Essays
23 posts tagged with "Essays"
Taking OutlierKit from $100 → $1000 MRR in 90 days
Sharing our 90-day strategy to 10x Outlier Kit's MRR. No theory, just what we're actually doing: strategic social mentions, SEO for bottom-of-funnel keywords, and B2B partnerships. Real experiment, real numbers.
Why We Killed Our Free Plan: The Bootstrap SaaS Pricing Playbook | Free Trial vs Freemium vs Free Forever Plan | Superframeworks
Free forever plans are for funded startups. Bootstrap SaaS needs paying customers from day one.
The Bull Case for OutlierKit
Why we’re building outlierkit?
OutlierKit - August 2025 Update 🚀
honest update for my new YouTube SaaS - OutlierKit. What I’ve done, and what plans for September
Why Indie Masterminds is now FREE?
4 main reasons
4 years since I quit my Job to make a living on the internet
Here’s every project I’ve tried so far
7 Hard-Won Marketing Lessons from Our July Office Hours Session
7 proven marketing tactics from indie founders making $5K MRR: feedback acquisition, App Store optimization, TikTok growth hacks, and the summer slowdown survival guide
10 Best AI Coding Tools in 2025: From IDE Assistants to Agentic Builders
Compare the 10 best AI coding tools in 2025 including GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Lovable, and vibe coding assistants. Verified pricing, real user reviews, setup guides, and honest pros/cons for indie hackers and SaaS builders. Find your perfect AI coding stack.
Blogging is Back & the Follower is Dead (But Not How You Think)
Follower counts don't matter anymore. Discover why owning your platform and creating content on your website is the smartest strategy for the AI future.
Cash Flow vs. Product Dreams: July's Honest Mastermind Revelations
Discover how indie founders tackle lead generation, pricing, and product-market fit. Unfiltered insights from our 132-minute monthly mastermind call.
The LTD Paradox: Why Early-Stage Indie Hackers Should Reconsider Lifetime Deals
Subscription fatigue is killing SaaS conversions. Discover how lifetime deals solve this problem while accelerating cash flow for bootstrapped startups
Why Agency Owners Fail at Building SaaS Companies (And How to Break Free)
Agency owners understand customer problems better than anyone. So why do they fail at SaaS? The uncomfortable truth about escaping the service business trap.
How You Will Fail (and what you can do about it)
Stop asking how to be the 1% who succeeds. Start asking how to avoid being the 99% who fail. Here are the 10 failure patterns every indie hacker must avoid.
AI is Coming for Your Job. Here's Why That's Both Terrifying and Inevitable
A Microsoft developer's sudden AI-related layoff reveals the harsh reality: AI job displacement is accelerating. Learn why things will get worse before they get better, and discover the only path forward for workers in an AI-first world. Essential reading for anyone worried about their career.
How to Get Your First 10 SaaS Customers: The Zero-Budget Founder's Playbook
Learn the exact 4-step playbook to get your first 10 SaaS customers without a marketing budget. Proven community-led growth strategies for bootstrapped founders
The Power of Peer Accountability: Lessons from our Mid-Year Mastermind
Discover 8 powerful insights from a 2.5-hour mastermind session: the $1/visit metric, health as a business asset, standardized personalization, and more practical lessons for indie entrepreneurs.
Building an Audience vs Having a Presence
Update on My Job Board (Jan 2025)
Building a business is more like Sculpting than Pottery
The Hard Truth About Easy Money
The Simplicity of Business: Product + Distribution
The Power of Asking
