@channingallen Channing Allen

A lot of startup founders I talk to approach entrepreneurship as a finite game. The historian James Carse coined the term in the 1980s: > There are at least two…

The new business model of charging for paid communities is sweeping through the world of indie hackers. The golden age of paid communities No, they aren't "new…

This economic crisis has been all about yins and yangs. Yin: U.S. unemployment has skyrocketed to Great Depression levels. Yang: the pandemic is inspiring tons …

> Things are looking bleak. We built subscriptions for ad-free episodes a while back and now we're pushing that heavily. The person who told me this runs a popu…

Last week I talked about how lockdown and the recession have spurred more people to start online businesses. No-code products are a big part of this story since…

After the US declared the coronavirus a national emergency and the western world finally began taking the crisis seriously, it took about a week for founders to…

I spent some time this week reaching out to individual indie hackers about their businesses, and the pattern that really jumped out at me was how uniquely resil…

An easy way to appreciate the role of e-commerce in this recession is to take a big-picture view of the recession itself. The New York Times provided such a vie…

Last week I talked about why I think this recession will produce more indie hackers. But there are still a lot of indie hackers who are fighting to survive righ…

I've seen a lot of stories about the financial ups and downs of traditional newsrooms recently. But the subset of publications that send all their news via emai…