My solopreneur story

Post by meiraleal » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

moneywoes wrote: post #141

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #131

I am really fed up with this kind of indie hacker story. MMR updates are superficial. Weak signal. I'm confident most are absent of critical info and some are entirely made up. I don't disbelieve anyone in particular, but when a mechanism of virality proliferates, it often gets deployed without the backing substance. "How I XYZ" around money is similarly misleading. Most entrepreneurs I know cannot recreate their own…

i agree this whole build in public is a growth hack

Post by brunojppb » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 4:07 PM UTC

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #131

I am really fed up with this kind of indie hacker story. MMR updates are superficial. Weak signal. I'm confident most are absent of critical info and some are entirely made up. I don't disbelieve anyone in particular, but when a mechanism of virality proliferates, it often gets deployed without the backing substance. "How I XYZ" around money is similarly misleading. Most entrepreneurs I know cannot recreate their own…

Post by wahnfrieden » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #31

I always enjoy reading success stories of developers of small apps. At the same time, I can’t shake the feeling that we’re seeing only a cherry picked part of the picture. There is no mention of advertising spend or customer acquisition costs. The trend among indie hackers is to talk about MRR without mentioning a single expense, then to interleave it all with “follow me on Twitter” so you’re inspired to join their a…

Post by lylejantzi3rd » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 4:10 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #160

EddTheSDET wrote: post #130

Hackernews seems overly critical and anti-“hacker” nowadays (new acc but been around for years). Anyone have a guess why that’s the case? Influx of new users?

New users are more likely to be positive, actually. HN has always been more negative, it even has the infamous Dropbox comment by BrandonM.

Post by ferfumarma » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #188

satvikpendem wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When someone mentions HN and Dropbox, they are usually mentioning the infamous comment by BrandonM which is the top comment in your first link.

Hmm.. that seemed like perfectly reasonable criticism to me, the kind that informed the founder of the gulf between users' current understanding and the level they'd need to see the value in the product (i.e. very useful to a founder). But I guess looking back now it's easy to view it with levity; it could have felt extremely harsh at the time (although Drew does manage a few smiley emojis throughout his answer so he…