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Channing Allen

3 years

To go from 0 to 1 as a founder, you have to learn how to wear all the hats. But to go from 1 to 2, you have to learn how to take them off.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

5 years

tl;dr 1. stop selling your time as an employee 2. start buying time: quit the job, consume less entertainment, etc. 3. reinvest your purchased time into making things that make money 4. reinvest this money to buy more time 5. rinse & repeat until you own ALL your time

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How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

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Channing Allen

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1 year

This is basically where I live. This little nook. Easily accounts for 50%+ of my waking hours these days. What's your setup like?

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

If you can't find time to make a project, then your real project is to make time.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

The most effective leaders I know are all relearners. You have learners, unlearners, and relearners. Most folks stop at learning. A fraction go on to unlearn what they learned, but stop there. This isn't an actual improvement until they start relearning. I'll explain 👇

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Learning to code is way harder than we all make it out to be. I say this as a self-taught developer with plenty of experience teaching others. Do you need a CS degree? Definitely not. But do you need a community/mentor who can help you overcome unique hurdles? Most people do.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

It's like TechCrunch if TechCrunch were written, run, and funded by the actual players in the arena. And we're still just getting started. Seriously.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Why people don't start projects: They underestimate what they can do. Why people don't finish projects: They overestimate what they can do.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Create more than you consume.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Your quality of life improves in proportion to your ability to say no.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Don't become an entrepreneur because you want freedom. There is no freedom as long as there are problems to solve. Become an entrepreneur because you want to choose and control your *unfreedoms* rather than having them imposed on you by society.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Working for yourself 👇 Day 1: Boom! Quit my job. No more boss. No more long commutes. Earthlings, brace yourselves for what I'm about to build. But first, a few episodes of that Netflix show everyone's been talking about. Tomorrow… WE BUILD. Day 30: T…tomorrow we build?

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

Human psychology is wild. I've seen it once a week for 6 years… never gets old. An indie hacker's success story (👋 @tdinh_me ) hits page 1 and people feel so personally attacked that they create false realities as a coping strategy. Positive-sum thinking is a superpower.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

the best thing about @NotionHQ is it stores all your stuff in one place the worst thing about @NotionHQ is it stores all your stuff in one place

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

As you become more competent and secure as a person, your ego shrinks and you crave less social approval. So think twice before envying anyone who regularly brags about their accomplishments. There's probably something they're not showing you.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

2 years

🤯 HUGE milestone… The IH newsletter just crossed 100,000 subscribers! For years we plateaued at ~30,000. But 2 years ago we broke through & never looked back. Despite: • $0 on ads • no marketing • only 2 part-time contractors (editor + graphic designer) Here's how 🧵

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

asking someone if you can ask them a question is like sending them a blank email with the subject line "can i send you an email?"

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

The @IndieHackers newsletter just hit 70,000 subscribers! One year ago today the number was 41,000. AMA.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

I'm looking to hire a couple of super talented tech/biz journalists. They'll write for an @IndieHackers audience of 100,000+. And the team they'll join includes writers published in Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Know anyone? (DMs open)

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

3 weeks into our transition to a community-powered media company. Haven't shipped this fast since our pre-acquisition days. Thoughts? Suggestions?

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

When you work on a difficult thing: You'll generally overestimate its technical difficulty and underestimate its *emotional* difficulty. To do a thing right, even once, you have to become good at it. But to become good at it, you have to do it wrong, repeatedly. This is key 👇

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Byproduct of this recession: *many* new indie hackers. Why? ❶ *Millions* are newly unemployed. A small % (at least) will start companies. ❷ VCs are crunched right now! New founders will find bootstrapping more attractive than bad valuations. ❸ 👇

The recession might end up producing more indie hackers

For all the problems they create, recessions can produce positive byproducts. Case in point: I think we're seeing the ideal conditions right now for a w...

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Of all the people who resent having to market their creations, about 0% spend time scouring the Internet for the unmarketed creations of others.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

Heartbreaking story on IH today: This guy Jay Tan got laid off from his bartender job back in 2020. Had a bunch of free time suddenly so he built a SaaS. Because why not, right? Then this thing ( @GetZlappo ) took off. But… it was built on the Twitter API. So he went from $0

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

life is so much better when you don't care what the president is up to

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

By far the best growth hack for building an audience: Make something people like and write your name on it.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Wow. Twitter has been sitting on a goldmine for a decade, but they haven't been able to extract much of the gold. That's about to change in a big way. Quick thread… 1/

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@TheHustle

4 years

Twitter announced the rollout of their new feature, 'Super Follows.' Here, users will be able to monetize exclusive content.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

