Wake up honey, new testimonial just dropped 🚀🎉
Joking aside
Love working with
@ConnorShowler
, old school, get-stuff-done kind of guy
They don’t make them like this anymore 😂
Like the man says, if you need a solid over-delivering dev, DM me 🤝
Backlink Marketplace 90% complete.. 🤝💯📈
Gotta say
@philipcurryo
is one of the most solid devs I've ever met if any of you are looking for reliable SaaS development. 👨💻
I've said it before
I'll say it again
Becoming active on X is becoming a life-changing event
Last 2 days I've gotten 5 tentative job offers
This is after less than 3 months
Imagine a year
#buildinpublic
$700 made ✅
- $0 invested
- No website
- Not even a company bank account
When I start a business I’m ruthless about not spending money
I only invest money I get from my client
Anybody can spend $100k, but can you spend $0 with the same result?
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Am I wrong?
Or is 99% of
#buildinpublic
community SAAS?
Where are all the boring companies? The agencies? The service based companies?
The un-scaleable companies?
Where you hiding? I wanna follow you!
@levelsio
It’s hard to understate how furious this makes me
The only time you get decent healthcare in Sweden is when you’re VERY sick
Anything below that, forget about it
And we pay north of 50% tax (when you look past the official number)
It’s absolutely bonkers that this can go on
After a month of not being able to talk about my first projekt I...
Still can't 😂
BUT
I can talk about my SECOND MVP
🥁🥁🥁
A place to buy and sell backlinks 🥳🎉
Still very early, but this is what it looks like on day 2
Stay tuned 📺
SEO can make you stupid amounts of money 💫
but it's also reeaally slow
Use that to your advantage
Build product
Buy ads
Do 30 minutes SEO/day
*One year later spongebob squarepants meme*
Print 🖨️
#buildinpublic
#SEOstrategy
🔥 Follower growth recap 🔥
Juli ➡️ 53
Augusti ➡️ 273
September ➡️ 639
Was hoping to get a new client today, but hopefully I will sign her on monday instead
Onward 👊🔥
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
@MariosRichards
@Noahpinion
Again, not a fan of Trump and not a fan of libs of tiktok, but at least they include the whole quote
He's talking about murd*rers
It's literally fake news as they did with his "bl**dbath" remark
So tiresome...
The Dems are still trying to push the hoax that Trump called all illegals aliens “animals.”
Here’s the full clip where you can see he’s referring to criminals and Laken Riley’s m*rderer as animals.
Why are the Dems covering for v*olent criminals?
This video alone has made me well over $200k
It has landed me:
🔹 3 jobs
🔹 Countless freelance gigs
🔹 And now my first 2 jobs on Upwork
🏆 The movies in this reel has won me 9 awards across various contests for best movie, editing, directing and more
During this time I
ALRIGHT
YOU GOT ME
So I have nibbled on a side project
Yes I promised myself not to do it
SO??
You think you're so good with your focus and your ambition
I have it under control
I can quit anytime I want
I SWEAR
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Officially renewed contract with client!🎈
He’s now subscribing to my services
This is a long-term win, not a financial win
In one year I want to have a ton of case studies and raise my price a lot
Until then I will continue to undercharge
#buildinpublic
@memeticsisyphus
Yeah, not only are robots and ai slowly replacing humans - humans are just laying down, saying “take it”
There’s so much to life if you just go out of your dark little hole you’re sitting in
For what it's worth
I love indie hacking 💘
Sure, its ripe for scams and get-rich-quick schemes
But compared to the alternatives
Academia
Fiat economy
Corporate life
VC subsidized companies
Its the closest thing to free market
I LOVE IT 🫶
#buildinpublic
#indiehacking
Does your SEO suck?
✨Get a free SEO plan ✨
The coming days I will be doing free SEO audits
AND
SEO strategies
So you can fix everything yourself, for ✨ free ✨
DM me your website!
Ps. Tag people in need 😊
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Hmmmm
Is it possible to have a lot of clients
And still have world-class service for each client?
I’m getting a lot of clients but they’re all in the beginning of their journey
I have no choice but to go for volume for now
Guess we’ll have to find out
#buildinpublic
🎉 I reached 200 followers 🎉
*AND*
🎉 I got my first client this week 🎉
I keep saying this - being active on X is the best decision I've made
You need to start engaging on X
You can't afford not to
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Just onboarded my first salesperson 🥰
He’s
#5
in sales revenue in his field in Sweden
He’s making his first call to a warm lead today
Let’s see how it goes
#buildinpublic
Damn
So
180 new followers after this post
Welcome new X fam 🫶 🫂
Always looking to help and get to know awesome people
So don't be afraid to interact or reach out!
