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Re: After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.

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Post by yoyonamite » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 6:48 PM UTC

aazaa wrote: post #8

From another article written by the same author, it looks like the author mainly tried to create two-sided businesses (e.g., markeplaces/social networks): https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-failed-6-side-projec... This is one of the most difficult kinds of business to start. You need to attract both content creators (sellers) and content consumers (buyers). Attracting just one group is hard enough. Attracting bo…

I definitely agree with this. A red flag for me is that this is too many ideas to iterate through in 1 year. During the write-up, I was hoping he'd say that he iterated through different landing page and sales pitches for his product instead of switching to different products.

Re: After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.

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Post by nullsense » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 7:41 PM UTC

gscott wrote: post #150

nullsense wrote: post #108

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How did you stick with that for 9 years? That's a pretty solid effort, but that just sounds soul crushing. I tried and didn't succeed at a product where I spent my savings too. It's just the reality of a lot of startups. It's unsexy, but it's the reality.

I had this crazy idea I would go it alone and that if I would just keep working on it until it was a success regardless of how long it took. I spent 3 years on programming it to get it the way I wanted it, starting development in 2001... I still have it set up and one day I plan to convert the design into Bootstrap and try again but going after niches this time. But at this point I am not stable enough financially to…

I have a repo I hack on from time to time that purposely isn't in a domain I would ever try to sell as a commercial product. I sort of use it as a way to build up to eventually having a full blown commercial grade piece of software that I can then just pivot the domain into one I want to compete in and launch a product again. By that time it really would be a good few years working on it. Software really is a team sport. It's crazy how much effort it is to go it alone.

Re: After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.

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Post by Jare » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

tsomctl wrote: post #42

Jare wrote: post #31

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> the scale of stuff you are talking about is miniscule This is NOT a competition.

Speaking as someone that used to have a major problem with depression and anxiety, an important thing part of recovery is realizing that the shit you're worrying about isn't that important. Having other people tell me that the thing I'm worrying about isn't worth the anxiety was important.

But that's completely different from having someone tell your your problem is minuscule compared to theirs. I mean, technically any possible angle might possibly work for someone somewhere sometime, but this does not feel to me like the right angle to use.