Indie Hackers is indie again!
by Courtland AllenExactly six years ago (to the day!), Stripe acquired Indie Hackers to help us grow and inspire millions of people building online businesses.
Today, I'm happy to announce that @channingallen and I are indie hackers again!
Specifically, this means we're back to running Indie Hackers as a standalone business, owned by the founders. Although we're no longer part of Stripe, Stripe continues to be supportive of IH as an investor to help us get going.
This has been about four months in the making. Branching out on our own is something we mutually decided on with Stripe, and we're excited about it!
It goes without saying that I'm incredibly grateful for Stripe's belief and support of Indie Hackers over the years. It still blows my mind that @patrickc reached out and took a chance on us when we were just a tiny bootstrapped company ourselves, that we were able to run freely and autonomously despite being part of a much bigger company, and that we now have the chance to own Indie Hackers again. Stripe couldn't have handled things any better, and I want to personally thank @patrickc and everyone else at Stripe for their support through the years.
So what now?
Well, if we want to survive and thrive, we're going to have to generate revenue just like any other business! I'm an entrepreneur at heart and always have been. In fact, working at Stripe was my first and only salaried job.
Right now we're sitting at exactly $0 in MRR, so the journey is just now (re)starting.
I'm fired up!!! 🔥🔥🔥
EDIT: Click here to listen to the Indie Hackers podcast episode where we discuss the spin-out in depth.
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Whaaaaaaat. Wow! I think we need a podcast episode on this (stat!).
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incoming!
edit: we're live!
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Dude, you know what would be way crazy?
If you did a combined episode of Build Your SaaS (or Mega Maker) and Indie Hackers like the Indie Hackers/Acquired or Indie Hacker/Startups for the Rest of Us episode mash ups!
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We should! 🙌
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good idea man
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Congrats, guys! I'm excited to see you go independent again.
I think it's nice to be more aligned with the community in that way.
I also suspect that it's going to create better incentives. Whenever a big company offers something for free, it tends to pervert the ecosystem in strange ways that don't necessarily serve the end-users (e.g., Github offering so much in the free tier that it stifles competitors).
I'd love to see an evolution of IH's business model where IH-the-company is financially aligned with IH-the-community so that the company succeeds when its members succeed.
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Congrats! But how did this work? Did you buy back the company from Stripe?
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Somewhat of the opposite — Stripe is now an investor in Indie Hackers. I agreed not to share specific numbers, but suffice it to say, everyone is happy.
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Interested to know more about this! It seems like this was more of an acquihire?
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Yes, interested on how that is structured as it's certainly not common
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Please bring back interviews. Those were the best part of the website
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What exactly happened? Have you purchased IndieHackers back? How can it possible that Stripe gave IndieHackers back to you after aquisition.
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My guess would be that Stripe doesn't want it anymore/was going to close it down. So they sold it back to the founders for a tiny sum or maybe even for free
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Congrats. Charge a membership fee for all users. Profit and stop spam. Sign me up.
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Hi Courtland, I mainly consume the podcasts and thought your enthusiasm had been less for a while so I'm glad to hear this new independence has you excited.
How about another chat with @robwalling for both your podcasts. Like you did in episode 243 and Start-ups for the Rest of Us 588. It was a good format and I think Rob would be an apt interviewer for getting to the detail of what's changed and why. It would probably answer a lot of the questions on this thread.
Cheers, Ralph.
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Great idea, this is in the works.
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@csallen, I am sure it's was an exciting journey.
So, how do you plan to make money?
If you plan to charge to access the community then you may risk to lose people to a competitor(s). Additionally, most indiehackers in this community are early stage startup with money crunch.Other possible ways, for you to make money would be to help indiehackers make money. How?
a) Send emails to the community promoting product(s) and charge for it. Similar to Betalist.co
b) Indiehackers are always looking for early adopters and feedbacks. Run lifetime deals or let people submit discounted subscriptions plans for IH members. Where you take % from the revenue brought in through these deals.
c) Sell programs, like Mentorship (connecting 2 parties for a fees).
d) Create marketplace for IH hackers to sell their business. You take % from the transaction.Goal should be to grow the IH community and help IH to grow their business.
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Wow, amazing excited to see what happens in the future. How are you planning to grow and monetize?
