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Channing Allen

⚡️ Co-Founder of Indie Hackers
📍 NYC


My Products

  1. Hatch

    A next-generation AI assistant crafted from the ground up to make you more productive.

    2025 – present$423/mo
  2. Indie Hackers Plus

    The best content on Indie Hackers: step-by-step startup guides, exclusive case studies, curated business ideas, and much more.

    June 2024 – present$12,500 MRR
  3. Newsletter: What's New

    220,000 subscribers. The top news, tips, and stories for indie hackers, sent 3x/week.

    Aug 2016 – present$15,000/mo
  4. IndieHackers.com

    Community of self-funded tech founders sharing everything they do

    Aug 2016 – present
  5. The Indie Hackers Podcast

    Conversations to help you learn from the most inspiring indie hackers. (Currently paused while we scale the business!)

    Mar 2017 – November 2023
  6. Flexbox Defense

    A tower defense game that teaches you how to use CSS flexbox

    Dec 2015 – present$20/mo
  7. Newsletter: Growth Bites

    5-sentence case studies on growth, discontinued in 2022

    Aug 2018 – Aug 2022
  8. Newsletter: Spare Parts

    Insights on productivity and lifestyle design, sent 2x/month

    Dec 2022 – present
  9. Novel: The River Six

    Into fiction? Help me workshop a novel I'm working on.

    Aug 2019 – present

My Writings

I have a newsletter. Here are some of the best posts.

  1. Increasing your practice surface areaindiehackers.com
  2. The PoWeR technique for self-disciplineindiehackers.com
  3. The leverage paradoxindiehackers.com
  4. The problem with big innovationsindiehackers.com
  5. The BUS method for getting unstuckindiehackers.com
  6. Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing wellindiehackers.com
  7. Infinite entrepreneurshipindiehackers.com
  8. Plan, do, learn: My work routineindiehackers.com

My Socials

Recent activity

Jul 19, 2026created a post
Indie Hackers meetup in Lisbon today (Sunday July 19
May 5, 2026created a post
How Hatch started
Nov 4, 2025commented on a post
15 Years of Designmodo
Oct 7, 2025commented on a post
Increasing your practice surface area
Oct 7, 2025commented on a post
Increasing your practice surface area

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