at the farm

i’m sitting by the window at my girlfriend’s family home in the south vietnam.

we’re by the sea and i can feel the air on my chest while typing.

it’s been about a day since we arrived and i can already feel how much more relaxed my mind is. i stopped having fight or flight responses whenever going out because of the traffic, as it was the case in ho chi minh.

we might stay here a little bit longer or we might come back often and even spend more time here moving forward.

my girlfriend’s parents are glad to have us and she also is pretty happy being able to spend more time with them. i’m also feeling relaxed. so are our 2 cats and dog we brought along with us; they just have more space to play and we don’t need to take the dog out on a walk every morning or evening.

this feels like living.

business-wise, i didn’t do much for the last few days since we were so busy emptying our house.

i just kept it consistent by creating tiktok content every day. so far, 2 posts blew up and i’ve received a ton of engagement from them, including a few waitlist signups.

i also decided to stop posting daily updates on twitter since most of my target audience wasn’t in the indie hacking community. i made one last post a fortnight ago and waved my temporary goodbyes to that community.

now i’m left with a few choices:

• either go ALL IN on the endometriosis/adenomyosis/PID niche and finalise the shipping of my app
• polish up resumeai.app and start creating tiktoks for it
• brainstorm other forms of content on tiktok more on the general life reset/self-improvement niche, one which i really love and have lots of things to talk and keep thinking about
• answer the DMs i have received from a post i wrote on reddit a long time ago where i was advertising my youtube comment analysis/extraction tool — i’ve received a few real case studies to act on

for the first one, i’m still stuck on one persistent engineering issue (some app crash upon launch on iPhone 14 and above — those which have dynamic islands) and i haven’t launched or optimized for the android version yet.

for the second one, i just feel like i don’t like advertising a resume, but i know it makes money and can make more with some effort: i’ll need to revamp a few features to make them work better, and polish up overall + come up with tiktok ideas (the least difficult part).

for the third one, it seems very low effort, low hanging fruit and potentially high return initiative. the only thing is i don’t have a product yet and have a hard time visualising what the product could be like. i need to write and reflect more so i can lift the veil and fuzziness about my content ideas for that niche. but it seems very doable.

and for the last one, i’m just concerned about the youtube data api limits and thinking it might be worth it to engage in a few discussions and see exactly what people need/want, and why not manually doing some consulting work first.

there we have it, a few things to work on while i’m locked in at the farm.

the great thing about doing this here is that distractions are reduced to the minimum — the house is so big and it’s only me and my girlfriend during the day, so each one of us has our own place to get work done.

it’s really great to finally be able to focus.