Sorry for asking... what is the site about? From first glance it looks like a Reddit/Hacker News clone? But it was acquired by Stripe so I guess I am wrong?
Indie Hackers is indie again
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#52Sorry for asking... what is the site about? From first glance it looks like a Reddit/Hacker News clone? But it was acquired by Stripe so I guess I am wrong?
It's a Reddit/HN clone maybe in the sense that it's a community, but it's not a "post links get karma discuss" it's more focused on individuals trying to make profitable internet companies & helping each other out on that journey (and of course promoting themselves along the way).
This is a good place to start: https://www.indiehackers.com/start
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#53Sorry for asking... what is the site about? From first glance it looks like a Reddit/Hacker News clone? But it was acquired by Stripe so I guess I am wrong?
It's about people trying to make money from their small lifestyle startups (as opposed to trying to get VC funding).
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I think this episode gives hint https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/270-exiting-for-millio... you almost hear how CSallen and ChanningAllen brains are ticking.
Do you have a specific minute in this podcast that you recommend starting at?
16.30m forward.
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#55As 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…
> 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.
Yesterday I posted a question about which country is best for an indie hacker to incorporate in. Got zero responses.
I posted about how to do outreach sales. Got some response but the response I got from /r/startups was 100x better and gave tons of info on how to start and what to think about.
I like the idea of indiehackers.com, I think when they got bought by Stripe they were given goals/targets that resulted in it turning into what it is.
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#56Wow this is a pretty big spin. To me it sounds like they basically got fired or let go and/or lost their main investor.
That's an... odd.. (ok.. wrong) interpretation. Stripe previously completely bought them out. So Stripe had complete ownership. A company firing you and then giving you ownership of a company they had previously bought seems unlikely.
They have $0 MRR, so presumably Stripe was paying them to work on something that makes no money. If Stripe didn't want to do that anymore and didn't want to generate community ill will from shutting down Indie Hackers, this would be the scenario.
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#57Got to meet Channing and Courtland at a meetup in SF years ago. Two awesome, humble dudes. Congrats on the acquisition and being free again. If you're reading this, I'm curious what your plans are to monetize. What companies are you taking inspiration from?
Sounds like they're going for ads to start with (their responses in the IH post comments).
Feels like less than 1% of the users are actually active regularly. Can't see how ads are gonna bring in much revenue.
Hope they manage to turn it around though because the old IH days were the best!
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"I hope now that the site isn't pressed to make money".. it is the opposite ,right? now they have to make revenue and profit because they are independent
Or… they could just run the site for free. It’s not expensive if they make everything static files.
The main purpose of the site is the discussion forum, which can't be a static site.
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#59As 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 any unmoderated professional community is bound to end like LinkedIn.
Any sufficiently unmoderated professional community becomes an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Linkedin.
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Or… they could just run the site for free. It’s not expensive if they make everything static files.
The main purpose of the site is the discussion forum, which can't be a static site.
$1000 a month on servers would do it. They could probably do something premium $10/m to pay for it.