Eight months dis coting it, yes. Well, before you had any sails. It's really hard to just do that grind. If something is not successful, naturally, ill just find somethin else. Its other shiny things will take its place. Iam a growth engineer. I am a data analyst. And so i will just be like, scare that little thing. The product market fit and getting a customer base was the biggest challenge for Anjest. He didn't even have a payment for m or anything up at this point. They're still building it.
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.