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IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Re: IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Post by georgiecasey »

didn't see this one coming! major congrats to Courtland.

just a thought on the power of Hacker News to get noticed by 'players'. surely Patrick Collison heard of Courtland/Indiehackers and Patrick McKenzie through browsing Hacker News? so it's not all procrastination posting here

Re: IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Post by minimaxir »

While going from a blog-to-acquisition in less than a year is an impressive feat, there have been suspicious circumstances around IndieHackers submissions to Hacker News including clickbait titles that are frequently fixed by HN mods, and in one case, explicit voting manipulation with an attempt to bypass the voting ring detector via linking to /newest: http://i.imgur.com/08pAFOw.jpg

This acquisition sends a disappointing message that growth hacking works.

Re: IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Post by sebleon »

w00t w00t, congrats Courtland, this is awesome!

Indiehackers has tons of great content that can seriously help companies using Stripe Atlas. Together, IH+Stripe could helps companies go all the way from incorporation to profitability ;)

Re: IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Post by aresant »

I bet the total acquisition price is less than Stripe would wind up paying a content agency for fees, placement, etc. over a couple of fiscal years for similar exposure.

And they're getting all the goodwill & talent alongside of it as the cherry on top.

Brilliant move @stripe and congrats to the founders.

Re: IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Post by canistr »

minimaxir wrote: post #6

While going from a blog-to-acquisition in less than a year is an impressive feat, there have been suspicious circumstances around IndieHackers submissions to Hacker News including clickbait titles that are frequently fixed by HN mods, and in one case, explicit voting manipulation with an attempt to bypass the voting ring detector via linking to /newest: http://i.imgur.com/08pAFOw.jpg This acquisition sends a disappoi…

I do recall this submission and commenting on the ridiculous nature of it. But I wouldn't say it was voting manipulation so much as people who may not be familiar with markets voting up something they saw that used neural nets.

The disappointing part was that Allen chose to be defensive instead of admitting a mistake on his submission vetting process.

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