Confusion. Day 2.

Today was the second day of trying to bootstrap a self-sustaining product business. I'll be posting daily updates on IndieHackers, and weekly/monthly updates on my blog at nabatism.com

• Today:

  • Spent half of the day coding on the weight tracking app.
  • Quarter of the day was spent doing cold outreach to validate a office space optimization tool that I've been working on.
  • Quarter of teh day was spent in meetings with potential joint ventures.

• Feeling

  • Felt kind of stressed and/or anxious about being confused about what I was doing and what direction I was moving. Then I realised that this is just my second day on a new endavour. If a friend of mine had started a new job, I would have told them "don't stress about it, you'll be confused for the first few weeks", and what I'm doing is not just starting a new job, I'm bootstrapping an entirely new career. Cut yourself some slack.

• Notable mentions:

  • This guide on building an app for the Shopify Marketplace is golden https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/shopify-micro-saas

• Big ideas

  • Become more systematic about the ideas that you have. Create an Excel sheet and score them across relevant metrics.