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I shipped 3 features this weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

batmanxx20

19 upvotes 23 comments

I've been reading 50 indie builder posts a day for the past month. Here's the pattern nobody talks about.

IndieAIs

34 upvotes 104 comments

How do you combine sign up and payment in one checkout flow?

GeefDev

6 upvotes 23 comments

Early-stage founders — what’s been harder so far: building or getting users?

EholicGrowth

23 upvotes 166 comments

IbexAI: Want to 5x your reply rate on cold outreach?

Hotzenplotz

16 upvotes 5 comments

Featured

Competing on price to carve out an $18k MRR foothold

When Abhishek Chakravarty saw demand for another product, he sold his side project, and built it. Now, Youform is making $18k MRR. Here's how.

IndieJames

29 upvotes 25 comments

Featured

Building a $15k+ MRR services company to fund SaaS development

Günter Richter quit his job at 50 and built a consultancy to $15k+/mo in a matter of months. Now, he's using it to fund his first SaaS. Here's how.

IndieJames

47 upvotes 67 comments

Featured

Pivoting to reach a wider audience and hitting a 5-figure MRR

Harry Brodsky and Khanan Grauer built a tool that had some success in one niche, then pivoted. Now, it's bringing in $500k ARR. Here's how.

IndieJames

74 upvotes 91 comments

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Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR

Arjun Jain built a tool for his dev agency, then rolled it out as a standalone product. Now, it's bringing in $500k ARR. Here's how.

IndieJames

98 upvotes 97 comments

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From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company

Isaac Saul built the independent, nonpartisan political media company that he wanted to read. Now, it's bringing in $4.5M/yr. Here's how.

IndieJames

111 upvotes 76 comments

Featured

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR

Pascal Levy-Garboua is acquired six micro-SaaS companies, shut one down, sold two, and the remaining three are bringing in $120k/mo. Here's how.

IndieJames

115 upvotes 133 comments

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Shipped 3 new features on IndieDeck last weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

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9. Moving too quickly, like many failed startups

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50 questions to ask before you buy a business

ArianAdeli

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Built 3 Excel templates for SaaS founders and put them on Gumroad — here's what I learned about the digital product market

SaaSStarterToolkit

1 upvote 3 comments

Domanage: I was too scared to post my app in Facebook groups. It got me 12 signups in 24 hours!

faleksicdev

3 upvotes 2 comments

AI Trust Identity: Stopping the Experimental Label: Why Identity is the First Pillar of AI Trust.

IbrahimHossain_

4 upvotes 0 comments

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Celevo: Planned my 40th birthday and my wedding with six different tools. It was chaos. Nothing good existed for the German market. So I built the t

vvarwg

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First week on Indie Hackers – 6 waitlist signups and a question

Olin_J

1 upvote 3 comments

14h

From 0 to $80 in 9 Days: What I Learned Building Korean Data APIs on Apify

sessionzero

1 upvote 6 comments

17h

I built 9 free AI tools in one day using Lovable — here's what I learned

notronhq

2 upvotes 6 comments

18h

AllInOneTools: I analyzed my own website meta tags… here’s what I learned (and what most people miss)

bhavin_allinonetools

6 upvotes 2 comments

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In less than 1 month, ChatGPT has started suggesting Convertino to users!

ablamohamedamine

6 upvotes 0 comments

Remote Jobs

Jobs for industrious indie hackers.

Marketing/Sales Cofounder

TwoTail AI • $0/hour • Part Time

Growth Marketing Partner

Bookscope • $0/month • Part Time

Video Creator & Editor for AI Product Content

MorphMind • $25 - $50/hour • Part Time

SaaS Operator / Builder (Equity + Rev Share)

BADCAFE • Up to $20/hour • Part Time

Founding Full Stack Engineer (Equity)

Tvrtle • $0/year • Flexible Hours

Remote AI Trainer

aitrainer.work • $20 - $200/hour • Part Time

Product Engineer

Featurebase • $40k - $100k/year • Full Time

Backend Engineer

MockReal • $3.5k - $5k/month • Full Time

Founders Associate (Devtools Startup)

ElectricSQL • $140k - $160k/year • Full Time

Founding Engineer

3DAPI • Up to $40/hour • Flexible Hours

Marketing Specialist

BigIdeasDB • $25 - $30/hour • Part Time

Founding Go-To-Market Lead

NForce • Starting at $30/hour • Part Time

Partner Up

Meet your co-founders, start something new, or lend a helping hand.

