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Here are the lessons learned from being on the front page of Reddit multiple times:
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THREAD: The world's fastest startups are working on just ONE metric.
Forget Ads, CPC, LTV or any of that jargon:
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A solo founder created an Instagram scheduling tool.
That tool is now making $74,000/mo.
This is his story:
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"I can build an app in 1 hour and if the app solves a painful problem, people will pay $100 for it. I can build an app once and then sell it forever."
Tony Dinh (
@tdinh_me
) on:
- Hitting $22k in 11 days
- Platform risk w/ AI products
- MORE:
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Here are some books for founders that indie hackers are recommending:
• The $100 Startup
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
• The Innovator's Dilemma
• The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
• The Mom test
• Running Lean
What else would you add to the list?
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Have less than 1000 followers?
Introduce yourself below.
👇
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Indie hackers should...
* start small
* do things that don't scale
* solve your own problem
* research the problem before a solution
* talk to your customers
* charge more
What else would you add to this list?
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Launching a product? Here’s a checklist. 🚀
Let’s break it down.
Thread 👇
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🚨 How to build a profitable software business 👇
Step 1: open your favorite code editor.
Step 2: build a profitable software business.
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Most people give up indie hacking too early.
The long game is real:
• SEO takes 6 - 12 months to start working
• Nobody will trust you overnight
• Who is going to remember you if you don't keep showing up?
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An AI student tool made $150k/MRR last month.
Its revenue skyrocketed in the last few months.
Here’s the story: (A THREAD):
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This founder built an AI startup in one weekend with no-code.
Here's the "tech stack" that he used:
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Most founders suck at UX/UI.
🧵 Here are 5 UX/UI tips to help you move from the bottom 90% to the top 20 (with before/after pictures): 🧵
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Start something:
• it might not be a success
• the journey will generate new ideas
• you will learn something along the way
• it's great for building trust and relationships
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Getting your first users:
How do you get your first 10, 1000 and 1000 customers?
Here's how 12 bootstrapped founders did it:
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From jail to hitting $100k/MRR.
Here is this founder's fascinating story (A THREAD):
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The most important key metric is TTV.
Let's dig into this.
Time to value. i.e, the time from when a customer invests into your product "by signing up" to the time they get the outcome (their pain solved).
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Founders typically build products with either an audience-first strategy or an idea-first strategy.
A thread🧵:
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Here's how Cloudflare made it much easier to become an indie hacker:
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Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does!
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Build it and they will come. 👍🏼
!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱
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RT if you've got:
✅ No VC funding
✅ A product you built yourself
✅ Happy customers
✅ Profits
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👋🏿👋🏾👋🏽👋🏼👋🏻👋
Wave your hand if you are an
#indiehacker
and would like to meet likeminded people on Twitter.
👋👋🏻👋🏼👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿
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Don't create a business based on your passion.
Create a business based on your personality.
Here's why (A THREAD)
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No-code tools that indie hackers use:
• Bubble
• Zappier
• Webflow
• Airtable
• Glide
What else? 👇
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100 tried and tested, actionable ways to get your first 100 users.
A
@NotionHQ
board made by
@helloitsolly
👀
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4 lessons from selling a SaaS for 6 figures:
1. Copy something that works
(..to be cont....)
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The idea of showing up every day is overwhelming.
So start with just showing up today.
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"For my next magic trick, I will make an internet troll apologize." –Transparency
(cc
@levelsio
)
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This founder just hit $10k/MRR.
His take-home pay is $10k.
Here's how (A THREAD):
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Here's a quick way to generate startup ideas:
1. Find a well-established market (eg. Excel users).
2. Now, use AI to solve a common problem there (eg. creating Excel formulas).
Here's a story about a tool that did exactly that and has over 650,000 users (A THREAD):
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This founder built over 55 startups in his studio.
Here are 40+ no-code tools that he uses (A THREAD):
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It’s not difficult to run a SaaS.
It’s just writing. 😜
A lot of writing! 📝📝📝
• code
• documentation
• support emails
• tutorials
• blog posts
• copy
• scripts
• team communications
• newsletters
• sales emails
H/t
@jdnoc
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What's important on a landing page?
• social proof
• a title with the value you provide
• explain the how
• a great visual
• an easy call to action
What else? 👇
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This founder started his company with two credit cards and a cheap Asus laptop.
Now he's surveyed more than 1M consumers for 300+ clients and made over $1.6M in revenue.
Thread🧵:
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Working on a business or side project? Share your learnings and experiences with the
@IndieHackers
audience! 🤗
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How do you hit $10k/MRR faster?
🧵 We asked 5 founders who recently reached this MRR milestone to find out: 🧵
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Looking for a remote gig to keep the lights on while you build your business?
