For those who are new to indie hacking (like me), I'd like your opinion.
Hi fellow noobs to Indie Hacking,
After struggling for a long time to get started on a project, I feel like I have finally found something that I enjoy working on and that I'm confident I can deliver on.
Now, I am at the point where I want to validate the idea before comitting too much time to it.
I am looking to build a product which would be called: The starter’s guide to IndieHacking.
In it, I would describe the common hurdles (and solutions) to get started with Indie Hacking, as well as adressing the common practies in this community, such as:
- Starting small
- Rapid prototyping
- Building in public
- Gathering feedback
- Marketing your product
- Validating your ideas
- Developing habits for success
Do you feel like this is a product what would interest you? I am currently thinking about a price point around 8-12$ on Gumroad.
If you're not interested, why? If you're interested, great; is there something you'd like to see in that guide?
Thanks,
I have mixed emotions, really. IH-ing is about not being lazy. You've got all the information you need on this forum, and distilling a personal blueprint for a path is so much better a learning exercise.
The idea is interesting. However, instead of a list of things one should do on Indiehackers, I would prefer personal experiences or case studies. For example, Indiehackers has around 250 podcasts of different founders. If you associate the suggestions you're giving with how similar things helper other founders, it would be much more impactful. Even your personal experiences (struggles and successes) with Indiehacking would help other people associate with the product.
Like checking with successful founders about the struggles they had at the beginning ? Then maybe connect that with my suggestions/plans for action/tips to get started?
I definitely plan to put my own experiences in that guide. Stuff I did that worked for myself, hoping it can also help others.
Checking with successful founders would definitely be great, but reaching out to them and getting responses might be pretty tough. You could start simpler with https://www.indiehackers.com/podcasts where successful founders are already talking about their journey and then pick and choose from their experiences.
I'm not 100% sure about picking insights from the podcasts. I mean, I'm sure there's gold in there, but I'm not a huge fan of live media (podcast or video). I have a pretty short attendion span.
I guess influential members of the community, those that are generally helpful and that make themselves available and give freely might be a start.
If you can get actual responses from members, not just success stories but failure stories as well, things that don't work and why, I would definitely be interested in the product :)
This is a good idea. I love the idea about the failures and struggles too.
I guess I could even include message templates I sent to get results from community members.
Connecting with people from the community seems like a great way to build a network as well :D
One hurdle for me has been the resource/tooling overload. There’s so many options for us to utilize it can be debilitating making a choice. A nice recommended resource and tooling list would amazing.
What kind of tools would you like to learn about? I don't know all the possible tools that could be used. And those evolve pretty fast. I wouldn't want the guide to get out of date by the time I'm done writing it.
Would some kind of workflow using simple tools and how to produce results quickly work better?
Some general purpose stuff like so?
That’s a fair point on keeping it up to date.
Love the idea around a workflow. Personally, it would be cool to see a few top tools for each level of a platform (Heroku for backend, Postman for APIs, Netlify for front end, bubble for no-code, etc.
Well, those are quite big chunks. I guess I could demo the workflow/tools I personally use to get stuff done quickly. This would be:
Affinity Designer, Something for the landing page, Django as backend platform and self-hosting on a VPS.
Maybe a walkthrough a small projet with how to grow it bigger, opportunities and logging stuff as I go.