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
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