Minh-Phuc Tran
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Indie hacker • Building a secret startup 🤫 • Built 8 startups in 12 months • Sold 3/8 startups • Built for fun: , ,
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I just sold my 1st startup:
@queue_so
🥳
This sale marks the completion of my 6 startups and $12K income in 12 months (within 7 months, I launched 6 products & made almost triple in sales). 🎉
Will share my learnings & next steps in a post! Now, I'll celebrate this small win.🕺
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Don't have a good SaaS idea?
1. Go to
@acquiredotcom
2. Create a buyer account
3. Go to Listing, filter SaaS+TTM profit >$100K
4. Look for project you can build in 2 weeks
5. Open it, scroll to Competitors
6. Search "[competitor] G2"
7. Read reviews of 1-3⭐️ for differentiation
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I just spent 2 hours building this animation + making it works perfectly in all screen sizes 🥲
Although it feels like such a waste of time, I’m really satisfied with it now. Whata do you think? 😁
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Man, this open-source AI chat is almost too good to be true. And it's MIT licensed 🤯.
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Notion just shipped External Database! 💽
Easily the biggest new feature this year.
You'll be able to bring data from other apps into Notion as databases, from there you can create views, relations, & whatnot.
True no-code builder for personal/internal workspaces.
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I've been using this stack for all of my projects:
-
@nextjs
for Web & API
-
@tailwindcss
for CSS
-
@radix_ui
for UI
-
@awscloud
Cognito for auth, Lambda for jobs, DynamoDB for data, SQS for Queue.
- 100% serverless & automated by CDK.
-
@typescript
everywhere.
What is yours?
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I used my 1st year indie products’ revenue to buy my parents first first iPad.
It wasn’t much but it felt special 😊. My biggest fear quitting my job was that I won’t be able to support my loved ones as well as before, just keeping at it & a lil gift gave me lots of motivation!
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Next.js was one the most loved JS frameworks last year and somehow in just the last week, it sorta is the most hated.
Did it just reach the typical lifetime of a JS framework? 😅
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Nora is live on ProductHunt🥳
I quit my job 2 months ago to build 6 startups in 12 months.
Nora is my 2nd startup.
It's a Notion template that actually solves project management problems instead of looking beautiful.
Your support means the world to me!
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Soft-launching my new product: 🥳.
It's *literally* 10x cheaper Image Optimization for Next.js.
It's free & takes 5s to try. You don't even need to sign up. Just go to the site, you'll get a command to paste into your project 👌.
More on how it works 👇
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@dannypostmaa
Apple is secretly building all the required components while watching startups help them find out what the market actually likes.
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MEGA thread on how to launch on
@ProductHunt
.
3 days ago, I launched
@getnora
on ProductHunt, it accumulated over $2,512 💰, 515 🆙, and 300K+ 👁️.
All about how I planned & executed the launch are here 👇⬇️
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Got requests from 8 buyers after just a day listed on
@microacquire
🤯. It seems like the idea of selling & buying micro SaaS is a lot more mainstream than I thought.
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My ideal next startup idea
Previously, I'd pick any problems that I have & want right now to build, but those turned out to be not good business (for me).
I'm a self-funded solopreneur, I have complete freedom to work on anything. This time, I add very strict constraints to…
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Nora hit $2.5K+ sales, in just 2 days after launch. Wild!! 🤯🥳🥰
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In Da Lat 🇻🇳 for a month to escape the heat in SEA.
The cafe culture here is absolutely outstanding! (see video)
Besides, it’s beautiful, cheap, lovely city with lots of things to do & perfect temperature (18-20°C).
Let me know if you’re in town & down for some beers 🍻 .
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I’m officially going full-time on indie hacking on April 1. Excited and terrified 🤩😱
Sent my resignation to
@Fig
, talked to the team. Still a big fan of Fig, I just couldn’t get the freedom & autonomy I wanted in a job.
Plus I have savings for 3yrs, it’s just about time!
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My first MRR 🤯, 10 days after first $
Can’t describe how “over-happy” I’m with the little money, but for the first time, it’s RECURRING!
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Just sold another project ☺️.
