Today's Digest: Flowing to My Dream: Week 1 (5/4 to 5/8)

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Flowing to My Dream: Week 1 (5/4 to 5/8)

I live my life in 108 cycles. During the last cycle I dropped a project and shifted focus to a single one (Flow to Your Dream). I off the cuff started making posts here M-F. When t...

by CaseyAbbottPayne 1 comments

Being Agile

I'm using this post as a sort of train of thought… **Last week was a busy one.** We prepared and finally presented our practice pitch to FAU Tech Runway. Over the weekend we manage...

by meadowsm 1 comments

Stand-up #7 May 3, 2020

Hi, Project: https://meetfriends.app/ - an app to proactively keep in touch with everyone you care about. I did not do much for MeetFriends today. I had other work. I quickly check...

by kaioelfke leave a comment

Launching PH in 3 days!

I must launch this week. I've spent way too long on this thing. First commit was january 21. Writing about it here will keep me accountable. So what do I still have to do ## Landin...

by krister leave a comment

Stand-Up #86 - May 3rd, 2020

Stand-Up #86 - May 3rd, 2020 Installed and played around with JsonSchema npm package today. I'm going to need it for data validation since I switched to Postgres from MongoDB (whic...

by jrf leave a comment

Growth group

RECAP - Hacking Twitter - Let's follow each other. - USER LIST

Hey there fellow Indie Hackers! **LIST BELOW** I just wanted to drop a the content of the Hacking Twitter - Let's follow each other. post written by @manyTomas . I went ahead and g...

by theotherworkspace 21 comments

You have $2,000 and an idea. How do you use the money?

A big factor in your success is determined by where you allocate your resources. Being indie hackers means that most of the time those resources are very limited, so a smart approa...

by typologist 20 comments

What are the best book on SaaS metrics and growth?

Hey guys :) I'm looking to read some more books on SaaS/Growth and keen to hear what you people on IndieHackers have read :) Love to hear any recommendations you may have :) Cheers...

by dansiepen 5 comments

The competitive advantage of being "quirky"

I was reading Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, and one thing I really enjoyed was this quote by Derek Sivers: "When you make a business, you're making a little world where you contr...

by kaitocunningham 3 comments

$700+ in free ad credits - 6 ad platforms that offer coupons

If you wanted to give ads a shot but were afraid of losing money, you can use the coupons below and test them with basically 0 risk. Note: all offers apply only for newly created a...

by kacper 3 comments

What are your SaaS trial to paid numbers?

We’re planning on redoing our onboarding flow and to start measuring metrics we think are key indicators for conversion to paid. I’m wondering what your numbers are? How many peopl...

by YannickVeys 2 comments

Ideas and Validation group

Sometimes you regret that you built MVP first. 😑

I think the only time when you don't regret building MVP is when your project fails. Because I'm going through this feeling. I'm in process of rewriting our codebase, making it muc...

by usamakhalid 9 comments

How much would you pay to validate a business idea?

The general wisdom of product hacking says to generate an audience for a product with a landing page and email signup before actually building anything. This helps validate or inva...

by krgraver 6 comments

How to quickly validate business in local area?

I've spent about six months working on an app and on-demand self storage service for people to be able to store things they need but don't use that often (https://getstowed.com). I...

by xavierverhoeven 3 comments

Who loves meetings? Not me.

Yes, this is a market validation question! I am currently considering my next side-project. I have an itch to scratch and I'm wondering if anybody else suffers the same problem or...

by paul1664 3 comments

App for incident report

App where you can report any incident so basically take a photo or more and give small description and a hashtag and then post. Incident can be anything like something goes wrong i...

by webone 2 comments

My first SaaS billing video wearing IH shirt

Happy Monday IHs! I decided to start a video series aiming to educate SaaS founders with the basics of SaaS billing architecture. Today I’m releasing the first video of the SaaS Bi...

by darafsheh 1 comments

Landing Page Feedback group

Can you give SUPER-DUPER HONEST feedback on this HTML theme?

Hey guys! Wassup 😄! I am almost done with my first HTML theme for my product BuildFaster.io. Please give VERY HONEST feedback on this HTML theme. I want to know: 1. What you think...

by BraydenTW 11 comments

Roast my site!

Hey guys, Just pushed a new site. (Desktop only ATM) http://magicmorning.co/ 2 Questions: - Is it clear? - Do you want to try the product? Thanks!

by Magic 3 comments

Does this page explain how the app works?

I whipped up this app out of boredom and to try some new tech, and it turned out to look good enough to me, so I decided to just roll it out. Who knows, maybe it might attract some...

by hkanaktas 2 comments

Payments SaaS: Website feedback request

Hey guys, after getting some feedback from clients and friends we came to the realisation that our marketing site was just not explaining our product very well. So, we went ahead a...

by KareemC 1 comments

Would love to hear your feedback

Would love to get some criticism on our homepage and our MVP (a bit more than that to be frank). https://www.prodcamp.com

by anton_tony 1 comments

Digital Risk Protection

Hi all, it's really great to be here. it's wonderful to be a part of this great forum. I currently work in Cybersecurity. I'm working on Digital risk protection SaaS due to the ups...

by securemepro leave a comment

Looking to Partner Up group

Let's help each other on producthunt

Hey everyone! I recently started using producthunt. Let's connect on PH -- post your producthunt profile below and follow me https://www.producthunt.com/@edison19945362 and I will...

by hacker3544 8 comments

Looking for co-founders for cool helping app

Hi everybody, We are looking for 2 more co-founders on our team right now. Backend - PHP and mysql Designer - illustrations/graphics like buttons/icons We are building an app for p...

by SiljeStorgaard 2 comments

Building a business that everyone may have a need for

Hi there. I'm a seasoned web developer and looking for a partner to start a business based on this idea https://elitecompetitions.co.uk. You're more than welcomed to start a discus...

by ciorny leave a comment

Looking for an app developer!!

I plan to create an ethical platform (web and app-based) which allows the purchase and usage of tickets using a specific QR code of sorts. If you know large multi-national ticketin...

by tomtrow123 leave a comment

Who loves Twitter? looking for a project partner.

Hey all, Looking for a technical cofounder to join me building a new Twitter-related app called Tweetly. I can lead the business, design, marketing. I work from Europe (Switzerland...

by propy leave a comment

Meetups group

The 4th Solo founders meetup is tomorrow

Hello indie hackers, I have worked on two startups as a solo founder. I am currently working on the third. I enjoy working alone. But there are pitfalls and it can be hard without...

by clearfaun leave a comment

Self Care group

How to survive these "I'm giving up" moments? MY TIP!

Every founder has experienced that moment, building its product, when he felt like it doesn't make sense anymore. "It takes so much time and I'm not even sure if anyone will going...

by rafalswietek 9 comments

Being motivated by rage and fear

This is the first time I share this with anyone and I'm doing it publicly . I wanted to post this story here because I've been in a startup world for many years. The feeling I'm ab...

by dariot 1 comments

Mental health ADULT coloring book

Hi I figured this would be something appropriate for the Self-Care tag: I made a slightly awkward, mildly chaotic, and 100% sweet adult coloring and activity book (thegoodstartup.c...

by foreverhannahle leave a comment

Virtual Meets group

Let's hack The Next Web!

The Next Web is organizing an online event about branding and marketing in unprecedented times. If you refer three people you get a free ticket :) So let's share your referral link...

by MrAtiebatie 1 comments

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