Hey IH community, welcome to 2021! 🎉
Setting a goal (or more than one) for the year ahead can be a great way to focus some energy.
You can have any numbers or types of goals, though one thing I would advise though is to make the goals vague - don’t be too specific! 🤔
To start us off, my goals for this year are:
These goals are very vague, but also achievable, so make sure that you don’t set goals that are too specific for the year ahead! 😳
I can’t wait to hear what goals you people are striving for in 2021! 🤩
My goal for 2021 is to cover my living expenses.
My goal for 2021 is to switch Divjoy to a recurring revenue model and increase revenue from $50k (last year) to $100k .
Nice. How long did it take to reach the first 50K?
Been live since August 2019, so a little over a year.
That's an awesome result, congrats :)
My goals for 2021 are:
Nice tool. Where/how is it hosted? You may need to adapt scale quickly if demand grows well.
Project hosted on scaleway.com and my apps run on kubernetes. I am planning migrate to dedicated servers in the future.
Cool. I've used Scaleway Kapsule for a little while and I liked it. Shame they raised their prices quite a bit. I'm using DOKS now (DigitalOcean). Why would you migrate to dedicated servers? You would lose a lot of flexibility especially with Kubernetes.
Sorry for the confusion, I plan migrate to dedicated servers but still using kubernetes. Using dedicated server is to achieve better performance per dollar. I hate scaleway bait and switch to higher prices.
Yeah I understood what you meant. What I meant is that with dedicated servers you lose easy block storage and load balancers, autoscaling etc. :)
Oh I see. I build kubernetes using ansible and not using any cloud specified features such as block storage or load balancer. I create my own cloud native storage using longhorn, load balancer using traefik (with round robin DNS). No solution for autoscaling yet.
Gotcha. I have used Longhorn too (as well as Rancher) and I like it. It's by far the best free storage solution for K8s that I have tried.
My goals:
My goals for 2021 are:
help 1k folks build profitable communities!
Just one: Over 1K MRR from my new baby SaaS :)
Something very common I see people say is "I want to do XYZ this year..." but they forget or never try their best to achieve what they want. I have a lot of goals for 2021, so the best thing I recommend is to use Notion or some other app and write down your goals and make sure you try your best to achieve them.
I hope that we can have a good and productive 2021 with more hard work and less wishful thinking 👍
Officially launch my site. A site, that I hope, no one here ever needs to use.
My goal this year is to step up my game with promoting www.dynablogger.com - I have done it very poorly so far because I am new to this. Also I have had some distractions so I haven't done as much as I would have liked it. Time to change that.
Professional:
Personal:
It's gonna be a busy year apparently :D
Launch a new platform for designers to stay on top of trends + motivation ✌️
To scale a simple developer/roadmap/goal setting tool to $200 MRR! 💪
Collaboration with Privacy Friendly Apps/Services by next month.
Get good at content creation and reach 100 subscribers for my newsletter-
https://historybits.substack.com/
Getting better at time management.
I only freelance and indie hack now. No more job, no more boss... no more productivity😕
Usually, by the time I have breakfast and take my emails it's time for supper and I wonder where my time went. (exaggerating, but you get the idea)
Getting up early will be a nice start. (literally...)
PS: I realize "Getting better" is way too vague, I have some numbers.
growth, money and chill
Just launching I’ve been developing for a year more or less. Realized I’m never gonna be done, just need to be feature (MVP) complete!
All I want is to earn the Productivity Owl's respect.
I wrote the respect score calculation myself, so I know what it takes... but after a couple weeks of using the new ProductivityOwl my respect score is still 2/100. 😭
Seems like a tough goal!
I'll give your extension a try.
My goal is get 100 houses in the U.S. to actively use Announcr's "Talking Houses" implementation. Which would mean there are 100 houses in neighborhoods broadcasting positive messages to passers-by :)
My goal is to scale my app Fast Calorie Counter to 1000€ (=1200$) MRR. Currently 150-200$ MRR. I think this is possible because i already have a lot of downloads but i struggle with user retention. So focus will be on the product itself. Listen to my users and improve the app every week and every month.