3 Lessons That I Learned From my Failed Indie Hackers Project

Earlier this year, I shamelessly ripped off an idea and built an app for making printable place cards thinking I too could generate some passive income. After we published 3 blogs about weddings, the project wasn't getting anywhere enough traffic and we kinda just gave up. We could have reached more potential users if we integrated with popular products like Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Facebook… but we didn't. Instead we focused on things that made ourselves feel productive, but in the end didn’t make a difference to the business.