A simple side project idea: custom careers/"we're hiring" pages for companies. Very often companies want a careers page on their site. This would instead provide a simple hosted page or set of pages. The page can be themed with banner/company logo etc. and linked to your home page and have a company-specific subdomain e.g. my-company.career-page.com. It would include a contact form for p... See More
#Help - Should we go to market with, or without case studies?
Hi we're Budibase, an open-source web app builder with a focus on speed and customisation.
We're currently building the web app builder, but we have a question for the Indie Hackers community.
Should we:
- Build the web app builder and launch it with no example web apps (created using the builder).
Or
- Go to market with the web app buil... See More
Got approached by a US startup
So this startup called eyelevel.ai approached me with the idea of helping me connect to some student-friendly brands. I loved it, and I think pushing some great deals through Aibo wouldn't be all that bad an idea.
Currently contemplating what needs to be done for phase 2, how do I better engage users on a weekly basis and so on. Fingers crossed!
Saturday Edition: Daily Stand Up!
Why?
That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of February.
02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.
03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.
04 Comment on at least one fellow hack... See More
Hey guys! I want to be more data-driven and start tracking metrics beyond the basic numbers I track (# of sign ups, revenue, GA sessions/users).
I track these via Google Analytics, SQL and my payment processor's dashboard, but I'd like to build a few dashboards I can use to regularly keep an eye out on numbers.
Are there any BI software or analytics tools you would recommend?
My database is entire... See More
Ask IH: Email or Desktop Notification, what's the least obnoxious?
I've considered both for my Web app, currently my email notifications are just once a month, but for more frequent notifications (I've yet not implemented) I believe emails are just ineffective and obnoxious.
What do you recommend?
Hi all! There are days when I struggle to get the ball rolling so I wrote this huge list of things that I do to stay motivated and try to keep the blues away. Being a maker is hard — hope it helps you as well: https://twitter.com/claritask_app/status/1096500529281290241
I've been running a website for almost 2 years, where I help indie game developers learn to market their games!
This weekend I decide on my ultimatum, whether I continue to work on my product or close it down.
I NEED YOUR HELP!
Please provide me your feedback on the product itself! :)
I found https://soapbox.wistia.com/ and I think I'm gonna try to make a whole series of videos like https://blog.prefab.cloud/blog/feature-flags-for-ruby-on-rails-in-6-minutes-with-manifold to help me explain Prefab.Cloud. Somehow video is easier to produce than trying to wordsmith a blog post.
I'm curious whether people like watching videos. Myself I often don't like videos because I don't have... See More
(Landing Page Work) Hey folks, nice meeting you guys. I had an urgent problem that I've been sort of struggling with, that I wanted your advice on.
I am creating a sales page, and I have A) the sales copy, B) layout. What I don't have is A) graphic design, and B) having the HTML/CSS for the said design (I am handing writing the page using JS w/o Wordpress or CMS). I don't have the skills nor the ... See More
How do you decide the value of your brand/website/business?
Means how much it is worth of?
How do you decide the selling price of your business in case if you want sell your website/brand/business?
Also what are the genuine platforms to sell your website for real profits for productized business?
P.S. Other than flippa and empireonline.
Many thanks!
Do you have to have a big launch?
Tell me about your experience and thoughts! Soon, www.folyoz.net will be launching, and I would appreciate any and all thoughts about the launch process of tech and saas companies.
Thank you!
#idea-validation I am thinking of an app that allows parents of newborns to click a button and talk live with a licensed pediatric, to get first hand answers to questions or situations that may be worrying.
Beginning Cold Outreach
Looking for suggestions. What are good CRM tools for a bootstrapper to manage cold emails?
Hi all,
First post, excited to be here!
One of our long term goals is to make our SaaS product multilingual in order to open it up to other markets. Has anyone had experiences of this and is there any advice or tips you could share?
Show IH: Resume platform for job seekers
Sharing your resume to clients and employers can be intimidating as they can't visually see your resume straight away. So I thought of making this platform that allows job seekers to share their resume and other information in one place.
It's an MVP at the moment.
The problems it solves:
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You can share your profile page (including your resume, cover letter... See More
Valuer - the best Newcoming Startup in Denmark
In September 2018, Valuer became the Best Newcoming startup for the whole of Denmark, which sent the company straight to the Nordic Startup Awards' finale. Even though not reaching the first place, such an event and experience was a great opportunity for networking and socializing that earned Valuer a lot of new connections.
What do you use for multi-server management?
My current stack is Ruby on Rails on Digital Ocean.
I have a couple of servers that host a web app, and I was wondering if there was a solution for basically SSH-ing into multiple servers and running commands on all of them from my Macbook.
I've seen https://github.com/ikusalic/tmux-connector so far.
Any others?
