Jim Wilson

I enjoy exploring business tech finance marketing and educational ideas that solve real problems.

Most of my time goes into learning from founders and turning those lessons into better products. I am currently building a new app and look forward to sharing the journey on Indie Hackers.

Always interested in practical discussions that help people build useful businesses.

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Recent activity

Growing a talent marketplace to $2.5M+/yr after two years of losses

I got tired of opening 15 AI websites every time I made a YouTube video, so I built one desktop app instead.

Case Study: Why Ranking Keywords Is Not the Same as Growing a Business

I spent 25 years studying wildlife in the field. Then I realized I was sitting on a business nobody else could replicate.

67K impressions in 2 days from a single Daily-Dev post — here's what happened

Stop losing deals in the gap between "sounds good" and getting paid

Building Needly: a simpler way to test business ideas

AI search is sending me clients now, and it's mostly because of Reddit

Hitting $15k/mo by purchasing defunct domains and building for pre-existing demand

Launched Dealorio on BetaList today: AI that turns meeting notes into client proposals (Solo build, here where i am at)

Failing 6 times before hitting a 7-figure ARR in 10 months with no code

I Built an AI That Doesn't Just Detect Bugs—It Helps Developers Fix Them.

A client of mine got scammed by an employee who was never actually "remote"

Everyone told her to expand beyond tutors. She said no — and it hit $8k MRR anyway

Link analytics tools hand you numbers. What marketers actually need is a verdict.

I built a focus app on a 6-inch phone in Ethiopia

I built an open-source Google Maps scraper to automate B2B lead gen (Free)

After five failed products, this founder quit his job and hit $7.5k/mo in 12 months

Almost hired a developer pretending to be someone they’re not. Be careful

Hitting $3.3k MRR in two months while working a full-time job