Today's Digest: Slack, Zoom, Notion, and other major tech platforms are having a global outage

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Slack, Zoom, Notion, and other major tech platforms are having a global outage

This morning I spent an hour struggling with connectivity issues in Notion. Then I opened Slack to vent to my team and saw that Slack was down too. Turns out we're in the midst of...

by channingallen 19 comments

Growth group

Acquisition Channel Opportunities: Wordpress, SEO, the Status Signaling Loop

Let's start 2021 off with a bang. Here are the latest acquisition channel opportunities you can use to get more paying users: - **Want to go viral?** How implementing "status signa...

by zerotousers 9 comments

Twitter and LinkedIn Paid Ads [24 /hr test Full Report]

Hi hackers, Jose from WebDab here. I'm sharing my experience using paid ads with both Twitter and LinkedIn. My goal was to get visitors to my first medium post here. Both results a...

by JoseMendez 9 comments

Tip: Get more customers to purchase annual plans by reframing how you offer the discount

Optimizing for annual plans can increase cash flow and decrease churn. To get more customers signing up for annual plans, ask them to choose which discount they want. With a minor...

by growthbites 2 comments

Can someone help me with market penetration? 🤔

Hey community, For the past few months, I have been working on building two of my products: 1. ruttl.com 2. brutask.com ## Background Running my own design agency has helped me bui...

by harshvijay 2 comments

Simple marketing hack to attribute newsletter sign-ups

If Google Analytics is too complicated or you don't want to go through the pain of setting it up, here's a simple marketing hack to attribute newsletter sign-ups: Like many of you,...

by lukecannon727 2 comments

How to grow users and audience for sharing platform?

I have been building a sharing platform that could only thrive if users start to post, share their work/project and engage with it. Is finding users & audience different for sharin...

by loakee 1 comments

Ideas and Validation group

Tomorrow's Election Isn't As Consequential As What We Decide to Build

For those here who may be following the election in Georgia tomorrow, this post might interest you. I've given up on politics, like a lot of people, but I'm excited about the short...

by kaxline 3 comments

Is there still room for another Feedback Vote Board?

Recently started researching and designing an MVP for a feedback vote board for SaaS companies. While most of the competitors cover the core idea, I'm un-sure if there's any more o...

by saidatta123 1 comments

Bitcoin is now > $30,000

And I built a live cryptocurrency pair price tracking android app that can show you live updates of your favourite crypto currency right in your notification tray Here’s a link to...

by codezed 1 comments

$0-$11.5K In Revenue With A Test - How You Can Do The Same

I haven't made a post in a while so I wanted to share how I went from having a simple idea for @cartfuel to making over 11.5k in revenue in a few months. In June I took a course on...

by jelanisince94 leave a comment

6 Questions I Use for Judging Ideas

When thinking about startup ideas, you’ll have a bunch of ideas. With my previous company, my partners and I used a simple set of questions to choose between ideas. Now on my new j...

by Indieyal leave a comment

Do you prefer: $24 / order OR $200 / month

As a CEO, you prefer to pay for a service at $24 / order (1 to 2 days delivery) or have a subscription at ~$200 / month (1 to 2 days delivery, unlimited order) VOTE HERE: https://t...

by Paul_G leave a comment

Landing Page Feedback group

This is the Best Landing Page I've ever made. What do you think?

I just finished the MVP for CrowdMagnet: A Newsletter Cross Promotion Marketplace so I redid the landing page to reflect the finished product. I've build a lot of landing pages and...

by adamlangsner 9 comments

Help regarding my website - people understand it as a blog

Hello, For the last half a year I have intensely been putting myself into the project which I am working on. Gaming discussion platform (yeah there are many of those but I do not c...

by Zanuffas 6 comments

Homepage search functionality

Hello indiehackers, I've just finished building the new hero section of my website. The most important element is the search functionality. The mockup on the right will be changed,...

by themesberg 5 comments

Which heading works better for our landing page?

by tutorpass 1 comments

Roast our new homepage!

Hey community! Just refreshed our homepage and features page at Amazeam - Good Sleep, Good Life.. Check out our website and please leave your comments. https://www.amazeam.com Than...

by amazeam 1 comments

Feedback on my landing page! Curativly

Hey there! I'm Daniel Travers, the Founder & Chairman at Curativly! Just refreshed our homepage at Curativly - Curated creatively, making home renovation fun!. Check out our websit...

by curativly 1 comments

Looking to Partner Up group

CTO to join team for 4 experts building a global fintech platform

I am looking for the right person to join my fintech as the lead developer. This person will have a major impact on driving forward the broader tech development strategy for the co...

by kpettersen1025 1 comments

Looking for insights on the topic of projects & ideas.

Hi all, If you are a: • Dev/Engineer • UX/Product Designer • UI/Visual Designer/Digital Do you have a few mins to answer some questions? I'm looking to learn more about your attitu...

by Smclare 1 comments

Noomi - Interest based social communities

Hi Guys, Posting about our project (me and a cofounder Rahul). We found that while the access to internet has grown manifold, it has become harder and harder to have great conversa...

by ankit219 leave a comment

📚 Have a book? - Connect & Promote Your Book For Free!

Hello writers, I am managing a community of readers who are willing to share their opinions on the books they read. If you are willing to promote your work and want to connect with...

by thatjsdev leave a comment

Looking for collaborators on a Saas startup idea!

Hi everyone! My name is Maryan, 24 years old from London and I am currently a Customer Success Manager at a tech company. I am looking to start something new and exciting this year...

by Maryand1 leave a comment

Looking for CTO

CERADIR it's a leading B2B industry platform of advanced ceramics which is opened for upstream and downstream factories, traders, service providers. CERRADIR is looking for CTOS fo...

by CERADIR leave a comment

Self Care group

What's your health stack?

!Brighton beach I'm just back from doing my 5k steps. 💪 With a new lockdown here in England and a personal focus of mine trying to not get too depressed about it all I'm doing my...

by rosiesherry 5 comments

I made some IH art, I thought it would resonate well here. I call it "Depressed Indie Hacker Wantanabe"

Hi everyone. I'm mostly a lurker here, so apologizes if sharing my drawing is way off topic for this community. Like many IH-ers, I'm discontent with my 9-5 gig. I want to get out...

by waltbosz 4 comments

The Most Important Skill In 2021 (Day 271)

## What's the most important skill in 2021? For the remote workforce, the most important but the least talked about skill is... 🥁drum roll🥁... *Communication skill*! It's not abo...

by titans leave a comment

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Growth Bite: Get more customers to purchase annual plans by reframing how you offer the discount

Monday, January 4, 2021

Optimizing for annual plans can increase cash flow and decrease churn. To get more customers signing up for annual plans, ask them to choose which discount they want. With a minor reframe of his

Today's Digest: He was in bankruptcy court with a newborn. Now his business does $88k MRR.

Sunday, January 3, 2021

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Top Milestones: $5000 MRR!

Sunday, January 3, 2021

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Today's Digest: Success stories with creating for github marketplace?

Saturday, January 2, 2021

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🗞 What's New: Newsletter products were 2020's biggest startup trend

Friday, January 1, 2021

Indie Hackers December 31, 2020 View in browser 2020 was packed with new startup trends: - [No-code made a name](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/no-code-founders-are-on-the-rise-are-they-making-money

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