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Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for: - https://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers
by filipm 9y ago
Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for:
- https://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/ (of course)
- https://www.starterstory.com/ https://www.starterstory.com/
- https://www.authorityhacker.com/undercover/ https://www.authorityhacker.com/undercover/
- https://failory.com/ https://failory.com/
- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 (thanks @jbonniwell)
- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Mar 9, 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243
- Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806208
- Pieter Levels - Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups (1h presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0
- sixQuarks 9y agoI would say that these sites chronicle just the tip of the iceberg. I run a successful solo online business and would never agree to be profiled as I don't want to invite competition.
- overcast 9y agoIn my opinion, those site are just advertising for your business.
- goodJobWalrus 9y agoWhich means it only makes sense being profiled if the readers of those sites are your potential customers.
- sixQuarks 9y agoAgreed. I would only do it if I was targeting entrepreneurs
- siidooloo 9y agoOr headhunters.
- dceddia 9y ago"Entrepreneur" is only one label for the people who read Indie Hackers, though. They are software developers, designers, creatives, fitness enthusiasts, etc. All the people who currently work a day job and are hoping to do their own thing. Entrepreneurship may bring them together, but it's not necessarily their only (or even their primary) identity.
- bildung 9y agoYeah, but that still is a tiny part of the overall economy. If you don't target those small niches, it makes no economic sense to get profiled on Indie Hackers et.al.
- dvko 9y agoAgreed, this is why I'm shunning an interview with IndieHackers too.
- csallen 9y agoThat's one of the big reasons people share for sure. Another reason that can't be underestimated is that, sometimes, it just feels good to talk about something you've been pouring your heart into in obscurity for years. Also, the interviews are just one part of the site. Arguably the most useful part of Indie Hackers is the forum where people share what they're working on with the goal of getting feedback and advice from other founders.
- rbucks 9y agoWholeheartedly agree with this. The hardest thing about being a solo founder is the loneliness. In times of joy, in times of grief, it's just you. Sharing your successes and your failures with a group of supportive entrepreneurs as you plod along is the next best thing (or maybe even better) to having a co-founder.
- WA 9y agoI have my doubts about this. The interviews made IH take off when the forums had maybe one Post per day or less. I bet the interviews get way more traffic than the forums. For lurkers, it’s the interviews for sure.
- csallen 9y agoThe forum and the discussions there get 3x the pageviews the interviews do, and that gap is widening every day.
- Jack000 9y agoI sure hope so, it's literally the front page :] I think you're doing a great job growing the community, it has a different vibe from HN and r/startups and I personally do get a lot of value from it, although I'm still mostly interested in the interviews.
- fetus 9y agoIf that's honestly your attitude, good luck! Its only a matter of time before your customers realize you aren't adding any value.
- charlesdm 9y agoYou're not wrong. They are a great source for inspiration.
- gkya 9y agoYou also invite competition by selling/advertising your product. For any product, it's most probably one of the customers that'll go "I can make something better than this!" Also, if your income depends on absence of competition, that means that your product needs a bit of improving and that your business is fragile.
- sixQuarks 9y agoYou completely misunderstood the point. What would invite competition is the realization of how much revenue can be made with that product.
- eurticket 9y agoSo you could say that by not advertising it, for risk of competition, you're missing out on potential revenue too?
- sixQuarks 9y agoIf your product does not target entrepreneurs, then you're not really missing much, other than stroking your ego.
- Jack000 9y agoI think the main benefit for those businesses would be the seo value. Relevant, high PA links are hard to come by these days...
- jjeaff 9y agoI may be wrong, but my assumption is that you are assuming putting your story on something like indie hackers is a lost marketing opportunity. But I'd say a large percentage of successful small saas products are very niche and would not benefit in the least from talking about it in a public forum. In my case, none of my customers would be reading anything like indie hackers so I have no reason to get the word out through those channels. It would just invite competition without returns.
- ataturk 9y agoThese examples are "meta" though--like the people who write books about how to get rich quick when in fact it is the act of producing the book. Here's the truth: You aren't going to get far in a business unless you are the type of person who can go out and make . connections with actual people. What matters is who you know first and foremost and if you're talking startups, it all runs on bs just like YC does--VC money and massive unreality when it comes to actual profits. Most startups fail losing lots of money and impoverishing the founders. Didn't mean to sound so negative, it's great that people are thinking about being entrepreneurs. It's just that you have to understand that the tech part is the easy part and that there's a metric crap ton of bs out there.
- ABCLAW 9y agoResponses like this really show the best side of HN. I'm not the OP, but I appreciate the work in pulling together these resources.
- filipm 9y agoThanks and you're welcome :)