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One of my favorite sites that provided real value. I guess IndieHackers did a lot of things right which created such fast growth with a quick exit. 1) Great de

One of my favorite sites that provided real value. I guess IndieHackers did a lot of things right which created such fast growth with a quick exit. 1) Great design. Really professional feel (even though it just a wordpress blog) 2) Regular updated content to keep visitors coming back. 3) Highly targeted to hacker community / product creators - no wonder it was featured over and over again on the front page 4) In built SEO and traffic. People who are featured on it link back to it. People link to it for inspiration (great social signals). What else? Anyone else wanna chime in?

chpmrc 10y ago
I'm not sure it's wordpress, from the source code it looks like a custom Ember app but I might be wrong.
- superasn 10y ago
  You are right. I checked the source code and found "Wordpress" a bunch of times but it looks like it's because "Kanban for WordPress" featured on the homepage. Regardless their design is really slick (especially the sorting and filtering on top) which definitely helps increase the site interaction and usability.
Zaheer 10y ago
He mentioned he actually uses Ember and built it in a week - really impressive: https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pageviews https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pagevi...
manigandham 10y ago
It's a custom built app. The about section has the details: https://www.indiehackers.com/about https://www.indiehackers.com/about > Indie Hackers is an Ember.js app on the front-end. On the back-end, I'm using Ember FastBoot for server-side rendering. The app runs on a Node.js server managed by AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Most pages are cached via CloudFront. I did all the design myself. I built the blog from scratch. I built the forum from scratch, too, and I use Firebase to store the data and accounts. All of the blog and interview content is stored in JSON and Markdown files that I host on S3.

chpmrc 10y ago

I'm not sure it's wordpress, from the source code it looks like a custom Ember app but I might be wrong.

superasn 10y ago
You are right. I checked the source code and found "Wordpress" a bunch of times but it looks like it's because "Kanban for WordPress" featured on the homepage. Regardless their design is really slick (especially the sorting and filtering on top) which definitely helps increase the site interaction and usability.

Zaheer 10y ago

He mentioned he actually uses Ember and built it in a week - really impressive: https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pageviews https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pagevi...

manigandham 10y ago

It's a custom built app. The about section has the details: https://www.indiehackers.com/about https://www.indiehackers.com/about > Indie Hackers is an Ember.js app on the front-end. On the back-end, I'm using Ember FastBoot for server-side rendering. The app runs on a Node.js server managed by AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Most pages are cached via CloudFront. I did all the design myself. I built the blog from scratch. I built the forum from scratch, too, and I use Firebase to store the data and accounts. All of the blog and interview content is stored in JSON and Markdown files that I host on S3.