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Which part of indie hacking do you like the most?

I like the freedom and the feeling of creating value instead of trying to kill time from 9 to 5. Which part do you like the most?

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    My top 3 would have to be:

    1. The parties
    2. Fast cars
    3. Hot chicks

    I love having the creative freedom to make useful/entertaining products for other people to use.

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      1. being able to buy a new yacht every day is pretty neat
  2. 2

    There are a lot:-

    1. Working on your own terms
    2. Freedom to make anything!
    3. Taking breaks whenever you want.
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    Creation.
    From 0 to something.

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    The fact that I can't take shortcuts. I'm building code to directly license to other Indie Hackers (a JavaScript SaaS boilerplate), and because of that, everything I write has to be (gets to be?) the highest quality. There's no incentive for taking shortcuts to get a feature out sooner, because if it's full of weird hacks, other indie hackers will come across them and it will slow them down instead of speeding them up.

    When working directly on a SaaS, you can do things like skip writing tests or validations or leaving ugly implementations in, justified by "getting to market faster", and "the customer will never see it." It's nice to not even have that option there to tempt me, because it pushes me a higher standard every time I sit down and start working. =)

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    The support the community has for each other

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      what is your fav community? (other than IH :d)

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        Haha, unfortunately, IH is for me.

        I am more active on IH than any other community.

        It's a great community that supports and encourages one another whether be it mentally or figuratively

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    Creating things people use and enjoy. Once I'm not working my day job it will be the freedom though!

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      9-5 is a suicide reason :(

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        Absolutely. Some days it just takes all the wind out of my sails.

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    Creative control and freedom.

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      what do you mean with creative control?

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        By creative control I mean having the power to make all the decisions on all the aspects of a product such as features, design, content, pricing, sales, distribution, marketing, and more.

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    I like the fact that nobody can give you orders and you don't have a boss to report.

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      On multiple occasions I’ve found that a customer is worse than a boss

  9. 1

    Thinking and then building, and seeing people's reactions. It's very enjoyable to build something and solve people's problems.

  10. 1

    The amount of genuinely cool people I have met!

  11. 1

    I enjoy the variety of work that I get to do – from writing tests for the backend to writing copy for the landing page.

  12. 1

    Indie hacking is a position where you have both "measurement" and "leverage" (using Paul Graham's definition)

  13. 1

    I like that at least one person benefits from what I’m building

  14. 1

    Genuinely trying to help people by creating value. It's so rewarding.

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    Marketing and helping people

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      which type of marketing do you like the most? I used to hate content marketing but nowadays I spend 3-4 hours a day writing content and learning SEO :D

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        Content marketing is great because you're also creating value.

        For me I really enjoy thinking about the hypotheses of how people would react to words and designs and then validate/invalidate them using experiments.

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          Yeah, I agree but the SEO part makes me stressed :(

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            Yes it does. same with ASO. The fact that you don't know if you are doing the right thing or the wrong thing is unsettling.

            I guess the key is to keep a log of the changes so you can always go back to the status quo.

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              yeah, I agree. I made a Notion board to measure blog posts and keywords.

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