Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

Today I’m joined by Dominik Sobe, the founder of Helpkit, a product he started last year that turns Notion pages into a professional help center, doing $4.5k MRR. In this episode we talk about Dom’s many failed projects, how he finally found something that worked with Helpkit and how he went from wanting to be a management consultant to being an indie hacker.

What we covered in this episode:

  • Dom’s previous projects
  • Wanting to become a management consultant
  • Management consultant to indie hacker
  • Making his first internet money
  • Being embarrassed about your first product
  • Overengineering your first product
  • Building an MVP during a hackathon
  • Validation before building a product
  • Side projects as marketing
  • Building in a growing market
  • Investing in SEO

Recommendations

  • Book: Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
  • Podcast: Indie Hackers
  • Indie Hacker: Minh-Phuc Tran

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