Hard truth tho: the best engineer who cant sell works for someone who can.
The actual play isn't eliminating middlemen. It's becoming the middleman. The indie hacker thesis. 35% of 2024 startups had solo founders. One person, one product, one signature line.
Begin by building a copycat services for yourself. Not a shiny new idea that requires validation and hope customers will love. Build the first product for yourself, be it www search, custom AI agent or anything else that u use daily.Read more →
The farmers and programmers analogy: one operator with heavy machinery replaces a hundred shovel-wielding workers. Question isn't whether to use the machine. It's whether u know enough to notice when it's digging in the wrong direction.
U will build shitload. Whether u sell and capture $? That's the game.
Just remember: in food industry neither farmers nor gardeners earn CEO level payouts.Read more →