Today's Digest: Lessons for Bootstrappers From the DoorDash, Airbnb IPOs

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Lessons for Bootstrappers From the DoorDash, Airbnb IPOs

_(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)_ Channing here. Airbnb and DoorDash just went public, and two camps have formed in reaction: those who are feverishly inves...

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Weekly Check-In (Week 51 - All welcome!)

1. How did you fare last week? 2. What's on deck for this week? 3. What's your goal for the month? 4. [Optional] Still on target for end of year goal? 5. [Optional] Brief descripti...

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🎁Let me promote your product for Free (3rd edition)

Last time I asked for products to feature in the newsletter, I got 50+ products to feature in the Indie Letters newsletter. Collectively I got 100+ product submissions in last 2 ro...

by FalakDigital 16 comments

94% opens; 42% replies: How I used cold email to land 20+ B2B partnerships in 3 months (with my exact templates)

Hey Indiehackers, Cold email has been one of the most profitable marketing and sales channels for us since we launched, but generally, it gets a bad rap. I want to change that and...

by realfeal 15 comments

Growth Marketing Checklists (currently #2 on PH :)

Hey everyone 😊 I created Growth Marketing checklists to help founders, marketers & indie hackers with their marketing efforts. 👉 https://www.dansiepen.io/growth-marketing-checkli...

by dansiepen 6 comments

Is Google Down?

I can't access any Google services. Is it down for you too?

by nanowhiz 4 comments

Documenting my Product Hunt launch on launch day!

Hi everyone, We've just launched Growmysaas.co on Product Hunt and I'm keen to share our experience and learnings from this as we go along. I'll be sharing updates throughout the d...

by Jaisalr 2 comments

Grow With Habits Not Tactics

When indie hackers and startups talk about growth, they tend to talk about the tactics. Things like: ✅ Optimize for SEO ✅ Capture emails ✅ (Don't) use pop up email captures ✅ Creat...

by rosiesherry 2 comments

Ideas and Validation group

Hand-curated database of people's pain points and desires to find your next startup idea 💊

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APPLICATION PROCESS JOURNEY TO YCOMBINATOR

Hi everyone, I would like to share with you our experience in the YCombinator (YC) application process which took us up to the interview, but we couldn’t continue for acceptance. F...

by GoTomi 2 comments

How to get GPT 3 access?

It's been more than a week and I'm still waiting for any official communication from OpenAI on whether my application has been accepted or rejected. I have no idea at which stage m...

by PiyushDinde 2 comments

Live, virtual coworking tool to boost productivity

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To be free or not to be?

I'm currently working on a suite of developer tools based on zero-trust security and true end-to-end encryption. Just as low hanging fruit, one of the first things I'd like to offe...

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Anyone Building a House That They Would Like to Visit in VR Before It's Done?

A new business of mine is called Anywhere – it's a consulting service to get people touring their unbuilt homes or 3d designs in VR. https://anywherehomes.webflow.io (still under c...

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Landing Page Feedback group

Roast My Landing Page

I made the mistake with my side project, Perligo, to try to build it in technologies I wasn't totally familiar with. I quickly lost motivation. I'm now revisiting the project and r...

by polluterofminds 2 comments

Roast my landing page 😅

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Looking to Partner Up group

Advice for finding a cofounder?

I'm at a point where I think I'm ready to find a cofounder for my project, Learnify. How did you find your cofounder? What are some red flags to keep in mind? In your opinion, what...

by rmantao 2 comments

Anyone want to create?

I want to create. Create something that serves the soul. If you are a Coder, reach out. Lets paint the world.

by tombemogga7 1 comments

Need a Cofounder for an interactive dating app

Seeking a technical cofounder to serve as the lead mobile developer in prototyping an innovative and highly-interactive dating app. Time commitment is flexible. Looking for passion...

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Product Management

Looking to build products which impacts life, do let me know if you are looking someone like me

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🗞 What's New: DoorDash & Airbnb IPO: Here Are the Lessons for Bootstrappers

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Indie Hackers December 13, 2020 Channing here. Airbnb and DoorDash just went public, and two camps have formed in reaction: those who are [feverishly investing](https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/12/

Today's Digest: Best pricing strategy for SaaS?

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Your Indie Hackers community digest for December 13th ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Top Milestones: We made it to $8k MRR!

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Top milestones for the week from your fellow indie hackers. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Today's Digest: Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants

Saturday, December 12, 2020

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Today's Digest: Twitter Ads: The Next Big Thing? · Facebook in the Crosshairs

Friday, December 11, 2020

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