It's a very small deal but is a step of mine to move on from old projects & focus on finding & growing a stable product this year.
Plus, it's a nice boost in motivation 😁.
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It’s exactly 3 months since I quit my job.
Goal: 6 products, $12K sales, in 12 months.
Progress: 2 products launched, 1 exciting product coming out, $6K+ in sales, & all Twitter metrics are 136%+ up!
Thank you for being with me on this journey ❤️
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What do you prefer to start with?
- 💻👌🏻 Frontend - Ugly minimal but functional
- 💻⭐️ Frontend - Fullly polished
- ⚡️⚡️ Backend
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Just wrapped up a "side side project" that I built half of my Sunday.
Looking to launch today or tomorrow!
It's a dev tool, free, open-source, and fun! Drop a 👋, I'll send you the link 😉
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Write tweets & threads in Notion, see preview in real-time!
Drag-and-drop, emoji, media picker, and all cool Notion features will just work 🔥😉
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First $ into my Stripe acc after 2 years making no money on the Internet!
Not sure if it’s a good idea sharing such a small thing, but it feels really great and motivating just looking at the email!
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If AI is not writing more than half of your code now, you're doing it wrong
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I'm happy to share I just joined
@fig
as Product and Engineering Lead.
This fulfilled my childhood's dream of leading a company in Silicon Valley.
As to the role, I'll be building plenty of apps to Fig's audience in 2022 and share learnings here.
Excited and LFG!
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I have to confess, I've had lots of doubts in the last 2 weeks, probably the most ever since I quit my job.
The doubt is about what I'm focusing on in this extremely fast-moving AI scene. New things become obsolete every week, lots of things are experimental & uncertain.
(1/n)
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Although I’m ignoring AI & its applications right now (to focus on my products), it’s hard not to feel FOMO when AI avatar products are making $50K/month to $1M+/month despite launching 2-3 months ago.
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✨ Learned this React TypeScript tip today
Use React.VFC for components that shouldn’t have children.
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Just realized today is exactly 6 months since I started indie hacking full-time.
🎯 Goal for 1st year
6 products, $12K revenue
🔋 Progress
5 products (82%), $8.9K rev (74%)
⏳ Time spent
6 mo (50%)
Lots more to learn & improve but I absolutely love this journey & community ❤️
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Not an exciting update for the end of the year, but here it is:
After talking to 20+ users of both and , neither are good business (for a self-funded startup).
Mainly, both are B2C.
I built both of them without thinking much of…
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Below is my current principles to decide to work on any startup/product idea.
It’s the result of accumulative learnings I got in the last year of indie hacking (both on the side & full-time)
Think it may be useful for some of you, I really wish I knew these when I started 🥹
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My current frontend toolings:
Tailwind •
Radix •
React Icons •
Recoil •
Slate •
dndkit •
react-window •
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Just downloaded the latest
@Grammarly
macOS app today, they took onboarding UX to the next level 🤯:
They have UI to point user to what to do in System Preferences. When I move the window, those popover go with it too 🔥
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Indie hacker mental health tips I learned recently:
Ship a product that is so small that it doesn’t hurt if no one uses it.
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The more successful SaaS founders I've talked to, the stronger a pattern I've learned:
They didn't start their startup with just a sounding idea and luck.
They spent a ton of efforts on marketing before building:
• Some researched SEO keywords and wrote dozens of targeted…
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How to build a SaaS startup solo:
1. Try to look for a solution to automate 1 thing you’re annoyed with
2. Be sad that you can’t find any solution
3. Build MVP for yourself
4. Add payment
5. Share it with others & related communities
6. Fix bugs
7. Add dark mode
8. Launch
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Which product analytics is your go-to when building your startup?
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My 2022 year in review:
Before writing this, I felt like I had a very slow year & had to work a lot harder.
After reading this & comparing to my goals, I think I had a pretty good year and can treat myself a nice holiday week. 😄
How was yours?
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The more products I built, the less ambitious the first version of my product is.
The more products I built, the less features the first version of my product has.
The more products I built, the less time & efforts I want to spend on the first version of my product.
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Work station of the day: Amed, Bali.