Need a Dev to Move Your Startup Forward? 1d Looking for Technical Cofounder for Heavy Civil SaaS 1d Looking for cofounder for AI + product growth 6d Looking to help find your first customers for free 6d Looking for technical co founder 6d Seeking 1 stalled async decision 7d Combo Fantasy Sports - Solo founder looking for a founding engineer 10d Looking for: SaaS founders launching for the first time 15d Looking for SaaS founders running a single VPS 15d Looking for a UI/UX Designer Co-Founder 17d Seeking Technical Cofounder for B2B SaaS Project 20d Seeking Technical Co-Founder/Partner for B2C Mobile Project 23d Looking for a Video Subscription Platform to Launch? 24d Looking for a Customizable Uber Clone App with Advanced Features? 1m Looking for someone in need of UX/UI Product Design 1m Looking for co-founder in Ottawa/Gatineau 1m A Synthetic Data Engine for VLM/OCR Cases – Seeking Partners 1m Looking for partner for milliondollar day project 1m Looking for a fintech expert for partnering 1m Looking to Partner Up on an OnlyFans Clone (Creator Economy SaaS) 1m Looking for a tech co-founder for B2B SaaS 1m Looking for non-technical founders 1m Looking for Mobile Developer to Co-Create App 2m Looking for honest feedback on a new way to reduce tool overload 2m I study market patterns. Looking for a partner. 2m Looking for growth hacker for X prediction tracker 2m Seeking GTM/COO Cofounder (Equity) — ReceptionOS 2m Looking for a collaborator 2m Building a calm “what should I watch?” app looking for builders 2m Just looking to co-buildaserious e-commerce brand 2m Looking for a Founding Engineer 2m

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The Build Board 🪧

A daily leaderboard of build-in-public posts.

LeadSynth Automate your lead gen and outreach. 1

You don’t need more users. You need your first 10 right ones.

Betterlytics Simple, privacy-first, cookieless web analytics 2

You shouldn't need 4 tools to understand your website

IndieDeck One page that proves you actually ship. 3

Shipped 3 new features on IndieDeck last weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

I shipped 3 features this weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

batmanxx20

18 upvotes 23 comments

I wasted months building things nobody wanted

ChristopherZyq

20 upvotes 56 comments

Maintaining open-source projects that millions use

ArianAdeli

26 upvotes 24 comments

Finally reached 100 users in just 12 days

atishh_amte

15 upvotes 62 comments

LeadSynth: You don’t need more traffic. You need better timing.

DataMine007

10 upvotes 2 comments

I've been reading 50 indie builder posts a day for the past month. Here's the pattern nobody talks about.

IndieAIs

34 upvotes 104 comments

How do you combine sign up and payment in one checkout flow?

GeefDev

6 upvotes 23 comments

Early-stage founders — what’s been harder so far: building or getting users?

EholicGrowth

23 upvotes 166 comments

IbexAI: Want to 5x your reply rate on cold outreach?

Hotzenplotz

16 upvotes 5 comments

Featured

Competing on price to carve out an $18k MRR foothold

When Abhishek Chakravarty saw demand for another product, he sold his side project, and built it. Now, Youform is making $18k MRR. Here's how.

IndieJames

29 upvotes 25 comments

Featured

Building a $15k+ MRR services company to fund SaaS development

Günter Richter quit his job at 50 and built a consultancy to $15k+/mo in a matter of months. Now, he's using it to fund his first SaaS. Here's how.

IndieJames

47 upvotes 67 comments

Featured

Pivoting to reach a wider audience and hitting a 5-figure MRR

Harry Brodsky and Khanan Grauer built a tool that had some success in one niche, then pivoted. Now, it's bringing in $500k ARR. Here's how.

IndieJames

74 upvotes 91 comments

Featured

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR

Arjun Jain built a tool for his dev agency, then rolled it out as a standalone product. Now, it's bringing in $500k ARR. Here's how.

IndieJames

98 upvotes 97 comments

Featured

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company

Isaac Saul built the independent, nonpartisan political media company that he wanted to read. Now, it's bringing in $4.5M/yr. Here's how.

IndieJames

111 upvotes 76 comments

Featured

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR

Pascal Levy-Garboua is acquired six micro-SaaS companies, shut one down, sold two, and the remaining three are bringing in $120k/mo. Here's how.

IndieJames

115 upvotes 133 comments

I shipped 3 features this weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

I wasted months building things nobody wanted

Maintaining open-source projects that millions use

Finally reached 100 users in just 12 days

LeadSynth: You don’t need more traffic. You need better timing.

I've been reading 50 indie builder posts a day for the past month. Here's the pattern nobody talks about.

How do you combine sign up and payment in one checkout flow?

Early-stage founders — what’s been harder so far: building or getting users?

IbexAI: Want to 5x your reply rate on cold outreach?

Competing on price to carve out an $18k MRR foothold

Building a $15k+ MRR services company to fund SaaS development

Pivoting to reach a wider audience and hitting a 5-figure MRR

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR IH+ Subscribers Only

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company IH+ Subscribers Only

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR IH+ Subscribers Only

You don’t need more users. You need your first 10 right ones.

You shouldn't need 4 tools to understand your website

Shipped 3 new features on IndieDeck last weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

50 questions to ask before you buy a business

Built 3 Excel templates for SaaS founders and put them on Gumroad — here's what I learned about the digital product market

Domanage: I was too scared to post my app in Facebook groups. It got me 12 signups in 24 hours!

AI Trust Identity: Stopping the Experimental Label: Why Identity is the First Pillar of AI Trust.

Celevo: Planned my 40th birthday and my wedding with six different tools. It was chaos. Nothing good existed for the German market. So I built the t

First week on Indie Hackers – 6 waitlist signups and a question

From 0 to $80 in 9 Days: What I Learned Building Korean Data APIs on Apify

I built 9 free AI tools in one day using Lovable — here's what I learned

AllInOneTools: I analyzed my own website meta tags… here’s what I learned (and what most people miss)

​In less than 1 month, ChatGPT has started suggesting Convertino to users!

Hitting $25k+ MRR by making his goals less ambitious IH+ Subscribers Only

Pivoting to reach a wider audience and hitting a 5-figure MRR

You don’t need more users. You need your first 10 right ones.

You shouldn't need 4 tools to understand your website

Shipped 3 new features on IndieDeck last weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

I shipped 3 features this weekend based entirely on community feedback. Here's what I built and why.

I wasted months building things nobody wanted

Maintaining open-source projects that millions use

Finally reached 100 users in just 12 days

LeadSynth: You don’t need more traffic. You need better timing.

I've been reading 50 indie builder posts a day for the past month. Here's the pattern nobody talks about.

How do you combine sign up and payment in one checkout flow?

Early-stage founders — what’s been harder so far: building or getting users?

IbexAI: Want to 5x your reply rate on cold outreach?

Competing on price to carve out an $18k MRR foothold

Building a $15k+ MRR services company to fund SaaS development

Pivoting to reach a wider audience and hitting a 5-figure MRR

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR IH+ Subscribers Only

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company IH+ Subscribers Only

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR IH+ Subscribers Only

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR

In less than 1 month, ChatGPT has started suggesting Convertino to users!

Hitting $25k+ MRR by making his goals less ambitious

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR