My first startup idea that I actually tried to build…

Problem: Students and freelancers struggle with huge amounts of information. That information lives in a thousand formats: handwritten notes, Excel files, Word documents, messages, emails, and more.

Solution: We wanted one tool that takes data from every source, processes it, prepares it, and makes it available — on the go and at the desk: access to everything you work with.

It was a cool journey, but we made sooo many mistakes. The biggest: not asking whether anyone wanted our product…

After about five months we decided to put it on ice. Even a perfect product is worthless if nobody wants it. An important lesson I’ll never forget.