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Turned 28. My birthday 🎉 An year wiser.

Hello folks!

I turned 28 yesterday, October 9th.
And I wanted to share my journey with you all.

I have been doing this indie-hacking, startups, creating something new for a while now. Hanging out on indiehackers.com only recently.

Age 20 was my first shot—a wireless phone charger. Product failed.
Age 22, Internship management company. No customers. Failure.
At age 23, Worked as an engineer & marketeer. Side hustled in the nights.
Age 24, First internet company for filmmakers. 7 months of effort in vain. Failure.
Age 25, First SaaS product Orcaso.io. Some traction. Incubated.
At age 26, I received a cheque from an investor and also started a UX Consultancy firm. Milestone of 50k Annual revenue.
27, beginning of habitate.io sketches. Pivoted with complete love towards community building.

28, working with 14 amazing brands in building their product communities.

Learning every-day. Trying to get better at this game.

Ever since I started actively participating in this community, I have become a lot better. Thank you, everyone.

on October 10, 2020
  1. 4

    Keep up the good work! I hear its a marathon not a sprint! About to hit 28 myself, let me know how it is haha. Congrats on your 50k AR!

    1. 1

      Thank you @zinglax. When's your birthday buddy?

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        January 2nd, still a couple months away but it sneaks up on you haha

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          haha, wishing you the best buddy.

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            Hey man you too!

  2. 2

    Deepak, inspiring stuff! Thank you for sharing

    1. 1

      Thank you @tomquirk

  3. 2

    Happy b'day Deepak!! Learning from you.

    1. 1

      Thank you @digvijay ♥️

  4. 1

    Happy bday deepak. ❤️Love from chennaite. Keep up the work.

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      Thank you @prakashn. 🍕

  5. 1

    Belated happy birthday, Deepak! habitate.io looks beautiful and useful. Do you plan to make an app soon?

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      Thank you @tvjoshi, an app is in the roadmap but honestly not any-time soon. We got plenty of exciting features coming up before that.

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        Ok got it! I proposed to use the free tier for our NGO (we currently use mix of gmail and whatsapp group to coordinate). First thing they asked is does it have an app. Currently we do all coordination on phone and do just fine with whatapp and gmail (both have an app). anyway, all the best! :)

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          Understood. What were the reasons to look for something outside WhatsApp and Gmail groups?

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            First of all it's disconnected experience, few discussions in gmail and rest in whatsapp. Also channel feature is missing, we end up creating a brand new whatsapp group for dedicated discussion and abandon it later. Those are 2 main reasons that made me think of giving this a try.

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    Happy birthday!

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      Thank you @chr15m

  7. 1

    Great to see all your progress my man. Keep up the great work!

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      Thank you @gordon