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> Step 1: Be popular/famous enough that people know your name. This is what irks me about articles like this being posted on HN and indie hackers--You too can
by pwaai 9y ago
> Step 1: Be popular/famous enough that people know your name.
This is what irks me about articles like this being posted on HN and indie hackers--You too can have a six digit MRR if you've spent the past X years building a community or mailing list around the topic...which is not a bad advice but not many people are able to do this.
So while not without merit and valuable bits, I feel like you've highlighted a very harsh reality that people like to forget....
This is the new entrepreneur porn disguised as content.
- jasonkester 9y agoI know, right? Like you, I prefer the articles telling me how to charge $20k/week as a junior developer fresh out of school with no experience. Sadly, it seems that the world we live in requires us to work for the things we want. You can spend your energy coming up with reasons why the guy who worked his way up from nothing shouldn't go around giving you step by step instructions on how to do the same. Or you can get started toward doing something similar.
- csallen 9y agoNot to be too defensive here, but one of my goals with Indie Hackers is to collect enough knowledge and stories that you can easily filter through to find examples of the type of approach that best works for you. Because you're right — not everyone is suited to spending 5 years building up an audience, etc. There are other ways. Always happy to take suggestions on how I can improve the site to help with this, and also suggestions for different founders I should reach out to to come do an interview. A big initiative of mine for 2018 is to vastly expand the number of interviews on the site (currently at ~250), and to add a better tagging system to help you find what's relevant.