Finishing some final work of a big announcement that I’m gonna share soon 😉.
Then, I will chill for the rest of the day for my birthday. I turned 25 today 🥰.
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Something Twitter startups don't talk about enough:
MVP doesn't mean it can be shit. You'll have to be patient to make one feature functions *really well*.
MVP is a great end-user product without automation, code quality, onboarding.
MVP is not an excuse to be lazy/half-assed.
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It’s almost a year since I started eating only one meal a day.
I now feel like superhuman waking up, having no need to eat, & can function just like everyone until 8pm.
I did 2 medial checkups & my body is completely normal.
Can rec to try at least & see if it is for you! 😄
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2 men who led OpenAI since the day I know about them just got fired/quit, I'm not feeling the same building on OpenAI platform if I'm being honest.
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The best path to $10,000 MRR for a B2B SaaS, as an indie hacker/small company, revealed from conversations with the target audience.
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Hey SEO expert friends, what are some alternatives to Ahrefs for someone who just gets started in SEO?
Ahrefs look a bit expensive to get started, I'm not sure their Lite /Standard plan is good enough to start, either. 🧐
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What type of developer are you?
1️⃣ isActive, isVerified, isEnabled
- or -
2️⃣ active, verified, enabled
- fyi -
• Airbnb is 1️⃣
• Stripe and Twitter are 2️⃣
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Forget 4 hours/week. My ideal indie life right now is 4 hours/day, 5 days/week, working on what I love, where I love, with 100% ownership.
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Turn 26 today 🎂😊
This year has been such a difficult year for me.
Last year I launched product by product. This year I barely made any products into light.
Gotta stop sleeping on ideas & start launching more. I'm back to a product/month now! Let's ship some quality work 💻!
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Which indie hacker will become the first one-person billion dollar company?
We don’t know who yet, but that person must use AI a lot, in unimaginable ways.
Sam Altman says AI will make it possible for one person to build a billion dollar company very soon.
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TIL you can retire at $225k net worth. This is calculated by NomadList, assumes that you'll live in HCMC (most expensive city in Vietnam), at $750/month, for the rest of your life.
So, work as a sr engineer remotely for 2-3 years or grow a SaaS to $1k/m, you're set for life 🤯
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Continue on my nomad life in Da Lat 🇻🇳.
This is the best working view I’ve ever got everywhere 💯.
Plus:
• $2 Vietnamese coffee
• Charger plug
• Self-service water
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Nora (
@getnora
) officially crossed $5K in revenue after a month 🥰
It is NOT SUPER impressive, but it is a lot more than I expected, I’m so grateful.
Let me know below if anything about building Nora can be useful for you, I’ll reply or write a thread about them later!
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It’s official. I’m 100% full-time indie hacker today 🥳
This is the 2nd time I quit. It would be my worst nightmare if I ever go to 9-5 again 😱
I wrote a post on
@Indiehackers
today about how I prepared to quit and what I’m doing next to avoid it 😉
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It's Product Manager from Notion API & Platform team!! 😱
I didn't have any meetings for a really long time. Hope this one will be something 🤭.
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If you can only choose one
🟩 Run a $1M SaaS by yourself
🟦 Run a $10M SaaS with employees
Will it be green or blue?
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So… this morning I was browsing the web to see what awesome GPTs were created
And… it turnt out there are too many GPTs to browse by hands now, even from the curated sites
Hmm… Why don't I let GPT find GPT for me?
Say hi to GPT Finder 👋😄
Demo 👇
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Hit 20K followers today.
It's been roughly 1yr & 3mo since I quit my job.
I'm still struggling a lot, especially in the first half of this year, but this indie community never stops motivating me. Thank y'all for being with me in this journey!
Keep showing up & shipping! 💪
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2024 is the year that I'll focus on exactly one SaaS, I'll navigate the unpredictability until it works.
If you see me launch 2 different things this year without explaining why & how they are to achieve the same goal, send me a DM, I'll send you $1,000! 😱
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Besides building & launching 6 startups in 12 months, I have a no-stress goal of reaching $12K revenue.
The goal essentially translates to $1K/month.
