It’s funny that this guy mentions Pieter Levels as being “inspiring” when he does it. That guy has a huge audience so when he debuts some new product it’s like… cool, good for you, but why does that matter for an indie dev? The most relevant part of that success - having 100,000 eyeballs checking out everything you do - is the hardest to achieve.
I think it's the story of Pieter. He started at zero several years ago and build his way up with no prior coding experience. That's the inspiring part. It's not what he does now, because as you said: he has an audience and launching within that audience makes a big difference.
