2026-04-22. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 340)

📰 News

A Burned Stove Can Make You Miss the Next Google

We are taught from childhood: learn from your mistakes.

Making mistakes is not scary. Failing to learn from them is.

But Marc Andreessen, the man who manages $90 billion and has backed half of Silicon Valley, says something that overturns that common sense: learning from your mistakes can be the biggest trap.

He has seen too many stories like this.

A founder fails in one field, then starts hating the entire industry and never wants to touch any related opportunity again.

An investor loses money on AI, then decides AI is a scam and misses the whole AI wave after 2023.

This is what he calls the “burned stove effect”: once you touch a hot stove, you spend the rest of your life afraid to touch it again.

You think you are “learning from mistakes” and “becoming smarter.”

In reality, you may be using past failure to punish your future self.

The harsh truth of venture capital is this: errors of omission are always more fatal than errors of commission.

If you invest in the wrong company, you may lose $10 million.

If you miss Google, you may lose $100 billion.

That is why a16z’s iron rule is to worry more about missing a deal than backing a bad one.

Never pass on a company with real potential just because of price.

Never close the door to the future because of past failure.

Another counterintuitive truth is this: in venture capital, there are no diamonds in the rough. There are only diamonds.

Many investors believe they have unique taste and can find great companies nobody else sees.

Marc Andreessen says: you are not Peter Thiel. You probably cannot.

Truly great things are rarely buried.

There are countless smart and hungry investors around the world searching for opportunities 24 hours a day.

If everyone thinks a project is bad, it is probably bad 99% of the time.

Do not invest in unwanted “trash” just to prove that you are different.

So how do you avoid being trapped by past mistakes?

Andreessen’s answer is: extreme ownership.

Assume everything is your fault.

If LPs will not invest in you, it is your fault, not theirs.

If founders will not take your money, it is your fault, not theirs.

If a company fails, it is your fault, not the market’s.

This sounds deeply unnatural, but it is also liberating.

When you attribute everything to yourself, you stop resenting people and stop making excuses.

You no longer need to explain away past failures.

You only focus on one thing: how can I do better next time?

Finally, one line from Marc Andreessen:

“I only compete with myself.”

Do not compare yourself with others. Do not compare yourself with the past.

Do not let yesterday’s mistake become today’s chain.

Do not turn “learn from mistakes” into “once bitten, twice shy forever.”

Real growth is not simply learning from mistakes.

It is forgetting mistakes and staying hungry for the future.

🖥️ Software

SweepIQ

SweepIQ is an automated personal finance app by an indie developer. It moves excess cash into investment accounts while supporting emergency-fund priority and replenishment rules.

Lolaloos

Lolaloos is an AI children’s story-generation app built by an indie developer in 72 hours, supporting interactive creation and multilingual family use.

summon

summon is a quick terminal-session launcher and switcher for managing Ghostty windows.

Sonotexta

Sonotexta is a macOS speech-to-text app with multilingual recognition and translation, local/cloud engine modes, and Ollama integration.

Squido AI

Squido AI is a free online AI image-processing tool with watermark removal, background removal, and image enhancement for content creation and ecommerce visuals.

AppliedFour

AppliedFour is a job-application tracker for recording companies, roles, statuses, and salaries, with email connection support for automatic application syncing.

Port Detective

Port Detective is a modern Windows port-detection tool built with Rust and Tauri. It can kill conflicting processes with one click, runs in the system tray, and uses very few resources.

GuardNest

GuardNest is a free app that identifies products from receipt photos and tracks expiration dates, generating weekly usage and expiry reports to visualize household food consumption.

XXL-JOB

XXL-JOB is an open-source distributed task scheduling platform.

Influencer Pricing Analyzer

Influencer Pricing Analyzer is an AI-powered social media marketing tool that analyzes Instagram and TikTok accounts and generates collaboration pricing and risk notes.

Ledgey

Ledgey is a minimalist budget tracker with multi-account and multi-currency management, a clean ad-free interface, and a design aimed at users who dislike complex finance apps.

🎮 Games

wherewasit

wherewasit is a simple spatial memory game where players remember and click cursor positions to test precision.

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