Break Free from Client Work: How to Build freedom from Your Own Products 🔗 with Alexandre Grisey

In this episode, Alexandre shares his journey from being a web and mobile developer to becoming a successful indie hacker.

We discusses the importance of working on our own projects and the mistakes he made along the way.

Alexandre believes that indie hacking is not dead, but rather evolving with the rise of no-code and AI.

We emphasizes the need for developers to create their own products and become financially independent.

We also talked about the digital nomad life and the importance of routine in his work.

Alex discusses his least proud product, the AI Telegram bot, which doesn't bring the value he desires.

He prefers projects that provide value to developers, such as SEO tools and product creation tools.

Alex shares that he comes up with ideas by solving his own problems.

We also talked about programmatic SEO in generating thousands of pages based on templates and changing content.

Alex talks about his tech stack, including Vue.js, PrimeView, and Firebase. He emphasizes the significance of building an audience and gathering feedback to improve his products.

We also talks about his ideal living location and his preference for the French countryside.

We discuss the evolution of indie hacking and the emerging trend of targeting indie hackers.

Alex emphasizes the value of building, shipping, and failing fast, and the importance of learning from failures.

🪛Tools

- Capacitor and Ionic – Frameworks for building cross-platform mobile apps with a single codebase (JavaScript).

- Vue.js – A popular JavaScript framework Alex uses for web app development.

- PrimeVue – A UI components library Alex plans to use for building B2B products.

- Stripe – Payment gateway frequently used in Alex’s projects for handling online payments.

- Firebase – A serverless platform Alex uses for backend infrastructure in his projects.

- SendGrid – A tool for sending transactional emails, used by Alex for automating customer feedback.

- Plausible – An analytics tool for tracking user interactions on Alex’s websites.

- LiveFeedback – Alex's own tool for gathering customer feedback with simple pop-ups and Telegram/email notifications.

- GitHub Copilot – An AI-driven coding assistant that helps Alex code faster.

- ChatGPT – Used by Alex for brainstorming ideas and generating content.

- SEO-programming.com – Alex’s guide and tools for implementing programmatic SEO.

- AI Sitemap Generator – A tool Alex created to automatically generate XML sitemaps for SEO purposes.

- SpeedMeter – A Chrome extension developed by Alex to test website speed and optimize performance.

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