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Kyle Gawley

@kylegawley

Sharing contrarian takes on indie hacking and occasional banter.

Built a funded startup to $5m and almost died. Bootstrapping a SaaS boilerplate since 2019.

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The new Astro database is really cool

Nice to be able to write SQL queries in a client component with no need for a backend API at all

It builds to a static or hybrid (with node backend + realtime not build time)

Building my side project just got 10x easier

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Every day I see a new product from an indie hacker claiming to have 100s of customers on day 1 ๐Ÿ˜…

โœ… Horrible landing page that no-one would purchase from
โœ… Obviously fake testimonials
โœ… 3 Twitter followers
โœ… Product launched yesterday

No-one believes this BS

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The only people building tech before validating are those who are too scared to talk to customers

They listen to BS advice on here like 'don't do meetings' that's just nonsense from introverted developers who don't like talking to people

OFC you should meet with customers toโ€ฆ

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If you are making tech stack decisions before you have validated with customers, you have screwed up

sales comes before tech

if you can't sell the concept, you won't be able to sell the product

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Building a SaaS with Nextjs is an amateur move because the main selling point of next promotes poor SaaS architecture

It's a bad idea to couple the backend and frontend together, even worse to couple the marketing site with them

Shipping a wee update to a button on the frontendโ€ฆ

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People who only post wins are full of ****

Follow people who also share the struggles and failures

Learn from people who are real

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