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Salesforce in talks to acquire Slack

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Stripe in talks to raise funding at valuation of at least $70 billion 👀

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How to Write Well: A Comprehensive Guide

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Silicon Valley Exodus: Why Tech CEOs are Leaving San Francisco

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What went wrong with my PH launch today🙂.

>I didn't have any high expectations on PH launch, honestly, but I could not find a spot in the trending section that did hurt me. Not even in the bottom three 🤪. ### I have share...

by Deepak09 • 1 comments

Prototyping is really my jam! Long devlog/standup

**"Send counter two hundred and ninety"** My desk is littered with a few different FireTV devices, USB hubs, chargers, adapters, audio splitters, USB micro cables, bluetooth speake...

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🎯 Live Tweeting : Simple Goals For Next 2 Days

I've just started building in public. I am super excited about sharing my journey. https://twitter.com/Api42_/status/1331935139123716100 Next 2 days goals 📝 Writing content for th...

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Ever try to find cheap stopovers? I built an app that does only that. Need Feedback from budget travellers

I've always wanted to have a cool stopover somewhere but couldn't figure out how to make it happen easily and cheaply. So I learned to code and built it. If you have 5 min, I have...

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How did you get your first 10 users?

I'm really interested in learning how people went about getting there first 10 users (I'm just about ready to launch Backtalk). This doesn't necessarily mean your first 10 *custome...

by clickpop • 40 comments

Acquisition Channel of the Week: SEO (with a twist)

I've analyzed all 490 Indie Hackers interviews and identified 34 acquisition channels that work consistently for founders (see Zero to Users for more details). As I read the interv...

by zerotousers • 21 comments

My most successful app

In October 2010 when the Android store was just a spring chicken, I built a minimal app that generates random hip hop beats. I had been getting into procedurally generated music an...

by chr15m • 10 comments

How to improve your retention rates by spotting bad-fit customers

Bad fit customers are customers that receive little to no value from your product. They can be a PITA for your SaaS business. They're basically the opposite of your ideal customers...

by nelsonkamga • 1 comments

Early Bird Cyber Monday deals for Indie Hackers🐓

Hey everyone, let's help each other out! I know there've been some Black Friday deals floating around here. But who's got something cooking for Cyber Monday? Whether it's your own...

by @LPompeu • 1 comments

Posting MMR numbers on Twitter is wild

I recently tweeted my second milestone ($200 MRR) on Twitter and the following happened: - 3.3k profile clicks!! - 279 likes - 60k impressions - 16 comments https://twitter.com/lin...

by tobiaslins • 1 comments

To emoji or, or not to emoji?

Hey indie hackers 👋 It wouldn't be a launch if I didn't start second guessing everything... I'm about to launch a line of hoodies to my ecomm store, Maker Threads, but had a last...

by LachlanKirkwood • 14 comments

If you develop a product that you also use yourself, how do you balance user feedback vs your own needs in the very early phase?

I'm developing a product for software maintenance, and as a next step I want to get it to a point where I can use it myself (dogfood it). How important is using your product yourse...

by lgrammel • 3 comments

A Literal Digital Garden

Hey my people, how's it going, hope everyone is having the best time of their life building and working on ideas they believe in. With that out of the way, I apologise for not post...

by skyfall007 • 3 comments

Feedback please! - Social productivity app

Hey everyone, I'm Calix! I've been working on Hours.zone and I'd love to get all of your feedback! I'm sure everyone can agree that working from home has been difficult and hasn't...

by calixo888 • 3 comments

Hey Indie Hackers, do you think there is a need for a platform to raise money from friends and family?

I'm thinking a social-media-wall style interface where the founders can post regular updates about their startup as well as their life.

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Finding Indie Partners just got easier

Hello IHers, I am beginning to create a new job board for indiehackers This platform will connect IHers who are already working on - and making good progress on - a project with th...

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My first pre-order design, how's my landing page?

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How to improve trust on landing page?

https://usebalto.com/ New project I've launched with a couple of paid customers and doing daily calls! Want to try and grow service (eventual goal is to build software to empower c...

by probe • 1 comments

Looking for a business development cofounder for Bitcoin startup

Looking for Business Development cofounder for Bitcoin startup Hello Everyone! I’ve founded my startup on my own as a single, technical founder. The company provides infrastructure...

by gkrizek • 1 comments

Unbundling LinkedIn, Vertical network for tech workers. Looking for Full stack dev that inclines towards FE using ReactTS

Hello IH, I'm Rong, Founder @ Showwcase where we're working on a vertical network built and optimised for tech workers. This is our effort of unbundling LinkedIn in a world where t...

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Looking for a Technical Co-Founder

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Need tech co-founder, preferably frontend, for a launched product

Hi, I'm building Recall, an Android app that is a file server on your phone, with web access. It can replace AirDroid to transfer files to your PC, ShareIt to send files to family...

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The Super Mario Effect (Day 233)

Video: The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn Really fun and insightful video shared by a fellow engineer friend. Watch it before y...

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What are you thankful for?

It's that time of year where many of us appreciating and showing gratitude in life. Even in this hard year, I hope we can find positives in the negatives. What are you thankful for...

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Happy Thanksgiving, 2020 (Day 232)

2020 is tough for all. The COVID has caused abrupt changes in everything. Some maybe an acceleration towards the inevitable. I am thankful that I'm still alive, healthy, and had th...

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