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Show HN: My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to keep your desk job away
My goal when I first started as an Indie Hacker was to earn $100/day.
Everything that I did was to achieve that goal. I reached that goal after 6 months and I increased my goal to $200/day. I reached that goal a year back, now my current goal is $300/day. This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not and when you get small wins, you move to a bigger goal all the while maintaining the momentum and enthusiasm.
On the flips side, if I had set my goal to $10K/month, it would seem very big and I might have given up very early (Actually I wouldn't because I quit my job and hate 9 to 5 job). A lot of people might not see any gratification anytime soon with big goals. Its always good to set small realistic goals which will ultimately make you a successful maker in the long run.
So far i have built
https://acrypto.io/ topping $4000/month
https://visalist.io/ topping $7000/month
https://simpleops.io/ topping $8000/month
- rajeshamara 6y agoCongrats. Just curious, what are your revenue sources- ads or paid subscriptions?
- 1hakr 6y agoThere are actually different sources Acrypto has Subscription and ads Visa list has affiliates, subscriptions and ads Simple ops has subscriptions
- ravsamhq 6y agoKeep the spirits high
- 1hakr 6y agocheers mate!
- zapstar 6y ago"This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not" I would never think that. $200 a day is fantastic! And $300 seems like quite a goal! Good for you. This must have required a lot of work, and I'm sure there were failures along the way. What's your secret? How do you decide which projects to work on?
- 1hakr 6y agoI pick the problems I faced personally to solve and that has been very successful.
- enonevets 6y agoCongrats. How are you marketing these initially since they are in different markets? Are you building/maintaining (and updating) all these actively? Curious on the strategy here of launching more products over time versus scaling projects up.
- 1hakr 6y agoI'm working on one microstartup at a time, then after growing one, I try to fully automate it and start building a new one.
- lord-squirrel 6y agoYou are such a big inspiration for me
- 1hakr 6y agoThanks a lot mate!
- Yliaho 6y agoI’m curious how you’ve even achieved $100 per day. Did you have a sizeable following on social media or an email list to get your first customers? I wouldn’t call any of these milestones “small” or “easy”, that’s just ridiculous.
- 1hakr 6y agoNo, actually I didn't have any twitter followers and no email list aswell. I did few things right. I didn't mean the goal was very easy but because I set it relatively small instead settings it very big. This helped a lot.
- Yliaho 6y agoAlright, thanks for answering. What things would you consider being crucial to be done right though?
- ortenheim 6y agoNice! inspirational. What do you prefer using for micro startups for client side / serverside? I see you mention vue and nuxtjs for client side on other articles, what hosting providers do you recommend to keep costs low?
- 1hakr 6y agoanything that is easy to build and costs you less. i user GCP servers for all my microstartups but digital ocean is the cheapest.
- munna77 6y agocan share your journey and what resources you refered for learning things