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Are there indie founders that ship a new weekend business every week?

Are there indie founders that ship a new weekend business every week? For example, remove the background from images, and generate stock music and stuff. Is this a sustainable path?

Also, should I ship videos about creating apps, and forge an exciting profile for TikTok/Reels for distribution?

Nishant Aklecha
@naklecha

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Ben Katz
@ben

I like to focus on one thing at a time and give each idea a full month to see if it's successful. Building something new every week and managing all those launches + maintain a social life seems like it would be a lot to handle mentally speaking. YMMV

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Nishant Aklecha
@naklecha

Makes sense!!

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Klaas Foppen
@klaaz0r

There are some, I think that at some point you get the right skillset and frameworks in place to ship a lot but personally, I stick with winners and only launch to experiment. Once something takes off I shift my focus to get the maximum out of that

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Nishant Aklecha
@naklecha

Ah making many projects to experiment and find PMF is nice! I'll try that.

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It is doable to create a MVP on weekend. I built and launched iOS App in 38 hours. I was running timers to create a YT video about project, so I know how much time I spent.
I don’t think it is possible to run on one project per week for a long time. As soon as you see that one of the project gets traction you will like to invest time to improve it and you are out of the loop already.
As a content creator on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, I can promise you that you will not manage to create quality content at the same time while building a project each week.
If you will do just that and sleep, maybe you will run for a few months until burnout.

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Nishant Aklecha
@naklecha

Thankss this is great perspective, I'd love to try social media to share projects im working on.

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Ingo A
@IngoA

In "a startup a month", many seem to burn out after 6 or 7 months.

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