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Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

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Re: Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you making startups with no documentation, legal or otherwise?

"Startup" != "Legal business entity"

How does that work practically? If I found a startup with 5 product experiments, can I honestly say I have experience creating 5 different startups? Does every pivot count as if you made a new startup, and it’s not the original startup anymore? I’d always thought a startup was a company, but it seems it means something more like a landing page? Genuinely curious.

Re: Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

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I’m in the same boat as the OP, I’ve launched 3 projects in 2023. I spent 10 months on the first project. It was a very clever project, complicated to explain, hard to build, and ultimately did crap. It scratched my own itch - or so I thought, I don’t even use it myself at all. No emotions, pure logic marketing. 1000+ users only. $0 made. My second project I built in 1 day, and launched in 1 week. It was basic, but p…

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Re: Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

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I’m in the same boat as the OP, I’ve launched 3 projects in 2023. I spent 10 months on the first project. It was a very clever project, complicated to explain, hard to build, and ultimately did crap. It scratched my own itch - or so I thought, I don’t even use it myself at all. No emotions, pure logic marketing. 1000+ users only. $0 made. My second project I built in 1 day, and launched in 1 week. It was basic, but p…

what are the products called? I am interested in learning about the marketing and build journey

Re: Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

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I've been following you (among other indie hackers) for a couple of years. I respect and admire the heck out of what you're doing. But I have a huge problem with the fact that you keep referring to the income brought in by ShipFa.st (again, heck of a product!) as "51K/m" (as of today this is what your X's bio shows), when pricing is obviously not recurring. What would be a lot more indicative of the financial success…

It's definitely grifty. The shipfa.st copy makes it sound like you need it to build products so you too can make lots of money like he does. Except if you look at his website, the thing that makes all that money is.... shipfa.st. It reminds me of people who sell classes using tales of their success, except all of their success comes from selling the classes in the first place.

Pamphlets on how to make money fast selling pamphlets (or infomercials, or email lists, or landing pages) has always been a thing.
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