Indie dev's playbook: go niche, stay disciplined, minimize maintenance debt
menhguin · x · 2026-09-21
In a thread with Alex Fazio, indie dev menhguin dumped his principles for picking and executing projects: the more hyped, in-distribution, and consensus an idea is, the more an operator tends to wait for others to do it — the more niche, the more willing he is to get involved himself.
He also stresses minimizing maintenance and refactoring overhead: every new addition is potential debt, so stay deliberately restrained. The anti-pattern is undisciplined vibe coding → clutter → all your time spent paying it down. A fuller writeup is linked in the thread.
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