Thoughts and things I learned from my professional work as a freelance consultant and my journey as an indie hacker.
One factor for creating a successful product is the ability to anticipate future need or to predict growing markets. Your gut feeling can be an indicator. Data-driven approaches may be the better choice for most of us. Here is a selection of sites to get started:
Before picking up a new project, I'd like to look back on past projects, why I started working on them, how I built them, and what happened to them. This is part two of a two-part series and covers the time after "Maker Twitter." Feel free to read part 1 to catch up.
Around mid of 2020, I discov...
Before picking up a new project, I'd like to look back on past projects, why I started working on them, how I built them, and what happened to them. This is part one of a two-part series and covers the time before "Maker Twitter."
I'll not cover every single project, though. A game I started back...
Yesterday, I posted my side project Crowdfunded on Hacker News. It happened on a whim, without any major preparation. Now that a little more than 24h have passed, it's time to share what happened.
So, what did happen?
Nothing.
Well, close to nothing. But certainly no run on the landing page or...
As #buildinpublic also means "fail in public", here is something to learn from.
Some stats on yesterday's launch of Crowdfunded on Product Hunt:
And 0 new customers.
As for any side effects:...
As I'm starting to write this post, I have a feeling that it might not be short and sweet in the end, but rather longish and... bitter sweet. I'll give you some context about myself and my project(s), the decisions on the way, some numbers, personal learnings, and next steps. Okay, let's go.
My da...