Thank you I love that you made a specific goal as being a developer to give other developer ideas on how to progress their skill level they’re learning. I love these goals.❤
Self-hosting isn't always the best thing, especially in the case of supabase, there are so many things to worry about, and you can probably have it cheaper and faster while being on a managed instance since they can bring cost down for their large scale usage. For the application itself, 100% self-host.
truth is, you really don't know if marketing, coding, some X or another Y will get automated away from you - I'd personally suggest trying different things and seeing which one you as an individual can out-value AI in and secure that into a revenue making business
On the marketing site, can you make a video on the product marketing the DTM’s and how you get this product to users like what techniques do you do like social media email do you do B2B or B2C. I would love to hear about a lot of product development, product, lifecycle, product management and product marketing and some of the concept you’re gonna be using our overview
Im interested in when you mentioned about the holding company and operating multiple saas products underneath it. Are you able to create a video on this topic? I feel like not a lot of people are talking about how to create a good structure for longevity.
IMO 2 and 4 is contradictory based on what you said about being a better dev by learning more about AI. Unless aiming to only use more dev tools like bolt.new, lovable, etc, or make wrapper tools, you have to at least learn a new Framework like LangchainJS
I see your point, but who knows I think tools like bolt, lovable, etc actually have high potential to empower devs, too. just want to keep as open of a mind as possible to AI tools that are out there
hey brother, could you possibly share how you and your partner share the revenue? Curious to see how you guys value your different set of skills. I've seen different cases of the technical founder having a larger share because of giant pile of work in comparison to marketing, but I might be completely off. Thanks!
Boomers, and even earlier generations, built the tech that we're now building on. It's comes across as igonorant to use terms like "boomer developer." I've worked with some amazing developers who were older. It's easy for people to feel smart when they simply import every component with a package manager. In the 1990s and earlier, many companies were writing most things from scratch. Sure, the overall productivity was lower, but smart people were doing smart things in tech long before we were. A wise man knows that he knows nothing.
when I say boomer developers I'm not "dissing" the earlier generations of devs who built everything we rely on. Far from that. By "boomer" developers I am talking about people (both old and young) who refuse to increase their productivity with the help of AI.
@@YourAverageTechBro If I want my friend to collaborate with me on my Supabase database as a 'Developer' does Supabase allow me to control what the developer can and cannot do? Or is this fixed by them? Because with the current 'Developer' settings a developer can delete data and I don't want to give them that access. What do you do to prevent this?
in hindsight I think I would've stayed at Google for the nice perks/benefits while still building stuff on the side. Current place I'm at is still nice but I think Google would have given me better work life balance to pursue my side projects more. But overall no regrets and I'm happy with where I'm at.
Best tech dev i followed in 2024, I'm excited to watch more in 2025 and Good luck with your goals
Appreciate the love and support!
Thank you I love that you made a specific goal as being a developer to give other developer ideas on how to progress their skill level they’re learning. I love these goals.❤
Self-hosting isn't always the best thing, especially in the case of supabase, there are so many things to worry about, and you can probably have it cheaper and faster while being on a managed instance since they can bring cost down for their large scale usage. For the application itself, 100% self-host.
that's true. the main objective would def be the self host a nextjs app, not supabase really
hope you enjoyed the time off glad you’re back posting bro💪🏻
Thanks for being so transparent on RUclips! Really awesome following your indie hacker journey here.
Thanks for being a part of the journey!
great video, i would like if you show/explain solutions to problems that occured along the road would be very helpful !! good luck on this new year!
definitely planning to do that :)
truth is, you really don't know if marketing, coding, some X or another Y will get automated away from you - I'd personally suggest trying different things and seeing which one you as an individual can out-value AI in and secure that into a revenue making business
Yeah you're right - that's why I'm doing a bunch of different things right now to see what sticks.
Can you share guides or make video about product marketing, generating ideas, validate ideas?
Big goals! Just hit my first 1k mmr month. Aiming for 4k mrr this year!
you got this 🫡 rooting for ya. congrats on the 1k mrr!
Nice! What did you do?
On the marketing site, can you make a video on the product marketing the DTM’s and how you get this product to users like what techniques do you do like social media email do you do B2B or B2C. I would love to hear about a lot of product development, product, lifecycle, product management and product marketing and some of the concept you’re gonna be using our overview
Love it
Im interested in when you mentioned about the holding company and operating multiple saas products underneath it. Are you able to create a video on this topic? I feel like not a lot of people are talking about how to create a good structure for longevity.
IMO 2 and 4 is contradictory based on what you said about being a better dev by learning more about AI. Unless aiming to only use more dev tools like bolt.new, lovable, etc, or make wrapper tools, you have to at least learn a new Framework like LangchainJS
I see your point, but who knows I think tools like bolt, lovable, etc actually have high potential to empower devs, too. just want to keep as open of a mind as possible to AI tools that are out there
amazing
hey brother, could you possibly share how you and your partner share the revenue? Curious to see how you guys value your different set of skills. I've seen different cases of the technical founder having a larger share because of giant pile of work in comparison to marketing, but I might be completely off. Thanks!
it's 50/50 between the two of us - no weird power dynamics of uneven equity for us
Boomers, and even earlier generations, built the tech that we're now building on. It's comes across as igonorant to use terms like "boomer developer." I've worked with some amazing developers who were older. It's easy for people to feel smart when they simply import every component with a package manager. In the 1990s and earlier, many companies were writing most things from scratch. Sure, the overall productivity was lower, but smart people were doing smart things in tech long before we were. A wise man knows that he knows nothing.
when I say boomer developers I'm not "dissing" the earlier generations of devs who built everything we rely on. Far from that. By "boomer" developers I am talking about people (both old and young) who refuse to increase their productivity with the help of AI.
Wondering what do you mean by self host like on your own server or a virtual private server like on digital ocean or sth? 😮
on a vps on digital ocean!
How do you scale your app as the number of users grows? Is AWS RDS a reliable service? What do you recommend?
I use supabase as my backend and it handles all of the scaling for me
@@YourAverageTechBro If I want my friend to collaborate with me on my Supabase database as a 'Developer' does Supabase allow me to control what the developer can and cannot do? Or is this fixed by them? Because with the current 'Developer' settings a developer can delete data and I don't want to give them that access. What do you do to prevent this?
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It's been 3 years you left google. Are you satisfied at this point with whatever you are doing? Or you wish you could join a company as a developer?
in hindsight I think I would've stayed at Google for the nice perks/benefits while still building stuff on the side. Current place I'm at is still nice but I think Google would have given me better work life balance to pursue my side projects more. But overall no regrets and I'm happy with where I'm at.