Introduce Yourself!

Hello, I'm not lurking much, but I don't think I gave a proper introduction.

I'm Josh.. I live in Dubuque, Iowa. I built my first website in January of 1997. I've had a wild ride since then. I built adult sites, I worked for major companies as an engineer, I was first engineer hire at a startup, and now I am building my own business.

I run a consulting and development agency called NiftyCo where I work with a primary client who has me work on their client stuff as one of their 3 primary developers.

On top of that I am building a product, a custom merchandise platform that allows anyone to create a store and sell products without any upfront cost or risks called Merched. There's a lot of work involved in this product so it's not ready yet, but I spend a lot of my time on it.

Outside of tech, I spend most of my free time hanging out with my wife, 8 and 3 year old daughters and 1 year old Chocolate lab.

Hi There. I'm a humble MBA and formerly a self-taught hacker. See here: http://mbahacks.com/post/47216674637/why-i-created-mbahackscom-or-why-i-am-learnin

Product Management, Marketing and Growth Strategy are my areas of expertise. Though I worked with a small team to build www.writegreen.org, it's been ages since I write any serious code.

I quit my job a few weeks ago and am in the process of exploring what's next for me. I'm open to acquiring a small web business or partnering with someone that is looking for a business partner to help them grow their existing business or build a new one. Feel free to reach out or connect with me on LinkedIn if I can help in any way. https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardcastano/

I'm always game for helping another fellow human being.

👋 Hey there!

🔮My name is Harry, not a wizard unfortunately...

🇺🇸 I'm from the US (currently Atlanta, GA)

🤖 I'm building a productized chatbot service called ConvoPanda for B2B founders and marketers.

⚡I've been working with chatbots since 2016 when I started ChirpyHire and have built over 80 to date.

📹I'm making Mastering Drift a premium video course to teach you how to generate leads and grow sales using Drift and chatbots.

🏹My mission is to help people increase their freedom and independence.

❤️I love to sell, ship software products, and build relationships.

A valuable but little known tip for people new to IH: don’t hesistate to follow up with people off the site. I email and have video calls with a lot of folks I met on IH and I feel like those relationships are stronger and more valuable as a result.

Hi folks,

I've listened to the podcast for a while and follow the newsletter regularly but don't participate much.

I had a startup in the past past where we

• went through an accelerator

• raised money

• went through a VC program

• had a documentary made that we were in ("Startupland" on Amazon Prime)

• ultimately failed

• had the ride of a lifetime

• still have an offshoot of the product in production with Clemson University, and I almost never have to touch it

While I'm from Charleston, SC, I now work as a full-stack software contractor from Auckland, NZ and work on side projects (only 1 at a time, y'all) using Haskell.

While I mentor companies and devs regularly and always help others, imposter syndrome often gets the better of me, so I stay quiet on forums like these.

The best I can contribute out of the blue is a conference talk I gave on 'Behaviour & Your Team": https://robertwpearce.com/blog/behaviour-and-your-team.html. I'm not the best speaker, but it's a topic I care deeply about.

<3,

Robert

Hiya. I am Chetan and I've been "lurking" for exactly 8 hours :-).

I live in the Indian Himalayas in a little village. I spent some time in the US - I went to Kellogg - then moved back. I realized I love writing more than doing corporate stuff (I'm a published author), so I started my own place called the Himalayan Writing Retreat. We run courses on everything from writing to blogging. I think they're pretty cheap, as long as you don't add in the airfare :-). For those familiar with India, we're a 9 hour drive from Delhi.

Happy to be part of this awesome community!

Hi there indie hackers ✌️

I'm a 23 year old student and love webdev and webdesign. I did a few pretty successful web projects in austria with a political/activist background and am now trying something different.

I've been reading Indie Hackers infrequently over the past few months and decided now is the time to start posting here because I'm my side project observely.net just got into public beta phase. It's a tool to create get an competitor analysis delivered to your inbox every week.

Hope to have an productive and educational time with you here 🙌

I've been blessed.

