Trends and realistic business ideas for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and serial makers.
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Xavier's Twitter account. Xavier's community. Xavier's info product.
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Harish is a GPT-3 consultant, founder of MynaOne, and author of the "Definite Guide to building products with OpenAI".
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This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Resources mentioned in the episode: Iain's website Iain's Twitter account Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators) Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin) WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter) WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired) WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community) WP Rocket (the premium caching plugin that succeeded despite strong competition) Freemius (service that makes it simple to sell WordPress plugin subscriptions)
Keevin's Twitter account Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io It's Under the Radar Newsletter by Rob Sullivan
Andrew's Twitter profile. Andrew's idea list 3. Design Assessment Platform (enterprise Coderbyte but for UX/UI Designers) 4. Speed Runs of Non-Games (GamesDoneQuick but for other digital activities) 1. Homeschooling Extracurricular activities (have homeschooled kids socialize more) 5. Piggyback Distribution. Micro influencer marketing. (get slack/discord/subreddit active community members to 'hunt' your product) 2. Be my guest. Play at exclusive member only places (primarily golf clubs to begin) Summary Jakob and Andrew discuss the idea for design assessment platform, like CoderByte, but for UX/UI designers (1:28) Jakob and Andrew moves on to the next idea – speed runs of non-games (12:04) Jakob and Andrew discuss plans on how to monetize the project / idea (20:09) Jakob and Andrew move on to homeschooling extra-curricular activities (22:28) Jakob and Andrew discusses the next idea – micro influencer marketing (32:17) Jakob asks what the missing link is in the current ecosystem (34:50) Jakob and Andrew discusses their experiences in private / public communities (36:17) Jakob mentions that there's room for improvement for communities in general (44:41) Jakob and Andrew talk about their experience using Circle (46:46) Jakob and Andrew then move to the last idea: find a way to play at exclusive member only places like golf clubs (49:53) Andrew tells what originally prompted this idea (52:57) Jakob mentions how the two last ideas are connected (55:25) Andrew decides what idea he want to execute (57:13)
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Jakob explains how and why he reached out to Max (01:20) Max describes and enumerates what they do on a live show and in business (02:13) Jakob and Max discusses more about the latter's business model and its sustainability (04:51) Max talks about the tools he uses as his primary sponsorship source and eventually scaling it up (05:04) Max tells Jakob the story behind his unnamed agency (07:12) Max mentions how he discovered that speaking at universities, especially private schools, are profitable (11:50) Max talks about how and why he got into the LinkedIn platform (17:27) Max discuss about the project's focus being on the tech side (20:26) Jakob talks about product ideation (22:12) Max says that a lot of stuff they build is more product focused and that he plans to build these into real scalable things (23:38) Max mentions Superstack and explains how he wants to build it (29:48) Jakob talks about his project that collects Substack data and Max expresses his interested (32:40) Max tells more about his plan to launch an online course about LinkedIn automations, SEO, building websites, etc. (34:56) Jakob and Max talk about the benefits of using Twitter (40:35)
Andrew's Twitter profile. Andrew's ideas: 1. Productize my ProductHunt profile as a "Good Luck Charm" because I have the lucky of being user #777777 2. Negotiation Practice or interviewing.io for negotiations (not just salary) 3. Start with a "Why So Expensive" product, and build something around that 4. Collabs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) 5. Dynamic Price Widget
Luke's Twitter Profile Luke's Newsletter David Perell Bot Birdy Bots Hypefury Colony.io Urbit APIs all the way down
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Andrew's Twitter profile Resources we talked about: List of 100 business ideas by Andrew 7 Newsletter Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew 9 Podcast Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew Better Sheets Twitter templates by Andrew A tool I built based on the ideation framework shared by Andrew
Resources we talked about Product Byte Trends.co Trends.vc Keevin O'Rouke's profile and Product Byte updates on Indiehackers Software Ideas by Kevin Conti Rappi app
Resources we talked about: Capiche.FM My First Million podcast Agency Course How I built this podcast Dickie Bush's Ship 30 for 30 challenge David Perell's Write of Passage Course https://twitter.com/brandonthezhang (his first essay was indeed shared by David Perell) The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams Writing Guide by Julian Shapiro Fast, Slow Notes by Andy Matuschak The Krystal Theme for Tiddly Wiki
We talk about: Launching on Product Hunt Deals for indie makers why private communities don't really solve the problems that public communities have. Painpoints.io Indie Hackers Trends.vc IndieDrops.com Product Explorer Gum Spy IndieThinkers.org Nesslabs https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut Trends.co Kaggle Peter Askew RanchWork.com https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/