Indiehacking is not a lottery. You just need to be pretty good at a lot of different things. Nobody likes to say it out loud, because it sounds like bragging. But the reality is: You need to be a competent programmer to ship your product and make sure it can stay stable You need to be a decent enough designer to make it look attractive to customers. You need to be a marketer to know how to promote it. You need to be a business person to know how it’s going to work as an ongoing company. I don’t want to call anyone out but. Taking a year to build a buggy platform where people pay you for an interview, this misses on multiple criteria. Technically unsound, design is subjective so I won’t say anything, marketing was spot on, but business-wise you’re just trading your time for money like a freelancer or consultant, it was never going to work as a business. I wish that person well because I really think they have found their personal “market fit” with the new job. But to dismiss indiehacking as a lottery or a cult is wrong. I have watched people around me IRL and online become rich from indiehacking and it’s because they kept trying, they kept learning, and when finally their thing hit it off, it was because they had amassed skills that made them good at many different things. You can cultivate skill and talent through experience. And luck just magnifies it.