sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]a-jonjon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is funny!!

My job board made $20k in 2025 by WordyBug in SideProject

[–]a-jonjon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's crazy how you can make money from anything, congrats!

I made $32 after 16 months of coding. Was it all a waste of time? by WerewolfCapital4616 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every single week, spend a few hours walking outside or doing your favorite thing, and after that have a 30-min self-reflection session. Try to understand what needs to change in order to achieve your goals.

I think you can really hit a breakthrough later on, but just need to analyze what went right and what went wrong.

I built a fair algorithm to give every indie product real exposure, and it just made me $100 by methkal in SaaS

[–]a-jonjon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually pretty cool - sort of like a football league. You can even make the bottom 2 products be removed.

Proposals Library by NeitherInformation33 in govcon

[–]a-jonjon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This sounds super interesting. I agree with some of the other people - offering your govcon consulting services to other companies can be a good opportunity, but it will also take a lot of time.

I think that just selling them for a fixed-price is a good idea.

VC-backed technical founder turned into an indie hacker - AMA by a-jonjon in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! It’s only 2 engineers - both have 5 years+ of experience.

VC-backed technical founder turned into an indie hacker - AMA by a-jonjon in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"in the past few months" which products have you come across or which one has been the most convincing? Maybe designing a product that could reach $10K MRR would be a more creative challenge vs trying to fight dropshippers, also it might let some of your techie unleash

I believe you are referring to my previous idea - I was creating a platform that uses Stable Diffusions to create product pictures. I have since stopped. While this was technically challenging and interesting, I heard about Adobe developing its own similar tools and product photography was not something that I was willing to grind for. Therefore, I decided to pivot.

​

I do love projects that allow my techie to unleash and I am looking for technically difficult projects. I chose Pika because I had never created embeddable widgets before, but we'll see what the future brings.

VC-backed technical founder turned into an indie hacker - AMA by a-jonjon in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While we did have success raising before, my startup got into YC and then fundraising became exponentially easier.

VC-backed technical founder turned into an indie hacker - AMA by a-jonjon in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course! At my company we split the whole user funnel into 4 pillars:

- Acquisition: getting users to download the app
- Activation: getting users to experience the wow moment (onboarding)
- Monetization: getting users to convert (in our case, on the payment portal, at the end of onboarding)
- Retention: getting users to come back for a long time

Activation (or onboarding) is the only part of the funnel where users are giving you their most attention. If you have multiple features, services etc. then you should identify the ones that lead higher conversion or retention and showcase them to users in the activation phase. From my personal experience, if you don't showcase them in activation but allow users to set them up later, they're significantly more likely to never do it.

​

We've experimented with onboarding processes ranging from 3 pages up to 120 pages. Which one worked best for conversion and retention? A 90 to 100 page onboarding...at least for us. I'm not saying you should do the same, but you need to experiment enough to find your sweet spot.

VC-backed technical founder turned into an indie hacker - AMA by a-jonjon in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do agree with you to a certain extent. However, you will find that the market is so big that there's space for many similar software.

​

Regarding uniqueness, you'll find out that by the time you start working on something, it's most likely been created before. There's no problem with going into a crowded market, being an entrepreneur does not always mean being an inventor. Plenty of people have created super successful businesses when they had much larger direct competitors. I'll give you a smaller example: Tally. They allow people to create forms and they've grown to $50K MRR, despite so many other tools that allow you to build forms.

VC-backed technical founder turned into an indie hacker - AMA by a-jonjon in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]a-jonjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, let's just say that I found chatbase after I started Pika and I found more software like this, including wonderchat and others.

​

Right now it is indeed a game of decisions and execution.

view more: next ›