Every single successful indie maker I know had to work extremely hard to make it

Only then do they start sharing pics of them at the beach sipping on a coconut

So if your main motivation for indie hacking is lifestyle, you’ve made a terrible mistake

I am SO impressed by 20-something year olds indie hacking

Took me 31 years

1 out of 10 indie makers is successful

This isn’t a real stat, but it could be true

Nevertheless, you learn SO much from indie hacking

Even if you fail you’ll be extremely well trained for success in more conventional paths

Hiring 101 for indie makers:

Do the work yourself first

Also applies to hiring freelancers/agencies

« Launch and see what sticks »

Is an awful strategy for makers

Unless you answer those questions first:

- what trends are you seeing in the market

- what will be the consequences of those trends

- what painful problems will those consequences have

- who will suffer from

I can’t count the number of copycats who tried to outsmart us

or the competitors who tried to steal our clients

Here’s what we invest in to beat them every time:

- our personal brands to increase trust

- our company brand (through sponsorships) to stay top of mind

- our

Why do we congratulate SEO experts for bringing traffic?

Ads/Paid experts are only judged on conversions

Let’s help these makers today 🚀

They’re using PH for what it was originally supposed to be:

A place to test your product and collect feedback

Burca Paul and Alex Dev are launching Assista today.

I gave it a whirl and loved experimenting with it

In a nutshell: connect

Free resource bros

It bothers me that 50x more people will read my tweets if I mention I sold a SaaS for millions of $

I'd be the same person if I hadn't

'I need to have all my competitors' features before I can launch'

Is one of the most common false beliefs I hear

Let's unpack this:

Most makers want users to switch from a competitor to their solution

Seems logical...

So they set out to build all the key features from

Never seen an influencer become successful at running a SaaS business

Have you?

Let's stop pretending there's a one-size-fits-all strategy to SaaS businesses

'Make a free plan' vs. 'Ask for card details upfront'

'Do user research' vs. 'Build for yourself'

'Pixel perfect' vs. 'Ship asap'

Successful makers share advice like they found the right answer

« If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all »

Sound advice for LinkedIn

But what makes X great is most people say what they mean and it spurs up valuable conversations

And most people don’t take offense

The other day I called Sahil Lavingia an idiot in a tweet.

Too many makers ignore price differentiation as a legitimate way to build a business

See Youform by Davis from Youform & OneUp

Growing fast despite competing directly with Typeform that’s been in business for 10+ years and does $91M in revenue

Why it’s smart:

- building forms is a very