Everything is on one server in production. Most of the code, or most of the ap, is on the adman side. When people purchase cookies, it feeds into our orders. And we can basically view all orders. There's a lot of filters and things,. reviewing orders viewed by time, slaught by customer, by whatever. Eno we have a driver calls in sick, we have one less driver for that few times. Lots.
When Sam Eaton hears a new idea, it's all he can do to contain his excitement and dive right into the code. So when his sister told him she wanted to start a cookie delivery business, there was never any question that he'd apply his indie hacker skills to help out however he could. And to great effect — today they're selling hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of cookies every month. In this episode, Sam and I discuss the advantages of target your local community as a niche, ways to leverage scarcity and social proof to increase sales, and how software engineers can best apply their skills to selling products in the real world.