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OP, just a heads up that none of the "Download on the App Store" links on your main website ( http://www.glimsoft.com ) resolve.
"What if I am not good enough?" I just heard this quote somewhere: What is success? It's being able to do what you want to be doing. If you're not able to do that then of course you will need to do something else. But if you are able to do it, then you are "good enough".
In general, that's something that I've always tried to do in my other posts too - trying to be vulnerable and share stuff to an extent, but hopefully in a way that helps/inspires people who can relate to feeling that way.
I love this, thank you for sharing your story, and congratulations on achieving your dream at 31!
As an indie developer for the last 10 years my key learning is writing apps for “under privileged” communities. Firstly, it’s a niche. Secondly, people really value your effort and appreciate giving. This creates a nice feeling. I have created my major app, Time Nomad [1], out of pure curiosity. Don’t laugh, scientific minds… I wanted to see how astronomy and astrology coexisted for hundreds of years without all that…
My impression is that in the B2B sales there’s a huge component in terms of being a corporation to give some sort of credibility.
I love this, thank you for sharing your story, and congratulations on achieving your dream at 31!
> Some lease company somewhere is getting data on wherever I go. Quite frustrating to figure out who too, unless you can find some debug ports or an SD card holding configuration.
As an indie developer for the last 10 years my key learning is writing apps for “under privileged” communities. Firstly, it’s a niche. Secondly, people really value your effort and appreciate giving. This creates a nice feeling. I have created my major app, Time Nomad [1], out of pure curiosity. Don’t laugh, scientific minds… I wanted to see how astronomy and astrology coexisted for hundreds of years without all that…
Edit: After just an hour or so, I'm inspired. Not only am I excited to use your app to track my time, but—as an app developer—I'm inspired by the user experience you've designed. I can't thank you enough for the "export to file" feature.
[2]: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/taking-control-of-your-time/
Most of the success cases for Indie Hackers comes from B2C or personal apps usage. Does someone knows great public cases related with B2B? My impression is that in the B2B sales there’s a huge component in terms of being a corporation to give some sort of credibility.
Increasingly I think the way to increase your chances of success is to pick a problem space that applies to both large and small businesses, and forget about the large businesses for a long time.
Small businesses are generally going to be more open to building with you, taking a risk, accepting that you don't yet have SOC2, etc. Often they are in a similar place maturity wise so they are (more likely to be) understanding
I'd love to hear others views on how to approach this though - most of my ideas for side projects are inspired by friction/frustration I'm encountering in the workplace, and therefore b2b. Even with targeting small businesses I'm still uncertain where the bar is, and how to balance financial risk when looking for product market fit in a bootstrapped/side gig fashion.
I don't yet have anything ready to attempt to sell, but I'm thinking entrepreneur meetups or something might be a good route - assuming I've built something that solves an acute problem experienced early in a companies life might be the best way to go