Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
336: The 7 Deadly Sins of Indie Hacking
`Indie Hackers have sinned. They allowed the seven deadly sins into their founder lives. And now we must cast them out.
Well, let's be a little bit less dramatic. We already have enough drama in our busy founder lives.
Still, something about the seven deadly sins translates pretty well into how many indie hackers comport themselves. Here's where we find greed, sloth, pride, wrath, envy, gluttony, and lust in the world of SaaS entrepreneurship. And, more importantly, how we can avoid them all.
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