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Indiehackers is not the same resource it used to be. Since the acquisition it has devolved into a spam hub of little value, just like Product Hunt. If you are looking for inspiration or case studies, try Starter Story. They pretty much picked up where Indiehackers left off.
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 S…
Do you pronounce it "tee dot el why"? or "tee lee"?
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…
Doesn't mean indie hacker hubs are a bad idea, just that it feels less about learning and more about cheap content.
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 S…
That Park.io interview is one of my favourites too, I love his approach to "growth" and that it's not always a good thing for a company and he's just happy doing what he does. Very inspiring for solo side-project people like myself :)
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…
> isn't pressed to make money At $0 MRR, that's exactly what they are. This is not a dig but the (current) reality of community sites. At Stripe, they were probably being paid as marketers, not engineering managers. (No team, no direct reports.) One problem is that indie hackers, by self selection, are not typically investable. If you're not looking to raise, the forum you spend your time on can't, say, buy equity in…
Indiehackers is not the same resource it used to be. Since the acquisition it has devolved into a spam hub of little value, just like Product Hunt. If you are looking for inspiration or case studies, try Starter Story. They pretty much picked up where Indiehackers left off.
I do agree that the past several months, and the past several podcast episodes have been less than exciting and inspirational, but I wonder if the reason has anything to do with this decision. It may be that there were changes happening behind the scenes and Courtland and Channing were getting bored and that affected their enthusiasm. That could be why they decided to leave and rekindle that Indie spark.
Either way, I never thought the value of IndeiHackers was in the forum post - comments sometimes maybe- but rather in the podcasts and interviews as these told the stories of starters and how they built their companies. To me the forum was just a way to keep traffic around engaged between episodes of the podcast.
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…
It was never pressed to make money. Courtland said it many times on his podcast that Stripe never expected or gave him goals to earn revenue.
My guess as to why Stripe acquired IndieHackers is that COurtland promoted founding small companies to aspiring solopreneurs and those new companies would need to collect money and hopefully would use Stripe to do so. Encourage more and more people to found companies, and more and more new companies would use Stripe - free low-key sourcing of new customers without marketing or real revenue generation from IndieHackers.
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> isn't pressed to make money At $0 MRR, that's exactly what they are. This is not a dig but the (current) reality of community sites. At Stripe, they were probably being paid as marketers, not engineering managers. (No team, no direct reports.) One problem is that indie hackers, by self selection, are not typically investable. If you're not looking to raise, the forum you spend your time on can't, say, buy equity in…
It sounds like ads are going to be the first source of revenue.
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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.