Indie Hacking

16 articles 路 all categories

October 2024

It made me $500k but I think content is a bad business

Why I didn't become a full-time creator/educator

February 2024

The market always wins

No amount of growth hacking, investor money, or a/b testing will save you, if people don't want what you have.

November 2023

Don't neglect your upgrades

Regular software updates may seem tedious, but they save you from the nightmare of a massive overhaul down the line.

February 2022

How I used indie hacking to sponsor my own greencard

The longest project of my life

January 2022

How to add Typeform as a Gatsby source

Every year I ask readers if they're enjoying my newsletter. Then fail to use those responses 馃槄 This year I said heck it and built a /testimonials page that shows everyone's feedback raw from Typeform. Here's how.

December 2021

How I stopped chasing mice in 2021

How a focus on long-term games changed my approach to everything and calmed down my life

November 2021

Balancing serious sidehustles and full-time work

Erik, the author of Developer Hegemony and founder of Hit Subscribe, invited me to chat about balancing sidehustles and full-time work

March 2021

Different medium, different mindset

Ever wondered what it's like to make a physical book? It ain't as easy as shipping code lemme tell ya 馃槄

That time serverless melted my credit card

Serverless is pretty cheap. But you *can* get it wrong.

Why serverless fits side-projects perfectly

How do you provision servers for no load most days THEN ALL THE LOAD THIS MINUTE? That's how side-projects work and it's hard

How a $12 AWS bill powers a $50k business

my point is that running server code on the web has become ridiculously cheap *and* easy

July 2020

5 years of books & courses or how I made $369,000 on the side

5 years ago I moved to America to chase a dream 馃憠 stop selling time.

February 2020

Why and how I built my own course platform

Why the heck did I build a course platform for ServerlessReact.Dev when services like Teachable, Podia, Thinkific, and such already exist? Because of friction my friend.

January 2020

It's never been this easy to build a webapp

We live in exciting times my friend. It's never been this easy to build a webapp and make your first $1,000/month.

July 2019

Hustle, life, and Bernoulli trials

October 2011

postme.me - idea to sales in 3 days