Edward Ha

I'm sharing one of my favorite ebooks.
If you want to read this, just DM me, and we can grow together.

Yesterday, 19 people applied for this book.

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It seems to be helping me a lot because I'm gaining more ideas and knowledge every day.

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How to Build an MVP Quickly:
- Time-box your spec. Set a deadline. ⏳
- Write it down and focus on the essentials.
- Cut anything non-critical.
- Love your customers, not your MVP.

5. Don’t Fear Failure:
Showing your MVP to customers won’t kill your startup.
It’s the fastest way to figure out what works (and what doesn't).
Fail fast, learn faster.

4. Iterate Relentlessly:
Use real feedback to evolve your product.
The best products aren’t born from a perfect launch — they grow through endless iterations. Keep shipping. Keep learning.

3. Embrace Imperfection:
Your MVP won’t be perfect — and that's okay.
Early adopters expect rough edges and are excited to help you improve.
Feedback > Flawlessness.

2. Focus on Core Needs:
Build only the features that solve a desperate customer problem.
Save everything else for later iterations.
Laser focus = Faster growth

Building an MVP is all about speed, learning, and iteration.

Here’s the important stuff:
1. Launch Quickly: Don’t wait for the perfect product. Ship a basic version fast to start the conversation with users. Speed > Perfection.

I just had an amazing 15 minutes today watching How to Build an MVP from Y Combinator. 🚀

After working with startups most of my career, one thing is clear: building a startup is the fastest way to learn. Here’s what I’ve seen people get wrong... 👇

this is intersting

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5. Don't just spend time on building, balance between marketing and building is the best way to grow

4. Don't fall in love with your first product, validate it, and move on.

3. Tech stack doesn't matter, solving a problem matters.

2. If you can validate your product first and understand its potential. You have a huge advantage in scaling your product

1. Any engineer can easily build a good product, but doesn't know how to market it.

So learn how to do marketing is extremely important for your product.

I'm a self-learn SWE and I build my product from scratch without any guidance.

Even though I think my lessons are still valuable for everyone who has just started their journey to become an indie hacker.

Here are 5 things I wish I knew when I started 👇

The first 100 users, after 2 weeks of poor marketing,

I get about 5 feedbacks from users. Some of them are very interesting.

Next stop: Fix bugs and create more features for users.

Not sure when it started, but I’ve been obsessing over small build details—like route sizes in my projects.

Crazy how going deeper into tech makes you notice the little things.

📸 Build result from theworkdocs.com, my AI tool to read faster & learn better.

The work docs is my latest project. It is an AI tool that help you speed up in your reading, learn faster and more effective.

Now The Work Docs is open free book for user. One of the list is Make book from Pieter Levels

Everyone can access the book thought this like: theworkdocs.com

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 published a 69-page whitepaper on Prompt Engineering - A goldmine for anyone building with LLMs in production.

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Deepseek just released Model R1, which has strong equality to OpenAI O1 but is much cheaper.

This is instant and a great chance for indie hackers to optimize their products if they use OpenAI API.

The hardest part of being an indie hacker while still working in an office is dedicating time to build the product you believe will succeed.

Weekends and nights become your ideal time to focus, while daylight hours are spent brainstorming ideas, doing marketing, and learning new skills.

Indie Hackers Tips Part 6: I rebuilt my SaaS 3 times before learning this:
💡 Simplify your UI. Don't over complicated it
Here’s the key:
✅ Focus on the core feature.
✅ Remove unnecessary things and features.
✅ Guide users to their goal with clarity.

Confused users don’t convert. Just stay simple

This is cool but don't know where to implement this stuff 😀

This is so cool

New Year's First ritual 🎉

Hihi. Good stuff man

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