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Not a comment on the article itself but on the website it's hosted on - is starterstory.com just a reskinned indiehackers.com?

trevor-e 8y ago
It's a separate site with a different owner that's more focused (from what I've seen) on traditional businesses. IndieHackers is more for the tech scene.
Topgamer7 8y ago
I think it's a competitive offering in the tech/startup interview(marketing)industry. Indie hackers was at least to me the first website to offer insight into how much companies were making as well as a nice narrative about how they started. It preys on many of us who would love to crank out a product and make passive income. Iirc indie hackers is owned by stripe now and only interviews people using stripe. The people who run these sites get paid by sponsors to either be interviewed or have ads on their inevitable podcast. It's a simple product if you are good at talking and convincing people to sit down and do some self marketing.
- ryanwaggoner 8y ago
  Wasnt mixergy doing this long before Indie Hackers?
  - Topgamer7 8y ago
    Had never heard of mixergy, like I said, first website to me with this kind of content.
duxup 8y ago
I was just thinking that I couldn't decide if it was retro or ... just ugly. Not that every site has to be super fashionable or anything (I prefer minimal) but that platform bar on the left (scroll down) seems kinda ... icky.
- patwalls 8y ago
  Appreciate the feedback - been trying to make that look better and I agree it's not the prettiest. Any ideas?
  - duxup 8y ago
    I a terrible designer so not much ;) To me the jumble of icons is visually distracting, but it doesn't break the site or anything close to that.
    - patwalls 8y ago
      Yeah, you're right, the icons do get kinda nasty (especially when there are a lot). Been thinking of moving all of this data into a "tab"/section that you can click on at the top. So you have one section for the interview itself, one for tools, one for something else, etc.
  - robotsonic 8y ago
    Nice site. It has some good content on there. One thing that I disliked from a design standpoint, was the fact I couldn't open stories in a new tab. I suspect I'm not the only person who likes to scroll through and open interesting stories in new tabs to be read at my leisure.
    - patwalls 8y ago
      Heh. I used to have the whole tile wrapped in an <a> tag, but google started doing some really weird shit with how they were indexing my titles. So I switched it up . Now, only the image and title are wrapped in <a> tags, so you should be able to open in a new tab if you click directly on the image. If anyone knows a good solution around this, let me know.
      - bazillion 8y ago
        Since you have them with an onclick, add: onauxclick="e.preventDefault(); window.location.href = '/stories/brumate';"
patwalls 8y ago
Founder of Starter Story here. Indie Hackers was/is the inspiration for the site, but we focus on interviewing e-commerce/consumer product makers rather software.

trevor-e 8y ago

It's a separate site with a different owner that's more focused (from what I've seen) on traditional businesses. IndieHackers is more for the tech scene.

Topgamer7 8y ago

I think it's a competitive offering in the tech/startup interview(marketing)industry. Indie hackers was at least to me the first website to offer insight into how much companies were making as well as a nice narrative about how they started. It preys on many of us who would love to crank out a product and make passive income. Iirc indie hackers is owned by stripe now and only interviews people using stripe. The people who run these sites get paid by sponsors to either be interviewed or have ads on their inevitable podcast. It's a simple product if you are good at talking and convincing people to sit down and do some self marketing.

ryanwaggoner 8y ago
Wasnt mixergy doing this long before Indie Hackers?
- Topgamer7 8y ago
  Had never heard of mixergy, like I said, first website to me with this kind of content.

duxup 8y ago

I was just thinking that I couldn't decide if it was retro or ... just ugly. Not that every site has to be super fashionable or anything (I prefer minimal) but that platform bar on the left (scroll down) seems kinda ... icky.

patwalls 8y ago
Appreciate the feedback - been trying to make that look better and I agree it's not the prettiest. Any ideas?
- duxup 8y ago
  I a terrible designer so not much ;) To me the jumble of icons is visually distracting, but it doesn't break the site or anything close to that.
  - patwalls 8y ago
    Yeah, you're right, the icons do get kinda nasty (especially when there are a lot). Been thinking of moving all of this data into a "tab"/section that you can click on at the top. So you have one section for the interview itself, one for tools, one for something else, etc.
- robotsonic 8y ago
  Nice site. It has some good content on there. One thing that I disliked from a design standpoint, was the fact I couldn't open stories in a new tab. I suspect I'm not the only person who likes to scroll through and open interesting stories in new tabs to be read at my leisure.
  - patwalls 8y ago
    Heh. I used to have the whole tile wrapped in an <a> tag, but google started doing some really weird shit with how they were indexing my titles. So I switched it up . Now, only the image and title are wrapped in <a> tags, so you should be able to open in a new tab if you click directly on the image. If anyone knows a good solution around this, let me know.
    - bazillion 8y ago
      Since you have them with an onclick, add: onauxclick="e.preventDefault(); window.location.href = '/stories/brumate';"

patwalls 8y ago

Founder of Starter Story here. Indie Hackers was/is the inspiration for the site, but we focus on interviewing e-commerce/consumer product makers rather software.