I was born and brought up in a village called Kajgaon in India where we had only 6 hours of electricity each day in a lower middle class family of four. As a kid I was crazy about computers, I used to work for local clinics so that they'd let me use the computer for an hour on Sundays but that wasn't enough for me so I somehow convinced my dad to buy me a computer when I was 15, asked my friends to help me install a pirated copy of Microsoft Encarta and read almost every single science and history related article available. I didn't have internet till I was 18.

My life's changed now, I live in a city, graduated in computer science two years back. Been doing world class web development for clients around the globe as a freelancer for last two years. I've also found a purpose that is to build even more efficient interfaces to the connected world around us and the technologies that surround us.

Launched my first ever app on product hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/autopick) last week and honestly the encouragement and support I received there was overwhelming for a kid who tried to understand how computers work by reading BASIC code from books stolen from nearby town.

Now I'm trying to empower and encourage kids from my village to educate themselves at any cost to grow out of that place and see the bigger world.

Hey all! My name's Austin, and I can't believe I haven't heard of this website until now. I fell in love just scrolling through the site for a few minutes, and just had to join. This community seems awesome, and I'm proud to be a part of it now.

My goal is to start a simple SAAS (not 100% sure what that is yet), and hopefully earn some passive income from it.

Last but not least, I want to learn from you all, and bounce my ideas off your heads!

Looking forward to getting started!

Hi All! I heard about IH earlier, but I just recently discovered it's value. After listening to several podcast episodes I was really impressed with their quality.

👨🏻‍💻 My name is Sergey which is a common Russian name (e.g. Sergey Brin from Alphabet).

📍I live in Belarus, Minsk (ex-USSR) which is a developers land. We have not many business people here, but quite a lot of developers.

💰 I'm not a solopreneur now. At ASoft I manage a team and we develop Shopify apps, mostly for clients at the time of writing. I still do a bit of development in Ruby on Rails part-time.

🤦🏻‍♂️ During more than 6 years of development-entrepreneurship experience I already failed (= learned a lot) with several startups built from scratch as a co-founder or a contractor.

📈 Now it's time to grow our own Shopify apps with all wisdom gained throughout my professional experience.

💡 Pretty sure everyone will find some relevant content on IH. In my case stories from @Ryan @tylertringas @DallinKoski @FinbarrTaylor @gthartley @r_jacobs17 @andupotorac are the most relevant ones. Thanks so much for sharing!

🙇🏻‍♂️ Thanks @channingallen for creating this awesome community! Hope you can do more podcasts. I enjoy listening to them.

Hi, I'm Son and I'm from Hanoi, Vietnam. I'm still a student but I have some experiences with mobile/web development. After graduate, I will move to Japan to work at Fintech Startup (the company has raised 50m $). As a developer, I love building side project at home, and right now, I'm working on https://susube.com/ ( Save, Share and Discover the things that matter )

My friend introduced me IH, and I really love IH, this community gives me a lot of motivation and knowledge about building product.

Hi fellows,

I am Musharof, a self-thought front-end developer, trying to build online businesses. Working full-time with https://graygrids.com (HTML Template/Theme Marketplace) from last 4 years.

Beside GrayGrids, I am also running few more web design/development tools or resource-related pet projects such as - https://uideck.com (Design Resources, UI Kits, and, Web Templates etc.) also recently launched a free icon font pack https://lineicons.com (300+ Free Handcrafted Line Icons for Modern Web and Mobile Apps) and a few more projects are yet to launch.

Yes, I am working individually from home with two of my team members they support me remotely on specific tasks. Oh, I am also a regular student of computer science.

I am a regular audience of IndieHacker and its contents help for insightful learning and to explore amazing ideas.

My ultimate goal is to learn more and more about building scalable online businesses and moving forward :)

Hello! I'm Beekey and I live in Boulder, Colorado. I work as a software consultant while trying to build my own product on the side.

My goal with the product is to create an email client that can save professionals 5-10 hours of their time every month. I'm still doing user research so would love to talk to anyone who is currently having trouble managing their email.

Hello there! I'm small indie from Russia, and my primal focus is to help people (myself included) solve their problems.

My first project after joining IH was "me-and-my-plus-one-as-a-service" to find speech therapist to the children, and currently 13 clients and 3 speech therapist are working with us.

