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Thank you so much for this @cat
Really appreciate the time you invest in.
In the end i know that I just need to make a step further consistently.
Don't have this option right now, hope so, but I get anxious without any income and draining my runway.
Good point, thanks @nikspyratos
I have been skipping some of that, but I will pay attention and be more mindful about that. I'm married, no kids, so it's not my biggest struggle, mostly I'm exhausted after work or my mind is still on work things.
Consider setting a specific time block each week for work. eg: Wednesday from 9-11pm and Saturday from 11-3pm. That way, you see it coming, can prep energy accordingly, and setup related activites like food prep, wife going out with her friends, etc.
That's tough man...
My original plan was to wake up 5:30-6:00 AM and work on my side projects but it was really difficult to turn my attention to my work because I was too focused and willing to spend all day.
I'm thinking about approaching the same way you're doing, taking 1-2 hours of work every day.
This would be awesome, but I don't have a long runway and not seeing money income makes me very anxious, so I decided that I would work sideways, and when I get some money, I would jump into an FT indie hacking.
My biggest aim with my side projects is to generate income and make it my full-time work, but I always learn a lot, and it helps me grow as a Technical Product Manager.
Although it helps, it's a tough schedule to keep up with that, because I tend to focus on the project and lose track of my day job work.
Would be fun to chat on a Zoom some day. I'm an ex-TPM as well. Replacing f/t income with side gigs is something I have spent (literally) decades decoding. Certainly haven't figured it all out. But I'm actively learning learning from past experiences now (vs passively before). Becoming a PM helped a lot. Saw a different view on business besides "solution space" where I would hang out a lot. I'm still working on perfecting my master recipe for startups.
Made a post cause of this post
I agree with Ben, there is waaaay more demand fron non engineers to partner with a developer than the opposite.
In my opinion, it's easier to spin a startup with poor marketing, sales, etc, but it's impossible without a real product.
So in the end, developer tend to avoid co-founder for their own ideas unless they really want to focus on coding and want to build this specific idea, otherwise it would make more sense to partner with a business person that have a validated solution or expertise in the specific business domain.
Thanks Hugo. I have known it my entire career (25 years in tech) but somehow thought I could beat the odds I guess. Mentioning supply/demand reality is helpful. Certainly, there are way more people with "ideas" (validated or not) then there are Engineers to build them.
This doesn't change my target goal - build something people want.
But it does change my approach to building "the next thing", should I ever do that.
Hey @reymon359
What do you want more badly in this launch?
People using it or making more money immedialtely?
Free will always get more people signing up, but most would be just curious.
If you ask for upfront payment, most of curious folks will skip and the ones who sign up will be more interested and engaged with you solution.
So I think it depends a lot on your main objective with the launch.
Hey @hugopenna
As we want more users atm we will implement the free one at least for now.
Maybe in the future move to the second one.
Thanks for your insight!
If it's just a landing page to capture emails I would check out MailChimp and sendfox
Both as email marketing software that have built-in landing page for free.
I keep forgetting that Mailchimp and many others have landing pages.