As a counterpoint, I avoid adding a revenue figure to some of my businesses. Why? There’s certain niches that you can make a killing on for short periods - the

As a counterpoint, I avoid adding a revenue figure to some of my businesses. Why? There’s certain niches that you can make a killing on for short periods - the last thing I want to do is attract attention. As an example, during the last refinancing boom I stumbled into an opportunity and a couple weeks later I had an MVP. Very quickly we had customers willing to pay 5 figure sums for our product. There’s no incentive for me to go around bragging and attracting copy cats. How do I know this? Because I have no shame in launching a competitor if I see someone’s making money and I think I can outcompete them. As a second point, most indie hackers are cycling through ideas until they either give up or stumble into something. If your business fails, you quickly move on. Across 5 years you could have tried 10 things and only the last one made money. But it doesn’t matter since business revenue follows a power law. So (theoretically) you retire on the last idea while your batting average remains below 10%. Not necessarily a bad outcome? Regardless I do agree the overwhelming majority of indie hackers are wantreprenuers that will never make a dime. Just don’t discount the professionals.