Posts on gamenamehttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/Recent content in Posts on gamenameHugoen-usTue, 07 Jul 2026 05:50:00 -0500Part 7: The Playbook I'll Run Next Timehttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-playbook/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:50:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-playbook/Part 7 of Nobody Said Take My Money — the whole failure inverted into a runnable sequence: commitment over enthusiasm, kill criteria in writing, channel before broadcast.Part 6: Killing It Well — The Sunset Decisionhttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/killing-it-well/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:40:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/killing-it-well/Part 6 of Nobody Said Take My Money — shutting down on evidence instead of exhaustion, and the demand test that only runs at the funeral.Part 5: The Pivot Month — What Thrashing Looks Like From Insidehttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-pivot-month/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:30:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-pivot-month/Part 5 of Nobody Said Take My Money — thirteen days, eight strategy documents, one shutdown. A day-by-day record of pivot velocity as a symptom.Part 4: Three Tests, One Answer — Enthusiasm Is Not Demandhttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/three-tests-one-answer/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:20:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/three-tests-one-answer/Part 4 of Nobody Said Take My Money — a paid campaign, a festival booth, and a community deep-read all returned the same verdict. The post where the series earns its title.Part 3: The Year of Building — What Competence Costs Youhttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-year-of-building/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-year-of-building/Part 3 of Nobody Said Take My Money — how engineering competence becomes a hiding place, and the roadmap tell that diagnoses it.Part 2: The n=1 Trap — My Friend Was the Hypothesis, Not the Proofhttps://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-n1-trap/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:00:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/the-n1-trap/Part 2 of Nobody Said Take My Money — the root cause: treating one friend's real problem as proof of a market, and the ten-conversation test that would have caught it.Part 1: I Built It. It Worked. Nobody Bought It.https://blog.gamename.me/posts/i-built-it-it-worked-nobody-bought-it/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0500https://blog.gamename.me/posts/i-built-it-it-worked-nobody-bought-it/Part 1 of Nobody Said Take My Money — a post-mortem of Mother Hen, a smart-coop startup that worked perfectly and sold nothing.