Hi, I'm Tobi. I started working on a side-project and honestly don't know if other people would find it useful. Do you use notion? or a note-taking app to document your ideas or none at all.
I do most of my note-taking with physical paper and pencil/pen. I haven't been able to make any phone/tablet/computer-based note-taking method work for me.
I use a self-hosted wiki to keep records of more formal things, such as project dev documentation, lists of project ideas, etc.
That's good to know. I built an MVP to help indie hackers and product builders document their ideas on the go, and I'm trying to decide to either drop it and build something else or to keep improving it. This is my attempt at validating it. Your advice would be really helpful.
I write them in a text file, if it's software that text file becomes a readme over iterations and development. For stuff that isn't software I just keep a directory of text notes.
Work is the hard part of working on ideas. I document my ideas through the work I do on them. Writing them down is a waste of time. I have more ideas than time for work already.
If you want to make stuff, make stuff. Don't worry about it being useful. Not knowing is a good reason to make something. The next thing you make will benefit from what you learn. From the experience.
Ideas that you aren't motivated to work on, aren't worth having. Taking notes isn't starting. Good luck.
Yeah, noted. It's crazy that the working part is the easiest (for me at least). I usually have to remind myself that I have to make money while building things, and to make money I have to be better at not just building, but also marketing and talking to customers and iterating.
But then I really understand that building things make you better at building useful things that people would want to pay for. Thanks!
Can you please advise me on what to do about this? It already feels like I probably built what people won't use. Mobile only for now: https://sandbox-mvp.vercel.app/
JohnFen|1 year ago
I use a self-hosted wiki to keep records of more formal things, such as project dev documentation, lists of project ideas, etc.
hackertobie|1 year ago
It's here if you want to check it out: https://sandbox-mvp.vercel.app/
big-green-man|1 year ago
brudgers|1 year ago
If you want to make stuff, make stuff. Don't worry about it being useful. Not knowing is a good reason to make something. The next thing you make will benefit from what you learn. From the experience.
Ideas that you aren't motivated to work on, aren't worth having. Taking notes isn't starting. Good luck.
hackertobie|1 year ago
But then I really understand that building things make you better at building useful things that people would want to pay for. Thanks!
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