Can somebody please feedback my newly launched service? I have started web experts renting service which means people can rent web experts from us. How does it sound to you? Here is the website https://www.designpac.net
"At first, I thought I was dying. Sharp chest pains. Dizziness. Sweats. I was only in my early 30s, but I figured this was it for me..."
Check out Paul's full story at instagram.com/p/Br3wpu9jEXF/
AskIH: What do you guys think about the essentials when designing a simple event poster?
I think the 3 essentials needed are layout, color, and typography.
Layout.
A structured poster would allow the reader to very easily capture all the information present on the poster. Of course, this is where the size of each component (e.g. Title of event, details, contact) will also impact the layout. The ti... See More
Hey, guys
I have been working on a new landing page for the past week or so. The company/service is also new, so at this stage, I am exploring and learning.
I would love to get some feedback on how your experience of the page is and how easy it is to understand the text. I am still really flexible with the design and choice of illustrations.
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
The website: htt... See More
Does anyone have a go-to for finding:
1] freelance developers for small web projects
2] developers to help debug backends
I'm a Front End developer/designer, I've built many projects over the years and I'm looking to work on something new.
I'm looking for a Marketing Expert that has past experience with product promotion and management of advertising between social networks and search engines.
Let's discuss some ideas and see if both of us can build something new and exciting!
Any IH’s in Maui 🌴 up for a coffee?
My girlfriend/biz partner and I will be there Sunday (Feb 17) for 2 weeks. Would be nice to get together! Comment or email me at jeff at jeffreybunn dot com if interested :)
Recap from Wednesday's Worldwide meetup:
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Breakout rooms worked well again! We talked about idea validation, marketing, and had two rounds of general discussion.
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The once-a-week schedule is starting to feel like overkill.
My hope was that two different time slots would allow more people to be able to attend, but it doesn't seem like the two times are different enough to accomplish that goal.
... See More
Planning to launch a podcast about failed startup founders, anyone interested in hosting it?
Hey! It's Rich, maker of Failory, a content site for entrepreneurs.
Thousands of Failory users have requested me to create a podcast of interviews with failed startup founders. I've been thinking about this idea for the last three months and believe it is a great growth strategy that will allow me to bring... See More
Hello everyone! I built a Pomodoro timer that links with your Spotify account. It pauses and plays your music at set intervals to remind you to take breaks!
🎧 + 🍅
Its free to use so please have a go and let me know what you think!
I did it... I started something, which:
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will not change the world
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not save the planet
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is not unique
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i am not the first
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i will not be the best (at the beginning ;-) )
and it gives me some real fun, learn another frontend framework and have a bunch of ideas to make it happen ;-)
not ready yet, but you can have a look and give me any kind of welcome feedback:
What can I learn from my non monetizable Android app?
Hi!
4 years ago I built an useful Android app in order to learn Java. During this years I almost did not update the app but it kept raising downloads and users and now it has over 160 installs per week and 50 users per day and it's installed on more than 1,000 devices.
I'm adding some functionalities to the app, but at the end of the day, it wo... See More
AskIH : Hi, If you are a Consultant/freelancer/small business owner, I would like to offer my services to do all your cashflow accounting for you.
Initially I was building a tool that users can use by themselves. The tool itself is open source - https://github.com/alexjv89/cashflowy. Recently I have been listening to productize podcast by @briancasel and I am definitely influenced by it. I figure... See More
#idea-validation My idea is "Scheduled Broadcast for facebook messenger bots". You can think of this idea like a mailchimp but for bots. I will develop a platform where a chatbot Admin can sign up and schedule broadcast that they can send to the users. Proposed Idea will also handle subscription and un subscription of the user.
What do you guys think?
Hi folks! Looking for a video conferencing system that:
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. DOES NOT REQUIRE participants to download the product app on their devices;
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. Permits video recording;
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. Provides recorded material in .mp4 format;
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. Can be licensed for $250/year or less;
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. Works on all devices and Operating Systems;
Instagram for getting traffic
Did anyone try to use Instagram as a source of initial traffic to your product's website?
My goal is to validate my product — I assume I could get several thousands of relevant visitors (using a tool like https://socialcaptain.com) to product's website in order to see if they convert to sales.
Did anyone try a similar strategy?
Thanks ✌️
Show IH: Follow Team
Earlier this week I officially launched Follow Team:
https://indiesaas.com/blog/announcing-follow-team
Follow Team makes it easy to find great teams to follow on Twitter.
Today we're on Product Hunt (submitted today in honor of #FollowFriday).
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/follow-team
Hope you check out Follow Team and let me know what you think.
Mubs
What tool(s) do you use for recording "demo" or "howto" videos?
I am looking for something which will get the job done without any watermarking or "Powered by" stuff.
Friday Edition: Daily Stand Up!
