... product and spend years making it successful. This makes sense when you are building a venture-backed company and trying to create one huge outcome. But I am not sure it is the best strategy for indie hackers. The alternative is what I call the many-donkeys thesis . Instead of betting your entire career on one product becoming a unicorn, you build a portfolio . You might create ten products. two eventually make $10K+ per month five make between ... ... followed a similar path. In 2017, he spent a year building one startup that made $0. In 2023, he launched ten products and made $263,000. In 2025, his portfolio generated $1.032 million across products such as ShipFast, CodeFast, DataFast

... wizard, and various deployment errors . Billing fixes so active plans work correctly for deployment, and cancelled plans don t clutter attach existing subscription . Branding we ve aligned on DeployHermes (formerly HermesHost in places). Analytics Vercel Analytics and Datafast for understanding how the product is used. We re still tightening lifecycle edge cases (e.g. provisioning fully running ) and billing gates - if you re self-hosting Hermes or trying hosted agents, we d love your war stories in the replies. What would ...

... when feeling ready and a need. No payments. It'd be great to have it at launch, but I was still in the process of passing verification in Paddle and did not want to block the launch. Basic analytics. DataFast for visitor analytics, and OpenAI dashboard for usage analytics. Launch day and the spike I've launched it in the Show HN section with the following post and additionally echoed it on Reddit in r/SideProject, and my LinkedIn and Twitter ...