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YC Build Sprint: Day #22 Update

Twenty-second day of the sprint (check out the previous update here)! Exciting day today! Closed beta for our team plans have been released just a few minutes ago and we already ha...

by tyherox • 2 comments

Stand-down #5: fell in love with the problem + forgot to validate = hard lessons to learn

Admitted to myself that Wordcloudy.com certainly wasn't the greatest product idea for the amount of time invested. What happened to me is I fell in love with the problem, literally...

by DmitryBorody • 1 comments

Tuesday Standup

What are your goals for September? What did you do yesterday to work toward your goal? What will you do today?

by rosiesherry • 1 comments

one hour saas update 6: now vs the future

by mubashariqbal • 1 comments

Tengable Daily Update: Downloads and Jitsi

by EricWooley • leave a comment

YC Build Sprint: Day #23 Update

Twenty-third day of the sprint (check out the previous update here)! The excitement continues! After sending out emails we were sending invites on our closed-beta team plans we got...

by tyherox • leave a comment

Web or App — which platform is better for MVP?

Indie Hackers, please share your thoughts and experience on which platform is better to start growing your SaaS: web or app? For example, I prefer building MVPs on the web even tho...

by giomanveli • 25 comments

The ugly side of slow growth

I've been doing the "things that don't scale" for over 4 weeks now. It's quite hard to get users, paying users are not even on the radar currently. People often sign-up and leave,...

by Tony • 17 comments

Did you sell an info product before building your SaaS?

There are a fair number of articles out there which suggest starting with an info product (ebook, course, whitepaper, etc.) before building a SaaS. A few examples: - https://stacki...

by momoko • 15 comments

Got my first paying customer for Sponsorgap

Super happy about my first paying customer for Sponsorgap before launching it officially. http://sponsorgap.com/ What marketing did I do so far? Actually not much but this helped s...

by toomaime • 12 comments

24-ish hours at The Hack Stack

On Saturday night (2 nights ago) I started working on a new project. It's place for indie makers to showcase new builds / projects. Yesterday (Sunday) I started to get some engagem...

by Primer • 11 comments

What would make you work with a growth strategy coach?

As an entrepreneur or startup founder, at what point would you consider working with a coach -- especially one focused on growth strategy? - What problems would you want their help...

by abetterjones • 9 comments

How do you find problems?

We've all heard it. We all know it even if we don't follow it. Start with problems rather than solutions. So...where do you find your problems? :)

by seattlehacker • 23 comments

Initial Product Marketing Guidance

Here at @TrussDesk we are having a bit of a debate and would like some outside opinions. FYI /Context: TrussDesk is a Helpdesk / Ticketing system. We are debating if we should rele...

by davidmclean • 7 comments

Do you learn from Twitter?

I don't know if this is just me, but lately, my primary source of finding great content is Twitter. It began when I started to bookmark Twitter threads and found myself going back...

by kushon • 3 comments

Rant: Better customer acquisition methods sans popups

Popups seem very irritating and intrusive, why do websites even put them up? To gather emails/build up their email list? what if I input a fake email? Do you dissuade me from doing...

by pystar • 2 comments

Looking For B2B Indie Hackers That Want To Get More Customers With Personalized Videos

Hey Indie Hackers! I'm looking for B2B marketers that can use my expertise with marketing automation and personalization at no cost (with some limits :-p). As you probably read a f...

by jdles • 2 comments

#001 - The One Question that Made My First Customer Interview Click

My first outreach was to my fiancé's cousin's wife two weeks ago. She's an engineering recruiter. Here's what I said: !#001 - Text 1 She seemed stoked! And we scheduled for Monday....

by rylandking • 2 comments

Launching this week, anyone for landing page feedback?

by viadog • 4 comments

Web stories as landing pages for products ads/ What do you think?

by alex_brik • 4 comments

What do you do when you have no testimonials - yet

What do you do when you have no testimonials to add to your landing page? Fake it or entirely leave it out till you get genuine reviews?

by pystar • 3 comments

Finally, got around to making a personal website - thoughts?

by TheWonderingZall • 2 comments

Launching MVP next month - Looking for feed back

Hi fellow hackers! I'm currently putting together an MVP for an idea i have been kicking around and looking for some honest feedback. http://www.quickflip.com.au/ Any suggestions o...

by quickflip • 2 comments

Fellow Indie Bloggers, what do you think of my automatic image generator?

by joemasilotti • 1 comments

CTO for Esports Event Sponsorship Platform

Hi All, Victor's Gold is looking for a CTO/Tech Lead to fuel the development of our esports tournament platform and game modes. Business Description Victor's Gold develops platform...

by ChauncyG • 1 comments

Developer and business specialist, looking for interesting projects/partnerships

Hi Hackers, I've been a developer for over 20+ years, mentored startups, run businesses and just love the buzz of a new product. Where I excel in business and development, I lack i...

by Weblancer • 1 comments

Is anyone interested in exploring idea about open incubator or similar?

The idea is to build an open collaborative platform that allows bootstrapped founders and skilled individuals to collaborate, exchange resources / crowdsource for idea developments...

by ChiaBoon • leave a comment

PodRoom ;Looking for someone who can open doors.

PodRoom launched 12 days ago and we have acquired 1300 active users for to our podcast chatroom platform. I am looking for someone in the social media/ Podcast radio space, someone...

by Tolu • leave a comment

Looking for a partner/co-founder who is in Group chat.

I am looking for a iOS app developer to build a group video chat with a twist. Heads up myself and one other are very good friends who is a web developer so he’ll help with the sit...

by riceroffee • leave a comment

Looking for Collaboration

Good morning community. I'm a marketer looking for a change. For almost a decade, I have been helping clients with their marketing needs but I hardly chose the nature of these proj...

by Migueealejandro • leave a comment

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