2 years

It's discouraging how much time it takes to make great things. But it's encouraging how much time you can make for yourself by consuming fewer things made by others.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

11 months

July 16, 2016. There's an incredibly sad parallel universe out there in which we named the community "Wage Breakers" instead of "Indie Hackers":

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

6 years

When you view the world as a series of outputs you form opinions. But when you view the world as a series of mechanisms you form strategies.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

To compensate for our no-meetings culture at @indiehackers we have what we call the "water cooler" — a meeting room (via Horizon Workrooms) that's open 24/7 where team members can join or leave whenever they like and chat freely about work or play.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

7 years

Behind the curtain at the @IndieHackers podcast with @csallen ! 🎙️

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

11 months

Does anyone else say "please" when typing commands to chatbots? e.g. "Please make an image of XYZ." Feels silly — I know it's 1s and 0s. But I actively struggle not to be polite. Unconsciously I think I'm worried AGI will go around collecting receipts when it shows up?

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Layoffs and new tools have made no-coders one of the fastest-growing groups of @IndieHackers . They're uniquely entrepreneurial, but they also face unique revenue hurdles. I wrote about these hurdles and how no-code founders are overcoming them here 👇

No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?

Last week I talked about how lockdown and the recession have spurred more people to start online businesses. No-code products are a big part of this sto...

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

8 months

Standing on an active volcano 🌋

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Relearning is real learning. Hence Picasso's "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." Relearners are the true innovators of all ages and all disciplines. They're the doers and makers moving society forward.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

11 months

We're being active on Twitter again. Going a lot better than expected tbh.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

Whenever I type "indie hacker" into Twitter search I have a hard time believing the results. It's a major cultural identity with a life of its own. A respectable force in the startup ecosystem. We literally used to be a tiny blog like 7 years ago

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

A friend told me his hack for dealing with stressful events: "The line from that Batman movie — 'I'm not trapped in here with you; you're trapped in here with me' — I literally say that out loud a few times." I made fun of him (of course). But I just tried it and… it worked?

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

7 years

As of last night, no more ads on @IndieHackers ! 🙌

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

New pod with Seth Godin is out! Topics discussed: 1️⃣ How he finds new business ideas 2️⃣ Writing 9,000+ blog posts since 2002 (on top of 20 bestselling books) 3️⃣ Exiting to Yahoo for $30M 4️⃣ His secrets to productivity And much more 👇

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

I love NFTs. Not because of NFTs per se but because of the great awakening they're causing: "So you're telling me these things are only valuable because everyone else believes they're valuable?" "Oh, wait until I tell you about the tree bark and cheap metal called money!"

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Many are starting online education businesses these days: courses, newsletters, videos, etc. If you are one of them and you want to make money, please internalize the following two points: ❶ people don't pay to learn ❷ people pay to *earn*

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

You know someone who's great at something you want to be great at. Fixed mindset is when you envy their talent and stand still. Growth mindset is when you envy their head start and get going.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Cold showers are the only thing I've experienced where ten different versions of me might walk in, but only one version ever walks out.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

For best results when building projects: Stop starting and start finishing. For best results when consuming information: Stop finishing and start beginning.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

we are so back

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

The best method for practicing gratitude is to study almost any era of human history.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

tl;dr instead of spending your life making more money, invest your money making more life

Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

5 years

tl;dr 1. stop selling your time as an employee 2. start buying time: quit the job, consume less entertainment, etc. 3. reinvest your purchased time into making things that make money 4. reinvest this money to buy more time 5. rinse & repeat until you own ALL your time

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Everyone talks about how hard entrepreneurship is. But no one talks about how long it takes to *become* a good entrepreneur. Weird, right? It takes years to get good at sales, or writing, or coding. Yet we're mum on getting good at all-of-the-above? I blame VCs. Hear me out:

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

everyone's got such an uncompromisingly black-or-white opinion on whether NFTs are a bubble which is weird because NFTs 100% are a bubble

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Entrepreneurs who use the wrong metrics. 👇

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This may be the strongest optical illusion I’ve ever seen.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

A desire to escape uncomfortable work is the root cause of most business meetings.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

HERE WE GO Latest pod with @csallen is out! Just us, no guests. We talk about why Act 3 for @IndieHackers will smash Acts 1 and 2. Plus: - What it was like working at Stripe - How we spun out & became indie… again - 3+ ideas on our new product roadmap

#274 – Indie Hackers is indie again! | Indie Hackers | Episode 274

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

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@cmilesb If you like this, I recommend Ken Wilber's books. No one's better at synthesizing complexity theory into a unifying vision. Start with "A Brief History of Everything" or "A Theory of Everything." If those hook you, upgrade to "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality"

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

2 years

In 2021 I read 60 books. Ranked them from best to worst and found a surprising pattern: I discovered the best 5 books the same way: 🚫 bestseller lists 🚫 personal recommendations ✅ other books When a good book referenced ANY OTHER BOOK, I bought that book on the spot.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Before the 2010s: - "Are you seeing a therapist?" - "Yes." - "Wow, what's wrong with you?" 2010s/2020s: - "Are you seeing a therapist?" - "No." - "Wow, what's wrong with you?"

