us completely.Now, we are facing a dilemma. We are giving it one last push before we shut things down. Here is the problem - 1. We are in the domain where we have no expertise in. We are technologists and generalists (Data, ML, AI, Python, C++). Implementation and technical solutions are never problem for us. We can build.2. I have read and come to realization that without network there is no business. Either you have existing network of founders, customers or you make one through VCs like YC. How sweet is that anything you build you have buyers lined up or at least providing great advice and early validation.Should we pivot to completely new domain? We dont have expertise in one particular domains area (accounting, tax, supply chain etc.), but we have good knowledge of technology software (think data pipelines, ML, AI models). If we do software for software (e.g. Cursor, Lovable), we worry that closed source might hurt us. Do you think having open source would be a better path for making money?We can back to job market but things are not green on other side and it is taking 6 months or so for people to get jobs based on my reading. I want to try one last time.We are stuck without much guidance. What would be your recommendation?

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