My second project is www.threebook.co - simply list of books to help find your next read. I built it because I struggled with search for books. Now I working on expanding the MVP as I got some feedback from IH discussion & friends.

I really like IH and I try to visit everyday - it gives me a lot of motivation and specific knowledge.

Hi Guys,

👨‍🚀I'm Federico..I'm Italian 🇮🇹 grew up in Rome. I founded my first web company (still active today) at the age of 23, while I was studying law. I toke part of 500 Startups and raised $$$ for my company from world-class VC. After graduation, I started traveling and I had the chance to live in different countries: Brazil, United States, Chile, UK etc.

In the meantime I have carried on some side projects: 🕶️Kobrin (3D Printed Sunglasses) Emojics.com (Tool for collect feedback and leads through emoji). 😍

It has been a long way, starting from Italy studying law until I get to Silicon Valley and then starting again.

I really like this community, I hope to learn from you guys! 💪

Feel free to reach out or connect with me on Linkedin if I can help in any way: https://www.linkedin.com/in/federico-schiano-di-pepe/

Hello! I'm brand new here, but I feel like I've found my people!

My name is Teresa, and I'm based in the middle of Silicon Valley in San Jose, Ca.

I quit my full-time job about a year ago to raise my 3 kids and work on small business ideas. I started a "mom" blog, launched a photography portfolio, completed a digital marketing certification, and in a flurry of ideas, I found myself stalling.

My husband ( @gpcreativespace ) is an incredible graphic designer with a full time job. Together we want to work on "something." From online courses to simply freelancing design and photography, we are overwhelmed with options.

So I'm here, fully open to finding a technical cofounder. I love project management, workflow, and productivity. I have covered our home in sticky notes and idea mapping. It's a startup founder's dream, if only we had a startup (haha).

Feel free to connect and reach out with ideas, or if you are looking for a designer!! I can't wait to dive into these posts. This is an incredible community <3

Hello!

I am Breno. I work at Afterschool. We do outreach for YC and Startup Schools. We aim to establish a network of founders in London with the YC entrepreneurship culture and therefore diminish the barriers for people to follow their ideas. I am also a filmmaker at off times. Planning a documentary series in China atm.

Hello!

I’m Nick. I’ve had a bit of a roundabout journey to (hopefully soon) becoming an indie hacker.

After graduating from school, I first worked in finance trading tech stocks. After a year, I decided to leave because of the way technology is changing financial services. I hiked the AT (was something I had always wanted to do), and then got to work writing a research paper that would turn into a slide deck and eventually funding for my first big software project. I had never built software before, so my first year was filled with so, so much trial-and-error. (And lots of very kind people offering help and advice). Since, I’ve worked as a product manager for a few small SaaS companies. (And have found some amazing friends who also love building things along the way). I’m so glad that I discovered this path.

Along the way, my friends and I have built a number of small projects for fun, and we’re focused now on turning our latest creation into something that earns us some money. (And officially grants us entry into the club of indie hackers).

Eariously is our latest creation. (https://www.eariously.com/) Eariously is an app that lets you listen to the things you want to read just by adding a URL.

I think the most helpful advice I can share is that when you have a software question, you should always ask it. People who build things always seem to love talking about what they’ve made, and are super receptive to answering questions or talking about it. And sometimes you even make new friends doing it.

Thank you for reading! :)

Hey!

I'm Kyle, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland but living in Chiang Mai.

I created a venture-backed startup in 2013, I got quite sick on my journey due to stress, so I pivoted into a lifestyle business. Now I focus on building passion-focused micro-enterprises in the software space.

Hey all,

Literally just joined after being linked to a post on here. Excited to be a part of it. The app is slick! 👌🏻

I'm Andy. I live in St. Louis. I've been a creative person for most of my life. I got my start in music as a guitarist/singer and have been in and out of bands since age 11. Designing album art, flyers, and merch led me to be more interested in design as time went on and later into web development.

Since the music career didn't quite work out I went to school for Graphic Design and eventually taught myself web design.

Fast forward to today and I'm now a product designer at Dribbble.

Aside from working with some awesome folks on an awesome app at Dribbble, I blog about web design and development at Web-Crunch.com. Paired with my blog is a YouTube channel where I make screencasts building apps and learning in public.

