Today's Digest: Would you ever raise money for your indie startup? 📊

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Would you ever raise money for your indie startup? 📊

I'm curious how you all feel about fundraising nowadays. Raising money has always been a charged topic among bootstrappers, but I suspect it's becoming less so as more indie-friend...

by csallen 15 comments

Daily Stand-up group

Thursday Standup

What will you accomplish by end of July? What did you do yesterday to work toward your goal? What will you do today?

by rosiesherry leave a comment

Thursday!

I made a simple design for the first page. It is really hard to think of UI that is not overused and intuitive at the same time. Big respect for UI/UX devs out there! So goal for t...

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Yesterday's Blues

OK, yesterday wasn't a COMPLETE wash, but I got sidetracked doing some home improvements and swimming. I still got in a lot of work, but creating the math questions is a little mor...

by Davey leave a comment

Growth group

30 Day Challenge - zero to $ - seeking 5 brave souls to join me!

I'm going to do a 30 day test for a new product idea. Wondering if anyone wants to join me and form a little cohort. When: - looking to start this weekend (July 26th) Why: - Accoun...

by wrannaman 6 comments

How do you deal with tire kickers?

I generally launch developer tools and products. Developers always want to just try it out and see if it provides immediate value. I do this too :) How do you guys deal with tire k...

by wrannaman 5 comments

Tip: Gain a loyal following by sharing your company's numbers

With open startups growing in popularity, sharing your numbers is a great way to gain exposure and increase trust — especially early on. Join the movement to gain loyal customers....

by growthbites 2 comments

We have hit £5k MRR 🐣🎉

It’s been a crazy four weeks since starting up Hatchly. We never thought we would have been able to say that we have exceeded our first-month client intake target by just under 300...

by Hatchly 1 comments

Newsletter Distribution + Sponsorship

Hello IHers! I had 2 questions for those of you working on newsletters: 1. Do you prefer to use Substack or an E-mail service provider? 2. How do you scout sponsors for your newsle...

by prakriti108 leave a comment

Bought dried sausage. About a third smaller than they used to be... for the same price!

My wife bought dried sausage and I noticed that it had shrunk by about a third! You know what hadn’t shrunk… the price. I’ve written an entire essay about how to make things cheape...

by RjYoungling leave a comment

Ideas and Validation group

7 Newsletter Product Ideas for IndieHackers

I've run a weekly newsletter for 2.5 years. I've run a daily newsletter for 4 months. I've monetized newsletters in many ways. I've talked to over 100 other newsletter writers, cre...

by AndrewKamphey 10 comments

"But I don't have any original ideas."

Right. Neither do I. Neither does anyone. The idea doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to us. Steven Pressfield pointed out that resistance is what gets us stuck. But resistance wasn...

by PaulLeCrone 4 comments

A Saas for seniors to preserve their legacy for future generations.

After realizing that I know next to nothing about my grandparents I thought of creating a website where people can preserve their legacy for future generations. The basic product i...

by ybeckerman 3 comments

The global wishlist

Hey everyone. Before COVID-19, the trend of ecommerce and online retail shopping has always been on the upward trend. Because of our unfortunate times, this trend has only accelera...

by sosa067 3 comments

How I've streamlined and "automated" giving one free mentoring session a day.

**TL;DR** I get lots of enquiries. I have a form on my site to filter them, then send a link to book into my calendar. I use Calendly for this, which limits the time and amount of...

by NeilC 2 comments

New Website: Fully Dark Mode?

I'm building out a new site on Ghost, and considering my first fully dark-mode site.

by simonblogs 2 comments

Landing Page Feedback group

🚀 A simple landing page - need your feedback

Just launched a very basic landing page here 👉 tinydojo.com Idea is to accepting users' request to join the private beta. Please let me know your feedback and suggestions!

by souravray 6 comments

Prelaunch landing page to collect signups

I'm in the prelaunch phase of my first real SaaS product. The plan is to launch our beta program within the next month. I have ads ready to roll and want this to be a simple & easy...

by tracycodes 3 comments

Based on previous valuable feedback, I made changes to my Landing Page. Here it is.

Hey Indie Hackers, First of all, thanks to all of you for taking your valuable time & helping me build my landing page of GetRightFeature. I am completely new to this "landing page...

by nitin_k 3 comments

Reworked my landing page for QueryBoost. Would love some feedback.

by dteg 2 comments

Is this landing page confusing?

Hey there, here is the landing page for the saas product im building. I'm targeting small digital agencies and freelancers. http://scopeconcierge.com/ Things to know if you're not...

by shane_098 2 comments

What do you think the product is about after seeing the landing page?

by prsahu 1 comments

Looking to Partner Up group

Looking for someone who I can shoot the shit with

Hi! Looking for someone who I can shoot the shit with and perhaps build tiny side projects. I'm aware I can post on the dedicated IH groups, but I don't want to always publicly sha...

by ChrisSchwartze 5 comments

Looking for a SaaS Technical Co-Founder

Howdy, I’m looking for a technical co-founder for a SaaS tool in the fiction writing niche. I have a strong ui/ux and writing background (10 years). And I have launched three succe...

by jterrell 1 comments

Let me help build your social accounts

I currently own a network of 4M followers across social media and have 9 years of experience in growing social presence for brands. The majority of the time it's from scratch. Some...

by zachwilliamson 1 comments

Looking for full stack technical cofounder for disruptive and centralised platform for newsletters. MVP

Hi there, I'm excited to share with you a project I have been working on that I call Letterbox. It’s unclear to me whether anyone on here use their email as their main source of ne...

by nilswickmna leave a comment

Looking for a Full Stack CTO for Listnr, willing to join ASAP.

Hello, Listnr (https://www.listnr.tech/) is looking for a Full Stack CTO (remote) to join in on an urgent basis. Our app is *almost* done, we're having some very annoying CORS, Bac...

by bat_man leave a comment

Looking for a salesperson to join our design agency team

Hey, We recently started a design agency and looking for a salesperson to help attain more clients. We have 3 developers and 1 hardcore designer with lots of experience under our b...

by docoleman leave a comment

Self Care group

A reminder to have a break...

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