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The Atlassian marketplace is how we're able to make draw.io/diagrams.net free everywhere else. We don't have to handle any licensing or billing and it's a commercial market where users expect to pay.
We generate 8 digits annually there with 5FTE people, you can build a medium sized company around just one of these marketplaces.
Can someone please tell me what is an 'indie hacker' ?
I don’t get it, are they saying that making API products for these marketplaces is what to do?
They're saying making products that integrate with these platforms gets you "free" marketing exposure on their marketplaces.
Can someone please tell me what is an 'indie hacker' ?
Rather broad term, I think. I once had the impression that an indie hacker is a one person dev shop that sells a software product instead of their time. But lately, I saw many people use that term for business people on the look for the next hustle.
Even if someone starts out as a "one person dev shop", they eventually become a business person, out of necessity.
Correct me if I'm wrong but unless you're already an established brand that people actively seek out, or part of the first X listings in a category of a thing everyone wants (i.e. SEO, Ads, accounting for webshops), wouldn't you already be too late on these market places?
Imagine having 10 paying customers giving you $80 per month. You need to provide some level of support, deal with charge backs which can get you MATCH banned so payment processing becomes near enough impossible, update the product and market it too.
Correct me if I'm wrong but unless you're already an established brand that people actively seek out, or part of the first X listings in a category of a thing everyone wants (i.e. SEO, Ads, accounting for webshops), wouldn't you already be too late on these market places?
Can someone please tell me what is an 'indie hacker' ?
Someone who spends their free time building a single SaaS tool for other indie hackers needs. Then struggling to gain any traction and deciding to repeat the process over and over.
The "indie hacker" part is underselling the value of hooking into these marketplaces. The Atlassian marketplace is how we're able to make draw.io/diagrams.net free everywhere else. We don't have to handle any licensing or billing and it's a commercial market where users expect to pay. We generate 8 digits annually there with 5FTE people, you can build a medium sized company around just one of these marketplaces.
Our primary work is in remote work for non-desktop people and educational/video space plus live ecommerce which seems to be the areas that are really thriving right now.
Even if covid passes organizations will still be looking for tools that makes them resillient to that kind of disruption again.
So plenty of areas to dig into.
(P.s. If you have ideas and are looking for product design or seed capital just DM me would love to talk with you)