I recently launched my latest app called Affinicasts which took me about a year to build on my own.

Affinicasts features expert video tutorials and courses showcasing Affinity-Serif products. It's only been up for about a month now and has been doing decent for a brand new SaaS space.

I'm looking to take marketing to the next level and hopefully ramp up more subscriptions. If you have any feedback, suggestions, critiques, I'm all ears! Happy to chat :)

I'm also already thinking about the next app I plan to build. Maybe sometime soon I'll consider sleep! 😭

Thanks for having me!

Hi. I'm Scott, in Ottawa, Canada. I'm working on a "Game-Based eLearning" startup focused in cyber security for businesses, as that's my subject matter expertise, and there's a big need for training employees on cyber security. Anyone who's ever taken a security awareness course online understands how boring the content is. But it's becoming vitally important for businesses to have employees who can spot security and privacy risks, and make good decisions.

I've been building and running "traditional" computer-based training (CBT) solutions for a few years now, with good profitability, without much marketing. But I know there's an opportunity here, and I have some good credentials: 10 years of enterprise software product management, and 15 years of IT security consulting and training.

At this point, I have a solution designed and a full-time developer, with a commercial release date scheduled for November, 2018. It's not quite ready to launch publicly yet. Right now, I'm trying to ramp up "advanced sales" among my local prospects and customers who know and trust me.

So, this is my biggest challenge - selling a product that doesn't exist yet to people I don't know. I do have a prototype that I've shown to many prospects and colleagues, and have demonstrated in a couple of industry events. The reaction is overwhelmingly positive. But it's not at a point where I can let people play with it yet. The demo just shows a few pieces of what can be done, and what I'm planning to release.

So, I'd love to hear stories of innovative "pre-launch" SaaS sales approaches, including incentives for buying early. I will have a beta program in September. I'm also looking for potential "founding team members" who have skills complementary to mine, and looking forward to learning and contributing here, where I can.

Hi there, I'm Lukas from Switzerland. I've been doing jOOQ for about 10 years now, 5 years as a full time business, doing quite well. I've decided I want to grow the business much further, hiring people starting this year, and creating new products, and being even more transparent about the business.

I've heard of Indie Hackers through the incredible Sidekiq story, which has given me tons of inspiration. While it inspired me to grow the business, I'm sure I can inspire as well, e.g. to start a business.

With my little family (1 wife 2 kids), travelling has become a bit more difficult, so meeting fellow entrepreneurs online sounds perfect!

Looking forward to working with this community!

Heya fellow indie hackers.

I'm Snehal, I live in a 2 tier city called Hubli in India. Been on indie hackers for some time now. Recently I along with two of my friends @deveg and @omeal launched paybackhub.com . We are basically into webdevelopment. We often faced the issue of lack of money when we wanted to purchase certain tools that would help us with our work. And so we created paybackhub, where we wish to help developers/entrepreneurs by giving them cashback on purchasing a tool from paybackhub. As even a little dollar can make a big difference, which can be invested elsewhere. We always talk to companies, tell them about paybackhub and add useful, trustworthy products. Right now trying to reach many developers who are in need of tools and cashback ;).

Feedback and suggestions from fellow indie hackers are most welcome.

Hello This is Dwayne from New York i have joined indie hackers today , How are you all?

Looking to build and maybe leave a mark for the good of humanity..

Developer in the past life, 18 years at the same firm, and now I'm working to build my own.

Felipe from Merida, Mexico. I’m a digital marketer building http://immersejobs.com (with code and no-code tools) because I love AR/VR and the immersive technologies world.

Also I run fundador.co, a blog where I write all about startups and technology from Latin America.

Now I’m on my way of learning JS and making the first launching of Immerse. Very excited about it!

Heyo everyone :)

I'm Ben - it's great to finally meet you. I've been a lurker ghost for some time, though I'm happy to be one of the recent additions to the Indie Hackers crew. I'm stoked to be here with you.

I've been building apps for a few years now. Most recently, I've started a WordPress hosting company called https://cloudoptimus.com, and I'm getting ready to launch a brand new WordPress plugin, which I hope will not only serve and function well for the community, but also be ROI positive for the business.

