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First Day Full-Time Indie Hacking (Day 1)

This was my first day working full-time on my own projects. I know it's often advised to try to keep your side-hustle as a side-hustle until you reach some kind of ramen profitability, but that hasn't worked for me so far.

I think my personality type is generally more all-in, so I decided to give bootstrapping my own product business a whole-hearted attempt during 2021. Maybe I can look back at these posts in twelve months and thoroughly regret it 😅

I will be posting here daily reporting back on what I've been working on.

Today:

  • Coding. I spent most of the day coding on a weight-loss tracking app. This is not an idea I have validated, this is not an idea I believe will bring lots of money, and this is probably not what I need to do or should be doing and I'm fully aware of that, but since it was my first day back, it felt good to try to "warm up" by working in a domain that I know well. The plan moving forward is to spend part of my time coding on projects, and part of my time on business development in general.
    • The weight loss tracking app is an idea quite similar to TrendWeight.com (which I really like!) but with more focus on sharing and P2P accountability.
    • The reason I am pursuing it at this stage is not that I think I can make a viable business out of it, but rather that
        1. It is something that I will be using myself.
        2. I should be able to complete and launch the entire project in 1-2 weeks of time.
        3. It will help me learn how difficult it is to market a product in the Health & Fitness niche at a relatively low cost. My impression is that it's very competitive, but the best way to find that out is to actually try launching something in that niche rather than speculating about it. I have some other ideas for this niche, and I think this could be a way to dip my toes in the niche.
  • I set up some meetings. Talking to one company in the Health & Fitness-niche and one company in the Social Media-niche tomorrow to see if there are some good, mutually beneficial opportunities.

I'll be posting my daily updates here every day from now on. For longer updates (weekly, monthly), I'll be using my blog at nabatism.com.

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