I want to be WAYY MORE INVOLVED in Indie Hackers
Cathie Woods is speaking to a crowd of people in Johannesburg and she seems kind of nervous. This is a talk she did in 2019 for a FinTech summit. I think Cathie is nervous because the ideas she is talking about are getting scepticism from the crowd. And I think that's happening because people cannot even imagine the stuff she's is seeing and predicting.
I won't lie, part of me is a bit in that camp of people who are sceptical. The other part of me is thinking; how do you get the skills required to understand what the future will be? Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Cathie Woods, Satoshi Nakamoto, Jack Ma, Masayoshi Son. All of these people predicted the huge shifts that were coming with the internet and AI.
I think the Indie Hackers community has a lot of people who understand what the next waves are and how to participate in them. I want to be a part of it. I want to create products that improve the African experience. I want to have financial freedom. I want to not have to leave South Africa to use the latest technologies and understand what the future will be like. I want to be an Indie Hacker.
Please reach out to me if you'd be keen to talk about big ideas. I can't promise I'll understand or agree but I promise I will be curious and share my ideas too!
Hi @Ojo, I'd recommend just reading through the discussions headers and see who's looking for feedback. That is the easiest way to contribute.
When I signed up, I made a similar post about helping others, discussing ideas, etc and offered for people to reach out to me. Exactly zero people took advantage of that. :) I don't mean this to sound like a bad thing. But people are busy and they don't know you and your credentials. Contacting someone to get help from them or bounce around ideas takes time and the ROI on that could be zero, negative, in fact, if you consider the time could be better spent improving the product/service/idea that the person is working on.
So, if you really mean you want to contribute more, start commenting on posts, especially people seeking feedback. That's the best way to help and you'll learn a lot about how people are doing things and even if you don't have the expertise to help them, perhaps you'll learn about some new way of doing something or have thoughts/ideas that you may not have had before.
I didn't wait around for people to reach out to me. After I made that post, I started doing exactly what I describe above. Fortunately, I've been helpful to some, but I've also learned a lot.
I applaud your willingness to help others.
ALl the best!
Thanks for this ksp! These are great pointers on how to approach being on the platform.
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