Jay Vander 😎
@JayVander_
🦖 veteran indie maker 😎 posting through my motivational slump 🚧 trying to meet/help other makers 5️⃣ y+ fulltime profitable indie based in 🇳🇱/🇪🇺
3x Indie Product Launch Roast 🔥 episode 2 Biggest mistakes I spotted - subscription that should OTP (and vice versa lol) - chat based support widget - selling to the wrong audience Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:35 Too Phishy - Anti Phishing Gmail Plugin 6:10 topYappers by…
Only if you take the new publicity meaning of MRR: just make one month of $10k revenue Making 10 products that have $10k mrr for years is way harder than 1 that does $ 100k mrr I think everyone forgot what the first R stands for, in the vibe coded pump and dump era
Unpopular opinion: It’s actually easier to build 10 products doing $10K MRR than one beast doing $100K MRR.
Many years ago I was at an audio dereverberation conference with 95% academics. All impressive talks and papers and scores on benchmarks etc In the first break there were tables with headphone examples and they all were totally unlistenable slop. What are these guys even…
basically, if you simply just labeled your own data you can beat the benchmarks of google and other big labs. It sounds crazy, but it's true. 0 researchers actually look over their data. You don't even need that much labels either. Just 3k trained for 100 epochs works
this week was the first time since forever that i managed to do 3 full-focus productive workdays in a row if I'm not too self-critical for what counts as work... before I wouldn't even count: - meetings - content creation - tax/admin stuff as "real" work. I had a lot of focus…
don't compose your long tweets directly in X also don't ask me how I figured out
I fill this out for every product idea that is in my head for more than 30 minutes really quickly gives you an idea for the weakest points of your idea (spoiler its always either: there is no problem, or hard to market)
a tool that let's me yap for 15 minutes on a topic, that churns out a non-slop, well structured X post or was that what @thepatwalls was building
Man I have so much stuff to share but i can't get my self to sit down for half an hour and actually write it in an engaging way
I started holding the laptop like on the right, how soon can I expect my MRR to go up?
I build stuff because I love it I charge money because I want to provide for me and my wife
i had a tough call with my wife a few months ago she wanted to know why do i work so hard, she admitted that she was jealous to my product she asked if i do it for the family? i didn’t want to upset her and said „yes, for the family“ but i was lying a few days ago we were…
small honestpost: the main reason I don't do more marketing is deep down I feel like my product sucks, like it's a scam after 4000 sales & many positive reactions and reviews the nasty comments, crashes, complaints resonate way stronger to the point of feeling too ashamed to…
I successfully bootstrapped from 🇳🇱 I truely hate all the tax and rule complexity. And possibly it would've been easier from somewhere cheaper. But in a way the pressure of a higher CoL mightve helped me focus on making money, not just playing around for fun and status and…
UK impossible to bootstrap Too expensive That's why you fly out, live somewhere cheap, build a startup, get rich and then optionally return
wile e coyote if he was still alive:
u can order a fucking anvil on amazon for only $227????
the only indie founder in the game that rejects paying users
Rejected from launchday #1.
For my indie friends: If you have 2 founders, you need 2x as much MRR More if you account for the risk of one person getting bored
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slowly everyone will return to levels no dependency style next we will go back to ftp drag and drop (a man can dream)
✨ We just shipped vanilla JS support for Tailwind Plus! Every single UI block is now fully functional, interactive, and accessible, even if you're just grabbing the plain HTML examples.