I had to launch 24 products in 4 years
I could have stopped in 2021 or 2022 after many failures, but I kept building.
I know indie makers who managed to become successful very quickly, but in 90% of cases it does not happen quickly.
I have learned from my experience and many other indie makers that 3 years is the time it takes for any indie maker to start earning enough to work on their projects full time.
I am still building new products despite the fact that I already have profitable projects.
My latest project IndieMerger was created in less than a week and pleasantly surprised me. I created it because my most successful project became truly successful after I found a partner and I wanted to try to help other indie makers find a marketer/developer partner.
I did not expect that so many people want to find co-founders to join forces. And now I see great potential in this product and plan to focus on it.
But none of this would have happened if in 2021 I hadn’t started building and trying to launch projects one after another.
2021
gethome .today - FAILED
explosivegrowth .pro - FAILED
wpfast .pro - FAILED
wpmonitoring .com - FAILED
simplesubmiter .com - FAILED
2022
flashbacklist .com - FAILED
getstatupname .com - FAILED
mentionlist .com - $6k
chirpleads .com - FAILED
noderemotely .com - FAILED
doshowcase .com - FAILED
mvpsources .com - FAILED
recruister .com - FAILED
2023
communitylist .me - FAILED
mentiontools .com - $19k
ramenmeter .com - FAILED
pictureai .co - FAILED
coursendy .com - FAILED
anytospeech .com - $2k
2024
painkillerideas.com - $6.8k
replyguy.com - $70k
stealth.marketing - $1.5k
marevo.io - $39
indiemerger.com - $660 What comes to mind is the Lord Churchill remark, "I Hope my life is moving from one grand failure to another." He lost India. Well, You seem an expert in failing, and that is actually great. I am willing to bet that your next article on what you LEARNED during the processes will be a stunning keeper. The three things I am left with from the last "What I leaned is..."
1. Get really close to your best users. Get as much feedback as you can.
2. Cut your losses, if you make a mistake.
and just today:
3. NEVER trust an agreement you did not get in writing. And first and foremost: Babe Ruth, led the baseball league, in strikeouts before he led the league in home runs: "Ruth never struck out 100 times in a season. He led the league in strikeouts five times, but he never struck out more than 93 times. During Ruth's era, to strike out was disgraceful, at least according to the "experts" of the day. Fans, who are the real experts, didn't care as long as the home runs kept on coming." Thanks for writing this. I just had to shut my business down that consumed my life for 2 years (barely breaking even), and it hurts. Indiemerger looks cool, where are the majority of founders sourced from?