How to Get Ahead of a Dead End?

In today's world, you can spin up an email signup form within 30 to 40 minutes. You can get something that's probably less than 10 bucks a month and literally just type ideas into a pre formatted template. So what I did was essentially that just with like not those tools back then. And then I bought some ads against the drive traffic there with publishers who had the audience I believed would be most interested in the idea.