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Indie Hackers Community — Work together to build profitable businesses & side projects
We're a few thousand founders and developers helping each other start profitable online businesses. The community is a friendly place to come share our experiences and projects, get valuable feedback, swap tips, and lean on each other for support.
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@csallen @kossnocorp @abadesi In short, the Stripe acquisition simplified our mission: to become the best knowledge-sharing community for internet entrepreneurs.
Prior to the acquisition talks, we spent most of our time negotiating with ad vendors. We were even on the verge of pay-gating the interviews or the forum (or both)!
@abadesi My take is that the Stripe acquisition made us much more ambitious. We went from having a 2-week vision to crafting a 2-year vision. Indie Hackers should be the best place for early-stage founders to directly support each other in starting new businesses and overcoming specific challenges, and in 2018 I want to concentrate on building tools to help them do just that.
I love the Indie Hacker community, I read the interviews almost religiously! I'm super excited about this addition! @csallen @channingallen I'm wondering if you guys have any advice on adding value to a startups community in the early stages? Thanks!
Great question @dredurr. The Indie Hackers forum is built around a pillar of 250 interviews with experienced entrepreneurs (https://goo.gl/KCmQ7r), many of whom participate in the comments on a regular basis. It has a bent toward developers, which on average raises the bar for the kinds of products you see people making and discussing. And the fact that it's a forum, not a chatroom, makes it much easier for large numbers of people to get quality advice at the same time.
In the long run, we're planning to add lots of ancillary tools to the forum that augment everyone's ability to connect with and help each other out. This is why I built the forum from scratch instead of going with an off-the-shelf solution — I want to customize it to be the best that it can for this particular group of people. Expect to see lots of changes in 2018!
@csallen I love this. I wish the forum software you developed was open source so I could use it! It's beautiful!
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 A year and a half ago, I launched Indie Hackers here as a side project. Back then it was a small collection of interviews with founders, and today it's become so much more. I'm excited to unveil the Indie Hackers Community — a place where founders work together to build projects, give each other feedback, and help each other solve challenges. If you've ever worked on a project and needed some advice or a second opinion on something, this community is for you. I'd love to hear what you think!
@csallen this is great Courtland! Have been watching your site grow and enjoyed the journey. One of the things that has often held my own projects back has been finding others with a similar passion so I look forward to seeing this concept grow 👌🏻
@csallen Also the podcasts are fantastic and they have the text version too, very useful when I don't get something from the speech as a non-native English speaker.
Everything feels so well designed both technically and in terms of "empathy", and when you're around in IH there's always this warm feeling of a overall good place with so much care in how everything is designed and made.
@csallen I'm looking for beta users for a product I'm launching in a couple weeks, but I need people with a specific "stack" (i.e. on a Mac, uses Slack and Google Sheets, and knows SQL). It'd be awesome if in your IH profile that you could tag that you're willing to help out with beta testing products and could add tags to your profile that would be relevant to know for people looking for testers (e.g. "Mac", "Designer", etc.). Testers could then sign up to get a push when a new beta product met their tags. I'd imagine beta testing would be a pretty strong use case for this community.
@mike_seekwell checkout BetaTesta on Product Hunt - doesn’t provide the detail you mention regarding the specific stack but may be of help.
I discovered Indie Hackers last year through the podcasts and enjoy the conversations that unfold on the forums. I've learned a lot there but have also been inspired to do better in my side hustles.
Pros:It's an incredibly inspiring community where I've learned a lot from a diverse range of makers. Makes me want to be a better entrepreneur.
Cons:None so far.
Yo! Thanks, Allen brothers for this wonderful platform. I thought IH was already on PH until today. :D
Indie Hackers made me realize that building a company isn't that hard, that it's ok to not want to become a unicorn and it's not necessary to beat all the competitors if all you want is a stable income.
The podcast and the forum been with me since I've left my job (not an advice), launched my first products and learned how to market those. Now I'm one step from getting my first $ from a product that people want and ready to pay for.
Thank you @csallen and @channingallen for all your work!
Congrats on your progress so far @kossnocorp, been enjoying your updates so far and I'm looking forward to seeing where you can take your business and maybe interviewing you one day :-D
You guys really managed to create an inclusive and supportive community. I like that you stuck to the forum format, as it really works. The amount of useful feedback and support I received during the time of my launch was amazing.
Indie Hackers is THE place to hangout and connect with like minded individuals making and shipping stuff. This is without even going into the podcast/interviews, which really show you what is possible.
Indie Hackers has been an amazing source of inspiration, content, guides, feedback, and learning from others. The community is very thoughtful, which can't be said about much. When someone posts a question or a story, no one is going to comment something stupid, vague, or sarcastic. It's all super constructive and valuable.
Pros:Real, honest, no BS entrepreneurship
Cons:None
@csallen I just realized... I can't favorite threads or wishlists. I think this has been one of my issues with Reddit/Hacker News style systems like this. Sometimes you don't want to comment, but still follow a discussion. I may be wrong...
Highly recommend, great job guys!
Pros:Great place to share experiences and to learn new things about launging startups.
Cons:none
So much to learn from Indie Hackers, IH podcasts, the interviews and the community. A breath of fresh air from the 'traditional' startup talk (glorified VC funded startups).
Pros:Best podcast about startups out there, also great community and interviews
Cons:none
I've found the IH community intensely helpful for ideation, creation and shipping. Looking forward to getting more involved. Thanks, Courtland and Channing!
Wonderful community! Sometimes, I even check it more often than PH 😲😲 Great work @csallen! Thank you so much for creating it.
I love IH
Pros:The best place for indie hackers on the entire internet
Cons:none
Thanks Courtland and Channing, you guys are a breath of fresh air from the 'traditional' startup talk (glorified VC funded startups) and an inspiration. Keep rockin'
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