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Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives

by wuliwong on 11/4/24, 5:20 PM with 10 comments

I loved Indie Hackers when it first came out. I'm someone that is always building a side project with hopes of it becoming a legit business. There was a previous website that was really new and had a fun community, I can't remember the name now but I met someone on their and we built a site together and still are in touch to this day. I'm in the US and he is in Latvia. My experience with IH over the last couple years has been poor. Posts get no interaction and the it feels like the focus has moved away from actual indiehackers generating the content through their work and questions. I get that this site has to generate revenue to survive, hopefully they figure it out. Just wondering if anyone else knows of communities for fellow "startup hackers."

Maybe the lesson for me is that i just want something like a sub reddit and that's probably where I should look. The idea in general is possibly too narrow to actually support a profitable business, long term.

  • by juanse on 11/4/24, 8:23 PM

    First couple of hears of IH it was fire. I understand that dynamics change and once you become a marketing channel you are on a different phase. But I wish we could get back there.

  • by serjester on 11/4/24, 9:12 PM

    What happened to their podcast anyways? Channing bought IndieHackers back from stripe and then seems like abandoned it?

  • by informal007 on 11/5/24, 2:01 AM

    As IndieHackers continue to grow, an increasing number of skilled marketers will join the platform. Maintaining the original quality will become challenging, and I often feel that it's unavoidable for IndieHackers to evolve into something different.

  • by hall0ween on 11/5/24, 1:02 AM

    I don’t know about indiehackers, but there was hackaday.com as a hacking forum.

  • by HAL9OOO on 11/13/24, 7:03 AM

    There is this community, not sure if it's still active, if you join let me know!

    https://wip.co/

  • by tdeck on 11/11/24, 6:10 AM

    Microconf maybe? I always knew them for the talk recordings but there appears to be an online community as well.

  • by authorfly on 11/5/24, 9:05 AM

    pioneer.app in their group-weekly update mode was the closest thing to early indie hackers. Sadly they shut down that mechanism, I don't know why.

    It was great for weekly reality checks but also UI and headline help.

    That said, I had a FOMO of the "YC-access" and so I chose to spend B2B money with other companies at the startup stage (I know, foolish move). I spent a lot of money on Banana.dev, and helped their cofounders with feedback around concurrency/load for the API. Right as we gained some traction, they doubled prices, then changed the pricing model to make it unaffordable for us to run on their services. Felt a little nasty. And recently their pricing hit "you can only afford this if you already have VC level money"(probably to thin customers to a profitable subset).