Holy shit. This is hard. Day two of being a full time Indie hacker.

Who are you?
My name is Laurin and I just left my ‘safe’ job at a tech company last week to pursue what I call my venture year. Inspired @jakobgreenfeld and @kevjoc, I will launch 12 products in 12 months. Before explaining why I find it hard to be an indie hacker, I want to express my deep gratitude to the indie hacker community. Without you, I would not have dared to take this leap.

So, what makes being an indie hacker hard for me?
I think the biggest difference between having a regular job and being an indie hacker is that I don't have a ready play-book to follow that will help me get to my goal. This makes it hard. I spend a part of my day yesterday to think about what my process should look like and how I can create a V0.1 of this play-book for myself. I see the key aspect of a good process in it being self-correcting. To make it self correcting, there are two options:

1. Talking to potential customers and listening to how you can solve their problems and integrating learnings into the process.
2. Talking to other indie hackers to learn from their process and integrate those learnings.

On the first part, there are many great posts here in the forum on how to validate an idea. However, on the second part, I would love to get some more feedback from you. If there are some people willing to share some of their learnings, I will write up a small synthesis to make sure others also benefit from it. The questions that link to point two are:

1. What is your biggest challenge in reaching $1000 MRR? How are you tackling that challenge?
2. Do you actively build relationships with other indie hackers (e.g. set up calls)? If so, how and what do you get out of it?

I’d love to hear about your experiences and learnings. Also, free to drop me a DM via Twitter if you would like to connect and exchange ideas.