Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
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I see entrepreneurship as a combination of recognition and mess around. I had an idea back in time to transform transitional medicine and treatment methods into a smart watch app with no funding and no team. I am doing this for culture preservation, and I want some money too. It turned out ok. I got myself through the first year with many interviews, top rankings... and was all smashed by venture-backed copycats. So now, I am messing around somewhere else. It's good to stay agile and sensitive to what's happening around you and the world, and you will find the thing you want to commit and build up.
> 5. Do you feel like you'd be better off studying something else at university, if applicable?
I'm not sure why they'd feel that when they're already successful?
I'm not sure why they'd feel that when they're already successful?
I'm not sure how much university actually contributes to one's success and some might be self-taught, but certainly the people you are surrounded with and work with (which is often at university) do for sure.
I was wondering what people's thoughts on university, especially engineering degrees are.
I'm curious about where your best idea(s) came
Ideas multiply execution.
https://sive.rs/multiply
Doing is more important than thinking and sometimes doing means you not only empty the trash can, but carry it to the dumpster and jump up and down in a full dumpster so your trash will fit.
Or to put it another way, working is more important than avoiding work. Because working is the only way work gets done. Good luck.
Ideas multiply execution.
https://sive.rs/multiply
Doing is more important than thinking and sometimes doing means you not only empty the trash can, but carry it to the dumpster and jump up and down in a full dumpster so your trash will fit.
Or to put it another way, working is more important than avoiding work. Because working is the only way work gets done. Good luck.
- I just turned 18 and finished school and I'm about to get into a university for engineering in Greece. - I have some pressure for inside to build wealth despite not needing it to survive. - I have many interests including programming, spearfishing, financial markets, computing, building in general (software and/or hardware). I have a large list of pain points, ideas, things missing from the world (~500 items) with probably at least 10 items that could be monetized and that I would genuinely love to build. - Update: I'm already working on a few things, most of them with a prospect of making money at some point, though that is not the main reason for building them / working on them.
The questions I have are the following: 1. What did/does your path look like? I'd appreciate having something for reference. Did you work a job? Are you self-taught?
2. Do you have any advice?
3. Was working together with someone the key to your success? Did you do it solo?
4. What would you do if you had to start over?
5. Do you feel like you'd be better off studying something else at university, if applicable?
Update: What I'd like is to hear some of your experience. If you're solo, did you have a network, how did you build it? How did you raise funds? How did you find a co-founder (if you did)? Did you work a job/freelance/seasonal work first and then bootstrap some project/startup/side-hustle? Did your specific idea come from your experience in a job, university project, everyday life, or something else? Did you make any money throughout your venture? Did you have an alternative income source while working on your own business/side-hustle/project/startup?
Thanks!