It finally happened: Just had my first $10K month as an indie founder 🥳
My favorite part: No launches, viral tweets, or special promos were required. Mostly past work adding up over time. Boring, but it works.
Monica Lent
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Monica Lent
@monicalent
Technical cofounder of @affilimateio, affiliate content insights for media companies. Sharing what I learn about SaaS and growth along the way.
- Yesterday I had a situation that just totally epitomizes the futility of software development. 1. My website was not updating after I pushed to master. 2. Hm, I wonder why. Check Travis CI - build is green. 3. Must be the CDN. Check the CDN, purge cache. 4. Still no update. ⬇️
- I don’t understand how people are able to tweet (or think) about JavaScript when we are in the middle of a global pandemic????
- Replying to @monicalent26. Size of .git goes from 21GB to >1GB. TLDR: I spent probably 8+ hours troubleshooting and "solving" a problem that was fixed with one command. 🙃
- The best part of working from home is you can scream at your code as loud as you want.
- Hey devs 👋 Finding quality tech blogs is hard. My new project helps you discover the best content Tech Twitter is talking about *right now*, that's actually written by developers. Check it out & tell me what you think!
- There are two kinds of technical interviews: ones where the interviewer wants you to succeed, and ones where they are desperately trying to prove that they're a pedantic know-it-all with a deeply-rooted sense of inadequacy.
- In my first year as a full-time indie hacker: 🦠 Lost my main income source 🚀 Launched 4 times 💰 Managed $30K in revenue ❌ Still lost money Here's a look at my story, struggles, and financial outcomes building a self-funded business in 2020:
- Accidentally turned all my side projects into businesses, which has made figuring out what to do on the weekend pretty awkward.
- Someone shared my article on Hacker News and all I got was this $55 bill from Netlify 🙃
- What I want to do: 1. Add a form to a website What I end up doing: 1. Battle the SendGrid API 2. Battle CORS 3. Create the form 4. Realize I want a slider 5. Upgrade material-ui for a slider 6. All CSS is destroyed 7. Battle Gatsby / JSS / Emotion ... 6 hour later: here’s a form
- Dear Tech Twitter: What is your NUMBER ONE favorite blog by someone in tech, who has a *distinct writing style*? Where you read their articles for their *unique personality or voice*? (Pls no list of twitter handles, direct link to the blog is 👍)
- the two sides of tech twitter right now: 1. dudes trying to be naval by tweeting mundane observations as though they are profound 2. endless generic tweets about CS degrees, how hard CSS really is, and how often they still need to google basic programming questions
- Just met my 2021 goal one month early: Over $10K in *profit* as an indie founder & creator 🎉 18 months ago, I turned 30 and made just $535 for the entire month. Now I'm looking at 20x that amount. Thanks to everyone who supported along the way. It made a huge difference.
