Your experiences on doing everything on your own as solo maker
Bjarn Bronsveld
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As a small solo maker, you are probably working on a product with no team and therefore have to do various tasks yourself which you would normally delegate to colleagues.
Think about development, design, marketing, customer service and much more.
In my experience, I have always identified myself as a "Jack of all trades, but master of none" - but in a good way. It doesn't necessarily mean you suck at all of them but you are just qualified enough to understand what you have to do and how to do it.
Though, you will have to accept the fact that someone else is the master in i.e. marketing or development in this case.
With the goal to expand my business in the future it is a great idea knowing I have at least a bit of knowledge on what is involved in the process of marketing, design etc.
Now I am curious on your experiences. How did you handle the workload of doing all of these tasks on your own. Let's share! 😄
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Philip Snyder@philipsnyder
When something presents itself as a problem/opportunity I'll learn it
There are many soft skills you can learn in like 6 months - Hard skills being STEM related fields
You can learn sales & design to a "decent" level in a relatively short amount of time.
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@philipsnyder Exactly, being curious enough to learn those skills (even if you have 0 experience with them) helps you to understand the basics, which eventually makes you a better business owner as you understand the concepts of those fields imo
When I launched my first product I had no marketing or support experience, I was just a dev. I'd just say: see what comes across your path. Things will go wrong, and that's fine, just make sure you learn from it! :)