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

To be interesting, be interested. To be interested, take all those problems you've been avoiding and force yourself to face them, one by one.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

6 years

I've never yelled so loudly at a comment section.

The New York Times

@nytimes

6 years

Silicon Valley is backing a novel idea: Instead of charging students tuition, students go to school for free and are required to pay back a percentage of their income after graduation, but only if they get a job with a good salary

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Channing Allen

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4 years

Online communities: historically difficult to monetize. Most target penny-pinching consumers. But consumers are becoming more entrepreneurial! More are thinking & spending like businesses. Add the loneliness of lockdown? New golden age for communities 👇

Community: the new business model for indie hackers

The new business model of charging for paid communities is sweeping through the world of indie hackers. DCoolican on Twitter: "2010: Build an audience,...

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

@mijustin @csallen @stripe @IndieHackers pod drops tomorrow!

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

10,000! 🚀 A welcome milestone in tough times. 👉

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

2 years

My 2 favorite concepts come from the Ancient Greeks. No English terms quite capture their meaning: 1. "Akrasia": to know the best course of action yet not pursue it. 2. "Enkrateia": the opposite — to do the hard thing when it's the right thing. Here's enkrateia via Dall-E

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

Turning revenue off was a lot easier than turning it back on again. But way less rewarding.

Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

7 years

As of last night, no more ads on @IndieHackers ! 🙌

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

I have a work routine. It generally serves me well. Except that time last month when my girlfriend's Swiss parents lectured me for being a stereotypical American workaholic. Can't win 'em all. Anyway, here's the routine. You be the judge:

Plan, do, learn: My somewhat hardcore work routine

A successful startup founder shares a work routine that helps him be happy and productive not just at work, but also in his personal life.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

6 years

@AustenAllred This is hypnotically interesting. Kudos @AustenAllred .

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

I know we're not supposed to compare apples and oranges but f*ck it: Notion is the best web app. Come at me.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

10 months

I made a book trailer for my novel using AI! Still working on the final draft + there's a long process ahead with agent/publishers, so this was mostly just to play with new tech. Video: RunwayML Narration: ElevenLabs Took ~6 hours, start to finish. Wow.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

7 years

Safe to say many people will find a long-anticipated surprise in today's @IndieHackers newsletter (cc @levelsio ) ✈️ 🌎

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Companies of one (to borrow @pjrvs 's term) are having their shining moment in this recession. Not necessarily because of how well they're doing. But because of how durable & adaptable they are even when things *aren't* going well. This is by design! 👇

One-person startups are leaning on their strengths to weather the recession

I spent some time this week reaching out to individual indie hackers about their businesses, and the pattern that really jumped out at me was how unique...

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

@david_perell The best path to human flourishing is not through the pursuit of happiness, but through the happiness of pursuit. (Personality psychologist @DrBrianRLittle expounds on this in his book "Me, Myself, and Us".)

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

A total stranger told me he loved me today.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

the google chrome team has finally developed a feature for tab hoarders 😂

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Relearning is seeing what a thing is made of and then building it back better than before. Or trying, anyway. Because relearning is much harder than unlearning: "Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one." —Sam Rayburn

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

Fundraising is applying for the race. Bootstrapping is walking up to the starting line without permission.

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

@APompliano

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Fundraising is the starting line, not the finish line.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

How much money someone has tells you nothing meaningful about them. How much status someone has tells you nothing meaningful about them. Here's what actually matters: The curve of the line graph connecting their past self, their current self, and their future self.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

I often feel mystified at all the disorder in the world. Then I remember: Humans are hairless tribalistic apes who happen to be equipped with thousands of generations of accumulated cultural knowledge. The real mystery: How we've created all this order in spite of ourselves.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

Minimalism bores the hell out of me. So I go all the way in the opposite direction. Maximalist workspace. Maximalist home gym. Maximalist daily routine.

358 - Channing Allen - Workspaces

Channing Allen is the co-founder of Indie Hackers. Explore the workspaces of creative individuals, sent directly to your inbox every Saturday and Sunday.

