Today I’m joined by Dominik Sobe, the founder of Helpkit, a product he started last year that turns Notion pages into a professional help center, doing $4.5k MRR. In this episode we talk about Dom’s many failed projects, how he finally found something that worked with Helpkit and how he went from wanting to be a management consultant to being an indie hacker.

What we covered in this episode:

• Dom’s previous projects
• Wanting to become a management consultant
• Management consultant to indie hacker
• Making his first internet money
• Being embarrassed about your first product
• Overengineering your first product
• Building an MVP during a hackathon
• Validation before building a product
• Side projects as marketing
• Building in a growing market
• Investing in SEO

Recommendations

• Book: Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
• Podcast: Indie Hackers
• Indie Hacker: Minh-Phuc Tran

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