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Made by One

I’ve been hanging out on the Hacker news site from YCombinator. It is a great source of information and inspiration for anyone starting their own business.

The folks from YCombinator, who have funded some awesome startups, put a strong emphasis on funding teams of founders, rather than solo creators. Now I’ve been solo creating for a number of years, along with a few team projects, but the recent launch of Facto.me, I even blogged about it, got me thinking on the subject of solo versus team.

If you have all the necessary skills, being a solo creator cannot be beaten for time to market for your MVP release. Larger projects can benefit from a division of labor, but most MVP releases are small enough that this isn’t the case. Having co-founders can be useful to bounce ideas off, but I’ve found my network of friends is good for that, even if they’re not working on the project.

In the ended I decided solo creators should be celebrated! They shoulder all the risk for creating something where nothing existed, with nobody else to blame if things go wrong. Even if they do fail, they are a great way to learn for your next project solo or not.

Rather than just posting a blog entry listing a few solo creators with links to their works, I decide instead to build my first interview based site. Made by One is a series of interviews with solo creators about the creator and projects they have created.

I posted about the site to Hacker news, and was pleasantly surprised with the response. I wasn’t sure how many solo creators I would be able to interview, but now have a enough leads for about a years worth of weekly interviews.

Visit the site, follow us on Twitter feed, or subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll never miss our great interviews.

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