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What's your favorite quote from an Indie Hackers Podcast episode?

I thought it would be fun to queue up a playlist based on your favorite or most impactful moments in the podcast.

One of my favorites comes from #079 with Julian Shapiro of Bell Curve on assessing your market:

You don’t want to go off hunches, ever. Hunches can propose some things for you to try, but data should then be what validates them. Hunches should not be what concludes on experiments or concludes on really important decisions.

I often catch myself falling into a trap of committing too far based on my creativity and emotions, and I think, for me, Julian's quote serves as a reminder to "do the work" and try to back up or disprove my assumptions.

#ask-ih

on July 10, 2019
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    Neat idea! I think much of Jason Cohen's podcast could be turned into PG style advice-bytes. One of my favorite as he talks about :

    If kind of anything works, potentially, then take the advice really resonates with you. Where you go "Yeah, that sounds like something I wish I had said because that sounds like me", when that's the feeling you get from the advice - when you have that kind of personal resonance with it, to me that means just take it. Why? Because if that or the opposite of it is equally valid, well then take the thing that you're super excited about, that you know how to put into practice, that you're already buzzing with ideas about. Because if you're excited like that then you'll do a better job.

    I find this advice so valuable because of what he said prior about the fact that for every advice X, that says you should do Y, you can find another piece of advice Z, that says you should do ¬Y and have it be an equally cogent argument.

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      Oh! Great choice!

      I love any talk Jason Cohen gives. His MicroConf talks are aging but I think they hold up well. I especially enjoyed "Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business" https://vimeo.com/74338272

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        Awesome, I’ll give it a look!