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ads first to stop the bleeding then a lot of small product experiments we've been bottling for years
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Charge a small monthly fee. This would weed out all the gurus and spam and possibly bring the community back to the way it was a few years ago; people who actually were running businesses as opposed to what it is today; people trying to grow their personal brands.
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@csallen IMHO The cleanest way to monetize IH would be to create a 2 sided content market place where you allow content creators to sell different courses about different aspects of indie hacking to the IH community. Actually the indie founder community has needed something like that for a long time. Some notes:
- You already have an audience big enough to start a 2 sided marketplace.
- This would be a pretty significant revenue op for you
- It would allow you to keep the site clean and ad free
- Different folks need different courses. For example getting from $0-$1 requires different training than getting from $10k->$100k (as we know different content creators can be better teachers in different categories).
If you do it, I already have few courses ready to go from https://nugget.one
Best of luck whatever you do do!
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Not like Courtland needs more ideas, but this is a fair idea :)
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Damn. How exciting. Good luck chaps :)
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Edit: This is congratulatory fire! Congrats!
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I had a feeling this was gonna happen when you started talking to that one guy about 'not really being an entrepreneur'.
Having a community is already half way there, so I'm excited to see how you guys monetize it!
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Like others have said, I'd love to hear more about the backstory, even as far back as the original deal - what were the terms, goals, etc and then how has that changed now.
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Here is a post dated 2016, where Courtland Allen explains how he did come up with the idea of IndieHackers:
https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/how-to-come-up-with-a-business-idea
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thank you for this link 🙂 It was reallly awesome.
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that would be interesting for me as well.
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Wow, congratulations @csallen and @channingallen!
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Wow, this is huge news! Congrats @csallen! So excited to see the next steps!
FWIW, I am not totally surprised to see this — I suspected Stripe might be struggling to justify Indie Hackers now at their scale and with the recent tough times throughout the tech industry with belt-tightening.
I can't think of a more supportive, inclusive, inspiring community to be part of. Rock on 💪
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Did you guys buy it back from them?
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A valid question.
I really have no idea what this means if I'm honest. It just sounds like they gave them a little more creative direction(?) ... I dunno, never heard of this.
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No idea personally, but I would guess stripe is cutting costs, and funding Indiehackers may have been one of those costs. So rather than just shut it down, maybe they transferred ownership of it back to Courtland, and in exchange Courtland may have released Stripe from some ongoing pay agreement? Purely a guess. Hopefully Courtland got to keep his stripe equity and it's fully vested though. :D
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Congrats!
- “Pro” membership plan with special features = $6 month (I’d pay it, cheaper than Netflix)
- 5% conversion to pro of current user base = 8,000
- $48,000 of that sweet, sweet MRR 😎
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The journey begins, again. Good luck guys!
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One of us! One of us! One of us!
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Congratulations, that's amazing! It's interesting that I now want to (re)support IH more than ever, since you're now indie. 😄
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Congrats!
If you do a podcast episode about this, I'd love to hear more about the Stripe investment and it'd be fun to look at this through the lens of your validation checklist: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e-pmkZCM96V_3FhwYFK5ubY8l52YNk9j4i25HWt6oyY/edit#heading=h.eqrnmfrqlu9c
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Very awesome! Excited to see what you guys cook up.
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Wow! This is crazy and exciting! Congrats guys! Can't wait to see what you do with it.
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awesome news !!!!!!
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I am happy for both the founders. I missed the stripe era, but I wonder what's going to change?
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Great news for all of us @csallen, just curious how do you plan to monetize the platform. Also, Is there a way to be part of your rocketship? Would be more than happy to volunteer for design and product.
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Yeahhhhhh!!! So thrilled for you!!
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This is so exciting, congratulations! I can't wait to learn more and follow along!
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It would be really helpful to know the running costs for IH in relation to the number of people active on the website, subscribed to the newsletter, listening to the podcast etc. I believe it’s a topic many indie developers struggle to estimate while making big plans 😉.
I know you gave a total number on the podcast, but what constitutes that number?
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Congrats, very exciting!
Just throwing out the idea, I would pay for a monthly Indie Hackers membership if it got me discounted tools for startups, access to private slack group, and ad-free podcast and feeds.-
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Isn't this what @AntCas already does with Indie Worldwide?
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Congrats guys. I'm listening to the podcast right now. Very exciting time. Looking forward to seeing back in the game.