Looking forward to getting to know you all ❤️
#buildinpublic
I've said it before
I'll say it again
Becoming active on X is becoming a life-changing event
Last 2 days I've gotten 5 tentative job offers
This is after less than 3 months
Imagine a year
#buildinpublic
From award winning director 🎬➡️ living in a basement with mold and rats 🐀
👋
A story about how I ended up in the
✨
#buildinpublic
✨ community, for anyone who's interested 👇
At 16, our school assignment was to create a movie trailer from a book
I had a talent for
Alright alright settle down everyo...
@levelsio
I SAID SETTLE DOWN
I know you're all literally dying to get an update on the backlink marketplace
So here it is
MVP 98% done 🎉🥳🪩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️
bolas azules as I imagine them saying in spanish 🔵🔵
Finally filed an actual company
I chose the name by using this scientific method called “ask chatGPT”
Picked the first one that sounded nice
It’s now called ClickRaft :)
What do you think?
I think it’s catchy 🤷♂️
#buildinpublic
#indiehacking
In other news
Thinking of ignoring all the gurus on X
And let my sales friend try selling SEO for me
He would get a % of every sale
So no downside for me
What could go wrong?
No seriously, what could go wrong?
#buildinpublic
⛔️ Blog posts not ranking? ⛔️
Search. intent. ✅
If you write for "best indoor plants"
Top search results are lists of plants
Your post is about the best plant
No bueno
👇
1. Analyze the tops results ✅
2. Write for the same search intent ✅
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Uuuugh 😪
I have a fever...
Trying to get things done
But I'm shivering, sweating and losing my focus every other minute
How do you deal with getting sick?
Just thinking of taking a break makes me stressed
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Is social media ruining our lives?
All I’m seeing is people working hard
Helping each other
Preaching responsibility
And providing for you family
All I see is good
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
The 80/20 of SEO
How to win at SEO with limited knowledge and time
👇👇
First things first
SEO is very slow but will pay off like crazy when it takes off, so you want to start growing that snowball as soon as possible
Start right away
The Gameplan
1⃣ Make sure your website
i got a question
@philipcurryo
what is the best time to start with seo?
also, how would you start?
good meta tags, blog...? what are the 80/20 for an indie hacker that needs to ship fast?
MVP 90% done 🥰
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️
BUUUUUUUUUUUUT
Of course the last 10% takes FOREVER
So I'm just out here waiting for
@PayPal
to approve my API access
Good times 🤠
Quick SEO tip ⏱️
Make sure your page have the highest possible quality
before you index it
Google will assign a quality score the first time it gets indexed
#buildinpublic
#SEOstrategy
How to create blog posts
That rank
#1
on Google
- Find niche topics
- Take top search results
- Combine into one post
Prosper
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Have to give props to my client
Immigrant
working around the clock
Always available
Always immediately does what I recommend
Dude calls me up at 10 in the evening
Lots of background noise, clearly not at home chilling
Love working with him
#buildinpublic
#indiehacking
So I’ve started taking cold showers
And yes
It deserves all the hype it gets
Haven’t had this much energy since it started getting dark here in Sweden
Highly recommend
#buildinpublic
ROUND 2 🥊
🔔🔔
Prospect showed up to the call today
Wants "the whole package"
Downside is she doesn't seem to be the wealthiest of clients
Small risk that she will want to slim down the offer
But a client is a client 🪩
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Coding is easy 🙄
And I'm a developer
I just started selling and that shit is hard
Try this:
- Build a product in a week
- Get people to buy your product in a week
Which one is harder?
If you have no experience in sales, you will hit a brick wall
Learn to sell
The worst thing about Sweden:
It's a small market nobody cares about
The best thing about Sweden:
It's a small market nobody cares about
hmmmmm
#buildinpublic
I used to be SUPER stingy about money
But I’m starting to change
Since starting up this business, I have to squeeze out every drop of productivity
Paying just $100/month can double my productivity
Don’t be stupid with your time like I’ve been!
#buildinpublic
SEO 👏 is 👏 EASY 👏
On a tight schedule?
Do this:
1⃣ Dedicate 30-60 minutes a day
2⃣ Read for 30 minutes about, for example:
> Writing blog post
> Internal linking
> Backlinks
3⃣ Do what you just read
4⃣ Repeat for a year
VOILA!
#buildinpublic
The last days I made a decision
To engage more with people on X
I’ve already gotten 5 more followers
Hey it’s not much but it’s progress 🌝
#buildinpublic
I love SEO
It's like I get to look behind the curtain
And tell all these ambitious founders what people want
It's a win win win for everybody
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
🚩🚩Huge mistake I see founders making again and again
I always ask prospects
"Who is your customer?"
