The moment the business produces a smidgen of recurring revenue, hire a freelancer to take tasks off of you and leverage your skills in more powerful areas of the business.
This makes sense when that smidgen is a scalable amount - i.e. an amount that allows you to pay the freelancer enough so that you regain ENOUGH time back in your day that it MOVES THE NEEDLE.
I generally hire people for non programming work quite early on. For things like:
Logo
Content marketing
UI Mock ups
UI development
If it's going to eat up a lot of my time, and I can afford to pay for it, then I'll probably pay someone to do it. One thing I very much like to do my self is customer support. It's a good way to understand your customers. It also has been a really good source of revenue. Users seem to really appreciate good customer support and reward companies by buying their products.
Often I see indie hackers do everything themselves, and I think this can be a bad use of time. For example, they might spend 20 hours creating UI mockups in Figma. When alternatively they could have hired someone to create the mockups on for $100.
The moment the business produces a smidgen of recurring revenue, hire a freelancer to take tasks off of you and leverage your skills in more powerful areas of the business.
This makes sense when that smidgen is a scalable amount - i.e. an amount that allows you to pay the freelancer enough so that you regain ENOUGH time back in your day that it MOVES THE NEEDLE.
I generally hire people for non programming work quite early on. For things like:
If it's going to eat up a lot of my time, and I can afford to pay for it, then I'll probably pay someone to do it. One thing I very much like to do my self is customer support. It's a good way to understand your customers. It also has been a really good source of revenue. Users seem to really appreciate good customer support and reward companies by buying their products.
Often I see indie hackers do everything themselves, and I think this can be a bad use of time. For example, they might spend 20 hours creating UI mockups in Figma. When alternatively they could have hired someone to create the mockups on for $100.