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Congrats! This is great news :) Good to keep this #indie and hopefully in the transition to generating revenues, we don't lose the community flavor and become too commercial!
You're leading a revolution!
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Courtland, do you think you will ever do a podcast where you talk about the what went into the decision to part ways from Stripe? I bet a lot of us would love to hear why you and Channing decided to go Indie again after being part of Stripe. Was it your desire to "do something different" again? Was it in relation to Stripe's tax burden (or whatever the ordeal is/was they recently had to go through with shares)? Was it something completely different?
As a long time and repeat consumer of the Podcast and member of the community I really worried you ere on the verge of shutting the Podcast and potentially the community down or at least you and Channening were going to step away from it to explore new things.
As curious as I am to the WHY, I am super excited to see the two of you go back to being indie and follow along as you pivot a bit to make this a profitable community/service.
Hope this brings back your enthusiasm for the Podcast.
Best f luck to both of you, and I really am excited to see how you two make this even more successful than it already has become - it might just be another instance of you "getting lucky".
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Yes, in fact we already recorded something. Although we probably can't discuss things in exactly as much detail as everyone would be curious about.
For what it's worth, we're not on the verge of shutting anything down, nor have we ever been. I have gotten bored/tired of podcasting from time to time, but I've always planned to come back to it after taking breaks, or iterated on the formula to make it more interesting. I enjoy doing it a lot more with a cohost.
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Listening to your new podcast episode now re: IH going Indie, and I am getting so fired up to move faster with Eurotripr.com and launch and monetize it somehow.
I agree with Channing that the "long slough features" kill motivation and that's what I always find myself in - long term data input right now and it sucks.
Also, I love to hear the renewed passion and excitement in your voice - you can tell you are right back to where you were in 2016 and hopefully it translates into awesome changes to IH and more podcast episodes.
Re: Monetization of the site: As a Newsletter subscriber and someone who has listened to EVERY IH episode at least 2x and some 3 or more times (looking at you Pieter Levels, Laura Roeder, and Lynne Tye episodes), I think including ads is the simple and easy win for you guys and I don't think listeners/readers will mind much - at least I wouldn't.
Also re: Monetization: What about a Subscription / membership thing like NomadList. Maybe keep the forum free, but allow member subscribers to access the extra content / master mind groups / etc you and Channeing talked about. Also, with a paywall you could allow only members to create Meetups, but allow members and non members to still RSVP for them (i'm building something like this for Eurotripr).
Also, subsrcibed members could have their posts/profiles boosted or be the only ones that can ADD content to the site - they could still comment, but new content would be from members. This could go a LONG way to minimize "low quality" posts and spam. I think Pieter Levels did something like this with his Slack group in the beginning for NomadList to cut down spam.
Good luck guys. No matter what decisions yous make, I am sure they will be awesome. Glad to hear the fire and passion in your voices again.
Oh and I think a weekly podcast episode about WHAT you are doing and HOW you are doing it to grow your MRR and what changes you are making to IH and ESPECIALLY what challenges you are facing and how you are overcoming them would be a GREAT addition to the podcast.
Oh! And another thought on monetizing the Podcast: Charge for access to it. Take a note of what James is doing with the Inir Bytes podcast: publish a free Shortened version of the episode with a subscription for the full no-ads version. If you do paid subscribers as I mention above, these free full length episodes could be a perk of membeship.
Man I'm really excited to see what you guys do and follow along again as you do it.
Good luck!
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That's good to hear! I'm still hoping I finish one of my side projects and make it profitable enough to get invited on to the pdocast before you get too bored with it and do in fact shut it down...it's really my sole motivation at this point
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So many open questions for @csallen.
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What did Stripe pay for Indie Hackers (IH)?
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What did you get paid at Stripe? Why was that better than owning IH?
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What metrics did you drive during the last 6 years? What did you learn?
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What did you pay to buy it back? Why was that a good idea?
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How do you plan to make money with IH?
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Do you plan to interact with the community directly again? If no, why not?
I stopped listening to the podcast when I realized that you wanted everyone to be transparent and participate openly in this Indie Hacker's community, accept for yourself. You keep all your information private and don't interact with anyone through this website, beyond postings like this one.
Time to open up and join your own community?
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Awesome! Indie Hackers in their best form!
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Good! As it should be! :)
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Good luck! We are here to support you.
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Congrats! What is your plan? 🔥
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Wow, that's it .. that's a journey that I am interested to follow and see it succeeding.
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Exciting times ahead!
Here are a few areas I'd consider, hoping that you'll get some benefit from it:
- Promoted articles ; One could pay to have their articles "enhanced" (better visibility, broader audience). This wouldn't be a recurring revenues, but with the amount of articles written everyday here on IH, I'm sure a few of these would be promoted and bring substantial values
- Making a membership subscriptions: Users would pay a yearly fee for IH, and would get some perks in exchange (could be more powerful upvotes, better presences when writing articles, or having access to private parts, like a member club).
- Subscription to a private club. The difference with the membership subscription is that IH would remain the same, but there would be a dedicated area on top of IH solely for those who are in the private club. One drawback to this would be the content written there wouldn't be available to others, and this would create a two-sided IH.
- Paywall ; Accessing the site by paying a monthly fee ... Please don't do that
I've ordered them in preference (at least for me). I think the promoted articles is nice because it allow everyone to still have access to the same Twitter, while giving advantage to those who post and can pay to promote their article. Of course, it would require to review the kind of article written but I believe it's already the case?
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Thats so interesting! How on earth did this commercially work?
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Good luck 🌀 I've never worked in a company and had a salary in my life. I'm almost 40. So you'll be fine, life is better when you are free.
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Amazing!
All the best guys.. how are you planning on monetizing? Podcast, Newsletter ads? Premium membership?
This would be an interesting journey to follow, hope you'll share your thought process along the wayVery excited!
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The Rebirth!
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Huge! NY indie hackers have your back 💪
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This is awesome.
I love IH since I joined 6 years ago. But I cannot deny that it's developed very little since then and I am spending less and less time here.
I hope you guys can bring back the sparkle you could feel in this forum in the early days.
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Woo, congrats guys!
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I stopped using IH a few years ago. I saw this news, and now I'm back!
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Curious to see how you‘ll be growing it the second time around. Congrats!
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Congrats - exciting times ahead!
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To help our products better integrate with business practices, IH can take into account that it can not get users here, but can get commercial help, GTM methods, and even potential acquisitions and investors
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Way to go! Congrats.
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Congrats to this boys, you are doing so much for the community!
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Indie Hackers is back on the indie track! Congrats to @channingallen and @csallen for going solo again. Time to generate some revenue and show the world what true indie hustle is all about. Let's go! 💪🚀
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Looking forward to seeing what will happen next :)I’m sure we will see many improvement and new things going forward.
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Have you thought about opening the stats and revenue?
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We will for sure
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What are your operating expenses?
Also, have you thought about private inboxes?
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Way too high, like $8k/mo not including salaries
I've thought about DMs, but it's a feature that I think will (1) cost us a lot of time to create and manage going forward, but (2) not generate any revenue
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Congrats man! You and Channing will crush it when it comes to monetization. Suerte!
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Thanks Marc!
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Wow, great news!
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Great news!!! Congratulations!1✨
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so a blue tick for $4 now?
jk, congrats on coming back and glad IH survived this long at $0 MRR..
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Wow. Awesome..
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Really excited to see what yall build!
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Great news!
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Great news! I hope this community grows bigger and I would be happy to become paid member to support IH
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Fledgling IH here. Listened to the podcast episode and think that the following idea would be great: The idea to make some kind of a "tier" or "level" of indiehackers. I think it got referred to on the podcast as the "cohort" idea ? This stratification would give some kind of an aura to being part of this community. It would motivate people to move past beginner status even more (except having a working business off course). I think it could work.
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Congratulations on becoming indie hackers again! It's inspiring to see entrepreneurs like you taking ownership and forging your own path. I'm excited to see where you take Indie Hackers next and I wish you all the success in generating revenue and thriving as a standalone business. #hustlehard #entrepreneurmindset 💪🚀
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Wow, congrats!!! Exciting news, can’t wait to see what’s coming on this new chapter
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Ya-ay!!! Happy for you. Good luck guys!!!
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Congrats, and welcome back on the pirate ship!
If it helps with your MRR, I am happy to advertise Smartynames.com with you, although my budget would be pretty modest, but I hope it's a start.
I hope you guys can blog about the rebirth a bit more as you go along. I wonder if it would be easier, knowing what you know now, or harder, given you've spent time working for a salary.
