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.