I posted a bunch of links further downthread. There are also likely non-profit/public institution in your state that will help you navigate this. Of course they can't write the business plan for you :)
I've recently started an indie hacker journey and cannot emphasize how much work it takes. It's incredibly hard to develop the technical side, listen to feedback to improve the product/UX, do SEO, viral marketing, and more.
Hiring more people seems necessary to stay sane -- at least for my project. But you need money for that, which you won't have for a long time. Even tools for all these aspects (Claude, Revid.ai, ahrefs, etc) stack up in subscription costs.
Maybe this is just because I'm getting started, though.
I wish LLMs asked more clarifying questions for precisely this reason. And that they disagreed with me more often.
I'm not sure that when asking for a translation, even with context, they would have replied that my request doesn't make sense (or advised against using LLMs for translation).
Sure, but mostly everyone in English understands speed bump. There's a standard word that's understood by most. In German, you can even see in this post how many people have heard only very different words (they don't even know the rest).
(OP here) I'm thinking of either using "speed bump" in English, or adding the typical European sign for speedbumps for clarity. For now, I'm using Wikipedia's word in the end...
When creating the site's landing page, I had to investigate where to find speed bumps in Munich. I couldn't remember any, but it turns out there's quite a few in the end. Probably not as popular as in other European countries, though. And there's rarely a signal.
I've recently embarked on indie app development [1]. It's exciting but my first lesson has been how slow things move. Just submitting to the stores, waiting, getting users... already takes months.
One of my fears is not being able to take vacation, as the OP explains. I'm working alone and had the impression hiring someone for customer support would be doable. Anyone with experience in this regard? AI also seems a good use case here.
There are 2 kinds of vacations: Backpacking, Cruise ships or something where you can not connect, OR sightseeing like London, Paris, or even something local.
Although I have always been an employee, I have been able to mix and match work with sightseeing travels all the time. And this was not remote work, this was weekdays and weekends just checking emails and action items 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the night to 1) keep up, and 2) take care of things. Did I have to do that? No, but I like to.
And on one trip, I remember I was coding too. There was a problem I was trying to solve and I was way behind schedule, so I would fix one issue AM and one issue PM and test more and more. Once again, did I have to do that? Did my company force me to? Nope. Just something I wanted to take care of. And the day was available for family and sightseeing and I guess subconsciously plot my next bug fix.
I think opportunities for asynchronous communication can be created if A) you are motivated and B) your vacation schedule is not too extreme. This should be even easier with a product you own and understand and when your business is at stake.
I looked into programs like this but they seemed to require so much bureaucracy that I'd be better off without them :(
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