What Daily Commenting on IndieHackers Actually Taught Me
I comment on other builders' posts most days instead of posting my own. Here's what that habit actually changed about how I think about my own products.
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Journey
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What 27 Views Taught Me About Building Without a Community
Five boilerplates I was proudest of pulled 27 Gumroad views total, against 204 for six Obsidian plugins. Here's what that gap actually taught me.
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Why I Keep Building New Products Instead of Fixing the Ones I Have
Five products of mine lost their buy buttons this summer. My first instinct wasn't to fix the distribution problem. It was to start something new instead.
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The Obsidian Plugin Bug That Hides Your Upgrade Button
I found a bug across 7 Obsidian plugins: free-tier users who hit their limit had no way to see or click an upgrade button. Here's the fix.
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Pocket is gone and Obsidian won't save your reading backlog by itself
Pocket shut down and millions moved their read-it-later pile to Obsidian. Here's why migrating the backlog doesn't fix it, and what actually does.
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Your YouTube Watch Later is overwhelming because deleting it is the wrong fix
Why clearing your YouTube Watch Later backlog with bulk-delete scripts misses the point, and a different way to triage an overwhelming saved-videos pile.
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I built six Obsidian plugins. Two sold.
I built six Obsidian plugins and only two sold. Here's the split between the ones that sold and the ones that didn't, with the real numbers, and what I took from it.
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The first sale I had almost stopped waiting for
My first two sales as a non-coder building digital products with AI both came from small Obsidian plugins, not the SaaS boilerplates I expected. The honest breakdown: 207 views, 2 sales, and what it taught me about what to build.
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