🗞 What's New: Marc Lou issues an apology for ShipFast bugs

Here's what you'll find in this issue:

• After a public battle over bugs, Marc Lou is back with an apology.
• Notion Mail is officially set to launch early next year. Here's what it will do.
• $10K MRR with a freemium newsletter. Stephen Walker hit 75K subscribers.

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Two days after dealing with some of the most brutal drama to ever hit him on the X timeline, Marc Lou is back with an apology.

For those just catching up, Marc Lou is an indie hacker who created the wildly popular boilerplate, ShipFast. Earlier this week, ShipFast bugs, back-and-forth tweets, and a public spat sent the indie hacking community on X reeling.

Here's the latest chapter in this saga.

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Notion is gearing up to release an email service to "smooth away all the little annoyances" of online workspaces.

The company's Mail app should launch early next year, with Android and iOS apps to follow.

Here's what Notion Mail will do.

Here are the top products that launched on Indie Hackers yesterday:

1. 🥇 Upvote.Club: Bot-free P2P community.

2. 🥈 Crop Image: Free online image cropper.

3. 🥉 Wukong VS: Play classic web games online for free.

Stephen Walker built his freemium newsletter, Product Strategy, to 75K subscribers in four years, and he still had time to build Klu.ai on the side.

His advice? If you’re working for a company, one of the smartest things you can do is write for yourself.

Documentation laid the foundation for his business growth and success.

On average, I suspect most indie hackers make less money than they would working 9-to-5 jobs.

What makes the tradeoff worthwhile is that they're getting paid to play. —@channingallen

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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Stephen Flanders, Katie Hignett, and James Fleischmann for contributing posts. —Channing