@chr15m Chris McCormick

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October 8, 2020

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Bootstrapping and convexity

Nassim Taleb has this idea of "convexity". There's a bunch of complicated maths but it's actually quite a simple concept once you get it. This concept is useful…
August 27, 2020

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Five years

I noticed an interesting trend from the discussion about the percentage of profitable companies on IH the other day. > It's a lot of work. I had several failed …
August 17, 2020

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Holy heck this is hard

I saw this tweet today from @jdnoc: https://twitter.com/jdnoc/status/1293855638079057920 So I followed that link to the Indie Hackers product list, filtered by …
July 14, 2020

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How do you create a product people want to buy?

Amy Hoy has a video on her site Stacking The Bricks called How do you create a product people want to buy. Here are my notes summarizing the main points of the …
April 8, 2020

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The zero customer heuristic

When you're building some MVP or SLC it's tempting to over-think technical choices early on. It's tempting to build in all kinds of features and infrastructure.…
January 23, 2020

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Bootstrapping with kids LMAO

You gotta laugh. I'm trying to bootstrap selfhostedgit.com and last night I had some new signups. I woke up to the signups and immediately start provisioning se…
October 16, 2019

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Simple ways to validate the product as we build

In @wrannaman's post he says he's going to stop throwing up cheap crappy MVP landing pages because they don't work. He's right that the world is already full of…