<story><title>Managing my motivation as a solo dev</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnolet</author><text>Sounds very familiar. Was a solo dev for at least 2 years before being able to form a team around my product. One nit, one confirm:&lt;p&gt;- I don&amp;#x27;t agree with the guiltiness on zero days. There is just no way to stay sane if you don&amp;#x27;t truly enjoy zero days. You will burn your candle.&lt;p&gt;- I 1000% agree that any form of customer validation makes your day. Could be a Stripe ping, a mention on Twitter or here. Set up services like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;f5bot.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;f5bot.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. Google alerts is useless.&lt;p&gt;My totally failed &amp;#x2F; crickets initial launch here on HN is findable via submissions in my bio, anno 2018. Three upvotes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>POiNTx</author><text>Customer validation is also super easy to get.&lt;p&gt;The easiest way I&amp;#x27;ve found is to include a simple Google Form in the product. It&amp;#x27;s super rewarding to get feedback from users. Ask simple questions like: &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s your favorite thing about X&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s your least favorite thing about X&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;How did you learn about X&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Anything else you wanted to let me know?&amp;quot;. And make all the questions optional so there&amp;#x27;s a minimal amount of friction.</text></comment>
<story><title>Managing my motivation as a solo dev</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnolet</author><text>Sounds very familiar. Was a solo dev for at least 2 years before being able to form a team around my product. One nit, one confirm:&lt;p&gt;- I don&amp;#x27;t agree with the guiltiness on zero days. There is just no way to stay sane if you don&amp;#x27;t truly enjoy zero days. You will burn your candle.&lt;p&gt;- I 1000% agree that any form of customer validation makes your day. Could be a Stripe ping, a mention on Twitter or here. Set up services like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;f5bot.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;f5bot.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. Google alerts is useless.&lt;p&gt;My totally failed &amp;#x2F; crickets initial launch here on HN is findable via submissions in my bio, anno 2018. Three upvotes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dewey</author><text>Another great service for mentions is &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;syften.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;syften.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, also supports Twitter but is paid.</text></comment>