Do people really care about indiehackers? Only emails I receive from them are very rock-bottom bad websites created with codecanyon scripts. They are possibly paying indiehackers to expose those sites via email blast and their blogs. Not even one project from there looked good so far.
I am actively using Indie Hackers. It is a very supporting and nice community. It is very motivating for entrepreneurs. If you are building a product, you have direct access to a ton of like-minded founders who can tell you about their journey. It's for entrepreneurs.
Indiehackers sounded like a group of people I could relate, but after I looked at that site I had the impression it's full of "I can't code but wanna make big moniez with tech"-hustlers....
If you're starting something out it can be very inspiring! I used to listen to their podcast nearly daily when I was getting started, but dropped it after things got started. That same source of inspiration can be a distraction, and even demotivating, when times are tough.
It was great when it first started and all the content was fresh. I used to read it every day; now I look at it once a week or so, ever since they obfuscated the actual founder stories and turned them into more generic interview. But FWIW it does seem like there is a nice community there, and it's probably inspired more than a few people to make the jump to entrepreneurship.
Last 30 days is kind of a bad metric for growth, especially for B2B apps where Q4 can be kind of brutal. Would be cool if they did "all time" or something more encompassing (and had other sources aside from IH).
This is cool but quite easy to game - all I need is a spare couple of thousand and I can jump to the top of the leaderboard by buying my own products. Of course I'll have to pay stripe's fees but it's probably quite a good ROI if my product's target market are people that read indiehackers.
Fun fact: In a round-about way you can estimate how much revenue these products are generating for Stripe if you measure the transaction fees against the reported numbers.
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"How I [risked everything, failed big, quit job] and built a [moderately big number]/month business"
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[+] [-] mrskitch|7 years ago|reply
FWIW I run browserless, which is on IH, and has been growing pretty steadily: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/browserless/revenue
EDIT: Might also be cool to see growth in terms of customer growth vs MRR
[+] [-] AznHisoka|7 years ago|reply
Gotta say, your customer support is top notch. I asked a question on a Saturday evening and got a response 15 mins later. I was stunned!
[+] [-] stockkid|7 years ago|reply
Therefore I think that ranking and tracking what other people are shipping does nothing remotely useful. Maybe good for an entertainment, though.
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e.g. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/tettra/revenue
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