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@workspacesxyz

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⚡️ @ChanningAllen co-founder of @IndieHackers "Overall, my workstation is a bricolage of spare parts I've accumulated over the years. Think Legos. I've experimented with different configurations and this is the best so far."

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

5 years

@csallen how does it feel to know I was right all along

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

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lol this is how rumors start @levelsio

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Question for no-coders (people building apps with tools like @airtable , @zapier , @webflow , @bubble , etc., instead of code): 👉 What is your main motivation for making no-code projects?

🚂 Fun hobby/useful skill

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🧜‍♂️ Grow my audience

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🕵️‍ Show me the answers!

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

6 years

Just a few of the 🌍 indie hackers who met up this weekend in 🇰🇪 Nairobi, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh, and 🇺🇸 Chicago! This week: 🇪🇸 Barcelona 🇺🇸 NYC 🇺🇸 SF And more:

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

The belief: you have on-demand access to media. The reality: media has on-demand access to you.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

When you cut corners on product quality in order to scale, you kill your golden goose. Here are 3 basic guidelines we follow at Indie Hackers to keep the goose alive: 🧵

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

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I'm so bad at vacations. In a Costa Rican "cloud forest" after my most intense work year ever. It's beautiful here. But. I feel like a motorized toy car whose wheels keep spinning when you lift it off the ground.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

6 years

An inspiring recursive function: The system you don't understand is made up of subsystems you do understand.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

pursuit of happiness < happiness of pursuit

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

1 year

I want this, except… a digital version. Like Google Sheets with tiny lifeweek squares instead of cells. Might whip one up in a couple hours over the weekend if it doesn't already exist

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Just hung this poster next to my desk. Hoping it'll help remind me to make 'em count.

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I call it "infinite entrepreneurship." It's when you focus on ways to enjoy the process, not just the proceeds, of building a business. Which gives you the stamina to grow into the role. I wrote a piece on what this looks like in practice:

Infinite entrepreneurship

Infinite entrepreneurs focus on ways to enjoy the process, not just the proceeds, of running a business. Here's how to stay happy as an entrepreneur.

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

Odds are, your business will fail. That makes you an optimist. Does it also make you naive? Naive optimists believe they have the ingredients for success built-in. Effective optimists believe in their capacity to *build in* the ingredients for success.

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Channing Allen

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4 years

Unlearning happens when the intellectually curious ask "why" enough times. Each "why" is the tap of a hammer against a snow globe. Soon the glass breaks and the dominant narrative stands exposed as a fiction. Tragically, this is where most unlearners stop.

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Channing Allen

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4 years

We all know the unlearners. They're the "what's the point?" people. The "burn it all down" people. They cynically "see through the bullshit" but never offer any solutions. Unlearning is reverse engineering the world without salvaging the parts that are genuinely useful.

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Channing Allen

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@IndieHackers Work in your business, then work on your business. (via 🐐 @MichaelEGerber ) Start on the ground floor, working "in" the business until you get the product right, then (and only then) automate yourself out of the equation to focus on being a compass and a catalyst (aka leader).

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Channing Allen

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Fell into a bad habit in recent years: Took on too many tiny projects, e.g. 3+ newsletters, productivity app, book projects, etc. Fixing that now. Scoping down to IH and one 6–12 month side project at a time. But going all-in. Project 1: ship novel to @FarleyChase … or else 🫣

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Channing Allen

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6 years

The cleverest trick our brains play on us is to quietly advise: "One more [tempting bad decision] won't hurt." It's clever because it's logically sound AND it's recursive. That is, it's logically sound the first time, and the second time, and the third time, and… and…

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

4 years

🔐 Seasoned & first-time founders are building lockdown products that are taking off. 👨‍💻 Lockdown itself is creating a *massive* entrepreneurial gold rush toward online business. ⛏ Unsure what to build in a gold rush? Try a pick-and-shovel business! 👇

People are learning how to build new businesses in lockdown

After the US declared the coronavirus a national emergency and the western world finally began taking the crisis seriously, it took about a week for fou...

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

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@Alkibiades_ i can literally see sol brah's skin cancer

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

broke: build a network woke: build an audience bespoke: build a platform

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

3 years

If you're into standing desks, search "tripod standing desk" on Amazon. - inexpensive - takes up almost no space - easily portable from room to room

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Channing Allen

@ChanningAllen

6 years

Defense attorney: "I'll help you. Trust me. Now pay me $$$ upfront." Public defender: "I'll help you. Trust me. Taxpayers pay me $$ either way." Legal startup: "I'll help you. Trust me. I'll only charge you $ if I get you off." Twitter: "🤔... So, taxes!"

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