Hey! It's Yifan 👋🏼
Welcome to my newsletter!
As it’s going to be my first newsletter, let’s start with my overall journey as an Indie Hacker.
My journey as an Indie Hacker has been quite interesting.
Buckle up.
It all started in 2019. I was still working a job at that time, but I was crazy about building things.
Back then, I had an obsession with making my products perfect (just Virgo things).
So, I started building startups in 2019, perfecting each one of them, but I failed every time.
In my maker career, I built a classifieds marketplace over 8 months and an e-commerce price tracker over 6 months.
I put my heart into building both of these and had high hopes, but the results were very disappointing…
Not only were they launched to the sound of crickets, making $0, but it also burned me out and hurt A LOT.
I gave everything I had: my energy, my time, literally everything. But these results broke me.
When I analyze why it happened, it was because I had the urge to “perfect” everything I built and didn’t do market research to see if people needed my products or not.
Anyways, let’s continue with my story.
In April 2023, I said, "f*ck this shit." I decided to launch only a landing page for OurBabyAI in one day and continue building only if I had sales from it.
I did, and the rest is history.
You see, result comes to those who keep getting up after falling.
Because life as a solopreneur isn’t easy. Your idea will fail, your products will fail, you’re going to get burned out, and you’re going to feel like giving up and ask yourself:
“Why the f*ck am I doing this?”
But if you keep getting up and are patient, that’s when you see results.
So keep launching small bets, don’t quit, and be patient.
You got this.
Rooting for you, Yifan Goh
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PPS. How was this first issue? I would love to hear your feedback!
Love it. Excited to learn lessons from the wins and the fails equally 🙌
Great story!! Like it.