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Meta About Indie Hacking #11

Open junjizhi opened 4 years ago

junjizhi commented 4 years ago

Personal breakthroughs

Market research
- Actually talking to customers and understand 1) their pain, 2) what they would pay me
Tenacity / Grit
- Develop a useful product for real users

junjizhi commented 4 years ago

Current situation

Strengths

Ability to develop products
Cushy job to allow me to tend to my side business for >1h per day
Have compassion about people / Generally amicable

Weaknesses

No connections to talk to customers
Easy to give up without actually trying hard

junjizhi commented 4 years ago

Long term plan

Build products (fun & challenging)
Find customers to chat with
Learn and write down

Ideal Patterns 1: Launch & Grow

Develop a slack bot
Launch in Slack Directory

SEO learnings

Write several blogs about it
[ ] Monitor traffic via GA

Content marketing

Post three posts a day for all the channels I found
- How to find channels
- Written feedbacks: how important are they?

User interviews

Cold emailing
- [ ] Effective to find real users?
Observe how real users use the bot

Idea Pattern 2: Open source way

TBD