The Indie Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy

Thousands of books teach you how to code.
AI made most of them obsolete overnight.

How to code is easy now: Use AI to learn what you need exactly when you need it.
And more and more micro-SaaS vibecoders make it even without ever having figured out how to code.

This book focuses on the far more profound question:
What to code?

Because the smartest engineer in a San Francisco- or London-based startup can still waste 12 months and $250,000 building the wrong thing.

Perfect code does not create demand. Beautiful architecture does not make users care.

If you build the wrong thing perfectly, nobody cares. You lose time. You lose money. You end up frustrated, broke, and wondering why the market ignored something so technically impressive.

But if you build a rough solution to a real, painful problem -- and you know what to build through first-principles reasoning -- you can strike gold.

A scrappy micro-SaaS with real demand beats a polished dead-end product every time. A small product that solves an expensive problem beats a big vision nobody needs.

$1,000 MRR beats applause.
$10,000 MRR beats cleverness.

What to Code is the indie hacker’s guide to finding profitable micro-SaaS ideas in the vibe coding era.

It is for AI-native builders and founders who no longer need help writing code. They need help choosing what is actually worth building.

In an age of vibe coding, cheap prototypes, and infinite AI-generated software, judgment is the new moat.

This book teaches you how to find profitable micro-SaaS opportunities, spot real market pain, validate demand before you waste months building, avoid seductive but worthless ideas, and focus on products people will actually use, buy, and recommend.

It will help you think more clearly, choose more sharply, and build with a real chance of traction.

Because in the AI era, the winners will not be the people who can code everything. They will be the people who know what to code next.

Financial literacy is the difference between building a business and slowly losing one.

Know Your Numbers gives founders the clarity to see what is really happening behind revenue, growth, and momentum. When you understand CAC, conversion, gross margin, churn, payback, runway, and cash burn, you stop guessing and start deciding like an owner.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• spot weak unit economics before they drain the business
• judge pricing, discounts, and margin tradeoffs fast
• find the leaks in your funnel before they cost you growth
• make sharper calls on hiring, burn, and runway
• read dashboards, tables, and charts without fooling yourself
• think clearly under pressure, even without a spreadsheet

This is not finance theory.

It is practical financial intelligence for founders who want to move faster, make better decisions, and build with confidence.

If you want to stop feeling vague around the numbers that run your business, this book will make you dangerous in the world of business and startup success.

Vibe to First Sale is a practical playbook for solo founders who want proof, not hype.

Vibe to First Sale is a practical playbook for solo founders who want proof, not hype.
​It's written by a professional online business owner and vibecoder who's been there and done that, somebody who's shipped real apps for more than a decade and reached 20M+ people with his web projects.

This book is built around one core idea:

Your first $29 sale is not about money.
It’s about proof of demand.

Instead of building complex startups, chasing vanity metrics, or waiting for perfect conditions, this book shows you how to:

• Pick a sharp, sellable wedge niche
• Run fast, ethical customer discovery
• Craft a clear, outcome-driven promise
• Build a lean MVP using AI as leverage
• Pre-sell before overbuilding
• Deliver value without burnout
• Turn one small sale into a repeatable system

This is not a theory book.

It is a field manual for getting from $0 to your first real sale — as a solo founder, with limited time, using modern AI tools intelligently.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for you if:

• You want to build a small, profitable AI-enabled business
• You are tired of building projects that never sell
• You want clarity instead of complexity
• You value speed, truth-testing, and real-world feedback
• You are willing to ship before you feel ready

It is especially useful for:

• Indie hackers
• Freelancers
• Creators
• Operators
• Technical builders who struggle with positioning
• Non-technical founders who want to leverage AI

Who This Book Is Not For

This book is not for:

• People chasing venture capital from day one
• Founders looking for passive income without work
• Anyone unwilling to talk to real customers
• Anyone who prefers planning over shipping

This is a builder’s book.

What Makes This Different

This book introduces a practical concept called vibecoding:

AI-assisted creation guided by human judgment.

AI is not the business.
AI is leverage.

You remain:

• The strategist
• The editor
• The truth-tester

The goal is not to automate yourself out of relevance.
The goal is to move faster while staying grounded in reality.

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of this book, you will have:

• A defined niche wedge
• A sharp one-sentence positioning thesis
• A clear $29 offer
• A lean MVP
• A repeatable loop for validation and iteration

Most importantly:

You will understand how to create demand on purpose.

The Real Outcome

The first sale changes your identity.

You are no longer “thinking about building.”

You are building.

And once you can engineer one sale, you can engineer the next.