Indie Hacking, Luck, and Persistence

Do you ever get the feeling that everyone is succeeding but you?

I've met so many cool indie hackers on 𝕏 over the years. I just knew so many of them were going to be successful, and it was only a matter of time.

I was right. Many of the people I met are now successful, in my opinion. But "success" isn't the same for everyone. It can be viewed from many different angles.

Personally, I wish I had built a bootstrapped SaaS generating $100k in MRR with at least 85% profit margins by now. I thought I'd make it happen in my first two years of indie hacking, especially since I started coding at 12, and I mistakenly thought that would give me a better chance of succeeding in business.

The truth is, it's been over 5 years of hacking around and trying to make it happen, and not only have I not achieved it, I'm still learning new things every day, even though it feels like I'm stuck in the same place.

Most of you reading this have no idea how hard I work. I don't cut myself any slack. I wake up early every single morning and spend the majority of my day in front of my computer. I love my work, so I don't feel like I'm suffering because of it.

I've tried so many things: building stuff I thought was cool, building existing successful products that I thought could be improved, and the list goes on. It never worked out for me the way it seems to work for others, and I always ask myself late at night, what am I doing wrong? I never seem to find the answer.

What I've realized is that success usually comes with some mix of luck, connections to the right people, and very hard work. Basically, a whole bunch of things need to line up perfectly for success to happen.

I can't and won't accept not being successful. I'm going to be successful, even if it means beating the odds. There's no other way. I'm going to keep putting myself out there, working hard, and hoping for a little bit of luck to land on my plate at the right time.

If you want to be lucky, just keep going. This will increase the chances of getting lucky. After all, "luck" is just probability. If I picked a number from 1 to 100 and told you to guess it, the more guesses I gave you, the better your odds of finding the number I was thinking of. If you had 100 guesses, all you'd have to do is count from 1 to 100, and you'd 100% find the number I was thinking of.