Company · 2016 to 2017
Kindling
The one that did not work.
- Role
- Cofounder
- Years
- 2016 to 2017
- Status
- Shut down

01
What we tried
A daily writing habit app with streaks, prompts and a community. We raised a small round and hired eight people in four months.
02
What went wrong
People loved the first week and forgot it by the third. We spent money to fix retention instead of asking why it was broken.
03
What I kept
Charge early, hire late and write down every decision. Every rule I run Fieldnote by came out of Kindling.
- months
- 14
- people hired
- 8
- honest postmortem
- 1
“Shutting it down was the first grown up decision we made.”