Every time the founder think they know the answer
But the answer is always too vague
Traffic today is a commodity
Your job is to know what traffic you want
#buildinpublic
Talking to our biggest prospect yet
Don't want to jinx it
But they're spending $13k/m on Google ads alone
(Huge sum for us + for a Swedish company)
PLUS
They have 2 websites they want fixed
Would put us out of "survival mode" and into "scale up" mode
#buildinpublic
Got another hot lead today 🔥
Still haven't sent a single cold email
Will call them tomorrow during office hours to set up a meeting 🤞
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
I don't know how it happens
But as soon as I want something
An opportunity just presents itself
Anyway, I'm gonna do some simple web dev work for this guy lol
#buildinpublic
Ok so
@ConnorShowler
made a post selling links $50 each
In 24 hours he made $15k
Did I get that right
@ConnorShowler
?
*slaps roof of backlink marketplace*
Yeah this ol’ marketplace will do
Officially $10k+ Day Soft Launch 💯🤙👑
- High-Value Productized Service.
- Designed to build up social proof.
- Helps optimize systems/SOPs for hardlaunch.
Thank you for the trust and business guys. 📈✨
Everyone currently on the list is settled up. Starting on these
The worst part about coding
Is traveling with friends and family
But constantly thinking “I could be coding right now”
In other words, happy to be back 😂
MAJOR glitch in the matrix 💥
On August 20th I made a bet
I was gonna sign 3 clients in 3 months
Yesterday I got confirmation I was gonna get my 3rd client
3 months later
On. The. Day. 🐇
#buildinpublic
I’m undercharging my client SOO bad
By like 3x
I want to get a solid review
Doing a lot of extra stuff that we never agreed upon
Will probably do this with future clients as well
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
I’m a pro at prioritizing
I even prioritize too much
So much so that I don’t have basic stuff set up for my business
For example my website still isn’t done
Time to focus on tasks that don’t have an immediate effect on my sales
#buildinpublic
ALRIGHT FAM 🚀🎉
First version of product
#1
is officially 100% DONE 🤩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
The MVP has turned in to a long term project and I will most likely continue working on it months to come
In the meantime...
Why not build a second MVP 🤷♂️👀
I’m tired of success stories 🥱
Here’s the stupidest entrepreneurship story you’ll ever read 🔥
My friend and I started a soccer team when we were 18
Team wasn’t making enough money to pay for the soccer field
We brainstormed ideas - what do 18 year olds like?
Alcohol,
Development really is the perfect way to milk clients for money
➡️ Will it take 1 week? 1 month? 1 year? Who knows 🤷♂️
As a non-technical founder you should be very careful who you work with
Do people *actually* need your product?
By doing some simple keyword research you can:
- Validate your product
- Find holes in the market
- Find future products
Don’t build products you wish people want
Research what people *actually* need
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
"How do people live like that" 🤮
#buildinpublic
community, why do we do what we do?
@JerrySeinfeld
sums it up for me
Replace the home in the story – with a 9-5:
❌ Endless meetings
❌ Lack of autonomy
❌ Lack of incentives
Seriously,
How do you live like that?
Look
I understand why so many gravitate to SAAS
➡️ High margins
➡️ It’s fun to build stuff
➡️ You can do it from home
But ever since I started looking in to boring businesses
I genuinely think SAAS are VERY overrated
At least as your first business
#buildinpublic
Second MVP 20% done 🚀
🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
I've just been caught on some stupid auth thing for two days now and made no exciting progress whatsoever
THEREFORE
I'm just gonna blatantly repost the picture of the front page again
You are welcome 🥰
Ok lol 🚫
She didn't show up
I called her up
She seemed quite distracted and wanted to take it over the phone
I have slides to show her so we booked a meeting on monday instead
⏳ To be continued ⏳
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
Wedding photographers in my area are neglecting SEO soo bad
And they are charging 3-5k per job
Lord give me the strength to focus on my current business and not try to arbitrage this opportunity
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
I just can't help myself LOVING on the
#buildinpublic
community ❤️🥰
A couple weeks ago I realized my clients aren't primarily on X
Felt like a breakup I had been avoiding
I love X, but also have to spend time where it counts
Eventually came to the conclusion "let's just keep
My first indie angel investment and it will not be the last! As I grow, I plan to give back or invest $50,000 (many smaller cheques) back into the community that helped me from day one.
When David approached me about a potential investment in
@1000_tools
, I had lot of questions
🔥 1000 followers 🔥
Juli ➡️ 53
August ➡️ 273
September ➡️ 639
October ➡️ 1013
Been working on a lot of things behind the scenes
So haven't posted as much lately
Excited to share it and help you all grow your companies 💪
#buildinpublic
I’m slowly learning that getting followers and getting “fans”
Are two *completely* different things
Do you know which one you’re attracting?
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers