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Or with more products and Stripe verified revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=stripe&sorting=highest-revenue https://www.indieha

by dewey 7y ago

Or with more products and Stripe verified revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=stripe&sorting=highest-revenue https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=st...

Cenk 7y ago
The Stripe verification is what sets IndieHackers apart from all the other similar sites
martin_a 7y ago
If Indiehackers would not be such a bad website. It could be a really nice website, but somebody thought it should be an app and it sucks.
- csallen 7y ago
  That was me. If I could go back in time 3.5 years and make a different decision, I would! Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full rewrite today. (I'm the only developer/designer on IH.) But I do try to make regular incremental improvements around performance.
  - fimoreth 7y ago
    Sure the tech isn't great, but you've made a really great community with great content. You shouldn't be ashamed of choices at all - tech doesn't have to be perfect to deliver on its goals.
  - jamil7 7y ago
    The community and content is great. Outsource some of the work?
  - kumarm 7y ago
    IndieHackers is a great resource. It serves its purpose very well and built a great community. That is all that matters.
  - nojvek 7y ago
    Csallen. I love the site. I understand you’re the only dev /designer. Why not open source the GitHub repo so others can send pull requests and make it better. FWIW. I visit your site every day and look at the top posts. You’ve probably single handedly created a community of people who go solo and build profitable things. I remember YC refraining from funding solo founders. It turns out there are 1000s of solo profitable businesses and you don’t need to go YC route. Thanks for giving me that confidence.
    - dewey 7y ago
      You’d probably rebuilt it from the ground up as the architecture seems to be the problem. That’s not something a community could easily do without some kind of leadership. That would still take up a lot of his time, probably more than just doing it alone. I’d guess it’s not just merging a few pull request and it’s suddenly fast.
- cambalache 7y ago
  I really dont know what happened with the redesign, the original site was fine. Then they did this "fancy" redesign and it sucks so much that it limits my visit and time spent there despite the content which it can be pretty good. It is honestly baffling.
mrborgen 7y ago
I wish there was a way to connect both PayPal and Stripe revenue, as we make about half our revenue through each of these payments processors. I can imagine a lot of other companies are in similar situations.
- awb 7y ago
  Stripe bought IndieHackers so I don't think this feature is in the roadmap.
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    Just need Stripe to buy Paypal.
  - csallen 7y ago
    I'll probably add PayPal eventually. Just a matter of finding the time! There's nobody at Stripe telling me not to, nor did anyone at Stripe suggest I add Stripe-verified revenue in the first place.
- tpaksoy 7y ago
  We recently added support to one of our projects to use Stripe out-of-band invoices, and pay these invoices using Paypal/Braintree
- andrewash 7y ago
  Happy to create such a feature for you :) Just to clarify, what exactly are you looking for, just a "revenue verified" badge, or a Baremetrics-like dashboard with Paypal support?
mikkom 7y ago
Revenue is not the same as profit.
- dewey 7y ago
  If you click on the links on Profit Hunt you see that they mostly link to posts saying “revenue”.
fastball 7y ago
That link is broken for me. It does not show anything with a revenue higher than $0 by default. In order to get it working, I need to turn off "verified by stripe" and then turn it back on again.
- TAForObvReasons 7y ago
  You can also click "Sort By", then "Revenue: High to Low". That seems to refresh the result
gnicholas 7y ago
What happens if you have revenue from other sources? Most of my large customers prefer not to use Stripe, and due to Stripe's fees, I prefer to avoid it also. My largest payments are all ACH or paper check.

by dewey 7y ago

Cenk 7y ago

The Stripe verification is what sets IndieHackers apart from all the other similar sites

martin_a 7y ago

If Indiehackers would not be such a bad website. It could be a really nice website, but somebody thought it should be an app and it sucks.

csallen 7y ago
That was me. If I could go back in time 3.5 years and make a different decision, I would! Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full rewrite today. (I'm the only developer/designer on IH.) But I do try to make regular incremental improvements around performance.
- fimoreth 7y ago
  Sure the tech isn't great, but you've made a really great community with great content. You shouldn't be ashamed of choices at all - tech doesn't have to be perfect to deliver on its goals.
- jamil7 7y ago
  The community and content is great. Outsource some of the work?
- kumarm 7y ago
  IndieHackers is a great resource. It serves its purpose very well and built a great community. That is all that matters.
- nojvek 7y ago
  Csallen. I love the site. I understand you’re the only dev /designer. Why not open source the GitHub repo so others can send pull requests and make it better. FWIW. I visit your site every day and look at the top posts. You’ve probably single handedly created a community of people who go solo and build profitable things. I remember YC refraining from funding solo founders. It turns out there are 1000s of solo profitable businesses and you don’t need to go YC route. Thanks for giving me that confidence.
  - dewey 7y ago
    You’d probably rebuilt it from the ground up as the architecture seems to be the problem. That’s not something a community could easily do without some kind of leadership. That would still take up a lot of his time, probably more than just doing it alone. I’d guess it’s not just merging a few pull request and it’s suddenly fast.
cambalache 7y ago
I really dont know what happened with the redesign, the original site was fine. Then they did this "fancy" redesign and it sucks so much that it limits my visit and time spent there despite the content which it can be pretty good. It is honestly baffling.

mrborgen 7y ago

I wish there was a way to connect both PayPal and Stripe revenue, as we make about half our revenue through each of these payments processors. I can imagine a lot of other companies are in similar situations.

awb 7y ago
Stripe bought IndieHackers so I don't think this feature is in the roadmap.
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Just need Stripe to buy Paypal.
- csallen 7y ago
  I'll probably add PayPal eventually. Just a matter of finding the time! There's nobody at Stripe telling me not to, nor did anyone at Stripe suggest I add Stripe-verified revenue in the first place.
tpaksoy 7y ago
We recently added support to one of our projects to use Stripe out-of-band invoices, and pay these invoices using Paypal/Braintree
andrewash 7y ago
Happy to create such a feature for you :) Just to clarify, what exactly are you looking for, just a "revenue verified" badge, or a Baremetrics-like dashboard with Paypal support?

mikkom 7y ago

Revenue is not the same as profit.

dewey 7y ago
If you click on the links on Profit Hunt you see that they mostly link to posts saying “revenue”.

fastball 7y ago

That link is broken for me. It does not show anything with a revenue higher than $0 by default. In order to get it working, I need to turn off "verified by stripe" and then turn it back on again.

TAForObvReasons 7y ago
You can also click "Sort By", then "Revenue: High to Low". That seems to refresh the result

gnicholas 7y ago

What happens if you have revenue from other sources? Most of my large customers prefer not to use Stripe, and due to Stripe's fees, I prefer to avoid it also. My largest payments are all ACH or paper check.