Indie Hacker Collectives
Are there any groups of indie hackers that have come together to build individual companies under a holding company?
Anything like this...
5 indie hackers get together. Everyone invests $10000 in a holding company. All indie hackers are joint owners. Any revenue from their respective orgs goes into the company. Indie hackers all agree on a salary, say $2000/mo, so get 5 months runway at the outset.
This seems an interesting way of working...
- Indie hackers are accountable to each other
- Shared skills
- Shared resources
- Reduces risk of an single indie hacker not having anything after 5 months
Are these structures a thing for indie hackers? Anyone operating in one?
I am not sure about such a construction. I would feel equally bad about drawing a salary if my project is not generating any revenue as I would be seeing my hard earned money going to someone else who’s project isn’t generating revenue.
I think a structure as suggested would be a recipe for conflict and issues between the founders. Why not just carry the burden yourself and participate in a mastermind or other community activities to interact with peers.
Interesting view point. Masterminding and other community activities does help with the shared skills but not with the other areas mentioned.
As a designer/developer I've always appreciated marketing expertise but in my experience, most marketing advice is useless unless you have someone really close to the project.
If there was a marketing in the collective then a skills swap would work and we'd both be incentivised financially to do so.
Perhaps, one condition of the collective could be to work X amount of hours a month on the other businesses.
The obvious contention points could be discussed and agreed to as terms before a collective is formed. It's always good to get the psychological contract out of people's head when starting any joint projects.
In theory this sounds great...but here are a couple considerations on the flip side:
Do push back on this though if you do not agree. I operate from a "strong opinions, loosely held" mindset so this will help me refine my own ideas.
Cheers!
Jonathan