Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?

Re:Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what? by encoderer on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:00PM (#26745267)

If your goal is to build a free tool that will be used and beloved by millions, you probably need to continue building on a deeply technical foundation and blog about it the whole way. It's ancient history now but a master class of this is when Damien Katz built and live-blogged Couchbase, like 2004.

If your goal is to build an indie software business with hundreds or thousands of customers where you're making like 10-100k a month, i can give you more specific advice.

Based on your website, it's not clear what you're after.

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Re:Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what? by TenJack on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:35PM (#26745497)

What advice would you give if going for 10k-100k a month?

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Re:Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what? by encoderer on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:46AM (#26752044)

Some people here describe his landing page as “niche” but it’s not a niche at all. Rather, it’s a persona: ceo or cto with a team.

You develop personas after you know who your customers really are, and it’s probably not ceos.

Instead, he should find and focus on a true niche. Maybe people are commonly analyzing shopify store data using a tool like this. Find something like that, and just nail that use case. That’s a niche. Expand from there.

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Re:Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what? by vSanjo on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:51PM (#26745604)

Seconding that request for more information - or direction - on the self-sustained indie-hacker advice.

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