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Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#11

What exactly does indiehackers do?

Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person community.

I had the same question, but phrased as: how does it make money?

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person community.

I had the same question, but phrased as: how does it make money?

Perhaps indirectly driving people towards using Stripe's services?

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person community.

I had the same question, but phrased as: how does it make money?

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Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person community.

I had the same question, but phrased as: how does it make money?

It doesn't, hence Stripe allowed it to "be indie" again. You simply do not give up ownership of cash cows.

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person community.

I had the same question, but phrased as: how does it make money?

From the post:

"Right now we're sitting at exactly $0 in MRR, so the journey is just now (re)starting."

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#16
As an avid follower of indiehackers.com since its early days, I have to say that I'm disappointed with the current state of the site. What used to be a vibrant community of indie founders sharing their struggles, learnings, and wins has devolved into a spammy showcase of "look how easy it is to make money/followers with this hack" posts.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for celebrating success. But the recent flood of self-promoting posts that offer little substance or value to the community has made it harder to find the signal amid the noise.

I hope now that the site isn't pressed to make money maybe it will go back to the roots and stop compromising the quality and authenticity.

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#17
Indie Hackers is what led me down the road of building side projects. For me it was the inspiring interviews from people like Mike the founder of Park.io. How one person can build a business solo is amazing.

Five years into the future, I am now working to grow T.LY URL Shortener to be the best way to create and manage short links. I have a long way to go but I have made a lot of progress in a "short" time.

T.LY URL Shortener https://t.ly/

Park.io Interview https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/034-mike-carson-of-park...

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

#18
post #8

Wow this is a big one! Congrats csallen@, what drove this change ?

The two founders/employees probably cost $600k/year and at this point, Stripe is so well established that IndieHackers sponsorship probably doesn't move the needle much on Stripe adoption anymore. They probably just mutually agreed to cut ties and the founders will have control over their own revenue / income.

Re: Indie Hackers is indie again

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post #16

As an avid follower of indiehackers.com since its early days, I have to say that I'm disappointed with the current state of the site. What used to be a vibrant community of indie founders sharing their struggles, learnings, and wins has devolved into a spammy showcase of "look how easy it is to make money/followers with this hack" posts. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for celebrating success. But the recent flood of sel…

I think it simply opened the eyes of many of us to the high number of those sorts of actors in our midst.
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