Hey! A few people reached out and asked if I’m still alive and what happened to this newsletter. The short answer is yes, I’m still alive and the reason why I went silent for is that I decided to “shut up and build” for a while. My number one priority was and still is to increase my monthly income and I wasn’t making as much progress as I should be. So I stopped doing everything that didn’t directly serve that purpose for a while.
Glad to see you’re still alive and kicking! I think you captured where the indie hacking community is at very well. I’ve come to a similar conclusion with side-projects and I’m now focused on building my product management consulting practice.
I’ve been somewhat oposed to starting an agency type of business (I ran a UX agency in the past and I left specifically becasue I wanted to focus on products). I now realize that it’s more a question of framing problems. If you frame working with clients as an opportunity to either develop internal tools or learn deep context about new niches/segments, you see that it’s a much more plausible path to developing a product somewhere further down the road.
Anyway, just wanted to say hi, and best of luck to you and Ryan!
Shut up and Build!
Glad to see you’re still alive and kicking! I think you captured where the indie hacking community is at very well. I’ve come to a similar conclusion with side-projects and I’m now focused on building my product management consulting practice.
I’ve been somewhat oposed to starting an agency type of business (I ran a UX agency in the past and I left specifically becasue I wanted to focus on products). I now realize that it’s more a question of framing problems. If you frame working with clients as an opportunity to either develop internal tools or learn deep context about new niches/segments, you see that it’s a much more plausible path to developing a product somewhere further down the road.
Anyway, just wanted to say hi, and best of luck to you and Ryan!