Building a business in isolation is a lonely battle, but escape velocity comes from staying dangerously close to your users and letting their needs pull you forward.
Are you fighting a solo battle in isolation while building a business? It is a question that does not get asked enough, but anyone who has built something from scratch knows the weight of that loneliness. The decisions, the doubts, the late nights where nobody else is watching — it can feel like pushing against an invisible wall.
The antidote, I have found, is staying dangerously close to your users. Not in a superficial survey sense, but in a genuine, almost obsessive proximity. When you are close enough to feel their problems as your own, something shifts. Their needs begin to pull you forward, and that pull is what creates escape velocity.
Escape velocity is not about a single breakthrough moment. It is about building enough momentum through user obsession that the business starts being pulled by demand rather than pushed by effort. If you are feeling the isolation, the best thing you can do is get closer to the people you are building for.