Maybe you just enrolled in a coding bootcamp. You’ve learned some JavaScript. You have an app idea, but you haven’t built anything from scratch before. You have never taken apps to market. You run into a roadblock after the dreaming phase, and don’t even know what language should you do it in, which platform to build the app for or what technologies to use. But you keep repeating to yourself: “I am gonna build it no matter what”.

Going indie is almost as if you realize you don’t need anyone’s permission or financial support to just start hacking on projects and building cool stuff. Almost as if the illusion of venture capital vanishes right in front of your eyes, and you figure out you can just do the thing yourself. All the good stuff of the startup world, minus the bullshit. But is it really that way?