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 h

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.