Aditya Singh’s #4 Startup Why He Refuses to Quit After 3 Failures
Entrepreneurship
India
23 Years
Hi, I’m Aditya from India. I’m building Journll.app, a voice-first idea capture tool for fast minds who forget brilliance mid-scroll. You can just turn your ideas into smart notes with action items and labelling with AI chat enabled, all of this with just a click on your smart watch or phone’s screen.
Journll.app isn’t my first startup. It came after three failed ones. Each one has taught me more than anything and that slowly led me to build journll.app.
I started building my first startup when I was 18, it was an EV bike rental idea, where users could rent and return electric scooters from parking stations across the city. It flopped hard, but that didn’t stop me.
Next came Startuplegally.in, a legal service platform for early-stage founders, who are starting their startups. Then a T-shirt merchandise online store for college students. It made me my first ₹1,000 from the internet, and that was all the validation I needed to keep going.
After all those failures and completing my college, I joined a startup as an employee to learn how real companies are run. I spent a year there, learned silently and in parallel, began building again. This time, more calmly, more thoughtfully.
Now I’ve quit that job to go all in on Journll.app, because I truly believe it’s something the world (and especially people like me) need.
"Journll isn’t just a notes app. It’s for minds that move too fast to type."
What inspired you to start your own business?
I’ve always been the kind of person who gets hit by ideas mid-walk, mid-rant, mid-scroll and then forgets them before I write them down. I realised I wasn’t alone in this. Founders, creators, ADHD minds, we’re all thinking faster than we can type.
I built Journll not to make people more productive, but to make sure we don’t lose the genius we already have.
It’s not a notes app. It’s an idea rescue and manage mission.
How did you turn your idea into a business?
I started by talking to people. A lot of people.
I validated the problem through conversations, with creators, founders, thinkers who said “yes, I lose ideas too”, “I forget in between talking”, “I got an idea while driving, but forgot”.
Then I built the landing page (journll.app), started collecting early access emails, and began sharing my story on LinkedIn, openly, vulnerably, and consistently. I didn’t have a huge following, but honesty travels. The story started picking up.
I’ve now gone full-time, launched early access, and have a small but growing user base who are testing Journll and shaping it with me.
How did you get your customers?
Honestly? By being real. I post almost every day on LinkedIn, Reddit, not as a founder trying to pitch, but as someone building for people like me. I worked on lot of feedbacks and talked to many founders, creators, ADHD people on reddit,
Linkedin, X. And that changed something for me as a founder to build journll.
Journll haven’t made a traction breakthrough till now, but we are expecting it in upcoming 10-12 months. I had gone through a lot of storytelling, memes, polls, and moments people relate to: “That one idea I forgot,” “Midnight rants,” “The brain-tab chaos.”
I also ask people to join our early Slack community (The Thought Club) to stay close to the builders.
In the starting, no one showed up, but as they say ‘Great things take time’. Slowly I started getting people with same pain points and felt proud to seeing them converting into our early users.
Right now:
→ 400+ site visits
→ 60+ early access signups (not my friends 😄)
→ 40+ engaged community members on Slack
What is your average monthly revenue?
Right now, we don’t have revenue because we’re in early access and haven’t monetized yet. But we have validated interest, collected emails, and are focused on learning from users before charging.
This isn’t about rushing, it’s about getting it right.
How are you doing today and what plans for the future?
What’s working:
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Daily content on LinkedIn brings visibility, trust, and early users.
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Soft product seeding, never selling, just showing the problem.
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Building in public, people root for things they watch being built.
Mistakes:
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Delaying the launch by waiting for “perfect.”
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Not collecting feedback early enough.
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Underestimating how lonely solo building can be.
Next:
→ Launch beta to first 100 users
→ Add AI-powered summarization + voice chat with your own notes and adding E2E privacy
→ Monetize through lifetime deal + premium tier
What advice would you give to budding founders?
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Your first few ideas will probably fail, build anyway.
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Don’t start or do anything without a good reason, otherwise you won’t sustain. (Bestest learning of me that I follow for every second in my life)
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Build in public, it builds both your product and sense of trust with the audience.
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Start before you’re ready. Learn the rest on the way.
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And don’t be afraid of quitting things. Some things have to break before better ones can be built.
