Dom

2025 was my first successful year as an indie hacker I grinded for 5 years without any glimpse of hope and then suddenly it all happened at once I saw a tweet by @levelsio, built my own Skype replacement called Yadaphone in three days and launched it on Reddit 3 months later it was already making more than $15k MRR I suddenly believed that I was more than just an NPC 9–5 programmer I scaled Yada to 15,000 users without hiring any support staff and still reply to support messages in under an hour I got my first real B2B clients - huge companies that use Yada as their go-to VoIP solution I also got my first organic traffic from Google which honestly felt like pure magic While all of this was happening I got married and my beautiful wife moved in with me in Vienna I started posting on X and grew it from 100 followers (mostly bots) to more than 3,000 Out of nowhere @thepatwalls appeared and now my face is in a 15-minute video on Starter Story I spent a month in Bali and met the GOAT @marclou in person I got my share of loses as well I made a lot of dumb mistakes with SEO that let my competitors get way more traffic than me For several months product growth stagnated and I switched to building a new thing that I never launched instead of focusing on marketing I still do consulting and sell my time - I got addicted to making money with product + freelancing too much to quit it yet I had several burn out episodes + messed up sleep schedule quite bad and now get up at 10, going to be at 2 AM usually Like all of us, I’m anything but perfect but I try to make do with what I have —— While writing this post I kept thinking that this did not happen to me but it happened to some other cooler and better Denis But guys, guess what, it did The world is huge - keep building skills, researching your audience, and posting - eventually you are guaranteed to build a product that will absolutely change your life So keep going (c) @jackfriks