Love the length of this post. more interesting than what could be said in a tweet, but didn’t belabor his best points. Excellent piece.
My product is my garden
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#22I 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…
As long as you select the right product to focus on, that sounds an excellent plan.
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#23love the gardening analogy. Interesting thing I learned from gardening is how plants can frequently benefit from neglect. This also applies to non-plant initiatives.
Interesting! Like, leave your plants alone and let them live? (while still occasionally watering them?)
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#24> This is my garden, and I intend to putter. I was about about to correct that use of "putter" as a typo, but it seems it's a USAism. Never seen that before. I'd always thought machines/engines putter, gardeners potter. I put it to the super-accurate Purported Google Results Test: putter in my garden - 7 million potter in my garden - 142 million putter around - 9 million potter around - 363 million putter about - 49…
The writer is from South Africa, as mentioned in the post. "Putter about" is definitely not a USAism, it's an English expression used throughout the anglophone world that can be spelled "putter" or "potter," meaning the same thing. I've only heard it pronounced "putter" personally. The stats are interesting!
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#25Does he mean `potter`?
"Putter" is an alternative spelling.
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#26I 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…
As long as you select the right product to focus on, that sounds an excellent plan.
I think OP's point is that you have to focus this way to get to the point of knowing if a product is the right one to focus on.
Not focusing this way only guarantees that you'll move on before even finding out.
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#27> This is my garden, and I intend to putter. I was about about to correct that use of "putter" as a typo, but it seems it's a USAism. Never seen that before. I'd always thought machines/engines putter, gardeners potter. I put it to the super-accurate Purported Google Results Test: putter in my garden - 7 million potter in my garden - 142 million putter around - 9 million potter around - 363 million putter about - 49…
The writer is from South Africa, as mentioned in the post. "Putter about" is definitely not a USAism, it's an English expression used throughout the anglophone world that can be spelled "putter" or "potter," meaning the same thing. I've only heard it pronounced "putter" personally. The stats are interesting!
Yeah you're right. "Puttering about", with that sense of a machine chugging along, seems a different thing to pottering. Pottering in a garden seems more like patiently tinkering with something than continually moving from place to place.
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#28I love this and I aspire to eventually, if I come out of the grinder with any ambition, drive, or passion left, do something similar.
I abhor big corpratism, and love the way software can be independent and disconnected from it, if not usually in practice.
I deeply admire Basecamp's style of "you don't need VC money, keep it small, keep building something useful that gets you paid." I want that someday but someday is not this day.
I'm not much of an idea guy. I can build stuff. I can get really passionate about how things "should be" and implement process and infrastructure to get there. But whatever "it" is, just hasn't come to me yet.
I long to be an indiehacker but for all the supposedly wrong reasons.
I want to putter but don't know where to get the right seeds to be puttering for.
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#29> This is my garden, and I intend to putter. I was about about to correct that use of "putter" as a typo, but it seems it's a USAism. Never seen that before. I'd always thought machines/engines putter, gardeners potter. I put it to the super-accurate Purported Google Results Test: putter in my garden - 7 million potter in my garden - 142 million putter around - 9 million potter around - 363 million putter about - 49…
Before today, I’d only ever heard ‘putter’ used to refer to the golf club you use for ‘putting’...
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#30This resonates with me. I get the same experience from my youtube channel - making a modest but sufficient income to make a living, talking directly to my "users" every day - hearing their appreciation and the stories on how my videos directly changed their life. So enjoyable.