Thread by @thisiskp_

Being a maker is 1% ideas, 99% mindset

I’ve always struggled to turn ideas into products

Excuses piled on: lack of coding skills, lack of leverage, lack of money etc

Once I won over my limiting beliefs, I shipped 8 no-code projects 🏆

Here’s how I did it: (a thread) 🧵

1/ Zoom out & ask important questions 🤔

Spend time asking yourself what’s your burning desire?

I wanted to have real products w real users in the market

Money was secondary as I already had a day job. I needed experience & evidence to show that I’m not just an idea guy!

2/ Manifest your identity 🦹‍♀️

In late 2018, I had spent some time reading the book Atomic Habits which discusses the power of “identity”

I called myself “a maker, someone who maybe a rookie maker right now but will get better 1% each day”

This was key 🔑

3/ Upgrade your habits ⏰

As a maker, I came up w 4 little things I wanted to do daily& be consistent

☑️ Visit @ProductHunt daily to learn

☑️ Write 5 new ideas/ day (even dumb ones)

☑️ Tweet 2 times daily abt interesting products

☑️ Spend 30 min learning a no-code tool

4/ Upgrade your voices 🧠

I had toxic self talk which was constantly pointing my flaws or bumming me out

I learned to medidate daily and listen to inspiring content on YouTube

I also created a mastermind group — we met weekly, spent time on ideas & hyping each other up

5/ Build in public 🔦

Possibly the best decision ever

I shipped all my products in public

Landing pages, MVPs & each iteration was launched on Twitter, Indie Hackers & ProductHunt

Building in public taught me it’s not about sharing updates, it’s the stories and lessons 🎯

6/ Ship often ⚡️

I was a born perfectionist which means my default is always over analyzing and improving eternally

But this becomes a weakness when you are not making progress

You ideas die from over nurturing

I decide to ship imperfect products & I’m glad I did

7/ Acknowledge mistakes

You don’t get to feel like a badass when you ship imperfect products but it teaches you humility and iteration

@fast had an imperfect launch a couple days ago & they’ve embraced it with grace and fixing things in public

People love vulnerability

8/ Believe in compound interest 😍

If you keep iterating and building in public, you inevitably get better

Over time, you develop playbooks that work & insights only you can see due to prolonged focus

The longer you are a maker (ideating and shipping), the better you become

9/ Have fun & the score takes care of itself

I used to be obsessed about numbers early on

How many upvotes did my products get? views? subscribers? 🤯

Now I just look for interesting ideas and have fun

Ex: (getcuppa.io & letterdrop.io)

That’s all, I wish you all the best on your maker journey

Feel free to reach out & DM me for any questions if you need a 2nd perspective

Thanks for reading 🙏

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Some people were curious to learn more about my projects since 2018.

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