💀So people are calling the death of Indie Hacking?
Indie Hacking is a great gateway drug.
It comes with the highs of building fast and scrappy, the safety of a shared community who (seemingly) has your back, and the adrenaline spikes from building in public.
There are always fads. But small, lean, profitable software businesses - these are not fads. These have existed long before digital nomads, long before product hunt.
I’m talking about the O.G’s like
@patio11,
@robwalling,
@earthlingworks and hndreds more. Indie hackers before the term existed, and before the associated ceremonies existed.
You don’t HAVE to be a solopreneur building 43 products, another SaaS boilerplate or a Chat-with-PDFs AI tool, tweeting a photo of todays Stripe MRR as you drink a flat white in Chiang Mai wearing your “Founder Mode” tee (… but I do have one and I love it
@levelsio!)
You can be whatever you want, and build cool, profitable shit, that solves real problems for real people… and if you don’t want to - you don’t even need to tell Twitter about it 🙂
I’m doing this with Userdoc. It’s super boring, and I’m proud of that. My customers are boring too (and I love you!) - but they have money, and Userdoc makes their lives easier.
Indie Hacking has been (and is) great.
It may die out, or it may not.
But my advice?
Either way, Graduate to building businesses.
This was what Indie Hacking was in the beginning.
Look for the boring, un-sexy niches, ideally where you already have institutional knowledge.
You don’t want to sell your product for tens of dollars per month… you want hundreds of dollars per month per customer - and eventually, thousands.
This is almost always in B2B businesses.
Don’t be afraid to build a small team, don’t be afraid to raise some (sensible) money once you are making money and need to throw fuel on the fire - 👋
@tinyseedfund
And don’t be afraid stop calling yourself an Indie Hacker,
and start calling yourself a Business Builder.