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Once worked at a place in 2017 with a dipshit CIO. Guy spent his entire time trying to evangelize Teams as the reason to switch to Microsoft. He ended up leaving 11 months into the gig and we were more than happy to stay on Slack.

It feels like Microsoft has a (bad) deal with every 3rd rate IT leader where the IT leader eschews Microsoft's BS in exchange for being "unfireable" because "who else knows how all the Microsoft stuff works?"

Gatekeepers going to gate keep. American doctors overprescribe EVERYTHING. From unnecessary tests to unnecessary surgeries & even unnecessary pharma (see Opiod crisis), a majority of MDs are looking out for their wallet first.

Of course you love the AMA. They artificially keep supply of doctors low so you can justify the exorbitant costs for a 15 minute consultation. It's no surprise that the state of tech in US Healthcare is also so poor. When you're so busy sitting on your high horse about your education, you dgaf about the actual experience for the patient.

You say the AMA keeps folks from seeing someone who just 'slipped through the cracks' but completely ignore the fact that many folks will complete their medical education training in the Carribbean and then do residency in the US. The worst part, post-residency, it's almost impossible to know where a physician went to medical school because they obfuscate and deflect to where they did their residency.

Also the arrogance surrounding foreign medical professionals in this comment is astounding. Most doctors around the world want to focus on helping their patient actually heal. American doctors just treat symptoms.

"I never thought the leopard would eat my face!"

I get why you see the need for this product. However, as someone who launched on PH and got featured w/ a team of two and no financial backers, I think the point is that it should not be easy to get featured.

PH does a great job of putting filters in place to ensure only the 'best' (whether by polish, value prop, or combo of both) products end up making it to the top. It really forces makers to put their absolute best foot forward when launching.

You gotta love good survivorship bias stories like this. Especially those written by VC armchair quarterbacks. It's always the same examples reiterated over and over again.

this was my biggest gripe w/ academic math. Whenever i'd ask my teachers how these concepts are applied in the real world, i'd get a non-answer that showed me a) the teachers themselves have no clue and b) they're hoping you'll just shut up and follow the curriculum.

I agree that we are ripe for an educational system that is truly disruptive. Our current educators are so disconnected from the real world and have no idea how to apply what they teach.

IMO most folks find it easier to point to the million reasons why something wont work/why someone is speaking from a point of affluence/how luck/finances/etc play a role in success than to just do the thing, learn from their mistakes, and grow. It's probably because doing the latter is hard and forces you to face ambiguity & hard personal growth on a daily basis.

Documented our journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...

We went from nothing to paid users & number 2 product of the day on ProductHunt over a period of three months.

I documented our entire journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...

We wrote about our entire journey on IndieHackers. You can find our posts here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/kbee

All data is stored & edited in Drive. Kbee simply renders it in an easy to search/consume manner

Ahh yes, this is down. We are still deciding if we want to bring back the public facing roadmap :)

You are correct that we charge a per org fee regardless of number of seats. For non-profits, we offer a 50% discount on the subscription price. All the nonprof needs to do to get the discount is email me at sai@kbee.app

My cofounder and I launched Kbee (https://kbee.app) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project

I came to Silicon Valley to learn as much as possible.

This is so refreshing to read. Feels like 80%+ of ppl i came across in SV over the last 10 years do not have this mindset.

Hold this philosophy close and guard it fiercely. It is your secret weapon in a world of rising mediocrity

We just put the finishing touches on an MVP for an alternative to Stripe Invoicing. TLDR: Our invoicing APIlets you offer branded invoicing and AR automation solutions to your users.

No landing page ready yet. You can check out the demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/8814e6613a3c483487bd61beadef842b

What we offer:

- Fully white-labeled invoicing

   - White-labeled Invoice PDFs

   - White-labeled payment portals & domains

   - Customized notifications & copy

   - Customized ACH statement descriptors

   - Use our same-day ACH & card payments or BYOPayments provider

Please check out the video and let me know if you have any questions or thoughts!

We're always looking for feedback (and early users!)

You are definitely not missing out on anything. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to themselves OR isn't as healthy as they think.

