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Show HN: My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to keep your desk job away

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My goal when I first started as an Indie Hacker was to earn $100/day.

Everything that I did was to achieve that goal. I reached that goal after 6 months and I increased my goal to $200/day. I reached that goal a year back, now my current goal is $300/day. This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not and when you get small wins, you move to a bigger goal all the while maintaining the momentum and enthusiasm.

On the flips side, if I had set my goal to $10K/month, it would seem very big and I might have given up very early (Actually I wouldn't because I quit my job and hate 9 to 5 job). A lot of people might not see any gratification anytime soon with big goals. Its always good to set small realistic goals which will ultimately make you a successful maker in the long run.

So far i have built

https://acrypto.io/ topping $4000/month

https://visalist.io/ topping $7000/month

https://simpleops.io/ topping $8000/month

16 comments

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rajeshamara
Congrats. Just curious, what are your revenue sources- ads or paid subscriptions?
1hakr
There are actually different sources Acrypto has Subscription and ads Visa list has affiliates, subscriptions and ads Simple ops has subscriptions
zapstar
"This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not"

I would never think that. $200 a day is fantastic! And $300 seems like quite a goal! Good for you. This must have required a lot of work, and I'm sure there were failures along the way.

What's your secret? How do you decide which projects to work on?

1hakr
I pick the problems I faced personally to solve and that has been very successful.
enonevets
Congrats. How are you marketing these initially since they are in different markets? Are you building/maintaining (and updating) all these actively?

Curious on the strategy here of launching more products over time versus scaling projects up.

1hakr
I'm working on one microstartup at a time, then after growing one, I try to fully automate it and start building a new one.
Yliaho
I’m curious how you’ve even achieved $100 per day. Did you have a sizeable following on social media or an email list to get your first customers? I wouldn’t call any of these milestones “small” or “easy”, that’s just ridiculous.
1hakr
No, actually I didn't have any twitter followers and no email list aswell. I did few things right. I didn't mean the goal was very easy but because I set it relatively small instead settings it very big. This helped a lot.
Yliaho
Alright, thanks for answering. What things would you consider being crucial to be done right though?
ortenheim
Nice! inspirational. What do you prefer using for micro startups for client side / serverside? I see you mention vue and nuxtjs for client side on other articles, what hosting providers do you recommend to keep costs low?
1hakr
anything that is easy to build and costs you less. i user GCP servers for all my microstartups but digital ocean is the cheapest.
munna77
can share your journey and what resources you refered for learning things