Hey marc, You really are a great insipration for a young 16yo like me. I, myself am a self-taught programmer. I also want to financially independent by age 20. I hope I can follow your footsteps, And can really live life instead of just existing :)
I love that You started RU-vid channel! Beyond indie hacking know-how videos it would be interesting to see some vlogs imo. Lifestyle part about living in Bali and working part about creating software, maybe something in style of Devon Crawford. Feel excited for new videos, good luck Marc ❤
Honest constructive criticism: the subtitles are really not really necessary (youtube allows you to enable them easily if you want them) and actually just distract because in some parts they are not in sync.
Thanks for the video, Marc! Watching you talk through both the business and technical problems in your product building YT streams is quite valuable to me!
One problem with life-time access is that even if you only have one customer you'll have to maintain the website your whole life to satisfy the business contract. That might seem trivial today but it might become harder in the future when your current tech stack has aged and security issues etc arise.
What's fascinating about your approach is that even startups that fail can succeed. Look at the pharmaceutical industry, some of the biggest drugs were discovered by accident. Viagra was a failed heart medication. Similarly, in software, you can turn a bug into a feature.
Contrats Marc! Great insight! Would you be willing to share 2 important aspects of your business model: 1- where do you promote pour New products. 2- what kind of company have you set up as a solo entrepreneur ? Thanks!
Was so happy to see that one of your projects for 2024 is RU-vid!! Always enjoyed the short videos you put out here whenever launching a startup. Let me know if you wanna build anything together! :)
Awesome history, hopefully i will join you on the solopreneur roadpath, im finishing my higher national diploma on programming in a few months, after that im into it soo lets buiiillldddd $$$$
Hey Marc, I have been really inspired by your videos. I have launched a few startups but I have always had to work with developers to get going. I would love to do what you do and actually work on it myself from scratch and learn the process of coding. I have tried some courses but just havent engaged with them. Can you recommend some of the best routes to learning how to code? Thanks!
Marc mate you are a G. I saw your ad a few months ago while I was building my startup in Next (ship fast), however I was already have way along using the t3 stack (which is very nice) I've just hit £100 MRR which is sick. I'd love to know how you did all your marketing for your apps. Nuts what you've achieved dude, would love to have a chat sometime.
Thank you for this great insight! I have a question though: without such a big following on a platform (eg. twitter), how do you market your product or how do you get clients?
I have ideas but do not know js, react, nextjs and all these stack tools to create websites. It would take me years, and it's been overwhelming where to start. Any help?
Making apps to make a few $ is much easier than getting a job a Google. You only need 10% of JS & React Start building really simple stuff, using ChatGPT to explain everything. Let me know how that goes
@@marc-lou I only know python and have built some basic stuff using streamlit (for data science projects). My problem is mainly on building websites because you need frontend but also backend and haven't studied html,js,react etc.
@@ChronicleContentIf you know basic stuff about programming, learning vanilla Js, html, css shouldn't really take you more than 2-3 months. I'm also at the start of this journey, after ~month I'm already making small aps for my friends :) No excuses man, I know it's hard to fall in trap of 'but i'm not good in technology enough', but if you read EVERY successfull indiehacker, they all will tell you that customer doesn't care about code. And that's true - it can be pretty bad, unless its working nobody cares.
"Specially European" --> Just spotted the Europe main problem in the first minute: The red carpet here is humongous, and all to try to catter a market that is completely fragmented with diff languages, diff regulations... Old Europe needs to change!
Pourquoi ne pas scaler les business aulieu d'en faire plein. je crois que tu aurais beaucoup plus de succes a prendre une des plus performante et de la scaler
The only problem with the concept of failing fast is that some unscrupulous actors could flood the market with millions of rubbish applications. Not everyone cares about quality like you and I do...
