#278 – Growing a Portfolio of AI Products Past $300k After a 7-Figure Exit with Danny Postma

I feel like there's something in the water of being an indie hacker where you feel like you need to be really friendly. Like, everyone's a community. Everyone helps helps out, so people don't think about, like, having rivalries when that really is I mean, if you take Danny's Danny and Peter's situation, like, they aren't enemies. Like, they're you know, there's no bad blood, and they're rivals. And be friendly. Yeah. You can be a rival and be friendly. And and then on on top of all that, there's also, like Cortland, you probably have seen, like I mean, I think I've counted no fewer than 10 individual posts on indie hackers complaining about copycats. Like, people just have this this idea that you're like, you can't copy. You can't like, if someone else is doing something, like, that's their lane. You gotta stay in your lane. And, like, there's not there's not there's no bigger bullshit in the world of business than the idea that, like, you can't have the same thing. It'd be like playing basketball and somebody steals the ball from you, and then you can play and they're like, hey. That's not that shouldn't be allowed. It's like, actually, that's, like, part of the rules of of the game. Like, one of the rules of business is that if somebody innovates, like, you can do a similar innovation. Someone it does a slam dunk, and you're like, well, I can't do a slam dunk. Like, that's Michael's move. You know? I gotta do the crossover. Like, I can't do that same thing. Yeah. Speaking of Danny, Danny, what's up? Sup, guys? Thanks for having me. Hello. Thanks for joining. We're just talking about you and, your sort of AI rival, Peter Levels. Do you think it's healthy to have a rivalry? Hey. Would you would you call it a rivalry? I wouldn't call it a rivalry because we've been in Telegram chats for twenty four sevens just literally sharing all the information we had together when we launched the Proble picture apps. And then on Twitter, we had, like, this little little rivalry, I guess. There it is. For me personally, for me, I gained I went from 50 k followers, one five, to 60 because Peter was tweeting about me all the time. Right? So it feels like we had this little YouTube collaboration where some people put, like, another YouTuber on the video and then Yeah. Yeah. Have, like, cross followings and stuff. So it it, yeah, really helped me out. Rivalry on the outside, and it's warm and fuzzy teddy bears on the inside. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. There's, 37 signals in their book, Rework. They have a chapter called pick a fight. And one of the things that they talk about is intentionally going out of your way to have a rival, and they have, like, one constraint for that. They say always punch up. Everybody loves an underdog. You never wanna …