I joined here because I wanted to share every step of the process for launching the plugin (whether it works, or fails fantastically haha).

Chat with ya'll soon!

Ben

Hey everyone.

I've been a long time lurker here. Decided it was time to stop reading and just start something.

I'm a marketer and so I've just launched a weekly SEO newsletter to help other marketers stay up to date with the fast paced world of SEO

Check it out: https://lostatseo.com

Got some interested things planned and I'm looking forward to getting involved with the community here :)

I know something about computer programming and statistics/machine learning. I also know a great recipe for meatloaf.

Hi everyone,!

I'm Sven, alsmost 30 years old, born and raised in Belgium. Have been working in leadership positions at some of the fastest growing startups/scale-ups in Belgium & now just started out as a freelance consultant, helping other companies to grow just as fast. :-)

Hi, I'm Christian.

I'm here to build interesting things (ideas, projects, businesses).

I'm inspired by indiehackers agile approach to building products.

I led marketing for a few small startups (opendoor trading), taught growth marketing (growthX academy), and now work with startups on marketing strategy (cvonu.com) and mentor at a tech accelerator (german accelerator).

I'm using my experience working with tech companies to build my own.

I don't know everything about building great software businesses, so I'm learning from experimenting, from other people's experiences, and using these experiences to develop frameworks to build more productively.

Luckily, I have great friends to help guide me through this process.

My process is start building small and ramp up complexity. Websites > chrome extensions > iOS apps > web SaaS

I believe in building businesses around the needs of customers, so I work to validate needs of target stakeholders ( goals, concerns, and expectations) through customer discovery.

To better understand customer discovery, I read The Mom Test, participate in customer research interviews, create and analyze surveys, and interview people.

I believe in building products that enable customers to achieve their goals, so I work on matching UX to customer expectations.

To better understand product design, I read The Design of Everyday Things, studied UX at General Assembly, and participate in user testing panels.

Hi all, I am a Blockchain consultant at http://theledger.be . Outside of my day job I started working on a side project a few months ago together with a colleague of mine. I think we will have our first alpha ready in about a week or so.

Hey folks!

I'm Dani - just joined the IH community today 👋

I quit my job in April this year to give myself the headspace to start my own thing.

After working as a freelance copywriter for a few months, I hacked together my first ever business Scribly.io - an unlimited, on-demand copywriting service - in less than 2 weeks.

It's been the best thing I've ever done. I'm challenged every day, but learning so much.

In my spare time I write a blog about life in Denmark, run a meetup called Creative Studio, advise a UK based charity on their digital strategy and try to teach myself (mostly unsuccessfully) to play the ukulele.

Oh, and I have a really cute dog. You should check out @phoebe_the_schweenie on Instagram and see for yourself.

Hey guys

I'm Dan, I live in New Zealand and originally from the UK

I work in marketing but always fascinated with the tech side- and looking to have projects created

Going the self funded route and just learning as much as I can about the industry, before I drop the cash into it

HI everybody. I've recently joined IndieHackers and with @janos we launched our first product here, https://newreleases.io which allows you to track new version releases from GitHub, PyPI, Docker, NPM... platforms and receive notifications in your email and/or Slack channel. I'm hoping to learn a lot from people here and try to help others in return. Good luck to us all.

Hello! I'm a Software Developer and Product Manager with most of my career experience in the IT Service Management and Application Performance Management spaces. A few years ago I parted ways with my former employer and took some time to achieve some "life goals" and spend more time with family.

This led my to my current project, http://pipegears.com born from an idea that was brewing in my head for a long while. It's a platform for building web applications, mobile backends, and api microservices without writing any code. I've just reached what I believe to be minimum viable product status and am looking for any kind of feedback, positive or negative, on everything from the messaging, product appeal, usability or just comments in general. And if anyone wants to try it out, let me know!

I've been lurking on here a bit and have found the community to be very friendly and helpful. I hope to contribute and try to help others as well!

Hey! I'm Uday Singh! I studied computer science and graduated in 2016, have been programming for most of my life, and am working on a product called Epigrammar.

