Biggest struggle as an indie hacker
For me, it's knowing when to keep grinding vs when to stop.
What’s your biggest struggle as an indie hacker?
Biggest struggle for me:
Being able to tell the difference between early days of product-market fit, versus no actual demand, because both look the same in the beginning.
Early days of product-market fit can feel like you’re constantly pushing a boulder uphill. Worse is if you have yet to figure out the right distribution channel. If you product needs SEO but you spend all your marketing resources on social media (because “audience”), then it can feel like there’s no PMF. Even if you’re on track working on SEO, writing articles, creating tools, it can take months for you to see the uptick, during which you might again feel like the product is dead and time to move on.
Those early weeks and months—or sometimes even years—can look like there’s no PMF, even though there is and it just needs time.
How does one tell the difference?
If you’re just starting out, have zero instincts on the market, not developed a good gut sense for opportunities, being able to tell the difference will be very hard indeed. Some people just have a natural talent for sensing this, but not me.
Not gonna lie, even after shipping tens of products and 4-5 years being serious about indie hacking, I still feel like I can’t tell. Maybe I should just build something already validated, in a saturated space with profitable competitors 🤔
Revive Sheet2Bio, since link-in-bio is pretty much validated and still growing?
Or just build yet another AI wrapper, add my own spin, tailor it for a niche and just go?
More and more, I choose to go for the boring anyway.
Boring stack. Boring tech. Boring routine. Boring ideas.
Boring business, next?