Be hard to kill
Optimize for the long game, not overnight success
This is me on my 7th year of indie hacking, still trying to get to ramen profitability:
Just a flesh wound 😂
That image is definitely starkly poignant. Got hit by quite a few life/death arrows in just the past four years alone. But still in the game. Not dead… yet.
But to be clear, I am profitable. Just not at the amount that counts as ramen profitable for me. Because ramen profitability means $10k/m for me. It feels ridiculously high whenever I mention it, but that’s kind of break-even for me, my wife and kid and 2 elderly parents, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, plus mortgage, education and some small daily comforts (we don’t even have a car or travel much).
It’s like playing indie hacking in hard mode.
But hard mode or not, I’m beyond quitting now. After seven years, no way I’m going to quit ever… even if it takes ten years. But if it goes beyond ten or more, it starts to feel hard to imagine, hard to stomach! Then again, what else can I do even if it takes longer than ten years? I’ll just have to quietly keep going anyway…
The longer I stay in the game, the more chances I get.
Just be hard to kill.