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"When I build, they'll come." - every indie hacker ever
Oh boy was I wrong...
~6 Weeks ago I launched typescriptpro.com
Here is everything I did and learned along the way. The hard way.
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Phil Goodbread
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Phil Goodbread
@phil_goodbread
🧠 Sharing my SaaS journey from minute 1 🛠️ Building the TypeScript Knowledge-Hub 👉 https://t.co/6OoQdcWUs1
Munich, Germany Tham gia Ocak 2019
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@marclou I love the reflection and realization!
You already live the life you want, a higher number doesn't change anything.
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I spent the last few days away from work, with my family, working out, and doing normal IRL things.
A few things became clear.
1. Making money was never the goal, but somewhere along the way, revenue became the score I look at. If I make $80k/month and the next month $70k, I feel bad. Nothing changes in my life; I barely spend the money, but my brain only sees the drop. I even feel uncomfortable writing this because I know how lucky that sounds. What I actually love is still going from 0 to 1: building something, shipping it, seeing it exist.
2. My 𝕏 account changed my relationship with people. I never thought it would grow past 10k followers. Back when a few hundred people followed me, I knew names, had conversations, made friends. Now there are 300k people here, my DMs never stop, and every post gets read in a way I don’t control. I feel grateful for it, but I also miss how simple it felt before. I'll spend less time trying to answer everyone, and more time having real conversations with fewer people.
3. Work follows me everywhere. Ideas, products, things to improve, things to fix. It gave me a lot, but it also sits in my head all the time. Even during a walk with my wife, part of my brain is still building something. I don’t know how to turn that off. But I don't think I want to anyway; obsession is what brought me here. I just have to live with it.
I haven’t built anything in 2 weeks, and I already miss it!
Maybe that’s what a break is supposed to do?
Marc Lou@marclou
I overworked myself. For the past 5 years, I barely took a day off. I shipped 30 startups, wrote 30,000 tweets, made 70 YouTube videos, and answered thousands of support requests. The weird part is, it never felt like work. It felt like play. Until recently. For the first time in years, I’ve struggled to get things done. I don’t want to open my laptop. The things that used to make me happy suddenly feel heavy. That scares me a bit, because the playful side of work is what got me here. And right now, it feels like I lost it. So I’m taking a break. I’ll still do about an hour of maintenance work a day, but the rest of my time will go to real life. I’m training for Hyrox in Korea on May 25, so I’ll put my energy there for now and train 20 hours a week. I went through a little burnout once before, in 2021. What helped me was going back to basics: training, reading, eating well, and sleeping 8 hours. It brought the hunger back then. I trust it will again!
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16% - I synced some subscribers that signed up via GitHub
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Someone should make a YouTube series where they invite a vibe coder to build a startup from scratch on a specific theme (i.e., OpenClaw wrapper, gamified app, B2B SaaS) until they make $1.
@thepatwalls's Starter Story would make a perfect fit.
I'd be a hardcore watcher of the channel.
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@sandro_vol Great workflow!
My alias is yolo 😂 and I like using git worktrees for parallelization.
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My current claude-code workflow:
1. cc (alias for alias cc='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions')
2. /spec - give all context needed, interviews me with all important things, lots of depth.
3. Specfile is created in Markdown (not JSON/YML -> MD)
4. I read it, sometimes but rarely need to update it - copy path
5. /clear
6. Implement spec now
Currently, I don't use any ralph loop because this workflow works insanely good for me.
I only do this for whole features or fixes where I'm not sure about the issues.
Sometimes claude jumps back into plan mode after the /clear if it sees it is a huge feature. I'll let it do it and then verify it.
In the /spec command & CLAUDE MD I often define how the feedback process looks like. Sometimes I also add it to the spec (e.g. check abc in the DB or deploy and build it until this works).
I LOVE that 🥰
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We have accounts and challenge progress tracking now. Leaderboard next?
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Fair is over - batteries are empty and need some recharging on the weekend.
But was a great talks with customers, potential customers and partners!
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4/4 So I have not captured a single lead.
So I validated there is no interest?
Or is my landing page too weak?
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Small update on my reddit ad campaign to validate an idea.
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@vercel being the GOAT again
Guillermo Rauch@rauchg
I'm happy to cover the bill myself and in the process help you guys optimize this usage¹. I've been impressed about how Vercel has enabled you to build this so fast, and with the quality of the overall website. It's fast af. You've built something amazing that's become a global public resource. Respect! ¹ You guys have the 609th highest-traffic app on Vercel. It'd be my pleasure to share best practices given this is what only the largest enterprises & scale-ups can usually pull off
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