Today's Digest: 5 non-obvious reasons every indie hacker needs to be good-enough at sales

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5 non-obvious reasons every indie hacker needs to be good-enough at sales

If there's one thing I've learned from growing our SaaS, SparkLoop, into a 6-figure business over the last 12 months, it's that being good at sales is like playing a video game wit...

by louisswiss 8 comments

An influencer w/ 2.6 million followers launched her fashion brand. She now says she failed to sell more than 36 units. (2019)

by ricardosawir 5 comments

The Secrets of Successful Creators (256 proven strategies)

This one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who makes things was a year in the making. The Secrets of Successful Creators is a free 137-page ebook with 256 proven strategies from the wo...

by joshspector 3 comments

Where to look for a Facebook Ads master?

Hi all, been running some Facebook ads myself and getting some okay results but looking for someone who’s awesome at it! Rather go down the freelance over agency route... where sho...

by max99 2 comments

Ideas and Validation group

Should I focus on mobile or web app ideas?

Curious what everyone's opinion on this question is. I know there will be a lot of "depends" answers here but I know mobile usage is very high for example but it takes 3x more effo...

by d3vild06 8 comments

Steal my idea?

Hey all. I launched a newsletter that gives away business ideas I’ve researched pretty thoroughly but don’t have time to execute. It’s all for fun in the hopes of improving my idea...

by AvonBarksdale 5 comments

Idea I have

It's an extension that allows you to use your voice on any website including when your blogging and on forums. Does this sound like a good idea and does it already exist? It allows...

by Trenton420 3 comments

Looking for users to validate my idea.

Hi Indiehackers, Hope everyone is doing good. I am working on a idea in reading space(rss/twittter/reddit/newsletters). I am very excited about it and I want to check with others b...

by newbee 2 comments

Social listening for project ideas

When I am looking for or validating a project idea, I often do my research on social media to see if people experience such a pain. What I realised is that people actually just dro...

by dcyr 2 comments

Website monitoring - quality helper?

1. Would you use simple website monitoring, where you provide URL + email and receive email notifications when your website is down, in order to know it before your customers do? 2...

by SMK 1 comments

Landing Page Feedback group

How's this landing page for my latest side-project?

by sunnyam leave a comment

Please Review my Landing Page 👋

Dear IndieHackers, Today I am sharing my LP for your review. I am rather new to web technologies and building websites, designing UIs and writing copies would be my worst skills pr...

by deepuj leave a comment

Looking to Partner Up group

Looking for a frontend dev

About me: early 30's software engineer for just over a decade, predominantly developing distributed systems, experience with linux, C, python, go, rust, docker, kubernetes, aws, gc...

by agvse0 2 comments

“Do schools kill creativity?” Link + comment below

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY If this video resonates with you please drop me a line. I’m working on a project that has many parallels but for the job market, not educa...

by jamesriiske 2 comments

Looking for developer, cannabis SaaS

Hi everyone, Our cannabis startup is looking for a full-stack developer to join our team. Feel free to check out our website here: https://www.joinhaze.com/ If you are interested,...

by willembutler leave a comment

Front-end developer looking for a tech co-founder

Hello, I want to build MVP for the startup quickly, but do not have that much time. Thus, I need a developer(co-founder) with knowledge of react.js and firebase to help me to do it...

by profitS11 leave a comment

Are you a JS developer? I have been looking for you!

I have been looking for you if you are: - at least moderately proficient in js - someone who can do both frontend and backend (basic), but good at at least one of them - someone wh...

by PirenneSalvor leave a comment

Developer looking for a partner as a marketing person

Hello, I'm Harith. I am a full stack developer with a skillset of React.js, React Native, Firebase, SQL & Node.js. Here is my portfolio https://harithzahid.com/ I'm working on two...

by harithzahid leave a comment

Self Care group

Don't take action in 2021...

...do it NOW. We are 5 days away from 2021. RIGHT NOW. Stop whatever you're doing and start taking action. Start the blog you've been meaning to do, start exercising or taking cold...

by Nikoisonfire leave a comment

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Top Milestones: $8000 MRR - Here are my top 3 lessons of the year

Sunday, December 27, 2020

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Today's Digest: What are your 2021 plans?

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Your Indie Hackers community digest for December 26th ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Today's Digest: 2021: The Year of Facebook Meme Marketing, Reddit Video, and Augmented Reality

Friday, December 25, 2020

Your Indie Hackers community digest for December 25th ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

🗞 What's New: 2021… The Year of Facebook Meme Marketing, Reddit Video, and Augmented Reality

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Indie Hackers December 24, 2020 View in browser As my holiday gift to you, feast your eyes on the light at the end of the tunnel: [![Progress Bar 2020: 2020 is 98% complete](https://i.ibb.co/L6jk1sg/

Growth Bite: Drive traffic to your site with branded GIFs

Thursday, December 24, 2020

You may never have heard of GEO, but it's SEO for GIFs and it's a thing. For a high-visibility, low-input channel, create branded GIFs and optimize your keywords for Giphy. It only took Jason

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