Week 25 of 52 to Indie Hacking

Hey fellow indie makers!

On June 2020 I quit my job with 1 year of savings. Every week since then I document what happens behind the scenes and share all of my learnings with the Indie Hacking community!

Struggling with being too ambitious

On the previous update I said that:

"Finally, if you liked the livestream show idea, feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel! I am planning to publish at least 1 new episode every week".

Well that was me being too excited for a new video that I just published, and making a promise I cannot keep. When I do something that feels good I get too excited sometimes, and make statements like "I'll do this every week" which is totally unproductive and makes me stressfull in the end. As you might have guessed, I won't publish a new episode every week cause it's not my primary focus and it's too time consuming. But of course I will keep sharing usefull content on YouTube and Twitter as well!

The lesson I learned from this is to experience the excitement but wait for a few days and stay focused on my goals. If I still feel super excited and feel there is an opportunity then I should take the time and explore it without making any loud statements.

My approach on building my community

On Wednesday I had a call with Rossie, the community lead here at [indiehackers.com, where we discussed about the hype around online communities. Many creators nowdays create slack teams or forums for their audience and ask them to join there and discuss. I personally find this wrong most of the times, cause it's too time-demanding. People are already busy. We discussed about how I interact with my audience and build a community by doing 1-1 calls and contributing to the UX group of indiehackers.com.Creating another place for people to hangout online is not always the right choice. In my case I focus on the places where my audience already hangs out, and try to create value for them, in there.

Once our call was over, she also wrote and published a great article based on our discussion 🙂

I came up with a new format for my courses

I am tired of 10+ hours video courses, e-books and static content. It's time for something new. Something interactive, fun, practical and easy to follow. That's why I decided that my courses will be small interactive websites.

This way I can have rich content like videos, interactive prototypes, images and so on. This is the best way for me to give practical knowledge in the shortest amount of time. Here is a preview of how they will look like.

And...

I made a new twitter list called Devs influencers that will help me understand what developers like to read and how successful influencers create content. Twitter lists can be a great source of knowledge if I just use them right.
I had a call with Meka for contributing to https://openlibrary.org - Openlibrary is an open-source project and open-source contributions is something that I want to do for a long-time now. But as I said before, I am too ambitious most of the times, on what I can get done in a week. So for now I just had the call and will see in the future how I can help them without making any promises yet 🙂
I helped 5 fellow indie hackers with their product UX with my free 1-1 calls and showed them how to do rapid prototyping and user testing! 👊
I made 3 new pre-sales (24$ in total) with my rapid prototyping and user testing course! 🥳

That's all for this week, I hope you enjoyed it and learned something new! Feel free to also follow me on Twitter for more tips and insights on UX and IndieHacking.

See ya next week!