Meta About Indie Hacking
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Personal breakthroughs
- Market research
- Actually talking to customers and understand 1) their pain, 2) what they would pay me
- Tenacity / Grit
- Develop a useful product for real users
Current situation
Strengths
- Ability to develop products
- Cushy job to allow me to tend to my side business for >1h per day
- Have compassion about people / Generally amicable
Weaknesses
- No connections to talk to customers
- Easy to give up without actually trying hard
Long term plan
- Build products (fun & challenging)
- Find customers to chat with
- Learn and write down
Ideal Patterns 1: Launch & Grow
- Develop a slack bot
- Launch in Slack Directory
SEO learnings
- Write several blogs about it
- Monitor traffic via GA
Content marketing
- Post three posts a day for all the channels I found
- How to find channels
- Written feedbacks: how important are they?
User interviews
- Cold emailing
- Effective to find real users?
- Observe how real users use the bot
Idea Pattern 2: Open source way
TBD