--- title: Was I Building the Wrong Startup? | daily.dev description: A founder shares the story of pivoting HunarMilaap, a Pakistani skill-swap platform, after observing that users weren't interested in swapping skills but... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/was-i-building-the-wrong-startup--nsa4aoska twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Was I Building the Wrong Startup? | daily.dev og:description: A founder shares the story of pivoting HunarMilaap, a Pakistani skill-swap platform, after observing that users weren't interested in swapping skills but... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/was-i-building-the-wrong-startup--nsa4aoska og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NSA4AOSkA.png og:image:alt: Was I Building the Wrong Startup? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Was I Building the Wrong Startup? **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A founder shares the story of pivoting HunarMilaap, a Pakistani skill-swap platform, after observing that users weren't interested in swapping skills but wanted to get discovered, book clients, and earn money. The platform was rebuilt from scratch to support consultations, digital product sales, events, and client discovery. The key lesson: watch what users actually do, not what you expect them to do, and don't hold onto an incomplete idea for too long. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Startup Lessons from my Piracy Website](https://daily.dev/posts/startup-lessons-from-my-piracy-website-sjhav2sgj) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Startup Mistake Nobody Talks About: Ideas Don’t Build Products. 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