What's your playbook for identifying worthwhile ideas to start developing?
Any ideas you thought had great potential but turned out mediocre / failed? And vice-versa?
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#12What's your playbook for marketing? This seems to be something you have nailed And how to you make decision on how you split your time between the four?
I usually tweet WIP screenshots and tease whats coming, then I do a public launch on PH, LinkedIn, Facebook groups and Indie Hackers. But always before bulding a microstartup, I have the organic growth channel figured out. For example with https://visalist.io it was SEO, with https://anexplorer.co it's ASO I put all my focus on one when i'm getting started, but after its feature complete then i move on to the next. I…
Here's a question for you from somebody that does _not_ know SEO at all. How good / close to the state of the art is Moz these days?
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#13If you designed a semester-long microstartup course targeted to fresh CS grads, what does the syllabus look like?
Thats an interesting one which i have never thought about. So it would divide into 4 chapters and go in details for each
- Problems to solve
- Poduct/Solution
- Growth/Marketing
- Pricing/Business Model
- Audience/Users
Then at the end have assingment to build a microstartups based on whats learnt!
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#14Do you write everything yourself? Do you write the backend in python/ruby/whatever and then use Java/Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS or do you use a framework like Flutter to generate apps for both ecosystems?
I know how to write backends and APIs across a few languages but I really hate the walled gardens and can't even enjoy writing code for a single ecosystem vs. just writing more logic in a Rails controller or something (to further a project)
Just curious - good job getting things deployed and actually catering to niches!
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#15Congratulations! What kind of corporate structure do you use for your microbusinesses? Delaware LLC? Also are you based in the USA?
Yes, i have unfortunately, i have to pay from my pockets sometimes but stripe has been very good.
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#16How do you find things worth building?
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#17Appreciate your being candid about your revenues.
Since you are quite transparent and forthcoming about your revenues, I urge you to take it a step further. It would be very helpful if you could share a screenshot from your payment processor to substantiate your revenue claim. Could you do that please?
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#18If you designed a semester-long microstartup course targeted to fresh CS grads, what does the syllabus look like?
Thats an interesting one which i have never thought about. So it would divide into 4 chapters and go in details for each - Problems to solve - Poduct/Solution - Growth/Marketing - Pricing/Business Model - Audience/Users Then at the end have assingment to build a microstartups based on whats learnt!
What’s your stack? Do you see yourself making a master class out of this or at least a YouTube channel?
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#19How did you market them
Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups
#20Appreciate your being candid about your revenues. Since you are quite transparent and forthcoming about your revenues, I urge you to take it a step further. It would be very helpful if you could share a screenshot from your payment processor to substantiate your revenue claim. Could you do that please?
Why not take it at face value?