🦖 Lindy Hacker
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Joined November 2018
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The people who formed me as entrepreneur,
roughly in chronological order:
- Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)
- Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)
- Derek Sivers (@sivers)
- Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- My dad (Freelance Consultant)
- Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
- Former boss (Audio Ease)
- Steve Blank (The Startup Owner’s Manual)
- Gabriel Weinberg (Traction)
- Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl)
- Jason Cohen (@asmartbear)
- Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo)
chatgpt can quite accurately guess my preferences and style based on just this
what are yours
I was convinced I typed faster then I spoke until I tried it. It's not close
I was probably confused with reading vs listening
Everyone is a dev now
For me it's about enjoying quality
this is why people are in shambles
if you consider yourself a good programmer, you almost certainly enjoy AI, because you keep the creative/big brain responsibilities and tasks but lose the puzzle brain teasers that don't really matter
the big brain architecture/design stuff is almost always what makes a 100xer a 100xer. never writing code (although 100xers excel at that too)
dying on this hill
"Attention is all you need" is the most poetic title of our era
With ever more nesting layers of LLMs controlling LLMs no-one is giving attention to what they build anymore and it shows
I'm starting to get more and more cold message from small game devs that want me to play their game on my tiny YT channel, which is a lot of fun
This week I got the first one that was clearly fully AI vibecoded
Coincidentally this was also by far the worst of the bunch 🤔
This is also possible with One Time Payment software
I haven't done marketing or updates for years and people still buy (although declining obviously)
Evidence indie hacking is the same as gamedev #100
And understandably the luck based one is most attractive
I'm gonna unsubscribe from X premium, so if you're one of the 50-100 ppl that sees my posts, and it's by me without a check mark in the future:
yes it's me
I switched on "clean up unused apps" and iOS removed the 3rd party keyboard I use a million times a day
Why is everything like this
If you're a solo bootstrapped developer you don't have to care about moats this moat that.
That's larping VC startups
Vibe coding works only if you don't care about the details
Kickstarter games go to die because they care too much about the details
One fun thing about C++ is:
no-one uses C++ voluntarily, you always have a restriction/demand forces you to go C++, which means you're doing interesting stuff
There is a reason he does this for VCs backed cos
A parttime solo bootstrapped indie has 0 shot in this lottery
Nikita Bier charges $500 a minute for advice
and only takes calls with VC-backed founders
so we turned his whole consumer app playbook into a free, open-source AI skill for the rest of us
describe your app to your agent and it tells you:
- which rung of his ladder you're stuck on
- which of your numbers you can't trust yet
- what to fix first, then 2-3 big bets
- one test with a yes/no threshold, set before you run it
it's in tomorrow's newsletter 👇
✨ tmaker.io ✨
After 6 years I'm still genuinely shocked/surprised to hear people talk about my products in a positive way
Somehow I can never integrate it's actually good and valuable for others
I can't be the only one, that's why I share it
