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> It was a dream we’d be nursing for a long time as bootstrappers like Rob Wailing or Pieter Levels, and communities such as IndieHackers by the Courtland Allen
by boberoni 6y ago
> It was a dream we’d be nursing for a long time as bootstrappers like Rob Wailing or Pieter Levels, and communities such as IndieHackers by the Courtland Allen had been a source of inspiration for us ever since 2010.
This kinda threw me off. I think he's talking about Rob Walling, not "Wailing". Also, IndieHackers was started in 2016.
I'll acknowledge that Rob Walling's podcast "Startups for the rest of us" was started in 2010.
Aside from that, it's a great article about their experience failing their 1st product and succeeding in their 2nd through persistence.
- daolf 6y agoAuthor here. The typo about Rob's name is a bit embarrassing. I've asked the editor to correct it. You are correct, IH was started in 2016, I could have sworn it was started earlier. It's hard for me to put an exact date on this, but I entered university in 2010 and I remembered reading about startups almost from my first or second year. Paul Grahams essays, Zero to One, The Family (french thing), Rocket Internet, VC etc. This whole thing kind of fascinated me, but reading about it felt like watching a soccer game. I was just a spectator of a world I though I could never be a part of. Probably a mix of lack of confidence and unwillingness to takes risks. But then I discovered this whole bootstrapping thing, IH, Rob's books, Kalzumeus essays and for the first time, I was reading about thing I could see myself doing. Even though you didn't ask, I hope it clears things up :) PS: My english being a bit clunky, this article was editorialized quite a bit PSS: Thanks for the kind words