Ideas for Articles

Do you have a list of articles? I can find them in the forum, but it would be cool to filter for just the article style posts.

As someone looking to cross the chasm, I'm most curious about first hires.

Building the initial version, selling/doing demos, etc. are all things I feel very comfortable doing. Managing people... not so much.

I'd love to hear perspectives from solo business owners that then decided to hire a full-time person and grow the business in headcount.

In particular:

• When did they decide to hire a full-time person?

• Did they have a bias in keeping it a "one-person show"?

• Did they start with a part-time person and it morphed into full-time?

• What position/role was the first hire? What about subsequent hires?

• Where did they find the hire?

• How do you convince someone to join a "one-person show"?

• What sort of behaviors / skills did you interview for?

• Any false starts? Or early indicators of a non-successful hire?

• How did you structure compensation? Goals and objectives?

• How much time do you spend managing people vs. product?

• Any regrets?

I could go on and on... When I read IndieHackers articles, these are the questions I'm looking to answer.

I like the multitude of subjects we can write about.

They often find massive success stories completely unrelatable.

Personally, I didn't feel that. Maybe that's true for the BIG ones here (Grasshopper, MyClean, ConvertKit, ...) but the key difference with IH is that the interviews/stories are really relatable and that is one of the reasons why I decided to do 52in52.

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Apart from this one (which seems to be focused on long articles), is there a minimum number of characters/words for the articles?