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the reason the "twitter-bros" say it's easy is because what you're missing is their twitter account is their marketing and if they have high followers and good engagement then building to that audiences needs can cover your living costs as a solo dev much easier.

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Hey, thanks for the comment.

I started to follow the build in public and solopreneurship movement on social networks a few months ago. And I agree with you. Recently, I feel like this entire community is "indie hackers building tools for indie hackers, while tweeting about their success and MRR to gain more indie hackers to sell tools to".

Which is not bad, but it is what it is.

Why not? A large percentage of GDP is about making things other businesses use to do their business. I'm getting spammed by ads from bigger companies doing the same thing - "become our partner / make money with our products / distribute to others who could make money with our products". Same thing, different niche.

It's a valid niche - and the one you talk about is terminally online, which makes it rather easy to break into.

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