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  • Povilas Korop | Laravel Courses Creator & Youtuber
    @PovilasKorop

    Probably my biggest current privilege in life is slowly drinking morning coffee, reading Twitter, and calling it "work".

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    My 2024 goal continues to be avoiding going back to this

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    Can you imagine a VC going all in on one startup? No… so why would you?

    #Indie Hacking
  • Jon Yongfook
    @yongfook

    If you’re an indie founder I think you should spend max 6 hours at the office every day.

    30 mins to prioritize.

    4hrs of deep work.

    1hr misc.

    This leaves plenty of other time for non-work stuff to keep you mentally healthy.

    All day at the office is a red flag 🚩

    Of course there are times where you want to push it. In the days before a launch etc, I’ve done my share of late nights.

    I’m talking about the baseline.

    If you’ve moved across the world to Mexico or Bali and you’re spending all your time in a coworking, stop and reevaluate.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Tom Hirst
    @tom_hirst

    Side project idea generation frameworks:

    • Something you want
    • Something for the fun of it
    • Something that will help you learn
    • Something you've done that other people want to do
    • Something people are already doing that could be done better
    #Indie Hacking
  • Jon Yongfook
    @yongfook

    The road to $10K MRR is a grind.

    You need to have:

    • a product people pay for
    • regular product improvements
    • a community to share news with

    And 10-20% of “spice” something that brings people back. Maybe it’s a privacy angle, or financial transparency, or a yellow bear.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Danny Postma
    @dannypostmaa

    Assume nothing, test everything.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Suhail
    @Suhail

    Go direct. Don't talk to the jornos. You don't need them anymore!

    Don't give them your story as content they can advertise on. If you go direct, use your networks, and tell your story, you'll build your own audience not needing them anymore.

    #Entrepreneurship #Indie Hacking
  • Danny Postma
    @dannypostmaa

    Building a successful business is 95% marketing, 5% everything else.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Danny Postma
    @dannypostmaa

    Stop adding features once you got product market fit. Go all in on sales.

    #Indie Hacking
  • No, you don't need that fancy equipment

    Your favorite creator, developer, solopreneur, etc., has a decked out office with lights, a fancy sitting/standing desk, nice cameras, maxed out computer, fancy monitor, custom mechanical keyboard, studio headphones, and a chair with a price tag that will make your eyes water.

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    #Indie Hacking
  • Arvid Kahl
    @arvidkahl

    Building software is the easy part. The hard part is making money from it.

    Coding is fun. Finding customers less so. But without them, you have a hobby project.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Adam Wathan
    @adamwathan

    🚫 Plan, plan, plan, build ✅ Build, rebuild, rebuild

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    99% of “scratch your own itch” projects make $0.

    The lesson learned here should probably be: try dozens of small projects, build on what works, and throw away the rest.

    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    It’s hard to believe but more competitors in your market generally means more money for you as their marketing helps grow the entire pie

    If your product stays good, that is

    #Marketing #Indie Hacking
  • Jordan O'Connor
    @jdnoc

    You can build a sustainable business on the internet by selling a product on a website that gets 100-200 relevant clicks per day. Two questions:

    What will you build and sell? How will you get 100-200 relevant clicks per day?

    #Indie Hacking
  • Jordan O'Connor
    @jdnoc

    You cannot have a "forever company" as a solopreneur in tech.

    One day, your product will be come a free feature, or the platform you're building on will disappear.

    Build, iterate, grow, exit. Repeat.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Jon Yongfook
    @yongfook

    My response to any customer who needs docs or meetings for their compliance / infosec team is that they need to go to a bigger provider.

    1 meeting and the inevitable followups just sucks all the profit out of a $99 / mo subscription.

    It just doesn't make business sense.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Justin Welsh
    @thejustinwelsh

    More high-performers will view one-person internet businesses as a viable alternative to traditional work.

    More flexibility, high-income potential, 100% ownership, & the chance to be present for their family.

    We're just getting started.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Yura Gnatyuk
    @ygnatyuk_

    Признавайтесь, хто? Чий workflow?

    #Indie Hacking
  • Олексій Ерінчак
    @lexpositive

    Саме час активно вчитись створювати свої продукти.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Steph Smith
    @stephsmithio

    In this episode of "your website doesn't need to be perfect"

    Introducing: Rock Auto.

    SimilarWeb estimates it gets 19m visits/month and $50-70m in revenue.

    #Design #Indie Hacking
  • Jon Yongfook
    @yongfook

    As a solo founder, my number 1 job is not improving the product, or being there for my team, or fixing bugs, or even talking to customers.

    My number 1 job is protecting my time so that I can do all of the above.

    #Indie Hacking
  • ★

    Dagobert Renouf
    @dagorenouf

    My desk setup to stay motivated building a startup for 4 years.

    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    The main reason why some people reach $5K MRR with a SaaS and others don't, isn't features or anything, it's simply keeping it alive and not abandoning it I think, which is harder than it looks

    #Indie Hacking
  • Andrea Bosoni
    @theandreboso

    In my experience it takes at least a few years of trying and failing before you launch something successful online so don’t get discouraged if you aren’t there yet.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Justin Welsh
    @thejustinwelsh

    Your self-employed income goals are more likely to be achieved with a portfolio strategy.

    Think 4-5 smaller income streams.

    Provides much greater flexibility and reduced risk when compared to one big bet.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    My best advice to first-time creators: Start with a super tiny product.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    If you want “failure to be cheap” you can’t spend 6 months on a project before bringing it to market.

    We don’t have a lot of 6 month periods in our lifetime.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    Became a VC, but for your own ideas. Invest your time, instead of other people’s money. Treat your projects like cattle, not like pets.