It's relatively simple: teachers upload files, students annotate those files, and we comb through those annotations to help teachers lesson plan, create assessments, and issue feedback based on students' notes. On top of that we providing grading, group chat, and a number of tools to help you run your classroom in one place!

Hey everyone, I'm Ozy and I live in Los Angeles. I'm a self-taught web developer who's always been interested in maps and geography. So I created https://geoshen.com, a media website that provides content to help people better understand the human made world through maps and geography.

I started working on Geoshen earlier this year and traffic has been steadily growing, though not fast enough where I can work on it full-time. I'd appreciate it if you took the time to visit the website, follow Geoshen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/geoshenmedia), and spread the word.

Aside from my interest in tech, maps and geography, I also love basketball and following the NBA. I don't have a favorite team. I just like watching highly skilled and competitive basketball!

Hi there!

My name is Gonzalo De Spirito, a 27yo chilean web developer.

I'm glad to know there is a community like this. Interviews section is the best 🙌

I'm running my own web development "boutique" agency, trying to take few but good projects. It is going pretty good, so far.

Would love to take some projects outside Chile. That's one of my short term goals, and of course, to create a SaaS or some kind of product would be great (if I can find a good problem I can solve)

Hi, I am Ibrahim. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I am from Maldives and just completing my Masters degree in Computer Science. I have quite a range of experiences from sysadmin work to machine learing and computer security.

These days I am learning react native and python-django. I intend to become very specialized in those two and intend to build a SAAS product on that tech stack. So far I am concentrating on finishing my degree. But of course, I want to work on my own in the near future.

Aside from those two tasks, I am also learning Swedish in my free time and learning myself to cook and hiking around the awesome landscapes in Sweden.

Hello, my name is Nikhil. I live in Seattle and work for Amazon Web Services. I used to run an edtech startup of my own called Classalyze, but now work as a Product Manager on a cool open source project called Amplify: https://aws-amplify.github.io/amplify-js/

I have long term ambitions to start another startup and love executing on ideas. I'm currently fascinated with Progressive Web Apps and think they're the future of the web.

Hey there, my name is Mike and I am from New York. I started working in IT back in 2008 and wanted to build a product that helped IT departments keep track of all their equipment. So, I along with a friend built: https://www.reftab.com

We've been operating since 2013, things are going very well! We've bootstrapped since the beginning and we love the process of building applications that make life a little easier. We've got customers across the globe who are now using our product.

I've been doing a lot of coding over the years. But as our product has been growing, I've been spending some time delving into the world of SEO and Analytics.

I'm open to connect on anything web dev / design / SEO / sales; you name it.

Hi, nice to meet you all! I see lots of interesting and inspiring people here. Thank you, IH 🙌

I'm Qi (chi), live in Los Angeles. My family migrated to the U.S. from China 20 years ago. After graduating from college, I didn't have the confidence to start my own company, so I continued my education to get a CS master from UCLA. I worked two years for ARINC, had an experience in a YC-ish VC program in China, failed many projects. I co-founded Smiley, a SaaS solution to help massage, spa, and beauty owners grow their businesses. We're still struggling to get product/market fit.

Thank you all and glad to join this awesome community and hope to learn a lot here.

Hi all,

Just found about indie hackers through a HackerNews post - I'm Isra, I'm a software engineer currently working at a SaaS cybersecurity company out of Raleigh, NC. I'm interested in healthcare tech, wearables, and AI applications in B2B as well as consumer space. Would love to connect with anyone/everyone looking to explore ideas, meeting potential co-founders, or plain interested in thinking of problems tgt! Also, I'll be moving out West sometime next year!

Here's my LinkedIN for a "professional" bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isra-shabir/

Feel free to connect!

Hello everyone!

I'm Pedro, a software developer from Brazil but I'm living in Portugal now.

I currently do some freelance job for the company I used to work in Brazil to earn some money while I try to start/continue some side-projects.

This week I finished a Slack app called Recordfy (https://recordfy.co) and will start to think about marketing it now.

A while ago I also did something similar. Smalltalk (http://www.trysmalltalk.com) is a Chrome Extension to record audio in Gmail.

