Hardest 😩 part about Indie Hacking? 👨‍💻

I'll check it out, thanks. Haven't outsourced too much, need to make more money...

Congrats

Congratulations on the kid, ma man

congrats. I'm in the same boat...full-time job + 5-mo old trying to juggle everything. It's not easy but it's manageable. Good luck!

I am really passionate about this topic and I think that one reason why it hasn't been tackled is that creating deep connection between humans requires human interactions and a lot of self work and introspection. It is thus difficult to use technology itself.

If you take for example, active listening (a building block to building true connection between humans). It is a skill that needs to be developed by repetition and feedback.

So some tools (just got an idea of one while writing this comment) can be built to help develop that skills, but the work remains on the human.

Finally, deep connection require empathy and thus an understanding of emotions.

Unfortunately technology isn't quite there yet either. There are facial expression tools out there that are used by advertiser to measure the reaction to videos for example but the setup is too complex to lug around while you interact with someone for example. As they say only 7% of communication is through the words (*actual number is unknown) so any NLP is going to fail at guessing the emotions and so one would need model ML to recognize voice intonation which wouldn't be enough either. There are other ways to go about it as well.

Would probably be easier than being on video or something for sure. I'm trying to get better at this in general too. Age is helping lol. The older I get the more I realize I'm running out of time and can't be so scared/hesitant.

Super difficult and something I'm still working on, so any tips area welcome :D

I have the exact same thing and timing for the javascript image editor product I'm selling. It's super confusing and it's stressing me out.

Hey, I'll have to check that out, thanks for the link.

I think for most part my reasons are pretty typical: limited time (day job, kids, etc.), having an actual day job already for working that also pays well enough that I don't necessarily need to chase this for the money, enjoying working alone since I can define everything about product very easily and with full autonomy.

If I was working with a team and using someone else's funds (and reporting to them), I think it would start feeling like work a lot faster than tinkering alone. And I don't know if I want to feel like working in the evenings.

Blog about your stuff, get picked up by Google and start climbing the rank-ladder. People look stuff on Google, so the higher you rank, more client will find you. That’s the long term objective. Short term, the usual IH, PH, Reddit...

This is the problem, there's no apparent solution. The usual stuff (e.g. looking for people interested in a solution to the problem the product addresses, doing content marketing, being on social, and so on) doesn't help much when starting out.

Once you've identified and solved a problem, you have to let people know about your solution. To my understanding, that's what sales/marketing is all about.

How do you let someone know you have something they want when they're not actively thinking about it?

Or better yet, how do you identify the people who want what you have, without getting pushy?

I am still learning. Trying to reach out to people on social media, will do cold emails next.

I talk about this with my cofounders and we try to identify what we do wrongly and improve on that. Also we try to become more efficient in our work. Sure, this is something quite long term, and I have tried to grow my entire life, so it is something natural.

When the project is not growing, you just try to grow it in whatever way possible. And you check what works and does not work for you. For instance, in Saturday, we organized a small conference for our biggest/most interested users, so they can meet in life and we can discuss the tool and how it is used. It was an amazing thing to see the impact of our work and to talk to these people in person.

Being Introvert and from technical background, I don't know how to "sell" but I def. know how to "make".

Primarily, I have done sales using Social media + Cold email + sending to audience I had during mvp stage.

I have been sharing progress updates on Twitter as a part of the build in public movement. This has helped me move forward one step at a time.

Just gut!