For now, I'm developing it as a hobby. My ultimate goal is to create a general-purpose editor (like code editor). Specific use cases would include 'podcast editing' and 'short-form video editing'.
This hit home for me, thank you for sharing. I was a bit surprised that you didn't mention or explore a path outside of employment, rather chose the content path of receiving paychecks and wasting time not being very motivated to push yourself. Don't give up on your potential!
I am actively using Indie Hackers. It is a very supporting and nice community. It is very motivating for entrepreneurs. If you are building a product, you have direct access to a ton of like-minded founders who can tell you about their journey. It's for entrepreneurs.
The only criticism I have of Indie Hackers is that sometimes discussion can get a little spammy (lots of people looking for early adopters). Not every conversation is like that, but some posts are.
As someone building a startup on their own (full time) I've found Indie Hackers a really supportive community. The stories there are often relatable, and far less sensational than typically seen places like HN. If you're going through the daily grind of trying to grow a small business / startup then it's a good place to drop by every now and again to help stay sane.
Hi Tara, that's great. I have been working with Stripe for years and I love what you guys are doing. The integration to Stripe requires development, although I agree that the experience is painless initially. When the SaaS company grows and needs to update pricing models frequently, they need to build a dashboard on top of their Stripe integration so non-technical teams can update pricing without consuming development resources.
I spent the past two years building a product on top of Stripe. I've been wanting to show it a Stripe team member and if you are interested I would love to get your feedback on it. I was supposed to meet with Edwin Wee in SF back in July but never got to actually meet.
Deployment of open source applications that are time consuming and painful to install and configure. I've started a project to automate this already => https://serviceshop.io
It looks like a great service. I went to it at first thinking it didn't add any value over just launching the service in a Docker swarm (most open source apps have pre-built containers now) but I see the enterprise options as a good value add.
1- We started it because we were tired of sending manual invoices to our clients for custom web application development work. We couldn't connect our invoices, customers, and services we provided to our customers in a single place. So we built Servicebot to automate the process of invoicing through Stripe. Creating a self service portal for customers to order more work, approve existing and future work. And we open sourced.
2- We have been writing blog content to show people how Servicebot will help cut business cost but automating the billing and customer management processes.
3- We have been posting it on Medium, Reddit, HN, and a lot of word of the mouth.
4- I don't think unfair is the right word. I think it's lack of knowledge. We spent a lot more time developing a solution for our itch than to think about marketing and product roll out.
