Today's Digest: Is Social Media Going Indie? · Apple's $Gift to Devs · 1,000 Paid Users

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Is Social Media Going Indie? · Apple's $Gift to Devs · 1,000 Paid Users

_(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)_ Channing here. Let's talk about the biggest story of the day. No, not Trump and the US election. And no, not the rap battl...

by channingallen 6 comments

Daily Stand-up group

Thursday Standup

Good day everyone! A bit late since I just finished all academic requirements, but let's go... So yesterday, I just finished the last fix for my personal project and the site live!...

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Growth group

Why I Quit and Why You Should Quit Too

I made a big mistake. It was at the end of December of 2019 and I started working right away on my idea. Nomadmail. A platform to send newsletters. I spent six months working on it...

by jrleonr 24 comments

Acquisition Channel of the Week: Freelancing Marketplaces

I've analyzed all 489 Indie Hackers interviews and identified 34 acquisition channels that work consistently for founders (see Zero to Users for more details). Today, I'll be revie...

by zerotousers 11 comments

Why No One Reads What You Write: Dissecting Dave Gerhardt's Copywriting

Hi IHers, I was struggling with low engagement metrics earlier this year, and decided to break down how the grandmaster, Dave Gerhardt, writes. This helped me achieve 5-10x growth...

by kevon 4 comments

Do you have a Black Friday deal for your SaaS? We'll promote it!

Hey Hackers! We are building a list for the best Black Friday deals of SaaS companies out there. Currently there are 120 companies joined the list and 73 of them are online here: h...

by Dozey 3 comments

Will your audience make your product a success? A case study

by mxmzb 1 comments

What are you guys doing in your SaaS for Black Friday?

Hey guys! !image Black Friday is just around the corner and I'd love to know if you usually plan something out to **give your products / SaaS a little boost**. How do you handle it...

by borjaprieto 1 comments

Ideas and Validation group

Would you pay for this?

Hi, short and sweet: A custom keyboard for your phone, that acts like a bookmark manager. You can use the keyboard on any chat, email or sms app. Ex: - a list of FAQ for your custo...

by lambda 11 comments

Does this exist?

Hey IH, I was wondering if there exists an app or a newsletter, where you get sent snippets of a book? The reason I ask is due to a problem I encounter, with wanting to read a book...

by YuriGuernsey 2 comments

Is this idea worth your time?

Hi Indie Hackers! I've been working and researching on a start-up idea/product and would appreciate your feedback and advice. So the idea is to provide alternative ways to donate a...

by sibu 2 comments

Would you share your ideas and failed projects?

The problem: You have a number of failed projects (and so do I). Better once alive, than left on your hard drive. Would you share it with others and give it another try? My solutio...

by klosarman 2 comments

My next project is taking shape (quicktalks)

A few weeks ago I decided to start yet another project 😅 As opposed to my other projects, I wanted to build and ship something fast and I had a nice idea for it. I really enjoy wa...

by Antonio 1 comments

How much would you pay for this?

A CI/CD analytics platform detecting your flaky commits in all your CI platforms. Read more on why inconsistent builds are trouble.. While continuously integrating and deploying on...

by Ranjan2 leave a comment

Landing Page Feedback group

Advance Music Library - Rare Instruments and Cinematic Scores

Hello all! We just released Advanced Music Library - a new subscription based music library focusing on rare instruments. Link: https://advancemusiclibrary.com/ We would love to ge...

by Yanniskir 6 comments

Online Survey, issue Track, Analysis MVP

Hello, So we have our MVP and are adding new features every day, and would love constructive feedback (to create the product as something people want and not what we think we shoul...

by radegusic 2 comments

Help me with your feedback on this landing page please

Hello everyone, Do you think this page clearly conveys what it delivers, to whom & how? I request if you could take a look and help me with your feedback and suggestions. This is t...

by ranvijay 2 comments

Would love some feedback on my email newsletter landing page

Hey everyone! 👋 I recently launched a new email newsletter ARK Watcher (https://join.arkwatcher.com) that tracks ARK Invest's holdings and emails a list of stocks they buy and sel...

by shchoi22 2 comments

What do you think of our landing page/s?

Hey there! I'm Anton Poltiev, the Tech co-founder! We've just launched Aneles - We create the image of your company, and I would love to get some web design feedback http://aneles....

by aneles 1 comments

Trading feedback on landing pages - give tips and I'll gladly return the favor!

Created a landing page for a new product idea that I called Startblock. Looking for feedback on the clarity of the copy and/or the design. Any honest feedback is greatly appreciate...

by Sprouter 1 comments

Looking to Partner Up group

Partnership / collaboration on S/W product

Hi, I have build an web based ERP solution. And have closed deals with 2 clients. The core covers all aspect of the ERP. As an next step . I would like to collaborate with the peop...

by Azr 3 comments

Tech Cofounder for a NLP based Productivity startup

Hi, I am building a NLP Productivity startup with a vision to disrupt communication in Enterprise and Consumer space. Looking for a techie to join me on the journey

by ishanroy 1 comments

Need a technical co-founder

Hello ! I need a technical co-founder my global project. Brief information! 1. Plan to release MVP Jan 2021 2. Digital Transformation Project 3.B2C 4. MVP is a web project, Alpha i...

by extrapreneur leave a comment

Looking for iOS dev for messaging app where communication happens only via push notifications

Hi I’m backend developer. I came up with idea to build messaging app that would only use push notifications to message each other. I can’t post pictures here, but you know that you...

by dariot leave a comment

Self Care group

Paul Jarvis finds his "enough"

@pjrvs of Fathom Analytics tells us a story about going from panic attacks to liberation, cities to the woods, and 'business as usual' to a business of one. >"At first, I thought I...

by teela_na leave a comment

How social networks can cause your product quality to go down

## Knowing who is in control There are too many writers that want to please their audience too much. They try to come up with the topics that the reader would click on in the newsl...

by KlimYadrintsev leave a comment

Why did I get rejected...

I, like of 1000's of entrepreneurs like me, applied to YC earlier this year. And like 1000's of others, got the unfortunate message, that I was not accepted into the program. And l...

by MKBSP leave a comment

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🗞 What's New: Is Social Media Going Indie? · Apple's $Gift to Devs · 1,000 Paid Users

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Indie Hackers November 18, 2020 Channing here. Let's talk about the biggest story of the day. No, not Trump and the [US election](https://apnews.com/hub/election-2020). And no, not the rap battle

Today's Digest: Apple gives ground, halving App Store fees to 15% for devs making less than $1 million

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Your Indie Hackers community digest for November 18th ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Growth Bite: Leverage open data APIs to get traffic to your product

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

You can't replace good, old-fashioned blog posts. But if you need to get traffic to your product in a hurry, consider using an open data API to automatically generate information that is meaningful

Today's Digest: Tuesday Standup

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

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Growth Bite: Get more shares by adding click-to-tweet buttons

Monday, November 16, 2020

If you want people to share, you've got to serve it up to them on a platter. Skyrocket your shares by adding click-to-tweet buttons for the best tidbits in each article. Brian Dean gets tons of

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