My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to keep your desk job away
My goal when I first started as an Indie Hacker was to earn $100/day. Everything that I did was to achieve that goal. I reached that goal after 6 months and I increased my goal to $200/day. I reached that goal a year back, now my current goal is $300/day. This might look small sometimes and easy to achieve but it's not and when you get small wins, you move to a bigger goal all the while maintaining the momentum and enthusiasm. On the flips side, if I had set my goal to $10K/month, it would seem very big and I might have given up very early (Actually I wouldn't because I…
My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to keep your desk job away launched on August 28, 2020 with 18 votes, #861 of 3,833 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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This is a personal documentation of one indie hacker's journey toward financial independence through incremental goal-setting. The maker shares how starting with a $100-per-day earnings target led to progressively larger goals ($200, then $300 daily), achieved over months and years. The approach emphasizes breaking down large objectives into smaller, realistic milestones to maintain momentum and avoid early abandonment. The maker built Acrypto.io, which generates over $4,000 monthly, demonstrating the practical application of this progressive goal strategy.
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My goal when I first started as an Indie Hacker was to earn $100/day. Everything that I did was to achieve that goal. I reached that goal after 6 months and I increased my goal to $200/day. I reached that goal a year back, now my current goal is $300/day. This might look small sometimes and easy to…
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