2 months in, I’m ■■■□□□□□□□ 28% at it.
Start small > dream big. I’m grateful. ☺️
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OpenAI just changed their pricing to per M tokens, too… 😄
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If you're changing your copyright ©️ footer for the new year, use this instead, so that you'll never have to change it again :)
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Just had a chat with Notion. They're very nice and reasonable.
But all I can say is I've made a good decision working on a new product that depends on no platform this week. 🫠
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Long time haven’t posted travel pics
Shipping from the forest today 🏕️🤓
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I'm using
@lmsqueezy
for subscription instead of
@stripe
for the first time.
It is working way better than I expected, probably will not go back to
@stripe
anytime soon. 😄
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Got my first ever US business debit in Vietnam today 🥸
It has been a frustrating and fun process establishing a US company as a non-US resident!
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10 communities SaaS founders should be in:
1.
@Twitter
2.
@IndieHackers
3.
@Twitter
4.
@IndieHackers
5.
@Twitter
6.
@IndieHackers
7.
@Twitter
8.
@IndieHackers
9.
@Twitter
10.
@IndieHackers
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I’m starting a weekly in-person indie hacking meetup in Saigon.
We’ll do intro at 9:30am then demo at 4pm at a coworking then beers every Thursday.
It’s inspired by the hackagu mafia in Bali. Calling it hackaigon for now 🤓.
Send me a DM if you’re in town or gonna come!
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I started an AMA on
@IndieHackers
.
I built 6 startups in 6 months, sold one of them last months, and tripled my revenue goal.
Ask me anything 👇🤓.
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Introducing 🌈
A brand new product that I just bought domain, wrote 1st commit, & shipped today!
Animatable is place to learn to animate on the web:
• FREE 30s how-to
• If you like an ani, go deeper by seeing in-depth tutorial
• Ready-to-copy snippets
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Sorry, but I don’t believe a solofounder (even with contractors) can run 5 different SaaS that are alternatives to existing billion-dollar products.
Support will be slow. Bug fixes and updates will have to wait or maybe even never.
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I feel guilt every time I wrote:
background-color: red;
But, tell me better way to debug!
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What if you'll never get lucky?
Launching multiple products fast is a great way to increase your luck surface and wait for your name to be called.
But how long? Is it 2 years or 10 years? Can you wait not being sure?
Or perhaps there's a better question:
"What if you're just…
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Have you ever wondered what a complicated shell command was actually doing?
As revealed yesterday, I just launched on
@ProductHunt
today, folks! 🚀🚀
Check it out, I think you'll love it! 🛠👇
(Link to PH in reply, love to see your comments there 💙)
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I love you: 6,000. 🥰
It's 2 months since I quit my job: 2 products live, 1 product in the work, ~$5,000 in total revenue, 6,000 followers.
And most importantly: I LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF MY LIFE
Thank you ❤️
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I used to live in
@figma
whenever I was designing something
But ever since I’ve learned
@tailwindcss
, I barely open
@figma
anymore
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After digging deeper in
@TauriApps
, here is my brief summary:
• You can build many apps with just JS/TS (no Rust at all), thanks to Tauri JS API, good news for web devs
• The app size reduction is huge (20-30x), it can get even smaller a Swift-based app
• The tooling is way…
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I absolutely love JavaScript. I can literally everything: frontend, backend, serverless, infrastructure, CI/CD, configuration files, even automating my Macbook, iPhone, etc.
All with just pretty much a few lines of code. ✨
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If you can only give one tip to avoid over-engineering, what would it be?
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What is your biggest technical struggle when building products?
For me, it’s UI design. Not that I can’t design, more like there is always room for improvements & it’s hard to find a balance between making it better & moving on.
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Unpopular opinion: If you're a solo founder or the only technical developer in the team, CI is counterproductive, just write scripts and run them locally.
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My favorite time is when I enjoy working on a product so much that I forget eating, sleeping, and even time.
My 2nd favorite time is when that product makes money.
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gm everyone, typical morning at my coworking in bali
will be here and not go out the whole time in the next few days to finish and launch
@nbundle_com
😬🤓
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