I'm not a fan of a mere pep talk or plain motivational videos out there. To me, they just seem blank and unauthentic somehow. I've always wanted to hear real talks from real people whose backstage is full of millions of ups and downs.
Today, I watched a 24-minute interview of Billy Eilish, who has just been awarded Global Artist of the Year by Apple, and who has also just been invested $25M from Apple to make a documentary out of. For the very first time in my life, I resonate so deeply with an artist (who, pls remember, has nothing to do with an indie hacker).
What made Billy so successful (she even admits that she's successful)?
It's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltHGKX80Y8
"I genuinely did not think people would care" - Billy Eilish
When Billy started, she didn't really care what people thought. She just did it anyway. She sang and she sang and she sang, until (I guess for most people), "Bad Guy" hit their playlist. Billy starts to become very popular since then (I guess even before that).
I think seeking motivation for your business is overrated. The only way to get motivated is just getting down to work. Like Steven Pressfield said in his book "The War of Art", the only thing that stops you from reaching the most creative and productive version of yourself is your own resistance, it's your laziness, your procrastination. It's not because of your financial condition, not your family, not your background, certainly not your niche or your competitor.
It's all about doing something that you love, that you are passionate about, that you would continue doing "even if everyone in this world disappears" (Steven Pressfield, the War of Art).
I feel like the product that I'm working on (https://summerian.net) is no longer "just a product". It's something I love, something I have always wanted to do. Although the product (a book summary app) has this big competitor Blinkist and Instaread, I still believe I could provide extra value. And with this interview, I'm so ready to get down to it and launch it next week, although, I gotta admit, there are still a lot of bugs around.
This makes me think there needs to be an aggregator service for all book summary services out there 😅.
Many times it is about the artist possibly more than about the work..
Hey! I'm curious about "aggregator service", what do you mean by that?
Let's say like in seekingalpha.com is an open platform for writers on finance/stocks you can track a topic or you can track a writer.
There are many non fiction summary offering by many vendors in many formats, I might hate some formats/writers and love others..
One place that has them all..
So let's say there are 10 written summaries on "Rich Dad, poor Dad", 6 audio and 3 video...
Allows me to discover and switch around and possibly consume multiple ones (weird I know, but will happen)
I think when I say aggregator I mean I import/map from existing ones vs an empty platform from scratch
That is a brilliant idea! I have never actually thought of this!