Indie Hackers #037 – The Story of WorkFlowy: From $0 to $800,000 a Year with Jesse Patel
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Nov 16, 2017 AI Snips
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Jesse's Coding and Workflowy Origin
- Jesse Patel created Workflowy initially as a learning project while teaching himself to code.
- The first version was not an outline but a column-based interface inspired by the Mac Finder.
Meeting Co-founder Mike and Pivoting
- Jesse met Mike, his co-founder, after nearly a year working on Workflowy alone.
- They initially considered other startup ideas before pivoting back to Workflowy during Y Combinator.
Infinite Bulleted Lists and Structure
- Workflowy lets users create infinitely nested bullet lists to manage huge information piles with easy focus.
- It allows personal structure creation rather than enforcing fixed layouts from the software.