Why?
That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of February.
02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.
03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.
04 Comment on at least one fellow hacker... See More
What's the correct way to implement website/list with crowdsourced content?
I've seen some people start out their website using a spreadsheet which was populated with crowdsourced data, yet I never get how they prevent it from filling up with unwanted/spammy data. I'm trying to do something similar to this but with an actual website (no spreadsheet) and I don't know whats a good approach towards f... See More
Hey guys I'm looking to launch a new offering and am looking for recommendations for amazing content writers with experience in the saas/tech/product/small biz space.
Business owners: I'd love to hear about your favorite writers that you have worked with in the past.
Writers: Feel free to message me or comment here with your rate per word and portfolio.
Thanks :)
Dear Indies,
I am in the process of building a new landing page for mento. I would really appreciate your feedback on it. Please be so kind to participate in this short test:
What analytics do you use for your Business/website ?
We all know that after the build , bugs & other stuff needed to get our websites up & running , we need to see how effective our marketing is
in acquiring new users & getting sales...what analytics
package do you use ?
I need your help! I'm writing a book called 'The complete guide to landing page optimisation'
It's a guide to help you create amazing landing pages that convert.
I need your input on the main topics of the book.
Here's my table of contents so far:
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Introduction
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Landing page basics
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Copywriting
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Images
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Buttons and call to actions
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Pricing tables
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Sign up forms
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Social proof
Do you think... See More
As promised, a couple of new #free-ideas from my notebook.
(Just brain dumped, no concrete execution plans)
If anyone wants to collaborate on any of those, ping me.
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Bet with your friends to achieve new personal fitness goals and PB's and if you make it, you get the $
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An online shop that turns clothes from famous entrepreneurs into bags and other apparel (% of revenue gets donated for coding ed... See More
#ASK IH: Legality of Amazon scraping.
I know that there a lot of services that are:
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Doing proxy for scraping
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Tracking product ratings, prices, and reviews
Most of them are paid services.
It is completely unclear for me:
What is the legality of scraping publicly available data from sites like Amazon and selling it as a service?
Could these companies get in trouble for doing it?
Feedback on quarterly pricing for www.checkbot.io & quarterly pricing in general? 🤔
I've just added quarterly pricing plans for https://www.checkbot.io/, my Chrome extension that tells you how to improve the SEO, speed and security of your website (see the pricing section near the bottom). Any feedback appreciated!
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How does the section that explains the pricing look? I've opted for showing ... See More
Looking for Open Source IH products to be shown at a Developer Week event hosted at App Academy!
If you're in SF and your project is either heavily or entirely open source, I'd love to chat about giving you a booth at our event (for free of course). Should be a good opportunity to show off your product and maybe make some sales!
Email me at chasechamberswilson at gmail.com to learn more and tell m... See More
Video sales tool concept and (almost) MVP
I've been working on my second app (not yet a product). It's a browser extension for recording custom outbound sales videos and splicing them with a prerecorded pitch.
For example you might make a quick recording - "Hey Courtland, I've been listening through your interviews, they're incredible! I think you'd be interested in ACME corp..." - this ... See More
Mastermind groups.
Have you ever been part of one? What are experiences?
If not, do you wish to join one?
Local vs remote mastermind groups?
My background:
Never been part of some kind of mastermind group.
For me work feels much better if there are people around and good energy in general - then it's fun and work is just 1000 times better.
This is literally why I enjoy my 9-5 as a full-stack web-d... See More
If you are really passionate about something, build products around it and put it out in the world. Let people talk about it. Let people criticize it. What’s important is how much you learn from it, so that the next product you build is a blast!
Always remember, there are plenty of buyers, but only a few sellers.
Here is an article covering my journey on building my side project:-
https://blog.pro... See More
Cloudflare nearly killed us last night.
Yesterday we had a massive traffic spike on anonymousfiles.io (130k requests according to CF) which caused a massive performance degradation.
Firstly, nginx failed due to too many worker connections. I fixed this by upping the limits in nginx and the server and then requests started coming through.
This is where the performance degraded massively and I thin... See More
Looking for cold email advice.
Do any of you have favorite platforms for managing your cold emails? I'm currently just using my gmail inbox.
Pre-Launch Feedback for SoImagely
Hi everyone,
I've been working hard on a project that allows you to quickly and easily create images for Social Media.
I've made some good progress and I'd like your feedback! Could you please go to soimagely.com and create some images!
I (purposefully) won't tell you more than that, I'd like you to figure it out yourself, although it should be pretty easy.
Featur... See More
Intercom for Early Stage Program
Hey everyone. I was wondering who uses Intercom/has enrolled to the Intercom for Early Stage Program? I am working on a project now and have created a landing page to drive sign ups for our beta program.
