Show HN: My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to keep your desk job away
My goal when I first started as an Indie Hacker was to earn $100/day.
Everything that I did was to achieve that goal. I reached that goal after 6 months and I increased my goal to $200/day. I reached that goal a year back, now my current goal is $300/day. This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not and when you get small wins, you move to a bigger goal all the while maintaining the momentum and enthusiasm.
On the flips side, if I had set my goal to $10K/month, it would seem very big and I might have given up very early (Actually I wouldn't because I quit my job and hate 9 to 5 job). A lot of people might not see any gratification anytime soon with big goals. Its always good to set small realistic goals which will ultimately make you a successful maker in the long run.
So far i have built
https://acrypto.io/ topping $4000/month
https://visalist.io/ topping $7000/month
https://simpleops.io/ topping $8000/month
Published in 2020, this chronicle by @1hakr details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $100.
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
"This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not"
I would never think that. $200 a day is fantastic! And $300 seems like quite a goal! Good for you. This must have required a lot of work, and I'm sure there were failures along the way.
What's your secret? How do you decide which projects to work on?
Congrats. How are you marketing these initially since they are in different markets? Are you building/maintaining (and updating) all these actively?
Curious on the strategy here of launching more products over time versus scaling projects up.
I’m curious how you’ve even achieved $100 per day. Did you have a sizeable following on social media or an email list to get your first customers? I wouldn’t call any of these milestones “small” or “easy”, that’s just ridiculous.
Nice! inspirational. What do you prefer using for micro startups for client side / serverside? I see you mention vue and nuxtjs for client side on other articles, what hosting providers do you recommend to keep costs low?
Congrats. Just curious, what are your revenue sources- ads or paid subscriptions?