Read about indie hacking from the trenches

Indie Hacking – building smol businesses on your own terms – is a strange beast to me. From my first experiments back in 2011 where I went from idea to sales in 3 days to nowadays where I have a full-time job but think like a consultant, indie hacking has been near and dear to my heart.

I believe this is the best and worst time to launch something.

The best because consumers are used to paying and they hate big tech. People want your thing and they want to pay you. Not a faceless behemoth that steals their data and turns users into commodities. Blech

And if you're an engineer or product manager, the swan song of easy money in tech is irresistible.

Sometimes it feels like my career is running backwards πŸ˜…

But I'll never stop tinkering on the side. Multiple streams of income are a great way to recession proof your career.

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Latest IndieHacking articles from Swizec

October 2017

What I learned from teaching StubHub about React and Redux

$9013 September sidehustle report – or why the React + D3v4 launch was not 6 figures or even 5

September 2017

$2629 August sidehustle report

August 2017

The story behind React + D3v4

$3426 July sidehustle report

July 2017

How to start a sidehustle

$4093 June sidehustle report

June 2017

Initial Results of my Patreon Experiment

First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro

$2890 May sidehustle report

May 2017

What happened to React + D3v4?

How I Got Boned by Taxes Two Years in a Row

$2529 April sidehustle report

April 2017

$5874 March sidehustle report

Why I don't write more Nightowls type stuff

March 2017

A boutique React & D3v4 workshop – and my first vlog

Why People Read my Weekly Emails

This is how I connected my Canon DSLR as a webcam

$3875 February sidehustle report

January 2017

Nights and Weekends

What I learned while 6x-ing my income in 4 years

December 2016

React Indie Bundle flopped. Here's why.

November 2016

These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need

October 2016

Why coding is more fun than engineering

September 2016

I Got Schooled

August 2016

After a year, my first business diary retires

The ES6 Cheatsheet story and results

June 2016

The surprising difficulty of paying the US government

Things I learned from doing my first workshop

Why I switched to making products