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Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#11

Post by trustno2 » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 1:25 PM UTC

What is Skool? Is Skool the thing that you built? Or is it just a forum? I don't understand what I am looking at sorry

edit:

ok for everyone else:

skool seems like a community forum, where everyone can create their own community, sort of like reddit (?), except the top communities all seems a little... scammy and off

https://www.skool.com/

IndieHackers was some forum for ... indie hackers. That closed.

This is someone opening a new forum on skool that is named IndieHackers, but is otherwise un-affiliated with the old indiehackers.

Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#12

Post by andrewfromx » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 3:23 PM UTC

andrewfromx wrote: post #4

nice was just trying the old one. I was very confused how to build cred and be able to post.

oh i get it now:

     Participate in the community by making thoughtful and effortful comments.
    

    Every day, moderators look for people with a pattern of contributing authentically.
    

    If chosen, we'll grant you lifelong access to special privileges on Indie Hackers!

Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#13

Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 4:19 PM UTC

Putting it on skool is like the opposite of what hackers want.

Skool is filled with a huge number of scammers and is also run by blatant scammers like Alex Hormozi, a new Tai Lopez.

Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#14

Post by DrMachiavel » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 5:03 PM UTC

Keep going Xavier! Not sure about the use ok Skool, but good enough for an mvp :)

Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#15

Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 6:36 PM UTC

trustno2 wrote: post #11

What is Skool? Is Skool the thing that you built? Or is it just a forum? I don't understand what I am looking at sorry edit: ok for everyone else: skool seems like a community forum, where everyone can create their own community, sort of like reddit (?), except the top communities all seems a little... scammy and off https://www.skool.com/ IndieHackers was some forum for ... indie hackers. That closed. This is someon…

Skool is backed by notorious scammer Alex Hormozi (who built his entire brand on lying about being worth 100 million). This is that part of the internet where people like Tai Lopez used to inhabit back in the day.

Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#16

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 3:24 AM UTC

bmar wrote: post #3

Why did you put it on skool?

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Re: I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

#17

Post by trustno2 » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:14 AM UTC

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #15

trustno2 wrote: post #11

What is Skool? Is Skool the thing that you built? Or is it just a forum? I don't understand what I am looking at sorry edit: ok for everyone else: skool seems like a community forum, where everyone can create their own community, sort of like reddit (?), except the top communities all seems a little... scammy and off https://www.skool.com/ IndieHackers was some forum for ... indie hackers. That closed. This is someon…

Skool is backed by notorious scammer Alex Hormozi (who built his entire brand on lying about being worth 100 million). This is that part of the internet where people like Tai Lopez used to inhabit back in the day.

I don't follow e-girls so I don't know Alex Hormozi but yeah it seems like that.

The whole site seems very... off to me. The basic functionality makes sense (have a forum with paid component, sort of like substack merged with reddit? ok); but all the top communities look like borderline scam/mlm