Forem: Dany

Last week, I made my very first sale as an indiehacker

Dany — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:25:22 +0000

Last week, I made my very first sale as an #indiehackers 🥳

"cool story bro"

But what's important here isn't the sale, it's how I got it 👉 Fighting my imposter syndrome.

I got a response on a marketing post here asking for a DM before buying.
My 2023 me would have avoided it: "What if I can't respond positively? What if they thought it was bad? What if...".
1 year xp Indie me: "Nothing happens out of nothing, let's go".
The potential customer just wants to know if DirectoryFast can do a "classic" directory layout?
I spent 5 minutes creating it and sent a screenshot.
Deal done, money and access sent in less than an hour.

Sound trivial? It's absolutely not the case for a savage like me, I really don't like talking to people, my impostor syndrome is on another level.

But I've been fighting it all my life, I chose a previous difficult career to prove myself and I choose another career in hardmode as an indie now.

I just need challenges 💪

I made a whooping 1.60$ from my books-for-indies app and... it's totally fine.

Dany — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:33:05 +0000

The Intro

First, a little look back at 4 months ago.

I just shipped my first-ever product, a fantastic AI app that gives you everything you need to fill your e-commerce product page with enhanced images and automatic descriptions!

Woohoo what a banger... No. 🙃

Second to last on the ProductHunt launch, no users, no feedback, no nothing. And DDoS attacks. Noice!

Disappointing right? But anyway I was starting to get annoyed by this messy codebase and product.

Time to move on.

The building process

I needed to improve ALOT of skills, so naturally I searched for cool books on Amazon.

Did you ever try to find business or even niche books blindly on Amazon?
It's a mess.
Like really, wtf? 🥴

So I decided to make that app, "scratch your own itch" as they say.

And that's what I made, I applied everything I learned from my previous failure, and I decided to build a simple, clean, and useful app.

I even made terrible wireframes and hasardous database tables and relations on a little notebook like a grown man!

Motivated like I was I made a blog series about it!

The money

Cool story bro, how about money now? 💰
Don't worry I'm smart. It will be Amazon Affiliate links. My idea is so nice that the entire indie community will use it and I will be rich!

Lol.

I made 1.20$ on the ProductHunt launch and... that's all folks.
(no, actually, a lost one bought 1 another book for a massive 0.40$ this month!)

And you know what? I don't even give a fck!

The learning

I made a product that I'm proud of, that I use myself, that I know is useful for others, and that I can improve. I learned a lot, I improved a lot, and I'm happy with that.

While building this very product I had at least 3 app ideas, with the one I'll start working on very soon.
I gained confidence in crucial aspects (marketing, communication, SEO...) and technologies (LemonSqueezy, Loops, SSR/SSG...) so I'm no more scared of the next project.

And most importantly, I met so many cool people from the indie community, and I'm so grateful for that. Thank you guys. 🤜🤛

The conclusion

So, if you're like me, a little indie dev with a lot of ideas and a lot of motivation, don't be scared of failure. It's not the end of the world, it's the beginning of the next project and the next success. 💪

And if you need good books to achieve your goals like your favorite #indiehackers, just go check what they read: IndiesRead.it

I made a free tool to help online sellers obtain product details automatically.

Dany — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:58:29 +0000

Hi everyone,

Watching my wife build prestashop and wooCommerce sites for small local artisans, I realized that most of them were struggling to fill out their product details page and thus missing out on SEO and sales opportunities.

So I decided to create a practical tool for online store owners and managers. It uses AI to create product details from a brief description.

How does it work?

Describe your product
It generates product details (title, desc, keywords, meta desc and more)

Objective

Simplify the product listing process and improve the efficiency of the online store for people that don't know how to do it properly or even experts that want to save time or get a quick template to iterate on.

Here is the link to the tool

What should I add to improve it?
Already had a feed that someone would love to have tabs with sorted details

And here is my dev stack:

depikt stack

I'd be happy to share with you my struggles, victories and discoveries in the course of this project, so don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks for reading this and trying the tool, or even better, sharing it!