I am new here but so far I have learned a lot from people, so thank you everyone!

Hi, I’m Marie, a Swift developer from France.

I’ve been watching IH for some time now, I even made a profile but never participated in any way. I’m finally making a proper introduction!

With my partner in crime Vincent, I started my company more than a year ago. After failing at our first product, we decided to change our life and way of working. We left our apartment, became nomad and started to follow the indie path.

We built Threader (https://threader.app), a Twitter client that curates good threads, and we’re working on a v2 which will (finally) include premium features. We also launched two paid apps recently: ipman.io, a Mac menu bar app to quickly copy/paste your IP address instead of Googling it every time, and pingman.io, a Mac app to monitor your ping from your menu bar and check which apps consume the most network.

As for now, we need recurring revenues so our next project will probably be a SAAS. I think IH is the perfect place to find advice for that kind of business. I’m glad to learn from you all.

Hi! Introduced to IH by my good friend @WarrenOF.

Definitely my kind of community. Just subscribed to the podcast, too - I recently worked out that I need to listen to 25hrs a week to keep up with my current subscriptions....

I'm British, living and working on a startup in Sofia, Bulgaria. Great quality of life, and an amazing adventure, but I'm currently thinking of returning to London (where I graduated an accelerator 2 years ago), or possibly Berlin.

Have basically been running businesses for 20 years - partly in the music industry (I was a recording artists and DJ for nearly 10 years), and have been running tech startups for nearly 10 years - although my home city isn't a real tech hub, so for the first 5 years I had absolutely no clue what I ws doing because I had nobody around me to tell me what I was doing wrong.

Anyway, looking forward to learning more from this community!

Hi all, I've been lurking around for a while, but as @csallen does a great job pushing this thread to the top every time one visits the forum, I guess it's about time to introduce myself.

I am a creator by passion, and I chose the profession of a software engineer as a means of creating; with 10 years (long time ago, in 1989), I moved from writing stories and painting worlds to building simple games on a C64. I loved how you could create your own rules and tweak everything easily with programming. At some point I was able to produce my own sprites and character sets (without knowing that I was just about to learn binary notation), and a friend's older brother explained to me how to write text adventures (with rooms, verbs, objects,... stored in DATA strucutures and a real parser, splitting commands by "and" or comma and extracting known verbs and objects from the input). Let's just say that, for a long time after that, my parents weren't really happy that I spent most of my waking hours in front of a computer, and admittedly, the latter hasn't really changed until today but at least my parents finally acknowledged that it wasn't as bad as they thought.

Games remained a large part of my career. I wrote an Ultima 6 like RPG (with partly "borrowed" graphics) for PC around 1995 (editor video here https://vimeo.com/12350612). With friends, I built a real-time strategy game mainly during my CS studies (screenshots here http://www.sechsta-sinn.de/_projekte/_dvw/dvw.htm), and in 2003 I was even credited as a programmer in an EA title. At that time, I also finished my CS degree, and I had to make a decision whether to pursue a career in game development or in another industry. I interviewed with a couple of game studios, but then chickened out because I also wanted to earn some money to sustain my other interests, like owning and driving sports cars.

So I jumped into the insurance and financial industry. This is when I really got into full-stack web development with a frightening large number of different technologies in the Java ecosystem for backend and server-side rendering, and an bloodcurdling number of JavaScript based stuff for frontend and/or backend.

In 2008, while being permanently employed, I started freelancing on the side (the sports cars, you know...), and I got hooked by the get-rich-from-the-app-store virus and built a Christmas-themed app with a graphic artist within a few weeks (trailer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKzmPQCTso). Truth be told, we didn't get rich, but I kept chasing freelancing opportunities and got more eager to start something on my own.

In 2010, after trying a couple of ideas which didn't work out, I eventually started a company with two of my colleagues, which is still my main focus today. We're 16 people now and active in a B2B niche business (we're specialists in building emoney and virtual account management software). Our products are used on three different continents and, while sales is really hard in such a specialized field, we're looking to grow further, slowly but steadily. Luckily, in a way, my co-founders like creating just like I do, so we're also re-investing parts of our revenue into building JVs in related fields. For example, this year we'll launch Value Manifesto, an Ethereum-based art project (https://www.valuemanifesto.ch/).

