Jun 2025 update: Finishing my book

I've been working on my indie book, and it's almost ready!

Hi everyone! It’s Tony again.

If you’ve been following this newsletter for a while, maybe you’ll remember that in October 2022, I shared that I want to write a book about indie hacking:

Well, guess what, I’m finally finishing it.

It takes much longer than I expected, but I'm glad I'm finally here.

After a long time of procrastinating and doubting myself whether I would provide any value to other people with this book, I have finally decided to give myself a deadline:

Official book release: July 2025 (it’s next month)

I’ve been thinking for a long time about whether to write a book or not, but I’ll spare you from all the meta rambling about my impostor feeling and reasons (I’ll just put that as a special chapter at the end of the book instead, in case you are curious).

All you need to know for now is that I’ll finish it sometime this July.

What is the book about?

The book is essentially my entire indie story from the very beginning, mixed with all the lessons about indie hacking I learned along the way in between.

It also has a second part (I called it “Coffee Chats") where I discuss other topics related to indie hacking, like how to get ideas, validate ideas, build products fast, do marketing, build distribution channels, etc.

In short, I want to document everything I know about indie hacking into one central place. I also want to tell my story again one last time in a coherent and complete way, and tell it in a way that’s helpful and inspiring to others.

I want to raise awareness of “indie hacking” to more people in the general public and contribute my success story as a case study for the community. I hope to see more indie hackers, so I have more friends.

Help me read the draft

You can now pre-order the book at www.myindiebook.com for only $24.

After pre-order, you will receive a survey link with some questions that will help me shape the book to be more useful.

You can also opt in to read the preview version!

For the past months, I’ve sent out the early draft of the book to some friends for feedback (thanks to them, I rewrote and restructured the book at least 2 times)

It’s now at a state where I’m more comfortable letting more people read the preview version and share feedback.

I’ll send out the preview version by the end of next week, so if you pre-order before 21st June and submit the post-purchase survey (sent in your email), you’ll receive the book preview version in your inbox by 22nd June 2025.

The official release is still scheduled to be in sometime July 2025. There are still a lot of chapters I haven’t finished yet, a lot of writing to be done, but I’m confident that I’ll launch the product in time.

That’s all for now!

I’m really excited to finally finish the book.

If you opt in to read the draft, I can’t wait to hear your feedback about the content before officially releasing it.

See you again soon!

Tony