My product is my garden
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My product is my garden
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Re: My product is my garden
#2Beautifully written && definitely hits home.
Putter on, my friend.
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#3A very appealing concept. I hope people doing this succeed in generating sufficient income to make a living.
PS: I also like the gardener analogy. It is used elsewhere, too, e.g. the “Gardener-Leader” concept of the US Army.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/military-review/Ar...
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#4I wish this kind of concept was aspired to by more political parties and countries for their citizens. It seems something that lives only in a small world of the internet for those who achieve it.
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#5I am on the same page with you. But I've also decided to focus all my strength on one thing for the next 5 years just improving it and making it the best product for my customers.
Right now it's so easy to make apps with amazing frameworks like Vue and Laravel that anybody can create something in a week or sometimes even a day[1]. We indiehackers are never short of ideas and shiny objects. I too was part of that movement and I created many projects, one or two even won out Product hunt proudct of the day and started making money too. Alas the fame and fortune was short lived because I was just too distracted and never focused on building one thing.
I never took the step that is much more important than launching the product. It's the boring day-in and day-out sales and marketing part. The content writing and the lead generation part. The SEO part. The thing that acutally brings in the revenue part.
So anytime I have an amazing idea for my next project. I just quietly put in my Google docs and get back to my main focus. I think this is the only thing which will finally help me succeed.
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#6Beautiful analogy, Herman!
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#7There has been a growing movement around the thought that one's website is their digital garden, for example: https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
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#8love the gardening analogy. Interesting thing I learned from gardening is how plants can frequently benefit from neglect. This also applies to non-plant initiatives.
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#9I am on the same page with you. But I've also decided to focus all my strength on one thing for the next 5 years just improving it and making it the best product for my customers. Right now it's so easy to make apps with amazing frameworks like Vue and Laravel that anybody can create something in a week or sometimes even a day[1]. We indiehackers are never short of ideas and shiny objects. I too was part of that move…
What is your main project?
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#10i think of it like a shop too. you just kind of fuck around making your tools better, goofing off, accumulating knowledge and stuff... and slowly become useful