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A new Journey! Going full time indiehacker!

After so many years finally built the courage, left my previous company and dedicated myself full time to building bootstraped products.

A lot to learn in the marketing and backend development department, but its been years since I was so excited!

https://vilva.io/blog/journey-start/

, Founder of Icon for Byte Vitae
Byte Vitae
on May 22, 2019
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    Congratulations! Any ideas already of what you will be working on to start with?

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      Thanks!. Yes, Im a few weeks from releasing the MVP of https://www.indiehackers.com/product/bytevitae right now :D

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    Good for you colega. Is there something specific that caused you to snap and go for it?

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      Kind off. It was more of a sum of things than a specific one.

      But to put it short I had been growing a company I founded 5 years ago until recently, and I had a really unhealthy relationship with work. Eventually stress took a toll on me and I started to have physical and mental health issues. Took some time to rest and reflect and realized (thanks to a lot of help) that I was not happy at all and didn't enjoy it. I was exchanging health for a maybe possible very little chance of a big future exit.

      I realized that, why fuck up my life in the present to maybe enjoy it in the future when I could enjoy it right now. And here I am, enjoying it more than ever :)

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    Super cool, all the best! I'll be following your adventures!

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      Thank you very much for tagging along :)

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    Go go go! Good luck. Sending a positive energy to you

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      I can feel it!! jaja thanks man, really appreciate it.

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    Best of luck! I’m about 4 months into my journey as well, launched one product hit about $200 in revenue :) hopefully get 1000 mrr in the next 8 months :)

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      Wow, thats so inspiring man! Let's hope I get as good numbers as you. Best of luck to you and your products.

      P.S: As a daily VPN user TunnelHero looks really interesting, will be sure to follow you along your journey to.

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    Good luck, mate! I never dared do this. Could have learned so much in the last decade if I did!

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      Wait, Rob, how old are you? (I have OCD: Obsessive Comparative Dependency)

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        37 I've gone through a few stages of making and selling products from time to time. some successful for a while. some longer. some not at all.

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          Thank you very much Rob! Yours sound like a pretty interesting career, Im a designer turned engineer myself. Do you have a blog or your experience written anywhere? Sounds like a very interesting life to learn from :)

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            No. I'm a bit too dyslexic for blogging to much :)

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    Exciting! What can indie hackers do to help? :)

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      Providing feedback on the posts would be great!

      Im trying to create the most value with them, so even if my products don't work out the experience will stay as a valuable resource for other people. So any feedback or things you would like to know about the process would be amazing :D