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Indiehacking has lost the plot.
There's too many people stuck in a loop of endlessly vibe-coding features, talking about some vague future launch date, wasting time pandering to one single potential customer sending them on a wild goose chase, then grumbling about how it's so easy for Pieter Levels because he has "distribution".
Let me make this simple.
Your goal is to get to $1k MRR.
It's not "to launch" it's not "validation" (too vague), it's to get to $1k MRR. Everything you do should service this goal. Charge $50 a month or more, put a Stripe link on it, and (hard part) get people excited about your product.
You aren't going to win any customers if you're not excited about your own product.
You can't AI-blog-post your way to $1k MRR, you can't "weekly update to the build in public channel" way to $1k MRR. Where is the excitement, the thing that makes people take notice?
Getting from 0 to $1k takes "escape velocity". It's hard.
Random list of suggestions:
- be genuinely excited, if you aren't, work on something else
- use your unique experience to write blog posts that nobody else can, don't use AI
- add free tools to your site that give people a reason to share
- have a gimmick that people talk about or remember you for (remember my moto meter?) who cares if it's stupid, just make it memorable
And stop thinking that launching or adding features or "getting a customer" is the goal.
The goal is $1k MRR.
And then $10k, and then $50k, and so on.
The nature of AI work
When AI takes over all day-to-day tasks, the average human workday will look something like:
Come to the office (9-11)
Talk about what to work on, and why
Leave for lunch, gym, family, friends, etc
(Meanwhile, AI does 1,000+ hours of work turning ideas into execution)
Come back to the office (3-5)
Tweak and ship the work
Leave
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