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Exciting times! Looking forward to it🙌
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Oh oh.... ads during the podcasts ;)...
But seriously, i guess advertisements from companies providing services for startups and indie hackers is logical 🖖🏻.
Congrats on the new adventure 🔥
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This is awesome!
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would love to hear about more details in a podcast episode!
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I'm sure that your journey as independent business owners again will be a fulfilling and rewarding one. Wishing you all the best as you embark on this exciting new chapter!
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Indie Hacker subscription tiers incoming?
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Hard to really understand the reasoning for this from the Stripe side, but either way this is great news for all of the IndieHackers out there!
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Idea for revenue. Could you harness the buying power of indie hackers as a collective for servers, ai subscriptions etc, offering a discounted price. then make a kick-back from the supplying company.
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Congrats guys!
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Uhh, this is exciting.
I can't wait to see how IH will evolve from here. 🏗️
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Congrats guys! Looking forward to seeing your plans for IH and the evolution.
I see the footer has changed to "IndieHackers by @csallen". I don't know why I checked that!
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Awesome! Looking forward to the podcast & seeing what comes next 👍
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Congrats! Long live Indie Hacker!
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Interesting turn of events :)
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wow 🔥
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Congrats Allen, let's get the entrepreneurship spirit going again. I'm now fully committed to writing and growing on platforms like IH and Hackernoon.
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I like this...
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Looking forward to seeing what you got in store.
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Wow, this is exciting! Enjoy the ride 🚀
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Crazy..
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That's awesome - congrats! Feels like you're moving in the direction of what feels more natural to who you are as an entrepreneur which is awesome,
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Echt spannende Nachrichte! Gratuliere!
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Great news! Will you start with ads or implement a subscription business model?
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Wow! Very exciting news, congrats!!!
Super excited to see what you guys are going to do.
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That's awesome - congrats! Feels like you're moving in the direction of what feels more natural to who you are as an entrepreneur which is awesome, even if it is the hard thing to do.
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Display ads, paywall for some content, newsletter sponsorship, promote content, verification etc
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Looking forward to see what's next, sorry don't have any ideas since I just started here but hope you guys can figure it out, saw many great stuffs in the comments.
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All the best to Courtland and Channing! I'm excited to see where new Indie Hackers goes.
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Exciting times! Well played by Stripe too. 👏 👏 👏
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That is fantastic news! 🎉
This happens way too seldom in the startup world.
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Can't wait to see how you'll leverage this new opportunity.
You clearly have gold in your mind with IH!
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Congrats! Looking forward to seeing what you focus on.
One not very well-thought-out idea. Product Hunt used to be more about sharing independent products. Now that it's gotten so big and people are so focused on being on the leaderboard for customer acquisition, I think it opens an opportunity for something that has more of the original chill atmosphere.
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Excellent idea. A leaderboard for start-up-specific goals and KPIs would be awesome: customer acquisition, reducing churn, etc. Then the top performers are given shout-outs, share tips, interviewed for the podcast etc.
This is a great idea. It serves as a call to action where indie hackers can demonstrate their values in an organized and async way.
Folks can share their analytics, get feedback from the community on things to check out, and share playbooks.
An easy way to gain revenue would be to create a "pro account" where more sophisticated analytics can be provided. It can compare an individual company, the "average" industry company, and the indie hacker company. If the Indie Hacker company exceeds the industry average for SAAS through community feedback, that would be immensely powerful.
Sponsorship-wise, it would make sense since you could ask Baremetrics, Fantom or ConvertKit for co-marketing sponsorships. It;s an easy way to gain a highly motivated set of folks to do product research or convert to paid.
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It makes perfect sense
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Congratulations and great to hear!
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Brilliant news! Well done to both of you.
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Congrats guys!
Revenue steam ideas:
- Coding courses! (Courtland teach us!!)
- Organized masterminds
- Community marketplace to help indies start and grow - think SkillShare meets Gumroad to let us sell digital products right from IH.
I've got some more ideas. Lmk if you wanna chat!
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Congrats on this new phase of the journey!
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That's awesome! Excited to see how you guys take it from here and grow your MRR. Would love to see you build in public.
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Congratulations
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May be get a percentage of shares for growth of any startup?
