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

IndiesReadIt

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. πŸ™ƒ

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? πŸ₯΄

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? πŸ’°
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!)
money

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. πŸ€œπŸ€›

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. πŸ’ͺ

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

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