I looked at my GitHub contribution graph yesterday. It was beautiful. A solid wall of green squares. Over the last week, I start the "Vibe Coding" and built over 10 side projects(haven't upload and import" .
Among them, I have an AI logo generator, blind box, a crypto portfolio tracker, Polymarket address tracker ,and a niche markdown editor, and yet another "productivity timer" for coders. I felt like a god of execution. I was coding every night, feel stress about coming out with many ideas and pushing commits, and getting that sweet dopamine hit of "shipping." I told myself I was an entrepreneur. But then I looked at my github dashboard. and think about if the shit of my goods cannot become money i will be like $0.00 whole proces and didn't get any feedback like that.
The Circle Jerk of Indie Hacking
The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I wasn't building businesses; I was masturbating with code. I realized I had fallen into the classic trap: We are all building tools for each other. Scroll through X (Twitter) and Product Hunt. What do I see? Landing page builders for people building landing pages. Tweet schedulers for people trying to grow an audience to sell tweet schedulers. It’s an infinite loop of creators selling shovels to other creators, while nobody is actually digging for gold. It’s like a bunch of starving people opening restaurants that only serve each other. We are cannibalizing our own attention spans.
LARP as an entrepreneur I spent many nights optimizing my tech stack, choosing between many AI codings, which one is better, what I need to reduce my costs, what I need to get the most professional knowledge and the fastest achievement right away, and indulge in the UI design of dark mode and all the beautiful interfaces like on "Godly". At the same time, I completely ignored the only important thing: who really needs this? I am an entrepreneur in "LARPing" (reality role-playing). What I want is the look of an entrepreneur staying up late, code screenshots, and a "public build" label. But the actual work scares me: talking to clients, finding a painful problem, and raising money from others. I created 10 projects just to avoid doing what scared me: marketing to people who are different from me.
The Boring Truth what I recently saw a guy making over $40k or maybe more per month building ugly, boring software for car dealerships. He has no Twitter following. He doesn’t use the latest AI framework. He doesn't have a cool tools or avatar. He just solves a bleeding neck problem for people who have money. Meanwhile, I’m over here with my 10 beautiful, modern, open-source repositories that solve nothing for nobody.
I am done with "Quantity." I am done with vanity metrics. I think I have to delete my backlog of "cool ideas." If it doesn't solve a problem for a plumber, a dentist, or a tired accountant who still uses paper invoices and I don’t want to touch it. It’s time to stop coding for the applause of other coders and start building for the market.
RIP to my 10 side projects. Like make fun, but projecys are useless.Everything should be make it useful for markets.
"Constantly Correcting Mistakes To Find The Market's Best Fit"