Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income.
Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit
Today I’m joined by Dominik Sobe, the founder of Helpkit, a product he started last year that turns Notion pages into a professional help center, doing $4.5k MRR. In this episode we talk about Dom’s many failed projects, how he finally found something that worked with Helpkit and how he went from wanting to be a management consultant to being an indie hacker.
What we covered in this episode:
- Dom’s previous projects
- Wanting to become a management consultant
- Management consultant to indie hacker
- Making his first internet money
- Being embarrassed about your first product
- Overengineering your first product
- Building an MVP during a hackathon
- Validation before building a product
- Side projects as marketing
- Building in a growing market
- Investing in SEO
Recommendations
- Book: Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
- Podcast: Indie Hackers
- Indie Hacker: Minh-Phuc Tran
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