Persisting as a solo founder

Lonely? Need Accountability Partners? Talk to Users

Reduce Procrastination: Have users breathing down your neck.

The only push notifications you should have: Stripe payments.

Can totally relate. I quit my job in April (yup great timing) and it's been really lonely and hard at times just sitting in my bedroom trying to motivate myself to keep hammering on a project or start a new one. But the struggle is worth it! :)

Hey Vishnu, good post, thanks for sharing.
By the way, since you're working on a privacy-focused app, you should check out https://www.indiehackers.com/post/privacy-is-a-hard-sell-c64b597f8a, and in particular @csallen's response.

Breaking down tasks into chunks that seem trivial to accomplish has helped reduce the friction in getting started on unexciting grunt work.

This is underrated. One of the biggest reasons founders fail is because they avoid important-but-unpleasant tasks. Once you get started on these tasks they aren't so bad, but getting started is the hard part. So anything you can do to make getting started easier is worth quite a bit.

Good stuff, thanks for writing up!

@vishnu your write-up on holding it together as a solo founder is so good. Thank you for sharing it!