Emmanuel Jégo
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emmanueljego.bsky.social
Emmanuel Jégo
@emmanueljego.bsky.social
Creator of https://polygothq.com and https://visualpdf.com (40k+ users/month)

Indie maker | Developer

Love creating stuff 💻 and climbing 🧗🏻‍♂️
Now is time to do it the right way
I have an idea of the market I want to "work for". Now I need to
- build a list of businesses I can reach out to
- ask them what they are struggling with atm
- see if I can do smth about it
May be it'll be a dead end, but that's the way to do it
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
These are very basic guidelines, but I learned them the hard way. After spending months building a project (cool features, fun developing challenges...), I'm struggling to find clients. I'm 100% lost. I've burnt a lot of cash.
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3/ Build something small enough,
to not feel overwhelmed. My latest project is very cool (as a developer), but I'm not sure I can meet all my prospects' expectations. If I want to build a indie product, I have to lower my ambitions (at least initially).
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
2/ Build something in a specific niche,
so that I can easily find and target people in this niche.
Marketing is 80% of the job. If I don't know who to reach out to, I've no chances.
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
1/ Talk to the market first,
in order to understand what people struggle with and how to fix it with a SaaS or some other piece of software. I heard it 100s of times, never really listened to it ("I'm too smart for this" 🤓).
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I have no choice 🫠
April 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Google probably ranked higher some of my pages 🤷‍♂️
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Forgot to mention addition of Angular support 🔥
March 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Made all these changes in preparation for a demo with a prospect (coming up in a few days)
Hoping to get a lot of feedback from this demo, and maybe a new customer 🤞😀
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Lmao I received (once again) a feedback like this yesterday
The thing is I don't even use stars, I use smileys (☹️/😐/🙂) to make it VERY CLEAR, but somehow some people still click "☹️" and say "It is a very good tool" 😂
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Good morning Dmytro 🌞
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Learning: don't be shy, talk about your product (should have done this way earlier)
January 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wow that's a super low config for such a price, but I guess there aren't many VPS providers in Bulgaria!
January 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Wow that's bad!

What's your VPS provider? And what is your VPS configuration?
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM