Top Milestones: Started Requiring Invite Codes

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I just configured Indie Hackers to require an invite code for signup. My primary motivation is to fight spam. Hundreds of companies and individuals create dozens of accounts every...

by Courtland Allen, Founder of Indie Hackers • 176 upvotes • 95 comments

Hired our first full-time engineer!

Big day for Jon Buda, myself, and our Transistor journey: We've hired our first full-time engineer, Jason Pearl! 🎉 https://transistor.fm/jason/ This brings the Transistor team to...

by Justin Jackson, Co-founder of Transistor • 28 upvotes • 13 comments

Hit 40.000 Users!

PaperPanda is a Chrome extension that helps you download research papers. You’ve probably run into this problem – you want to read a paper, but it’s locked behind a paywall. Maybe...

by PaperPanda, Founder of PaperPanda • 12 upvotes • 4 comments

Live on ethereum mainnet

cryptobroadway.io, my first web3 application is live on Ethereum mainnet. Crypto Broadway is Gumroad but on Ethereum. Upload a file, get a link, share it and receive ETH. It took m...

by @tofu, Founder of Crypto Broadway • 10 upvotes • 13 comments

Got 💯 sales!

Around 9 months ago I started to sell a SaaS boilerplate on Gumroad and it's now been sold 105 times. Besides that, it has 15 sales on AppSumo and I recently launched a yearly subs...

by Jake Prins, Founder of Serverless SaaS • 9 upvotes • 8 comments

Got my first paying customer

We received a down payment from our first customer and that motivated me. After reaching out in a few communities, I noticed heavy pull from the market, and this pushed me to work...

by Aleksey Bykhun, Founder of Buildship • 8 upvotes • 2 comments

Really start investing in facebook ads 😎

After our first couple of weeks working together with mainly influencers we thought it was time to start investing in ads. We fooled around a little ourselves but quickly noted tha...

by Samuel Rieder, co-founder of Sticker Pet • 7 upvotes • 1 comments

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🗞 What's New: Short videos bring major growth

Saturday, August 7, 2021

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Growth Bite: Reference tweets in your blog posts to gain followers

Friday, August 6, 2021

Subscribers trump followers, but followers are still unquestionably important — and you can get them directly from your own blog posts. Grow your following by referencing your tweets in articles. [

Growth Bite: Increase sales by using the "rule of three" in your messaging

Thursday, August 5, 2021

If you inundate leads with reasons to choose your product, you might end up scaring them away. Show your value without making them skeptical by using three selling points in your messaging — no more,

🗞 What's New: Bubble's world of developers

Thursday, August 5, 2021

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🗞 What's New: Indie Hackers is now invite-only

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

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Where are these signups coming from?

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Howdy, Every day in Transistor's #marketing channel in Slack, we track our new trial signups: Like most SaaS companies, our growth relies on new people finding us every day. Whenever I see