What's working, what failed, and what I'm figuring out as an indie maker with a day job and two kids. Each post is tied to a real product and written to be useful, not filler.
The question business owners kept asking after CampfireX was not about communities. It was: how do we put AI in production without breaking what already works? Sound AI Advisors is the answer.
Read article200 clicks. Zero customers. The honest math behind shutting CampfireX down and the question that opened up the next chapter.
Read articleAwareness problems get solved for free. Execution is what founders actually pay for. Why I shut CompliQuiz down and pivoted to the harder problem.
Read articleReal product, wrong audience for this brand. Why I shut it down rather than run a parallel B2C consumer brand for a single product.
Read articleA reflection app a single ChatGPT prompt could replace. The lesson: if a prompt replicates your product, you do not have a product.
Read articleThe case for collapsing naming into a single working session, and why a slow domain hunt quietly kills indie launches.
Read articleA product story about turning dry, mandatory training into something people can actually retain.
Read articleA practical framing for better reply workflows and why ReplyWisely exists.
Read articleThe case for repurposing saved inspiration instead of letting it disappear into a backlog.
Read articleAn article about alignment, market reality, and searching for work that actually fits.
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