Journey To Maker

A journal, wiki, TODO registry of my effort to become a successful indiehacker/maker entrepreneur.

Idea validation

• defmacro startup idea checklist

• Idea validation checklist thread on Indie Hackers

• Courtland's checklist

Sales and marketing

• Sales > marketing

• Trello board with ways to get your first 100 users

• Writerack for Twitter threads

• Marketing strategies Twitter thread by Taylor Pearson

Community

• Join communities and projects like Makerlog, WIP, Shipstreams...

Links

• How not to launch
• Livestreaming setup

Pricing

• Pricing Design: Dan Mall explains how to earn more, by understanding what goes into a price (and why hourly rates don’t work) and what your clients really want—and are willing to pay for. Learn the right questions to ask and when, and ways to turn client requirements into numbers, with a real-world example from Dan’s agency. Whether you’re running a shop or going solo, this is a book you can’t afford to miss.

This book provides other resources that look very good:

• Pricing For Profit: Many small business owners are trapped by industry pricing and market misconceptions, when they could be compensated for the true value of the product or service being offered. The low price they feel compelled to offer limits their ability to generate profits which, in turn, slows their response to changing customer needs. The good news is that a business can command almost any price it chooses by focusing on the value not the cost to the customer.

• Are we in control of our own decisions?. TED talk by Dan Ariely. The Economist example at the end is very illuminating, and quite relevant to pricing design.

• Value-Based Fees

• Predicably Irrational

• Implementing Value Pricing, Ronald J. Baker

• Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Peter F. Drucker

• Positioning for Professionals, Tim Williams

• Pricing with Confidence, Reed K. Holden and Mark R. Burton

• The Win without Pitching Manifesto, Blair Enns

• Work for Money, Design for Love, David Airey