Indie Hackers helped shape VIDI’s early story. It’s time for the next chapter.

Indie Hackers helped shape VIDI’s early story. I think it’s time for the next chapter.

When I first came here, VIDI was extremely early.

No clear positioning.
No real traction.
Mostly questions.

Just a solo founder from Kazakhstan trying to understand whether this problem actually mattered.

This community became a much bigger part of my journey than I expected.

Over time, discussions across my posts turned into thousands of meaningful interactions.

Across all posts and discussions, there were probably 4000+ comments overall.

I read far more than people probably realized.

A lot of those conversations changed how I think.

Not just about product.

About users.
Markets.
Positioning.
Distribution.
Trust.
And company building.

When I first started posting here, my thinking was simple.

Build.
Launch.
Get users.
Improve.
Repeat.

Today my thinking is very different.

The biggest shift came from real conversations.

Over the last months, I had 200+ investor conversations.

That changed a lot.

I started thinking less like a builder shipping features and more like a founder building a real company.

I also learned something the hard way.

B2B trust takes time.

Growth was not explosive.
Every real customer took effort.
Sometimes 1–2 weeks just to convert one.

But that process taught me something important.

In early-stage startups, speed is not just shipping fast.

It’s learning fast.
Adapting fast.
And staying close enough to reality to recognize when your thinking needs to change.

I also want to thank several people here who helped shape my thinking during VIDI’s early stage.

A lot of the early feedback, questions, and discussions helped me sharpen how I think about users, positioning, trust, and company building.

Special thanks to:

@kintsuai
@nickcoffee
@ourabi
@TaxSort
@JuhyunChoi
@n8nship
@Inatolnato
@benj_mtn
@backendrescue
@ShelfCheck
@Sophia_Dev
@jarv5iz

Your feedback genuinely helped more than you probably realize.

And special thanks to @GregoryScottHenson.

Our conversations were different.

He helped me solidify things I already believed at around 80% and pushed that conviction to 100%.

Not by giving easy answers.

But by helping me think more clearly and at a deeper level.

I genuinely appreciate that.

Indie Hackers was a very important chapter in my journey.

But I feel like I’m entering a different stage now.

Different mindset.
Different challenges.
Different game.

Still building.
Still learning.
Still early.

Just entering the next chapter with much more clarity.

Thank you, Indie Hackers.