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Most software problems are decision problems in a technical costume. You're rarely stuck on how to build it. You're stuck on whether it should exist at all. The code is the easy part.
Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Solo builders, what part of building did you assume you'd hate but actually love now?
Mine's support emails. Did not see that one coming.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Raising the price of @walkthroughcc on Monday. The launch price did its job, got it into the hands of the first people who'd actually use it. If you've been circling it, the next 24 hours are the cheapest it'll ever be.
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The quiet milestones hit hardest. Not the launch, the first email from a stranger saying the thing you built saved them an afternoon. That's the one that actually lands.
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Building solo teaches you fast that every "yes" is something you maintain forever. The hard skill was never adding features. It's saying no to good ideas because you'll be the one keeping them alive at 2am.
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Six months ago I was filling prescriptions. This morning I fixed a bug before my coffee went cold. Nobody warns you the real change isn't the job, it's that you stop waiting for permission to fix things.
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Somewhere we quietly accepted that you don't own software anymore. You rent it. Forever. For tools you open every single day. The strangest part is how normal that came to feel.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Jun 11
Stay with reality longer than your imagination wants to.
No rebrand.
No pivot.
No new project.
No new framework.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Jun 13
If you're building something solo right now, no co-founder, no funding, just shipping,
Reply with what you're building.
Let's follow each other. The indie founder path is less lonely when you're not walking it alone. 👇
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Jun 13
The doubters were never really in the way. They just make noise from the sidelines. The people actually building are too busy to hear them, that's the part that compounds.
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Jun 13
Subscriptions rent you the tool.
@walkthroughcc sells you the tool.
One of these respects your money.
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Jun 13
Build in public means sharing the broken activation, the slow week, the bug you caused yourself.
Not just the first sale screenshot.
The whole thing or nothing.
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Jun 13
"Why don't you charge monthly?"
Because I don't want customers who forgot to cancel. I want customers who chose to stay.
Big difference.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Jun 13
Things nobody tells you about building solo:
— You will fix the same bug three times
— Your best feature will be an accident
— The first sale hits different than any salary ever did
— You will never want to go back
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Jun 13
Thinking about what to build next.
Simple question: what's one thing you pay monthly for that you'd happily buy once and never think about again?
Not looking for big SaaS.
The small annoying subscriptions count most.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Jun 12
6 months of building in public.
First sale. Then another. Then another.
It doesn't get loud all at once.
It gets quiet, then consistent, then real.
Keep going. 🖤
#buildinpublic #indiehacker
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