A startup postmortem with a happy ending

Great pivot! Wish you the best luck for the World Cup.<p>I&#x27;m currently freelancing to get some $$$ in the bank again after using all my savings for our startup. We were planning to escape the German winter and work from SE-Asia and&#x2F;or India as well.<p>I was seriously considering Thailand and liked the idea of spending time in Chiang Mai a lot... but the recent political turmoil has me worried. From press reports, it&#x27;s really hard to make out what the impact on daily life is like and whether it&#x27;s a good idea to go to Thailand at the moment or not. Where are you situated? What&#x27;s the situation like at the moment?<p>Best of luck anyways!

Post mortem means &quot;after death&quot; ... I see &quot;after money&quot; and &quot;after pivot&quot; but the company and application ultimately survive (with a happy ending). It&#x27;s a great story and I think there&#x27;s a lot of value in sharing stories like this, but what should we call them?

If anyone is looking to do the same. Our office in Davao City, Philippines is open and free. We have Internet, coffee and meetups monthly at least.<p>Meals can cost as low as $2 and lodging as low as $4 &#x2F; day. Everyone knows English and very westernized compared to other SEA nation.<p>Email eric (at) lifebit.com if you are interested.

Some serious wisdom here, some learned the hard way, e.g.:<p>&quot;<i>But our biggest self realization was that we were not users of our own product. We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We loved the idea of it. That hurt.</i>&quot;<p>Worth skimming&#x2F;reading it all.

This is a really honest, refreshing post to read. So nice to read a &quot;postmortem&quot; that isn&#x27;t just posturing.<p>I bet a lot of us hit this moment, over and over again: <i>&quot;We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We loved the idea of it. That hurt.&quot;</i><p>When you&#x27;re on the brink, remember why you&#x27;re doing this at all; to build something that you think is really cool.

Not sure if this is a common occurrence but I&#x27;ve noticed that when I search for a common one-word app name, it&#x27;s really hard to find. I searched for the app, &quot;Champion&quot; and had to follow their iTunes link in order to view the page.<p>Anyway, best of luck with the pivot and I&#x27;ll probably check your app out in more detail during the World Cup.

Definitely not a post mortem as smoyer mentioned. Huge opportunity with the World Cup, I hope you take advantage of it. Looking forward to seeing some <i>fast</i>, unique insight from Champion that I could not get from my favorite sports outlets.

This is more of an analysis than a postmortem. Great writeup, though.

Suddenly I want to win an app contest.