My friend went to an indie hacker meetup this week and said this:
"i went to indie hacker meetup
so what’s really interesting is that almost everyone is super focused on development.
they build these whole spaceships that generate code, review it, make all kinds of reports, analytics, and so on.
one guy built an entire factory: he has a list of ideas, and agents generate the landing page, the saas, the analytics, and pull everything into one dashboard. straight-up sci-fi.
and they focused optimize all of it like crazy.
and you can really see how comfortable that is for them.
but the most interesting part is that almost none of them have money or traffic.
and nobody knows where to get either one.
you often hear something like, yeah, i should probably do on marketing, but first i’ll finish my super system and then i’ll start.
or in best i would need to make agent that will post to instaram automatically
before, the classic programmer would spend a year writing code, tests, preparing for scale in the basement, and not show anything to anyone.
now it’s even worse: the amount of useless aislop nobody needs has grown massively."
I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps
But
1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or
2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or
3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