Would love to get peoples experiences and opinions!
Interview with Andy on Cheddar about Alt-funding
Our CEO Andy was interviewed by Cheddar with Bryce Roberts from Indie.vc about alternative fundraising models.
https://cheddar.com/media/why-some-startups-are-shunning-vc-funding
I launched my first public beta on the Google Play Store! I'm proud to introduce Coinverse, the first crypto news audiocasts app. 🚀
Four years ago, I left my ads partnership consulting job and learned how to code because I had the passion to craft simple solutions for unsolved problems. At the same time in late 2014 I was becoming a cryptocurrency enthusiast first listening to 1 or 2 podcasts out... See More
Changing My Free Trial
I realize I've been too stingy with my free trial.
I was so concerned about students copying the whole course or downloading everything then leaving. But I should forget about those concerns.
I'm giving access to ALL of my lessons, but limiting the free trial to 7 days, thus applying some time pressure.
I'm refining the pipeline from trial to conversion, and I hope it leads to results.
Just sent a... See More
Thanks to the guy who posted about Phil Knight's book, any more inspiring memoirs for IHs?
Hi IH -- My cofounder and I were nominated as Product Hunt "Makers of the Year" in 2018 after launching 15 products there, including one Top Product of the Day and two #2 Products.
I wrote up our tactical learnings on getting exposure on Product Hunt in this "Unofficial Guide to Product Hunt": https://www.kapwing.com/blog/an-unoffical-guide-to-product-hunt/
Some ideas are hard to validate upfront. More specifically, ideas that are horizontal platforms as opposed to vertical industry-specific products. You know there is a use case, and you know some will use it/derive benefit from it. But you really can't know for sure until people start using it and you iterate from there to a product/user/market fit. Customer development happens at a later stage wit... See More
Anonymous Files - privacy focused file sharing.
Hello everyone. We recently launched anonymousfiles.io and have been getting a steady flow of traffic which we expect to increase as more publicity comes.
A guide how to use it https://medium.com/@_anonymousfile/how-to-upload-files-anonymously-4b907058aea0
It started as some tech that me and my business partner were working on and we decided to fork... See More
It is interesting, what is most preferred tech stack for solo developers?
I am personally using the LEMP stack.
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PHP - Laravel Framework
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MySQL
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Nginx
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Redis
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Ubuntu
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Git
Funded
You may have already heard, but we thought we'd share anyway :)
We are funded. Yay! We are so proud to have Techstart Ventures back our vision - one that empowers developers and supports automation throughout development, deployment and distribution.
A press release and a bit of news coverage makes it all look like it happened easily and overnight. But it took many, many steps to get here. Lots of... See More
Our first customer!
One of our early user subscribed to Startup plan!
[Sales Quizzz] How effective are you at sales in 2019?
Are you a salesperson?
Are you an effective one?
Not an easy question, right?
So to discover how effective you are at sales in 2019, we've prepared an awesome funny quiz for salespeople. Just 7 easy question about the things you're doing on a daily basis.
Once you answer all of them you'll get recommendations on how to be even more productive ... See More
Super excited here!
Just launched the first integration of the AthenaHealth API micro-service that powers the appointment scheduling functionality for medical providers that use Athena’s EHR solution.
Currently the functionality is applied on the providers website however the micro-service architecture allows for applications in chat-bots and voice assistants such as Google or Alexa.
(Clap) for my... See More
How do you grow you pre-alpha release subscriber list? I have a plain landing page to collect early users, how would one grow that before the launching the product?
Refreshed look&feel
Aaaaannndddd BANG! 🎉 New Owwly's site was released! Check updated look&feel of the website ✨ (link: https://owwly.com) owwly.com
Hello, Indie community,
As a startup, we are struggling to get a quality reference for our company on Worldwide Web. The problem is we don't have enough budget to spend on the paid form of digital advertisement.
Can anyone suggest, what approach should we follow and how should we reach more customer? #free-ideas #startup #leadgeneration #saas
Ideas on how to grow and market a newsletter
Hi indie hackers,
me and @linuz90 are getting ready to launch Unreadit (https://unread.it/) and are struggling to find good ways to market and grow it.
We feel that if we reached 10k subscribers on at least one of our newsletters we could start making serious $ with sponsorships, but we are not there yet (our biggest newsletter is approaching 100 subs). See More
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Hi there,
Recently I started to read THE BAMF BIBLE written by Josh Fechter
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-bamf-bible-2019
The book is full of actionable advice.
One of the recommendations is to use automation to growth Instagram audience.
Has anybody tried this method and got good results?
And is there a service you can offer for this service?
Thanks in advance
Here are some services aft... See More
Thursday Edition: Daily Stand Up!
Why?
That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of February.
02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.
03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.
04 Comment on at least one fellow hack... See More