Slow Progress Is Still Progress
Day 15 of 365 of my Daily Blogging challenge, first published on my blog
The first steps when getting started as a indiehacker may be frustrating because you don’t feel like you are making progress.
You may not see your application gaining some “valuable” features.
You may not see anyone interested in what you are offering yet.
You may not see any growth in sales.
Everyone has to go through this phase, before anything they create gains traction. Then with luck, the curve will start going up.
And with every step, you become better, and make a little bit of progress.
When luck comes, you’ll be able to pick it up.
My boss says "Slow progress means no progress. You need to boost your performance as quickly as possible." Actually, I grew quickly in the first year. I worked and learn new things at the same time. After that, my growth chart seems to slow down. I think it's the peak point and I can't do anything better than what I'm doing.
You will grow more quickly when you're getting started in learning something new, but I think that in business, your company will often start very slow (although I am in this starting phase too, so I don't know that much about it).
For me, slow progress mean that there are improvements to be made, but that what you're offering is interesting anyway.
When it comes to individual performance, it's up to the individual to grow in anyway they want. Slow progress may actually mean you are trying to learn something that is too much beyond your capabilities, and you would need to learn something a bit more basic before.
After a while, if you want to become better, you will need to learn other topics to be able to make connections and improve in your first domain.