Here are some of the best places to look.
Thread 👇
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Say hello if you want a follow too... 👋🏼
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Building as a solo founder is hard enough.
Here are 3 mistakes you want to avoid when building solo (A THREAD):
1. Avoid businesses that require scale (..to be continued..)
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THREAD: This SaaS is killing it on TikTok.
The reason: Amazing videos with attention-grabbing hooks.
Here are the details:
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Here’s a cold email that gets 1 client for every 10 emails sent:
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Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does!
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Building a $74k MRR product as a rookie coder.
@timb03
shares how he:
- learned to code in 6 months,
- built and iterated his product,
- forgot to market it for 2 years, then
- blew it up to $74k/mo:
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OPPORTUNITY ALERT: Discord just made it possible to develop apps that can be used right in the chat app.
🧵 Here are the details:🧵
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How to validate your startup idea:
- Strike up a conversation with potential customers
🧵 Here's how to find relevant folks to talk to: 🧵
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Who is building with no code? And can you share what you've made?
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Looking for places to launch and list your product? 🚀
Here’s a list of 40 to get you started (and check out the original post for more).
Thread 👇
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What do you use to build your landing page? 🤔
Suggestions from indie hackers:
• Carrd
• Design it from scratch
• Versoly
• Strikingly
• Static site generators
• Boostrap
• Templates from Cruip
• Notion
• Landen
• HTML/CSS
• Webflow
• Tailwind
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There's only one requirement for being an Indie Hacker:
You've set out to make money independently.
That means you’re generating revenue directly from your customers, not indirectly through an employer.
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Don't read advice from VCs if you aren't going the VC-funded route.
Same thing for other advice thats not meant for you.
Find your people.
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we swear we don't care
we swear we don't care
we swear we don't care
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Improve your interface. One "micro copy" at a time.
By
@jrdnbwmn
1/ Use personal pronouns
Use the word "you".
People pay more attention when you talk directly to them
[Thread...]
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What are your go-to tools for building websites quickly?
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What's the best resource for validating product ideas?
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Under 2,000 followers?
🗣️ Introduce yourself
🏗️ Show what you're building
✅ Give a reason to follow
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it's pretty simple:
indie hacking = permissionless entrepreneurship
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Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does!
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Tweet
@IndieHackers
or use hashtag
#indiehackers
, and we'll retweet genuine offers, questions, and requests.
We've got over 20,000 followers who can potentially help you! 🗺🧠👇
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Built a SaaS starter kit and made $40k.
🧵 Here's the story & lessons learned: 🧵
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How to make an indie hacker's day.
Give them the gift of:
🔗 a hyperlink
👍🏼 a recommendation
🐦 a share or retweet
🙏🏽 showing appreciation
👋 a subscribe or a follow
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Design tools that indie hackers use to build their products:
• Semantic UI
• Chart.js
• Sketch
• ColourSurp
• CloudApp
• Figma
• Stockio
What else do you suggest?
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Tweet
@IndieHackers
or use hashtag
#indiehackers
, and we'll retweet genuine offers, questions, and requests.
We've got over 40,000 followers who can potentially help you! 🗺🧠👇
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This couple bootstrapped their B2C cleaning app to $40K MRR.
Here's their story 🧵:
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Leverage communities to help you grow.
Look for your people in:
• Reddit
• Slack communities
• Discord channels
• Facebook 😬
• Twitter ❤️
• LinkedIn
• Niche internet communities
For best results:
• add value
• be helpful
• be human
• avoid spam and salesy tactics
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Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does!
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OPPORTUNITY ALERT: TikTok just made it possible to export users' data (posts, DMs, etc.) via an API.
This means that now it's possible to create apps to backup & import TikTok posts to other platforms.
Here are the opportunities this creates for SaaS founders:
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🧵 Sold 2 micro SaaS on the side while working a 9-to-5.
Here's the story and the products: 🧵
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It's Friday.
Who needs an invite-code to join Indie Hackers?
👇
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Need a new SaaS idea? Here are 12 products you can build with GPT-4 vision that weren't possible to build before:
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Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does!
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Maybe focus on building a great product instead of worrying about your Product Hunt launch.
h/t
@iamdinakar
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THREAD: How to find technical co-founders online.
~23% of indie hackers are looking for a technical co-founder.
That's almost 1 in 4!
Meeting great people offline is hard these days, so here are 9+ places to find technical co-founders on the web 👇
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Your welcome email is an opportunity. Don't waste it.
Harry from
@GoodMarketingHQ
encourages subscribers to:
• Follow on social media
• Read his best articles
• Whitelist his address
• Connect on LinkedIn
All whilst never being at all pushy.
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Making $40k from selling 2 digital products.
Here's the story (A THREAD):
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