Indie Bites

<p>If you’re wanting to learn about building in public, <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetKevon">Kevon Cheung</a> is your guy. After not getting the fulfilment he desired from the VC funded startup dream, Kevon struck out on his own in 2020 to become an indie hacker. Since then he’s launched the <a href="https://buildinpublicmastery.com/">Build in Public Mastery</a> course, started a newsletter called <a href="https://publiclab.co/newsletter">Public Lab</a>, wrote the <a href="https://publiclab.co/building-in-public">Definitive Guide to Building in Public</a> and then to top this all off, wrote a book called <a href="https://findjoyinchaos.com/">Find Joy in Chaos</a>. </p><p><strong>What we covered in this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Building credibility</li><li>Taking a 6 month bet</li><li>Starting from scratch to learn a trend</li><li>Choosing to build in public</li><li>Anyone can learn any topic</li><li>Is building in public just sharing MRR numbers?</li><li>What <em>is</em> building in public?</li><li>False positives of building an audience</li><li>Building a creator business</li><li>How to differentiate course content to blog content</li><li>Info products vs SaaS</li></ul><p><strong>Recommendations:</strong></p><ul><li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-What-Make-Peter-Buffett/dp/0307464725"><strong>Life Is What You Make It</strong></a> by Peter Buffet, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/100M-Offers-People-Stupid-Saying/dp/1737475731"><strong>$100m Offers</strong></a> by Alex Hormozi</li><li>Podcast: <a href="https://stephtaylor.co/socialette/"><strong>Socialette</strong></a>, <a href="https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/podcast/"><strong>The Bootstrapped Founder</strong></a></li><li>Indie Hacker: <a href="https://twitter.com/monicalent"><strong>Monica Lent</strong></a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jayclouse"><strong>Jay Clouse</strong></a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee"><strong>Marie Ng</strong></a></li></ul><p><strong>Follow Kevon</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/MeetKevon">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://kevoncheung.com/">Personal website</a></li></ul><p><strong>Follow Me</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jmckinven">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/indiebitespod">Indie Bites Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://jamesmckinven.com/">Personal Website</a></li><li><a href="https://whistablecraftco.com/">Buy A Wallet</a></li><li><a href="https://2hourpodcast.com/">2 Hour Podcast Course</a></li><li><a href="https://podpanda.co/">PodPanda</a> (hire me to edit your podcast)</li></ul><p><strong>Sponsor - </strong><a href="https://www.ramenclub.so/uk"><strong>Ramen Club</strong></a></p><p>My favourite community has just got a significant upgrade as it rebrands to Ramen Club, the best community to help you get to Ramen Profitability.</p><p><br>Ramen club has 4 remote coworking sessions a week, masterminds, accountability calls, live AMAs, a fractional CFO, in-house VA, discounts and so much more. But most of all, the founder Charlie has done a wonderful job at cultivating a wonderfully friendly and supportive community.</p><p>To join the world's most supportive community for bootstrapped founders to reach ramen profitable and beyond, head to <a href="http://ramenclub.so/">ramenclub.so</a> and use code "INDIEBITES" to let Charlie know I sent you and get 50% off your first month.</p>