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.
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.
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).
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.
What happened to their podcast anyways? Channing bought IndieHackers back from stripe and then seems like abandoned it?
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.
I like this private community: https://megamaker.co/
It is has a one-time fee as gate. Good discussion in there. Small on purpose
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).
I don’t know about indiehackers, but there was hackaday.com as a hacking forum.