Indie Hackers

#177 – Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach to Indie Hacking with Daniel Vassallo

Oct 20, 2020

01:12:18

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Episode guests

Daniel Vassallo

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Episode notes

Financial Security Enables Exploration

00:36

Value of Failure and Building Reputation

00:33

Life is a Good Story You're Proud Of

00:26

Embrace Parallelism Over Serialism

00:32

Introduction

2min

Is This What I Want to Be Doing?

3min

You Can Never Really Take Nothing on Your Schedule

2min

How Do You Deal With All That I Don't Want to Do?

2min

How Much Do You Sacrifice and the Pleasant for a Better Future?

2min

How Do You Feel Giving That Up When You Quit Amazon?

2min

Are You Writing Off an Almost Complete Chapter of Your Life?

2min

Are You Suffering More From Your Imagination Than in Reality?

3min

How to Have a Good Kind of Kansas Response to Casual Conversations

4min

10.

SaaS - Userbase

2min

11.

Build an End to End Encrypted Web App

3min

12.

Is User Base Your Enemy or Your Friend?

2min

13.

Building an Audience

4min

14.

You're Always Working on So Many Things

6min

15.

Hacker News - You're Not the First Person to Do This

4min

16.

What Do You Know About Hackers?

4min

17.

The Numbers Are Always Engaging

3min

18.

What Gets People to Engage in Behavior?

4min

19.

Are You Getting Tired of the Eddie Hackers Lifestyle?

1min

20.

How Many Hours Do You Put Into Your Product?

5min

21.

Online Video Courses

3min

22.

Inspiration and Opportunity Are Perishable

3min

23.

Andy Hacker - What Have You Learned From Your Success?

5min

24.

How to Write Your First Line of Code

2min

When Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) quit his job to become an indie hacker, he was making over $500,000 per year. It could have been a disastrous choice. Instead, less than two years later, he's built a suite of products that most founders would envy. In this episode we discuss how Daniel minimizes risk by running multiple projects simultaneously, how he turns time into a friend instead of an enemy by lowering his costs, and how a lifestyle-first business mindset can make you both richer and happier.

The Good Parts of AWS, Daniel's eBook: https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/#MsVlG
Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience, Daniel's video course: https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/#PBkrO
Userbase, Daniel's platform for building end-to-end encrypted web apps: https://userbase.com
Follow Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvassallo

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Indie Hackers

#177 – Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach to Indie Hacking with Daniel Vassallo

Episode guests

Financial Security Enables Exploration

Value of Failure and Building Reputation

Life is a Good Story You're Proud Of

Embrace Parallelism Over Serialism

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