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Your New Brainstorming Buddy 🧠💡

9 months ago

from Build In Public Newsletter in indiehacker

Meet Scrintal, a new canvas that's like a playground for your mind.

Paternity Leave: Month 2

9 months ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I used Nix to create a slick and reusable fuzz testing...

What if you could edit like Spielberg? 🎥

10 months ago

from Build In Public Newsletter in indiehacker

Meet Eddie AI—your new editing partner ready to bring cinematic flair to every cut!

Making over $10k a month from a timer app

10 months ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are no investors.

Paternity Leave: Month 1

11 months ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I expected. I’m unsure what to do with my...

Growing a 4 day week job board to 200k monthly visitors

11 months ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

I had a chat with Phil who had made a job board just for 4dayweek jobs! He's grown it with SEO and now gets 200,000 monthly visitors to his website. I...

OnlineOrNot Diaries 21

11 months ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

I was young, and needed to ship...

Michael's app makes your phone dumb

11 months ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

Michael Tigas is the founder of Dumb Phone, an app that makes your smart phone into a minimal device!

Educational Products: Month 2

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course. I’ve decided I don’t need to use a Merchant of Record...

The best SaaS boilerplates for founders

a year ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

If you want to find the best SaaS boilerplates, I've made a list of the 10 most popular ones. SaaS boilerplates have exploded in popularity in the...

Get SOC 2 certified as an indie hacker

a year ago

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter in indiehacker

All the details about the process and the cost of getting SOC 2

A Successful Product Hunt Launch

a year ago

from Val Sopi in indiehacker

blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic" target="_blank">first PH launch</a> (documented <a...

GUIs are Antisocial

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Last week, I was listening to the CoRecursive podcast interview with PowerShell’s lead architect, Jeffrey Snover. One moment in that interview has...

Meet Turf

a year ago

from Build In Public Newsletter in indiehacker

Imagine having a Swiss Army Knife for your community use cases

Configure a Git Shell Prompt Under Nix

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your terminal shell prompt to show the git status. Julia’s...

The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof

a year ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced by what others do, especially people we admire. If...

Reset Month

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next...

$30k a month from a bootstrapped B2C company

a year ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing $30-35k a month.

I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began...

April 2024 updates, new product!

a year ago

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter in indiehacker

Traveled to Bali and Sydney, some updates on Typing Mind, and a new product.

The Waiting Room

a year ago

from Val Sopi in indiehacker

Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will happen.However, I've been the most successful when I didn't...

Hiring: Freelance Blog Illustrator

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An example of an illustration I commissioned for the blog,...

OnlineOrNot Diaries 20

a year ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

Dipping my toe in enterprise sales

TinyPilot: Month 45

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in...

I just announced an AI accelerator program

a year ago

from Build In Public Newsletter in indiehacker

Full story on my latest role at Paddle, the new AI program, and what it means for you

Building My First Homelab Server Rack

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home...

The incredible March 2024

a year ago

from Val Sopi in indiehacker

March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The majority of this spike I can attribute to the <a...

Another 6-figure exit, and the future

a year ago

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter in indiehacker

I sold Xnapper, here is a quick update about the acquisition details

Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both,...

OnlineOrNot Diaries 19

a year ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

Refactoring the business entity, thoughts on marketing and building

How we're using email on a custom domain for $0/mo

a year ago

from Max Prilutskiy in indiehacker

Google has announced yet another price increase for Google Workspace. Here's what we've done to avoid paying anything at all.

$500K milestone – my reflections after 1 year of building Typing Mind

a year ago

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter in indiehacker

Also in this issue: one-off purchase vs. subscription, selling Xnapper, and other updates from me in Feb 2024

Lessons from my third year running a SaaS

a year ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

I've run this business for three years now, and I'm only just now starting to *get it*.

Sailing the world while building startups

a year ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

James and his partner Danielle have an enviable working set-up - they live and work on a sailing boat!

TinyPilot: Month 43

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in...

Is Ruby on Rails dead in 2024? No!

a year ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

Ruby on Rails, or 'Rails' for short, is a framework for making websites with the programming language Ruby. The idea behind it is to simplify how...

Test

a year ago

from Val Sopi in indiehacker

Some super <a href="#top">🔝</a>

Strong Towns

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community...

Joining a startup as a co-founder

a year ago

from High Signal in indiehacker

Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy analytics startups as a co-founder after it had...

OnlineOrNot Diaries 18

a year ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

Starting the year by cleaning up even more

ArchiveBox is Super Cool

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving the web since 1996. So, if you want to see what...

How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024

a year ago

from Scott DeLong in indiehacker

Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters, you can do it too. The post How To Build A...

How to Republish or Adapt this Content

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

All original writing and images on this blog are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. That means you can...

You want everything at once – me too

a year ago

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ in indiehacker

Use a Nix Flake without Adding it to Git

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

When I work in my own repositories these days, I always add a Nix flake to the repo so that I can spin up a working development environment on any...

2023 Recap

a year ago

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter in indiehacker

I turn 30, built a new app, and other updates in December 2023

2023: Focusing on a single product pays off

a year ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.

Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain C’s performance while...

OnlineOrNot Diaries 17

a year ago

from Max Rozen in indiehacker

On learning screencasting, cleaning up tech debt, and focus

Using Zig to Call C Code: Strings

a year ago

from mtlynch.io in indiehacker

Zig is a new, open-source programming language designed to replace C. I’m still a Zig beginner, so I’m trying to learn the language by using Zig to...