Field notes from the
apocalypse.
Essays and confessions from indie hackers who probably shouldn't be left alone with a dev server.
Saturation isn't a deterrent. It's a buy signal. A note on what's actually scarce in software, and why originality is the cheapest input you can bring.
→ read the whole thingBuild-vs-buy is broken when you're one person.
The framework was written for managers buying tools for engineers. For a solo founder before launch, your hour is worth zero on the open market and a great deal more inside your own product.
I built a Notion clone in 14 hours. The editor wasn't the hard part.
Drag-and-drop on a nested tree took longer than the editor, the database, and the auth flow combined. A note on the gap between perceived and actual difficulty.
The slow tax of stacks.
Subscriptions are priced to disappear. The cost isn't the nine dollars a month; it's the slow loss of the muscle that decides what you should be paying for.
Sent when there's something to say, not when the calendar reminder fires. Currently 5,238 indie hackers reading and slowly nodding.