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Indie Hackers

#264 – Growing a 2-Person Business to $80k/Month with Eric Turner of Japan Dev

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 β€’ 606 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Eric Turner (@_etdev) talks living in Japan as a foreigner and visiting Japan as a tourist, finding inspiration to start as an indie hacker, picking a lucrative market, and shares some tips growing a job board with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up dude?

0:07.0

What's going on, man?

0:09.0

I am excited. I just got a text on my phone.

0:12.0

It says my new MetaQuest Pro is end delivery, so it should be here in a couple hours, I think.

0:19.0

I would love to also be excited.

0:21.0

My MetaQuest Pro was supposed to show up today.

0:24.1

But for whatever reason, my card got declined.

0:28.6

Like, the purchase got declined.

0:30.3

And it also got declined right when I was landing in Arizona

0:33.9

for a four-day bachelor party for my friend.

0:37.3

Perfect.

0:37.9

So not only do I not get my Quest Pro, but I also was on vacation on this group trip.

0:44.0

This was like last Thursday, right?

0:45.3

Because I had the same thing happen, not the bachelor party, but I got a message to my bank

0:49.2

that was like, hey, we got a sketchy charge from some company called Meta for $1,500.

0:55.0

We just went ahead and decline that for you, but if it's a mistake, let us know.

0:59.4

And I think what's going on is like, no one is like, these credit card companies aren't

1:02.4

used to people spending thousands of dollars on Facebook.

1:05.8

Like the typical stories of someone spent thousands of dollars on Facebook, they got scammed.

1:10.2

They didn't buy a VR headset. That's like the place where people go to scam people. Exactly. But I don't even know what's in this headset, man. I was looking the reviews are out because everybody's getting there is delivered today who ordered this thing. And like I literally don't know what the features are. I don't know what makes it better than the previous headset that I already have.

1:27.9

I just know that it's like a new gadget. It's a new toy. I like VR and so I just bought it. So I do VR all the time. I do, I have the meta quest two and I play a lot of ping pong. And I bought the Quest Pro. I mean, you suggested it. You're like, oh, hey, this is out. And I was like, whatever. And I just bought it. And I had no excitement about it.

1:25.1

So I'm like, I thought I was only going to be ping pong.

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