nobody warns you that the hardest part of solo dev isn't the code it's deciding what NOT to build scope creep is silent. it doesn't announce itself. it just slowly makes everything take 3x longer #buildinpublic #indiehacker #devlife
everyone talks about scaling nobody talks about the day you realized your side project actually works and you have to decide if you want it to become a job that's the real inflection point #buildinpublic #indiehacker
most people overestimate what they can do in a week and underestimate what they can do in a year. i wrote one line of code every day for a year. 365 lines. turned into a business that replaced my salary. consistency compounds. #buildinpublic #indiehacker #startup
the best founders i know share one trait: theyre not afraid to look stupid. they ask "dumb" questions. they pitch before the product is ready. they ship ugly v1s. perfectionism kills more startups than competition does. #startup #indiehacker #buildinpublic
controversial but true: if your startup fails, it probably wasnt the tech. it was the pricing, the positioning, or the distribution. tech is the easy part. the rest is the actual work. #startup #business #indiehacker
the best career advice i got: "learn to sell before you learn to scale." a $100/mo product with 10 customers beats a free product with 10k users. revenue > growth when youre building alone. #startup #indiehacker #business

Your SaaS has 3 more features you want to add. Your landing page copy needs one more pass. Your email sequence needs a better subject line. Ship it now. The market doesn’t care about your perfectionism. Real feedback comes from real users, not your sandbox. If you’re embarrassed by the first version, you launched too late.

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Brennan Dunn, founder of RightMessage, joins Giant Robots ep. 611 to talk staying lean, building as a company of one, and letting AI handle the stuff that used to require headcount.

🎧 Listen here: https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/611

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611: Magic is the right word, with Brennan Dunn

Chad talks with a returning guest from the early days of the show, Brennan Dunn about how things have changed for him since his first appearance in 2012.

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