What's New: TikTok's top 2024 trends
(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)
Here's what you'll find in this issue:
- From demure to #science, here's what popped on TikTok this year.
- In examining Alex Hormozi’s “no distractions for 10 years” philosophy, some founders are questioning the hustle mindset.
- $170M MRR. Melanie Perkins spent a year building an MVP for Canva, and built a waitlist of 50K users before launching.
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TikTok's top 2024 trends 💝
TikTok just released its report on the year’s biggest trends and moments.
The report begins with some celebratory stories of small businesses using TikTok to grow quickly. Interestingly, the number of TikTok Shop LIVE sessions hosted each month nearly tripled this year.
Other top categories included BookTok, music, #SportsOnTikTok, and education.
Is hustle culture still worth it? 🤔
For years, the hustle-and-grind culture has dominated the indie hackers scene. It's almost become a badge of honor to sacrifice everything for success.
But times are changing. Founders are starting to push back, prioritizing their mental and physical health over relentless ambition.
Take the reactions to Alex Hormozi's recent post, where he laid out his life's philosophy. Sam Parr, Justin Welsh, and many others weighed in on the debate.
The Build Board 🪧
Every day, indie hackers post updates about the products they're building. Here's what the community voted to the top yesterday!
1.CodeFast: Learn to code in weeks, not months.
2. Pieter.com: Pieter's official homepage on the World Wide Web.
3. FairKiwi: Sustainable shopping simplified.
4. Candli: Educational game creation tool.
5. CarSearch Hub: Car data search tool.
Enjoy building in public? Post an update to your product page on Indie Hackers, and it will automatically be added to the daily leaderboard.
Empowering non-designers to create graphics ✨
Melanie Perkins got the idea for Canva after she saw how complicated and expensive it was to create even simple things, like an advertisement or a website. She believed there had to be a better way.
Though she had a huge vision from the beginning, she niched down hard to build the MVP first. She got a small loan, chased profitability, and steadily grew over the next few years.
A trip to San Francisco helped Melanie see that she was capable of building out her big vision for her design product. She also ended up connecting with her eventual CPO and CTO there.
That trip gave her the inspiration and the connections to finally try to build the all-in-one platform that she initially envisioned.
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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Stephen Flanders and Michal Kankowski for contributing posts. —Channing
