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Answer real questions, delight users, and boost your Indie Hacker success.

Stop Building Features Nobody Wants – Start Answering Real Questions

The harsh truth: Your customers don’t care about your shiny new dashboard or the latest feature you built. What they really care about is the problem that keeps them awake at 3 AM.

Why Indie Hackers Fall Into the Feature Trap

As indie hackers, many of us fall into the same cycle:

• A customer mentions a problem → We rush to build a feature.
• Low engagement → We build another feature.
• Still no growth → We polish the UI.
• Repeat until motivation and funds run dry.

I witnessed this firsthand. After 18 months of helping founders craft “feature announcement” blog posts, the traffic was nice — but conversions? Terrible.

Then came the accidental breakthrough.

The Breakthrough: Answering Real Questions

One client, a solo founder of a productivity app, ditched polished blogs for honest answers on Hacker News during coffee breaks. Those spontaneous comments got more signups than six months of my “professional” content.

That moment changed everything.

I started lurking where real users hang out:

• Hacker News threads about workflow frustrations.