MAKE Book: The Indie Maker Handbook - Learn to build profitable startups the indie way

Congratulations on finally publishing

so glad I majored in Obfuscatology. Now I can tell my mom those 8 years in Obfuscavercity finally paid off. I'll still buy the book though! =)

Thanks for sharing this. I am pretty much buying this, saying thanks to you for all the info you share with others to succeed.

The author popularised digital nomad term and wannabes flushed tropical countries. I backed this book and was very dissatisfied its quality.

Name of book reminded me books by 37signals, which was revolutions for me (except book about freelance, but that was made by them intentionally, to sell idea of remote work to conservatives). Buuuut I started to read - and discovered set of obvious and questionable selfdevelopment ideas with redudant technical details of how author edit texts or which frameworks he use.

I understand, that he writes from his own view, from view of techy gus, not enterpreneur. But also I understand, that book will help to very narrow audience of the book. I'd like to see first idea, system, then example. In other case you don'y get idea. And you don't understand, that there are a lot of similar or even advanced and simplier tools/ways.

This is an example of author texts: https://levels.io/how-i-build-my... . MVP ideas expanded today, it's not just one idea, there a lot of tricks, a lot of formats of MVP, it's a new field of knowledge. But author literally enumerate which apps and frameworks he uses.

Is it matter? A bit, but customer doesn't care, which tools you used. He is doing target action or not, this is the marketing.

Conclusion: if you're know a lot of marketing theory but can't start to make - this book can help you with tools or show you that it's quite easy to build a product nowadays. If you prefer to learn the base, the abstract system which will lasts for years and don't care about tools which changes all the time - better to find another book.

Pros:

Can motivate casual ppl to start their own biz

Cons:

Nowadays a very subjective view of IT-guy, not enterpreneur

Congrats on releasing it! Very interesting concept with the obfuscated text as well, still provides a good insight into the book!

Are you going to make a hardcover version of this?

Congrats for shipping it!

Pre-ordered this last year and got the final version this morning. Great to see the final product - and I love the format of this with the online version. Recommended for any startup owners (we got some useful tips for shipping faster), as well as anyone considering launching a new startup. Pieter is the chief when it comes to shipping rapidly and still delivering on quality! Awesome work

Got it!!!! Happy reading to me!!! :D

Pieter has amazing work habits; he reminds me a lot of Elon Musk in his ability to get something done quickly and well without getting bogged down in perfectionism or procrastination.

I preordered this book a year and a half ago, loved it, and I've been recommending it to my friends ever since as the best guide I've seen to starting an online business. I'm now working on my own online business, using this book to guide me.

Pros:

Great information, nicely presented

Cons:

Can't think of any at the moment