What's your biggest challenge as a founder?

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funding is the main problem

If you are trying to bootstrap your startup, then one of your biggest challenges is trying to find co-founders who can/will put as much skin in the game as you do. Everyone wants you to take all the risks while sharing all the rewards.

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Distribution. You might have best idea and best product. But if no one knows it, then its nothing.

Getting in front and hands of users and making them use your product is the key challenge.

"Why would user choose your product over existing established competitors?"

1. Distribution 2. Splitting time between family, day job, and building the product.

the cold start on sales. getting there when you have no brand, no warm intros, and you're doing pure cold outreach as one person is the grind nobody talks about.

Finding people who take their career/job seriously and actually care. And no, it is not just a money problem.

the co-founder problem is real but honestly i think the funding side is just as brutal, especially if you're building something tangible - like a physical business or anything that isn't pure software. most platforms just aren't built for that. i stumbled on https://wepitched.com a while back and it's one of the few places i've seen that actually tries to connect non-tech founders with investors in a structured way. doesn't fix the co-founder thing obviously but at least the 'finding money' part gets a bit less opaque