Today I’m joined by Dominik Sobe, the founder of Helpkit, a product he started last year that turns Notion pages into a professional help center, doing $4.5k MRR. In this episode we talk about Dom’s many failed projects, how he finally found something that worked with Helpkit and how he went from wanting to be a management consultant to being an indie hacker.What we covered in this episode:
Dom’s previous projects
Wanting to become a management consultant
Management consultant to indie hacker
Making his first internet money
Being embarrassed about your first product
Overengineering your first product
Building an MVP during a hackathon
Validation before building a product
Side projects as marketing
Building in a growing market
Investing in SEO
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Book: Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
Podcast: Indie Hackers

Indie Hacker: Minh-Phuc Tran

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