The Indiehacker's dilemma (AKA existential crisis)
The first one is a landing page: hustleadventures.com. I made it for me, because the idea of going on a holiday with a ragtag bunch of do-no-good builder-type people sounds romantic to me.
I probably didn't take into account the fact that random people might not want to go on a holiday with me. And pay for it too!
The second one is indietrack.net. It's an analytics tool that shows a live timeline for each visitor to your website. It looks like this:
I tried to use as many "out of the box" services as I could, like Auth0 for authentication and Stripe for payments, but still I lost valuable time.
"What if they're going to spam the database and make billions of rows and I'd have to pay thousands of dollars in AWS charges". Better spend 2 days protecting against it!
I worked on it for a week from a hipster coffeeshop, coding about 12 hours a day, and the minute it was finished I lost all motivation. I think I got scared what people would think.
