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> disappointing message that growth hacking works. 1) its not disappointing that growth hacking works. Growth hacking is supposed to work. Growth hacking is j
by wheelerwj 10y ago
> disappointing message that growth hacking works.
1) its not disappointing that growth hacking works. Growth hacking is supposed to work. Growth hacking is just marketing 2.0.
2) it is disappointing that spam tactics get rewarded. But that has nothing to do with Stripe... mostly.
I also think IndieHackers is lite on legitimate content, but its a great content marketing play by Stripe. Anything to suggest otherwise is just jealousy induced bitterness.
Well done Stripe, congrats Courtland and Courtland's brother.
- pryelluw 10y agoWould you define legitimate content? Super interested.
- wheelerwj 10y agonon-sensationalized, technical accurate accounts of entrepreneurship. not, "it was built it in 3 months." while conveniently leaving off that it was springboarded from a previous veture that took 3 years to develop a base for.
- pryelluw 10y agoThat last part seems very specific. Any particular example you are thinking about?
- gspetr 10y agoCheck Ministry of Testing story on IH.
- pryelluw 10y agoThx :)
- wheelerwj 10y agothere were a few, i think park.io and then another having do with music, submithub i think? those are the two that came to mind. there was another, machine learning for company logos, the title was something like "50k monthly run rate after 3 months" but it was based off of sales after running a promotion which amounted to a couple grand in a few days. the shitty part is that all the stories are great, they don't need to be sensationalized, but he over sells them and then your left feeling let down.