Top Milestones: Started Requiring Invite Codes

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Top Milestones for the Week

Check out the top accomplishments from other indie hackers.

Started Requiring Invite Codes

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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