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all the best ! I am curious to know your plans for monetization. DM's are not supported on indiehackers and that leads to many of its users to either interact on twitter or slack or email. May be you can introduce this feature and make it paid only. Advantage is that it will not antagonize existing users as nothing is getting taken away from them and could add to another revenue stream.
One more feature that i would personally like to see is if read/unread threads can have different color as it is in hn.
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Congrats Courtland & Channing! Rooting for Indie Hackers always!
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Congratulations!
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This is huge; congrats! 🙌 Excited to follow along the monetisation journey :)
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Exciting! Indie will always be indie!
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Congratulations @channingallen and @csallen !!
🚀🚀🚀
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Congratulations guys !!
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This is exciting, can't wait to see the ideas for revenue models! Wish you all the best guys!
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Good luck guys.
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This is exciting news for the Indie Hackers community! Congratulations to @channingallen and the IH team on taking the leap to become independent again. It's inspiring to see a company start as a bootstrapped business, get acquired, and then successfully regain independence. As an entrepreneur, I can relate to the journey of starting from scratch and building a business from the ground up.
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Awesome!!
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Amazing! Looking forward to the future of Indie Hackers, excited about it's prospects.
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All the best! I am curious to see what will IH turn into.
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Welcome again! I hope you can share your ideas with indie hackers! Its time to start the 🔥 again!
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Amazing 👏 You got this! 📈
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Exciting times ahead!
Please don't monetize via a verified badge...
(IH could definitely use some bot removal but there's probably better ways to achieve that)
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haha your right!
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Let’s gooooooo!!! Excited for what’s coming.
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Nice! I've heard you saying a lot in the podcast that you want to build cool features and small products again with indiehackers. I belive that is a step into the right direction. I'm hyped to see what comes up!
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Awesome, congrats, and good luck on your journey!
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Super exciting, congrats to you too!
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bon voyage!
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unexpected but welcome move!
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Ah, amazing. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Congratz guys! Can't wait to follow along on the journey
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I am very happy to hear this news, Congratulations!
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Great news to hear!
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Awesome!!
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Congratulations Channing and Courtland!
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This is great news! You now have the freedom and flexibility to steer things in whatever you want. But also the responsibility of keeping it afloat and staying the awesome community for indie makers that it always been.
Interested to hear more about the details of this.
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Congrats on returning to your indie roots! Indiehackers played a significant role in inspiring me to start my own business. Please bring back the text interviews again :D I loved it and it was very inspiring.
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That's great to hear. Thanks for sharing.
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What interesting journey + twist of events. When do we hear the reasoning/rationale for this?
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I shared this post on Hacker News. Everyone go share it some love to get it on the front page!
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Indie Hackers is what led me down the road of building side projects. For me, it was inspiring interviews with people like Mike Carson, the founder of Park.io. How one person can build a business solo is amazing. I'm excited to see what the future holds and how this site can innovate to keep inspiring new IH's.
Five years into the future, I am now working to grow T.LY URL Shortener to be the best way to create and manage short links. I have a long way to go, but I have made a lot of progress in a "short" time.
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So you got bought and then they gave it back to you presumably for very little or nothing.
Very nice.
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Awesome! Wish you success @csallen, @channingallen!
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Where do we subcribe ? 💰
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Yaaaay, so excited to follow along 🔥 congratulations!!
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Get in there 💪
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YES! Congrats guys, I'm excited to follow your new adventure 🚀
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Wow awesome, can't wait to see what's in store!
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Lets go!
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Oh this is such fantastic news! Congrats chaps. Can't wait to see where you take IH from here🔥
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Awesome, good luck fellas 🫡
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Exciting!!
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Sounds awesome! Can’t wait to see what you guys will be building.
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Awesome, congrats!
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Cool! Congrats, Courtland and Channing!
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Congrats to you both! That's quite a journey, I'm excited to see what comes next!!
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Amazing. This is the reboot(strapping? 🤣) we all really wanted to see.
Good luck and this community is rooting for you and Channing!
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congrats! looking forward to version 2
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Congrats! One of the best online communities in the world! Endless possibilities!
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Congrats, Courtland! I can't wait to see what you guys will do with it.
Let us know how we can help 🏆
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Rooting for you! This is a special community, excited to see what you do with it again!
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Really excited about this one! Congrats!
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this is big!
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Welcome back :)
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good luck on your new adventure!
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please dont make it like Reddit
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