Jay Vander 😎

🦖 veteran indie maker
😎 posting through my motivational slump
🚧 trying to meet/help other makers
5️⃣ y+ fulltime profitable indie based in 🇳🇱/🇪🇺

[Jay Vander 😎 @JayVander_]

The people who formed me as entrepreneur,
roughly in chronological order:

- Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)
- Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)
- Derek Sivers (@sivers)
- Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- My dad (Freelance Consultant)
- Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
- Former boss (Audio Ease)
- Steve Blank (The Startup Owner’s Manual)
- Gabriel Weinberg (Traction)
- Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl)
- Jason Cohen (@asmartbear)
- Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo)

chatgpt can quite accurately guess my preferences and style based on just this

what are yours

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@Etanh4204 @KarosMao Lmao

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@jelmerdeboer En 70% appelsap

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@nosilverv what are these numbers above 12?

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this type of thumbnail is either the best video in the world, or unwatchable

nothing in between

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@nestersk I never scroll with sound on

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@RaulOnRails What is the business model? SEO + Referral fees?

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@pbertrand_dev @catalinmpit How do you live of half that in haarlem?

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before you builders all storm my DMs:

please first Make Something People Want

[Jay Vander 😎 @JayVander_]

As every one who follows me knows: it's really tough to do BOTH development/product and marketing/sales as one person.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've felt a shift from making and selling my own stuff to marketing and selling other people’s stuff.

It removes one layer of uncertainty: I don't have to build something and figure out whether I can sell it, at the same time. As long as I have access to builders who make sellable stuff but don't want to do marketing, ( at least the second half there's no shortage of...)

Curious to see where it goes.

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@nestersk you mean max 140 different people acting in one video? what a weird restriction

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remember letters and words?

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Commentary is one of the most important pillars of X. And sometimes the best way to share your thoughts is with video.

Today we're launching a whole new way to make them:
React with Video

Tap the repost button and start recording with green screen, split screen, or picture-in-picture.

Now available on iOS

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@tmeire_ Party like it's 1999

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@simongerman600 even 50% seems crazy low no?

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don't get sucked in forgetting what actually matters and what doesn't

does matter:
- your health
- friends and family
- making money

can hack your brain for little gain
- building an audience
- video games
- politics
- social drama

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@vitaliidodonov @thejeshwarab lmao

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@screenfluent ❤️

lot of interesting thoughts and introspection here, some of it hits home very much esp this part

> The biggest challenge is facing people who have never experienced this level of mental struggle.

lmk if you want to talk sometime about this stuff

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@KeithNewton Ok yeah health care is so riddled with compliance and laws it's quite hard yeah

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🌶️If you have any skilled professional work experience, use that to your advantage if you want to go indie

Don't let the unskilled hype indiehackers bait you into b2c ugc etc

Just make a boring product for the niche you know and your chances of making 10kMRR are way higher

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Don't believe people who say they have simple solution to anything

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@arnoio @DmytroKrasun Why did you choose not to use your industry knowledge to your advantage?