A year into the journey

It's been a year into the indie hacking journey with TaskRobin. From building out the first prototype in 4 hours, to enhancing product capabilities after my first paid user, I am really proud to announce that TaskRobin has over 100 paid users.

Every month, TaskRobin saves thousands of emails to Notion and Airtable to help streamline workflows for businesses, educators, professionals and freelancers. My favourite part of this journey thus far is really about making an impact.

I started this journey full of doubt. Doubts for the idea, for my skillsets and for the market. But I have slowly learnt that as long as you are disciplined and follow a process, results will show.

Coming from a technical background, I am too used to seeing immediate results. If my code works, it works immediately. But growing a business is a way more meandering journey. You need to discipline to be rational and analytical - experiment different approaches and methods. Know what works and what doesn't. And use the 80-20 rule to focus on what works to drive more value.

There are days I feel I am not moving the needle at all. Days when I doubt why do I even continue to put in the effort and follow the processes. But it has always worked out. It took six months to get our SEO efforts off the ground and even longer to build marketing partnerships. But these are the long term investments for your project that you absolutely need to make once you have early market validation.

Have faith. Keep iterating. And you're not alone.