Ayush Chaturvedi

Eternally curious. Writing, Learning, Building in Public. Ideas + Inspiration + Insights for Indie Hackers, Creators and Makers. Creator Economy FTW💸

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🪜 The Value Ladder Framework (And how it works)

Hey friend 👋 Hello and welcome to Listen UP IH. Today I'll talk about the value ladder framework. It's a simple idea that can help any solo business grow and it should be applied by every creator and indie hacker. But before we get into it, a quick shout out to

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🖐️5 Ways to Market Your Business for $0

Hey friend 👋 Today I want to talk about the marketing strategies I've found to work where you don't need to spend any money. I think these are useful to people who are just starting out. Before we get started, a quick question for you - Which stage of revenue are

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📢 Audience, offers, channels..

Today I want to talk about the 3 fundamental elements of every business - Audience, Offers and Channels. This framework applies to every business model - SaaS, Content, Services, anything. And is much simpler than the complex Product Market Fit framework. I think you will find it really cool. Let's

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Business Brainstorms with Jakob Greenfeld

How do you come up with business ideas? More importantly, how do you validate your business ideas? Jakob Greenfeld is a master at this. He tracks trends, signals and problems to find business opportunities in the most unlikeliest of places. Jakob is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Data on

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✋5 Big Mistakes early stage founders make (and how you can avoid)

I've been running private mastermind groups for 3 months now. 2000+ minutes of conversations around building a solo business. With Indie Hackers as well as Content entrepreneurs. The conversations have revealed some very interesting blind spots in our thinking. These are common to all solopreneurs, especially when they start out.

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5 Build In Public Myths Busted

Hey there 👋 Today’s post is about the myths around the build in public trend. But before that I have an important announcement for you. Indie MBA Event with Jakob Greenfeld You are invited to the next Indie MBA event, it's with Jakob Greenfeld. Jakob is a serial entrepreneur who

🧘Meditation for Indie Superheroes with Dr. Christin Chong

We don't talk enough about the mental health side of solopreneurship. Building a business is challenging, more so when you're doing it alone. It can take a toll on your physical and mental health. Meditation is a useful tool to stay sane, manage your mental health and thrive as an

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🔦 4 Examples of Side Project Led Growth

Side Project Led growth is a developer’s way of doing marketing! Jokes aside, side projects are a solid growth strategies deployed by small indie hackers to large companies. The idea is to build small, free and useful products that solve a specific problem in your user’s journey. There

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📈 How Founder’s Book reached $34000 revenue in 7 months

“Go from Idea to MVP, and beyond. Now!” That’s the tagline of Founder’s Book - A platform of tools and resources for first-time founders and early stage startups. Goutham is the founder of Founder’s Book and is a first time founder himself. He recently crossed $34000 in

How to go from Consumer To Creator with Alex Llull

The registration for the August edition of Indie Masterminds closes on July 31st. You will find the program useful if you're a - * SaaS founder * Content Entrepreneur * Consultant/Agency/Service business owner Or if you want to start monetizing your side hustle and plan to quit your job one day.

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🏹 How Tweet Hunter Became a Million Dollar Juggernaut

“The Future belongs to Creators” That’s the quote on Tibo’s Twitter banner. Tibo and his friend Tom are founders of TweetHunter - A Twitter audience growth tool. Back in May 2021, they were just getting started, looking for their first users. They were analyzing and indexing viral tweets

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Finding Joy in the Chaos of Twitter

Twitter can feel chaotic. ​Especially early on, when you're just starting out. Building an audience can get overwhelming. ​It starts to feel like too much "work" and not much fun. ​That is the stage when most people give up on the platform. ​But this is where Kevon's teachings can help you.

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🚀 New video out: Community Validated - Identify business opportunities by leveraging online communities

Hey there 👋 A quick announcement before we get started 📢 I’m launching something new today - mastermind groups for indie hackers. If you’re looking for focused support, accountability and feedback from like minded founders then you will find value. I’m structuring these as groups of 4 so everyone

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🧑‍🏫 Learn from Arvid Kahl - The Embedded Entrepreneur

A Quick update: Today’s post is about Arvid Kahl, he’s the founder of the Edtech SaaS startup Feedback Panda, and author of best selling books like Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur. Tomorrow I will be hosting Arvid at a virtual event where he will share his

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🎧 Top 10 Best Episodes of the IndieHackers Podcast

Important announcement: The next Indie MBA even is on June 16th. It’s with one of the most successful indie hackers ever - Arvid Kahl. He will be sharing his wisdom around how to be an embedded entrepreneur. It’s a free but private event, with limited seats, so book

💸 How Zapier got it's first paying user, and how you can get your first 100

You are not the hero of your startup (Your user is!) Getting paying customers for a product is tough. Building something worth paying for comes down to solving burning problems for users. And then going out and spreading word about the solution you built. In beginning, every strategy to get

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The First 100 Users Playbook

You are not the hero of your startup (Your user is!) Getting paying customers for a product is tough. Building something worth paying for comes down to solving burning problems for users. And going out and spreading word about the solution you built. This playbook is about the various strategies

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I raised prices for my course, but revenue increased as well.

Hey friends 👋 So it's been almost 2 months since I started pre-sales for my writing course. [https://ayushchat.gumroad.com/l/make-money-writing] And 1 month since I substantially raised prices. So price went from $15 to $29 And guess what, my revenue actually increased since the price rise. Some stats:

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🗣️3 Examples of how Indie Hackers spoke to their users and built the right product

Your startup is not about you, it’s about your users. Yet, many Indie Hackers avoid speaking to their target customers as much as possible. You can not build the right product without talking to your users. Customer conversations will help you recognize the right problems to solve, the right

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💸 3 Examples of how indie hackers raised their prices and found success

Price is one of the most important aspects of any business. Most indie hackers are terrified of increasing their prices. They worry that they'll scare away customers or that they won't be able to "get away" with charging more. But the truth is, pricing too low can actually be more

Build In Public

How I used Twitter to validate my course idea and make $512 in 35 days

So my writing course crossed $500 in sales today morning. I thought it would be useful to share how I used Twitter to validate the idea and pre-sell the course. It might help someone looking to build and sell knowledge products. Let's start 👇 The biggest challenge with launching anything on

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3 Examples of Founders who scratched their own itch and succeeded🏆

Scratching your own itch can be a great way to generate business ideas. But only if you can find a critical mass of people who face the same problems as you face. And they are willing to pay money for the problem to be solved. When you’re starting out,

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Key Lessons from the success of Closet tools

Hello 👋 This is a “key lessons” report for Listen Up Pro subscribers. (You can get the current best deal on a pro subscription on the pro page) We are diving deep into how the micro SaaS app Closet Tools found success. To read the story of how founder Jordan O’

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How to presell a product on Gumroad and launch via Twitter (Raw numbers!)

Writing has been at the base of my solo business for almost a year now. I use it in different ways as: * Product consultant * Freelance writer * Info product maker * Copywriter * Ghost Tweeter It’s my fundamental skill. I wanted to capture my knowledge of writing in a course or an

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