    #Indie Hacking
  • ★

    Andrew Gazdecki
    @agazdecki

    The minute you launch your startup you're more successful than 99.99% of other entrepreneurs because most people never get that far.

    #Indie Hacking
  • No Such Thing as Side Projects

    A lot of people have been asking me lately how I can do so many side projects. The truth of the matter is that I don’t do side projects. Side projects are ideas that people want to try and tinker with on the weekends. I feel that I have my work and that’s it.

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    #Indie Hacking
  • Xavier Coiffard
    @xavier_coiffard

    10 places to launch your startup on Reddit:

    1. /r/Indiebiz
    2. /r/Startups
    3. /r/Marketing/
    4. /r/SideProject
    5. /r/Entrepreneur
    6. /r/thesidehustle
    7. /r/Sweatystartup
    8. /r/Roastmystartup
    9. r/EntrepreneurRideAlong
    10. /r/Startup (without the "s")
    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    🍰 Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew

    📉 >95% of everything I ever did failed

    📈 My hit rate is only about ~5%

    🚀 So...ship more

    #Indie Hacking
  • Sahil Lavingia
    @shl

    How to productize yourself:

    1. Have conversations that help people.
    2. Create content that helps people.
    3. Build a product that helps people.

    You → conversations → insights → content → audience → product.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    Becoming a parent is probably the best motivator to try to arrange your life such that you don’t need anyone’s permission to be with your kids.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Sahil Lavingia
    @shl

    Start a company to automate your job. Your first customer can be your current employer.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Daniel Vassallo
    @dvassallo

    Instead of studying how Bezos made his billions, it's much more useful to learn how someone like you is making $10K/mo.

    #Money #Indie Hacking
  • Justin Kan
    @justinkan

    Don’t be discouraged: the default state of new ideas is that they won’t work. Finding something that will is going to take many more attempts.

    #Indie Hacking
  • The only real validation is people paying for your product

    I still see people think "talking to customers" works when validating an idea, but people don't always know what they want. I think real validation of an idea happens with executing it and then people getting their credit card out and paying you for it.

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    #Product #Indie Hacking
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    Dan Mace
    @Dannmace

    Anyone can steal your idea, but no one can steal your execution.

    #Entrepreneurship #Indie Hacking
  • Jamon
    @jamonholmgren

    Electron app memory usage: 150 MB
    Native app memory usage: 0 MB (because you never ship it)

    #Indie Hacking
  • You don’t need to quit your job to make

    There are three key concepts that I want to tackle in this piece. The first is for those who think that they don't have enough time and why I feel this notion is often misplaced. The second is to highlight the benefits of sticking with a job and why successful people are best at risk mitigation, not maximization. And finally, the third will isolate some improvements that I think we can all make in our approach to thinking — moving past just indie making and working full-time, these concepts will hopefully help you optimize within a bigger box or perhaps remove the box entirely.

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    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    Business used to be for "business people". Now it's for everyone that can make a landing page and put a BUY button on it. That's so incredibly crazy and great.

    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    It's easy to hate on all these new makers making MVPs, doing startup challenges or everyone cloning stuff. But at least we finally have people taking action and shipping. Even if their first products aren't perfect, they took the first step on a path towards making great things👍

    #Indie Hacking
  • aj
    @ajlkn

    Pro tip for anyone who makes things:

    1. Make the thing

    2. DON'T ship it – yet! Just sit back, take a break

    3. Come back to thing 12-48 hours later

    4. Fix/polish all the (now glaringly obvious) broken/rough shit you hilariously missed just 12-48 hours ago

    5. K now ship it 👍

    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    I see a lot of ppl quit their job and just go full time on a side project which I wouldn’t recommend, instead:

    👉 build your side project while you have stable income from a job
    👉 when the revenue from the side project surpasses your job for 6 months consider quitting

    #Indie Hacking
  • Patrick McKenzie
    @patio11

    Small software businesses are 10% software, 90% everything else. If you want to spend ~90% of your time coding, you want to work for someone

    #Indie Hacking
  • @levelsio
    @levelsio

    Charge money from day one!

    I see so many apps just die because they didn't

    #Indie Hacking
  • ★

    @levelsio
    @levelsio

    Go solo Take 100% ownership Pay people if you need them Avoid drama

    #Indie Hacking
  • Jason Zook (he/him/his)
    @jasondoesstuff

    Un-sexy business tip:

    👉 Spend the same amount of time promoting your business as you do building it.

    A few emails/tweets aren't enough.

    #Indie Hacking
  • Bootstrapping Side Projects into Profitable Startups

    I presented about bootstrapping startups to profit at Dutch startup school Growth Tribe. Here’s the transcript. It’s pretty rough because I had to be very practical in my presentation, but I hope it’s useful for you! Also sorry for the layout on a few of these slides, I did it in Keynote and didn’t have a lot of time. Video will be up soon too of this. This presentation was about 30 minutes long and is everything I know about bootstrapped startups really. Most of it comes straight from my book that’s out soon which you can pre-order now already: MAKE. As always I don’t claim to know anything, this is just my ideas and hunches. You need to develop your own to succeed, not copy mine 🙂

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    #Indie Hacking
  • ★ There's always time to launch your dream

    “I’d love to start a company / become a great programmer / write an awesome blog, but there’s just not enough time in the day!” Bullshit. There’s always enough time, you’re just not spending it right.

    Now that’s some tough love, but I’m sick and tired of hearing “no time” as an excuse for why you can’t be great. It really doesn’t take that much time to get started, but it does take wanting it really bad. Most people just doesn’t want it bad enough and protect their ego with the excuse of time.

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    #Indie Hacking
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