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Willing to give the community some time to build up steam: these things are hard and take a long time. Better that they're starting now and working on improving it.
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For me, the $$$$/mo requirement and focus was a turnoff to participating. No idea if that will ever change (or if it has), but I’d imagine there are other people like me who enjoy building things and talking about the process, but are not interested in sharing such personal details.
Out of interest, are the MMR $ amounts independently verified? I have the sense some founders are inflating those figures but I could be wrong.
Someone created a popular thread a while ago (3th most popular post of all time) discussing this precise thing [0]. People with posts asking for help, or just starting out (often not the most exciting content) would get lost in the noise and disappear, I often scroll down the 'new' tab a bit to catch those 0 comments posts but sometimes I am just not in a position to answer these, often due to inexperience/lack of expertise on the subject.
I don't know what the solution for this problem would be, to be honest I don't even really know what is causing the problem, an excess of 'wantrepreneurs', a problem with the audience or if the more successful IH-ers got tired of summing up the ways to monetize your side project, I don't know if a very strict 'FAQ - READ THIS BEFORE POSTING' is going to solve this or if it just needs more of a personal community feel but I do think the quality of IH as a forum is degrading by the month and that I am sad to see it do so. Fortunately there are currently plenty of gold nuggets to find between the plethora of posts that sometimes seem to resemble what is in my Medium feed.
[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/indie-hacker-etiquette-no...
I am still a very active member of IH, read a lot of the posts and comment often. The thing that bothers me the most is that it is currently shifting from a group of people that are helping out each other to a place for people to share their (success) stories. Don't get me wrong there is currently plenty of both but it's shifting towards a more egocentric vibe. Someone created a popular thread a while ago (3th most p…
Am I right here?
A month ago, I actually went back to read more but I had similar reaction that many here mentioned. Where I am I, what am I supposed to look at here? Even in the learn section now reads like self-help section of bookstore or like some health forum where people give out their "10 quick ways to lose weight" "this is how I made to #1 product hunt", which is not the content I'm not really interested in.
Both PH and IH communities seem to be to be obsessed about promoting, rather than building. Obviously marketing is important to any business, but it seems some of the energy might be better spent on the actual business and product and not writing blogs posts in these forums.
The biggest problem to me is that while IH started out as a curated collection of interviews, it's turned into a forum where basically everyone has advice in the form of articles they want to share and success stories...even when they're brand new. The early content had a sense of authority and assuredness that the tips and successes were genuine. There's a thread on IH right now called "Why would a company lie about…
The biggest problem to me is that while IH started out as a curated collection of interviews, it's turned into a forum where basically everyone has advice in the form of articles they want to share and success stories...even when they're brand new. The early content had a sense of authority and assuredness that the tips and successes were genuine. There's a thread on IH right now called "Why would a company lie about…
Agreed. IH used to be well curated and information-dense. Now it's essentially indistinguishable from /r/startups
I am still a very active member of IH, read a lot of the posts and comment often. The thing that bothers me the most is that it is currently shifting from a group of people that are helping out each other to a place for people to share their (success) stories. Don't get me wrong there is currently plenty of both but it's shifting towards a more egocentric vibe. Someone created a popular thread a while ago (3th most p…
You last line suggests you value Medium as much as your used to value IH when IH was at its peak. Am I right here?
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Agreed. IH used to be well curated and information-dense. Now it's essentially indistinguishable from /r/startups
Although it's a bit harder to find at the moment than it should be, the early content on Indie Hackers still exists and we're still conducting interviews at the same pace as in the past: https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews
My advice is put your interviews and podcasts back on the homepage. Attention is in short supply. Especially amongst entrepreneurs. When I see your reddit-esque homepage, it makes me feel like I'm wasting time and should get back to more productive tasks.