I finally shipped after years of over-engineering. Here's what I did differently this time.
I'm a developer. And like many of us, I've made the classic mistake over and over again:
- Spend months polishing every detail
- Build every feature I think users might want
- Refactor endlessly because "the code isn't clean enough"
Never actually launch.
I have a graveyard of abandoned side projects to prove it.
This time, I tried something different.
I picked a niche that already exists, with established competitors. Counter-intuitive for indie hackers obsessed with "blue oceans", but it meant I didn't have to prove the market, only differentiate.
I chose a topic I actually enjoy (web hosting, infra stuff). Because motivation matters more than strategy when you're solo.
And I scoped the dev work brutally small. The goal wasn't to build the best product. The goal was to ship something real, fast.
Did I succeed at being fast? Not really. The old habits came back. I caught myself optimizing things that didn't matter, adding "just one more feature" before launch, rewriting the same component three times.
But this time, I noticed it. And I forced myself out of it.
So today, for the first time ever, I'm doing a real launch.
The product: Supadrop, dead simple static site hosting for non-technical users. Drag, drop, your site is live. No config, no CLI, no GitHub. Targeting the "I built my landing page with Lovable, now what?" crowd, plus restaurant owners, freelancers, anyone who just wants a page online without the friction.
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just trying to make the experience as simple as possible : drag, drop, live. That's it.
Launching on PeerPush this week. First real launch after years of false starts. If you've broken out of the "abandon project" loop, I'd love to hear what worked for you.
https://peerpush.net/p/supadrop
Thanks for reading 🙏