What's making you happy with your indie hacking journey?
Focusing on the positive has kept me going in my indie hacking journey.
Sometimes when things are tough it's great to try to focus on the happy things. Even better to share happy things with each other.
What's making you happy right now?
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Seeing small daily improvements build up to something bigger. It's only a week into full-time indie hacking for me and I already feel so much more comfortable on my ability to research and write up solid cold emails.
All built on small tips and tricks I've picked up from here, articles on the internet (can't recommend the Close.io blog enough), and feedback from the people I've cold emailed.
Same for me @Aadhi, I get great joy out of making some kind of movement every day and seeing how that builds over time. And thx for the Close.io blog. I'll definitely take a look.
This! Feeling you make progress and build something out of nothing is really the most rewarding.
Yep, came to say something similar.
It's really a great feeling to look back after incremental work over the last 3 - 6 months and see how much I've progressed and how it all adds up.
When I started my side project it was my first real dive into web development and I was banging my against my desk for hours just trying to place text on a web page; that still happens of course but now I at least have something to show for it!
For me I'm appreciating the time to explore and learn new things. I had been trying to set time aside for ages to get back into making and learning about things and now I'm finally (slowly) getting there.
It's exciting to come into things with a fresh pair of eyes.
that's awesome! what's something new you've learned recently??
I just posted my response, but I feel the same here! I used to think I was after money, but what I'm actually after is time.
I really feel great, when the work I put in is actually adding the value for the project and not just watching the videos, reading articles about the subject, but really working on it. I have learned this hard way, but I guess you need to go through this always getting "inspired" period and just get sh#t done.
The adventure! My life on the road on my bicycle is filled with freedom and is so different than my life sitting at a desk where someone tells me what to do. Now I'm stuck finding what to do all by myself and it's both an incredible satisfaction and a challenge.
Being quite older than most of the bright young people in the maker community keeps me young and 'connected'. Every time I code something, I'm having a rush of excitement, just like when I started programming DECENNIES ago.
What's making me happy? That I have no idea what lies ahead and nothing beats this feeling of "boldly going towards the unknown" :-)
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Life is a really funny game where 'winning' or 'losing' is not as important as PLAYING :)
...and I'm not just trying to write something "cool", I really believe it.
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Tenerife that's in Canarias, sounds really great :-) But that's 3000km from me right now, ha ha. So many great places to see, so little time. The funny thing is that I was supposed to be in Canarias next month but hey, "change of plans", so another time.
Indeed I love Spain and enjoy my time here as I come regularly. It's kinda my "base" outside of Canada. I love the sun. It's good to know there's a coliving space there. I have never tried coliving yet. I'm a newbie :-)
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México is definitely high on my list as a long term plan, since Canadians can stay there about a year without a Visa, sí that's a winner for me. Been in a few places already, last time was San Miguel de Allende but too expensive/touristy for me. Did you enjoy your first experience coliving? You have a blog or something? I'd like to read about the details of that!
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The freedom to imagine and build what you want, with no external constraints. It is a lot of fun and you learn a lot along the way.
Finding more likeminded people 😍
My Heroa.co.uk journal. It's like a massage for the brain. Kind of like Bullet Journal, but designed for freelancers, indiehacker, startup founder types, and the like who all suffer from these similar issues:
Mental health (it can be lonely and stressful)
Money worries (emotional and financial)
Mission doubts (it's easy to start to wonder if you're doing the right thing)
The journal is a nice way to get off line and jot down all the things affecting you so your brain can unload a bit and rethink / reorganise itself a bit. Anyway, it's been my saviour the last fw months, so it's made me pretty happy!
Just made an offer to a developer to join us! He accepted and will start next week. 😁 building a team is rewarding
I love learning and exploring new things
As petty as it sounds, I've been happy busting ass to silence my hater(s).
I know you shouldn't dwell on the competition, but it's hard, especially when your competition is updating their marketing copy to directly attack you while using your same brand name on a different TLD.
I've been taking a few things significantly too personal lately, but have fortunately been able to channel my own rage to unlock a level of motivation and productivity that, for lack of a better phrase, is over 9000.
Last night that all came to a head by finishing up the final piece of an ongoing project for the last month 2 months.
Hitting this milestone has been a strain mentally and some days physically (lack of sleep, mostly), but was a solid reminder that the only people I need to be worried about are my customers and giving them the best fucking product I can.
Feeling quite limitless right now, and the train's barely left the station.
I'm happy that I get to have the flexibility I have to work on my stuff. I've gotta freelance to make it work, but it's better than where I was just over a year ago: in a cubicle, daydreaming about doing my own thing. Flexibility is where it's at for me, and it makes me quite happy.
I'm not tempted to quit even though this journey has been HARD because it would mean I'd have to give up my time, which is something I've grown quite attached to during the last year and a half.
I'm very much enjoying the new learnings, and the steps I'm taking now that I'd never have thought of several years ago.
Aside from that it's nice seeing a recurring group of active folks in a community that's relevant and helpful to what it is I aim to accomplish.
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Heroa.co.uk do a great journal for this kind of thing. I totally agree that getting off screen and writing hard copy is really cathartic. Heroa provides just that little extra bit of structure to help guide freelancer / indiehacker types (I have no affiliation, btw, just a fan)
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