Everyone will agree that eating 6-8 slices of bread per day is NOT good for your health but will sing a completely different tune about drinking 2-3 beers at a bar because "socializing" and other excuses.

Ultimately, drinking is the cheapest/easiest way to "socialize" while investing the minimal amount of time thinking about who they want to associate with. The alternative of finding a club, picking up a new activity, and learning what you like/dislike is way more expensive from a time perspective then kicking back 2-4 drinks in a dimly lit room across the street.

This video is amazing. Can’t believe this actually happened IRL

I used to be an after school mentor for an organization called BUILD here in the Bay Area. BUILD is an entrepreneurship program for underserved high school students that teaches them how to build their own business while also preparing them for college.

Most, if not, all of these students come from a home where no one holds a college degree or even a stable source of income. I didn't comprehend the impact I could have just by showing up every week, being present, and taking an active interest in who these teens were as people.

If you have the time, I would highly recommend volunteering with organizations like this. It changed my life.

I worked at Magento when we were acquired by Adobe. No one at Adobe knows how all the tech fits together. The guy who championed the acquisition (Brad Rencher) left the company 6 months after that. Then w/ the acquisition of Marketo, it was the same thing all over again. My takeaway is that you coerce an organization to acquire a company you recommend so that you can gain some sort of social capital and then convert it into your next (higher level) gig

I didn’t do cold calling though maybe I should have. Instead, I trawled LinkedIn and used tools like hunter.io to find email addresses and then cold emailed folks.

Fwiw, Apollo.io seems to do a good job surfacing contact info as well.

thank you for the feedback! we will address!

The b2b saas was a grind tbh. Lots of cold emailing directors & VPs. Classic top down sales motion.

For Kbee, I actually wrote up our journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...

Would love to know what you think and if you have any follow up questions :)

https://kbee.app

Please let me know if you have any feedback on it!

My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side.

The first product is a B2B onboarding platform. This product generates approx. $100k/year.

Our second product is a microsaas that turns google drive folders into a hosted, searchable wiki with one click. This product is making $2k/month.

Both products require minimum support and continue to sustain themselves.

One thing to note is that we did work full time on both of these products for like 1.5 years during the pandemic. At the time, it was definitely not the best income stream we had created but became so after we both got "real" jobs again.

Great game! Reminded me alot of the game, "Baba is you". Keep it up! Would love to play other levels :)

Would love to learn more about your neobank! Would you be open to sharing the name? For context, I work as a PM for a company that has launched a bank product on a baas. Always looking for ways to help improve our internal tooling :)

Also, don't waste your time w/ lawyers. Just use Stripe Atlas for all that jazz (ideally after you've got folks interested in using your solution)

Keep your day job and start selling your solution before you build anything. Get 10-15 companies to sign the dotted line for your saas and ask them to start paying in Month 1. Then hustle on your off-hours to build the solution and get it out as soon as possible to validate if you're solving a hair on fire problem.

The great news w/ this approach: If your solution is a true painkiller, then you will have an easier time convincing each next prospect to sign up.

Ideally, you get to a point where you're making $10K MRR ASAP and growing WoW by atleast 20%.

Do NOT consult. It's a distraction and eats into the time you should be spending building your product or selling your solution.

My cofounder and I went through this process illustrated above before we quit our jobs. The one big mistake we made though was to quit our jobs after only signing one customer. If we could go back, we would have had atleast 5 signed contracts before quitting.

I've felt this before. In fact, I end up in this position everytime I'm in a job where the company is larger than 200 folks, the goals are corporate, and there never seems to be an "end" to the work. I'd say it's easy to be disconnected from the impact you have on people when you're working a job.

One thing I found that really helped was working on my own projects. The level of satisfaction you feel after directly helping someone (or multiple folks) solve a problem that's been bothering them (either in business or personal) can't be replicated from any job.

Some people will say settle, or bring up hedonic treadmills or w/e but i would encourage you to start scratching that itch to do your own thing. Find folks who have a problem you think/know you can help them solve and then do it. Take the plunge and experience how it feels to help someone with something you built of your own effort and time.