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I have to side with the poster of the comment you're responding to. If $1k per month is pure profit and doesn't require more than 2hrs per week of work, bravo.

by d33lio 6y ago

I have to side with the poster of the comment you're responding to. If $1k per month is pure profit and doesn't require more than 2hrs per week of work, bravo. However, if it's your main gig and you're dumping anything more than 15hrs a week into it... yeah I don't really see the purpose. You could make more selling "magic" rocks on Etsy.

upen946 6y ago
In most case with SAAS, its 90% profits if you grew organically without spending hella lot of money on ads. Now with everyone moving to cloud and managed services, the infra cost is too less. If someone is able to automate most things and working like 1 hour a day and still makes $1K MRR, its still good assuming its growing slowly.
- d33lio 6y ago
  I agree, but in 2020 expecting to grow "entirely organically" or by word of mouth without ads is a falsehood. This is honestly one of my biggest qualms with Indie Hackers. They claim that design and marketing isn't needed if you just "try long enough" and tell dev friends about your project. Granted, this depends on your target audience, but if your product isn't targeting developers the calculus just doesn't quite compute.
  - upen946 6y ago
    There are still many people who are Indie Hacking and still seeing some success. For example, one of my SAAS products starting making revenue this month without spending a dime on ads until now. Agreed it takes some time. I am not disagreeing on Ads part. These days most people are spinning landing pages, spending money on ads and validating real quick.
    - d33lio 6y ago
      That's awesome! I totally agree that in certain cases a passive approach can be better, however given you can write off advertising as a business expense certain projects can benefit substantially from relatively small targeted ad campaigns. Granted, as a developer it's been incredibly tough to learn how to advertise and write effectively for marketing.

by d33lio 6y ago

upen946 6y ago

In most case with SAAS, its 90% profits if you grew organically without spending hella lot of money on ads. Now with everyone moving to cloud and managed services, the infra cost is too less. If someone is able to automate most things and working like 1 hour a day and still makes $1K MRR, its still good assuming its growing slowly.

d33lio 6y ago
I agree, but in 2020 expecting to grow "entirely organically" or by word of mouth without ads is a falsehood. This is honestly one of my biggest qualms with Indie Hackers. They claim that design and marketing isn't needed if you just "try long enough" and tell dev friends about your project. Granted, this depends on your target audience, but if your product isn't targeting developers the calculus just doesn't quite compute.
- upen946 6y ago
  There are still many people who are Indie Hacking and still seeing some success. For example, one of my SAAS products starting making revenue this month without spending a dime on ads until now. Agreed it takes some time. I am not disagreeing on Ads part. These days most people are spinning landing pages, spending money on ads and validating real quick.
  - d33lio 6y ago
    That's awesome! I totally agree that in certain cases a passive approach can be better, however given you can write off advertising as a business expense certain projects can benefit substantially from relatively small targeted ad campaigns. Granted, as a developer it's been incredibly tough to learn how to advertise and write effectively for marketing.