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You mean that fake syndrome that's not real?
My solopreneur story
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> 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 bootstrap…
> Yep x2, for a website built around startups a huge number seem to be against a solo founder bootstrapping apps successfully x3 Solo bootstrapper as well, ~20K ARR on one SaaS app about to launch another. It's clear to me there's money to be made, and yes engineers tend to overweight engineering effort and underweight distribution. Make something that makes someone's life better, saves or makes them money, and ask a…
Congrats!!
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#333Congratz Tony! He has been very good at creating products for years. Since he was a student. The way he studied, the way he worked, just so different from the rest of us. It feels so good that your story in the front page of HN. 45k is not a big number for HN crowd, but it is a fortune here in my country. Keep going my friend! P/s: I am his classmate at the university.
I'd think that 45K per month is a big number for most people on HN.
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#334While I admire the can-do attitude and independent mindset, stories like this strike me primarily as how unscalable doing something like this is. I mean, it only works because not more then 1-2% of developers even try to do something like this, since it's really hard to ensure you have enough edge in understanding user needs, building and being able to find a distribution chanel, and there simply isn't enough revenue…
Good point, although I am less worried about the lack of scale and more about the lack of temporal persistence.
It seems like he needs to constantly push new products out there to maintain a steady income.
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#335> unit test suite with >95% test coverage
I'm sorry, but that claim is wild. This is nearly impossible unless your application consists of 5 classes and you are moving a few bits in memory. For a large application, anything over 75% sounds a bit fishy to say the least. And beyond that, it's practically unsustainable: the odds of making even a small refactor(which sooner or later you will need to), without wasting a week fixing your tests is a fairy tale.
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I think the guy’s aesthetic just turns people off here. He seems intensely invested in how to make virality happen in any way possible, and building simplistic stuff that’s not advancing the state of tech. People here want to see technical contributions and organic success. It’s kind of ironic since this is a forum made by a VC company, but I doubt the Tony guy could get into YC with his ideas, despite his 70k follow…
Why would Tony want to get into YC? He's already making enough money that he "hit the brakes" while answering to no one. Sounds like a better deal to me than being some tech gazillionaire's sharecropper.
Was just talking myself through why this forum would be unfriendly to this guy Tony. A forum that is run by YCombinator, a company that presumably values entrepreneurship.
And my take is that both this forum and YC are fairly aligned on "high impact" ideas and don't value people like Tony, monetizing basic ideas using social media influence.
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#337As 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…
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#338I bought his devutils for $9 and love it!
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#339I 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…
On the contrary: while to you the other things you spend your time with might be more interesting, for the rest of us the means through which you have acquired all of this free time... is by far more interesting and useful.
Care to share?
Re: My solopreneur story
#340I 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…
> There's a term for this – greed. Greed? You want to lecture about greed, when 95% of tech companies are _driven_ by profits, by driving the share price up by any means necessary, including exploiting their users and employees, being the reason for new consumer protection laws to come into place and then skirting around them, tax avoidance, and a million other shady tricks, all with the goal of becoming a "unicorn",…
> 95% of tech companies are _driven_ by profits
They are obliged to, by definition. Unlike non-profit or public-benefit companies, commercial companies must maximize profits for shareholders, otherwise they might be prosecuted by law.