🚗 Milestone Recap: Yahia Bakour hits 12k MAU, Art Perkitny's project gets acquired...
Happy Friday, folks 🕺Let's celebrate the week’s achievements (and bungles). Here are some highlights, and feel free to share your own in the comments.
😰 Struggle bus:
- @alexku’s computer dies and their backend wasn’t committed. Upside: They moved to Firebase and they're loving it.
- @razermuse has a troubling conversion rate. Upside: They’ve identified the issues.
- @ismael_sow throws in the towel after sending 75 cold emails with zero responses. Upside: He’s moving onto his next big idea.
🎉 Nailing it:
- @ValCanBuild gets interviewed by IH.
- @craighacker1123 hits $1k/mo on a side project after two years.
- @ryanb58 finally finds time to get some work done (after playing Mario Kart).
- @adawg4 finishes their landing page.
- @noobieprogrammer finishes their MVP. Works great. But nobody's downloading it.
- @artperkitny gets acquired for $9k.
- @noahwbragg gets his first paying customer.
- @tilikang hits a whopping $3 million in ARR.
- @AntonTatarynovich launches a one-page Notion MVP after two years. And he’s dang proud of it.
- @yahiabakour hits 12,000 MAU.
- @mariamhakobyan ’s no code platform is a Golden Kitty finalist.
- @JustFitnessGuy launched to crickets last year. He worked through a long list of issues and now he’s back at it.
- @globalsculptor breaks 1 million views on a TikTok video.
- @Revgabba's dad subscribed. He's an 80-year-old indie hacker and he sounds pretty awesome.
✅ Key takeaways:
- Taking time for yourself can help you find your hustle.
- Build it and they will come 👎 (not so much).
- Have patience. Some things take time.
- Have pride in the work you do — even if it didn’t turn out quite how you expected.
- Sometimes the stars align and something as simple as a screenshot can bring in a ton of followers.
- If a family member signs up, it still counts. Heck, sometimes it counts even more.
- Keep trying.
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Hi James, thanks for the mention. 🙂 It's a surprinsingly nice boost to the morale!
Glad to hear it 😀
Hi James, same here, was really nicely surprised to see my name here, thanks for the mention! :))
Congrats everyone on all of their milestones!
My pleasure, and congrats on being a finalist! :)
Thanks @IndieJames! :)
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Wow, I didn't think anyone would notice my little old post. :) Thank you, James!
Love the takeaways!
Hah, my pleasure. Had to give a shoutout for Mario Kart 🏎