Well deserved! And you are great inspiration for fellow solopreneurs and indie hackers! Keep shipping!
My solopreneur story
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
Largely correct but the margins can have unreasonably large effects, like Linux, the GNU project and so on.
"a massive amount of luck and/or first mover advantage"
Again, I want to emphasise that sometimes a project or set of ideas not only thrives, but completely dominates.
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#293but i don't care because it involves doing web dev and using twitter. i already easily enter any math domain so i can work for some stupid company and get $300K/year in a week of job searching. what you are doing is no different than 90s microsoft devs making products to sell on microsoft's platform. none of these solutions are "freedom", since you still have to work terribly long amounts of time like 9-5, and sit on top of foundations that randomly move on peoples whims, your twitter suddenly requesting 45K/month being a prime example. the only freedom is skill. making a screenshot app is something anyone can do. you can also invest your time fully into marketing and that's what people do and why the world sucks.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. He got my money in exchange for a tool I use 3 times a day, every day.
What do you use the tool for?
Making screenshots that I mark up with arrows, boxes and labels and then email.
Xsnapper is far nicer-looking and far quicker (via numeric keyboard shortcuts for markup options) than macOS built-in utils for this.
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#295HN: "It's okay to make something nobody wants = damn right! Do it for the craft and the process and the learning and the joy." Also HN: "A guy makes 45K/mo by building tiny time-saving apps, starting with ones he himself wants = what a sad world of frivolous side-hustles!"
I see a large diversity of opinion about this guy's business. Who is this "HN" you're talking about?
And here’s the third bucket - can’t see the forest for the semantic trees.
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#296It's wonderful the world is big enough to celebrate whether you run a $45k/mo company solo, or find joy in nature walks, rock climbing, reading or raised VC to go big.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry but you can’t fall downhill into 45k a month. You also can’t write down a cake recipe for 45k a month like you seem to be expecting. As someone who, over the last two years, has created a more modest 5 figure MRR business, I can assure you, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It takes a lot of skill and understanding of the market and market forces to be this successful. Being able to do the same thing ag…
Their hiatus on the whole greed thing appart, I think they meant the same as what you said? That there's no lessons to learn, because doing the same thing again wouldn't work. And if even the person who succeeded first hand would fail to reproduce their own success a second time, then those who are just reading about it have even less of a chance to be successful with that advice. I think that's interesting to explor…
funnily, the poster now works 4hrs/day and has a team, so they’ve become a capitalist in an extremely low cola country and can do whatever they want.
not saying they dont want to hack still, but as they said, there’s no end to the limit, and ramen profitability wasnt enough
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#298Cool to see someone use and abuse Twitter to make money.
Seems that every successful indie hacker story has a component of being somewhat known on twitter.
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#299Until using Twitter drops out of these types of post, I'll continue to suggest retitling them to "How I became a tech influencer that writes software at 45k/mo". Also would love to see usage rates on these products instead of subscriptions alone, as very clearly Twitch has demonstrated people will give money to influencers they like regardless of (even in absence of) their product.
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#300As a fellow indie hacker (I quit my job 18 months ago to build and sell my own apps), I am super jealous. I don't have the success of this guy (only getting close to $1k/mo these days), but I can understand the success. This guy knows how to market and ship product. I've seen him pop up a few times on indiehackers.com and social media. His "brand" is super simple to understand, which helps gain followers. He knows ma…
> We focus way too much on tools, processes, and forget that at the end of the day, we're trying to exchange useful products for mone
Yep, just look at @levelsio and his $250k MRR stack of apps built with PHP and jQuery
> I'm a little disappointed by all the negativity here, but I suspect most of us are just jealous.
Yep x2, for a website built around startups a huge number seem to be against a solo founder bootstrapping apps successfully