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Templates to build and sell Indie Apps – useful or not?

A friend suggested this to me - Canva for Apps.

Indie hackers are great at their core skill - but need help/information in others. From personal experience, I agreed but wanted to be sure.

Solution: A tool that can be used by an indie to build, launch, and sell their app.
The tool should contain project templates for everything other than code.

Example:

Someone building a dating app will need to research the market, make designs, project manage the launch, and iterate. Most of these are non-trivial activities and need a lot of work. Templates will help people get started quickly.

So here I am, asking the foremost community of indie hackers in the world - do you think this is useful?


EDIT:

For the example given above - Research for a Dating app: the template might look like this:

  1. Competitive Research - here is the competitive research excel sheet you can fill; here are the common list of data sources; here is a task by task plan of how to go about it.

  2. Primary Research - here is the project plan for asking questions to prospects. here is a "leads" sheet which you can fill out. Here are the methods people use to discover the first 10-15 prospects to talk to; here is an execution plan to carry it out.

The system will give these suggestions on the basis of the type of application (B2C, Marketplace, Software) and will not "know" what a Dating App is.

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      Thanks for asking. Please check out the edit above.

      There will not be information presented. Rather a map to find the information on your own. It will help avoid common mistakes and keep things on track.

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