Even though I am married with two kids today, I can't stop building new stuff and exploring new opportunities. My wife is self-employed, too, so she understands very well; in fact, we're in the process of launching something together. While I've had some success in the B2B space, I still dream of building something in the B2C space, with more exposure, more end user interaction, and scale.

An overview of some projects is available at https://digitalbreed.com/portfolio; there's much more burried on my hard drives that I still need to catalogue.

My gravitational center is around Cologne, Germany, and I'd love to connect to likeminded people locally and globally!

Woops. This turned out to be longer than intended, thanks for bearing with me.

Hi, I'm Volkan

I'm develop IOS applications for living currently. I've worked as web developer, backend developer. Get hands dirty most of the phase on software development.

I found this cool website from hackernews. Before go to bed I told myself, I'm gonna read only one post and that 's it. Then I realized read 10 post and found myself writing in here. :)

I have skills and wanna create something, but no idea. Just wanted to point :)

Good luck to everyone.

Hello, my name is Billy Lo...

1. Software architecture work by day at Tangerine.ca

2. Indie software development by night at Sidekick-app.com and Spendsimple.ai

3. High school robotics team coach team610.com

I build for the youth and underserved. Lives in Toronto, Canada

Looking forward to meeting everyone here!

Hey, I'm Phil. I've been coding for 20+ years in all kinds of different languages. About 8 years ago, I left my full-time job to start my own business. I've had some really great and really stressful experiences in the process but it has been worth it.

I currently build Laravel/Vue.js applications and have several side projects that I maintain and promote.

My wife and I travel and live full-time in our camper. At this posting, we are in the Kansas City area (Lawrence, KS). When I'm not working, you will find me working hard on my disc golf game.

Coding in C and running UNIX servers since I was 12. Now I'm 30 and the challenge is gone. So now I want to try going on my own. First step: ramen profitability. I want to share experiences with people in a similar situation. Let me know if you're ever in Krakow, Poland.

I am Grant Nieddu with State of the Spark, a lifestyle group of businesses that help Ignite Lives of Explosive Significance.

We have a website co, a bookkeeping co, and a social media co. We are adjusting the website co. for SaaS and scale. That's why I'm lurking!

Hello, I'm new to Indie Hacker. It's great to be here. I got linked from Product Hunt which I enjoy very much. I'm actually seeking to learn more on a specific niche on tech and hopefully learn soft skills like marketing and communication.

I started a company that creates website and web applications at https://businessangelsweb.co although we are focusing more on our SaaS (https://posangel.com) where we made a tool for SME to help monitor their growth and eventually has a single truth of their business which is the numbers.

Hope I can learn from you guys and this community on how you promote or sell your products online. It's actually hard in my country to introduce SaaS since we are a 3rd world country so we made a strategy to go from door-to-door and giving out flyers just to make sure our product could be known. We had several sales but still looking for other ways to market.

Cheers!!!

Hello IH, I've been a lurker for quite some time admiring all of your hard work and effort. I am a front end developer / designer that has quickly aspired to a CMO role at an industrial e-commerce store. I hope to provide assistance and answers to those looking to move into E-Commerce or the industrial products space. Glad to be a part of the community! I myself hope to launch a SAAS product within the next year in the nutritional space.

Hello,

I'm Mark.. I live in Queens NY. I moved back to launch a new app with minimal development skills... (FML)

I'm looking to gather as much knowledge as I can, and share some of my experiences if valuable.

Took me some time to break the ice but now that it's done I will be more engaging in the community.

Hi folks. I'm Chris, a startup technical co-founder and dev from Toronto. I've been lurking for a little while and thus learning from other founders. (Thx, btw!)

Thought I'd make this relationship a little more formal, and also see if I can help out in any way. I might even contribute at some point in the not-so-far-flung future.

Great to be here.

Hello there!

Just landed(thanks Nick!) and loving the place :)

I'm Alberto, based between Madrid and London, I'm currently on a mission to improve mental health through https://wemby.co, with particular attention to people living in remote locations. Now I'm working towards the next milestones: rising a seed and increasing MRR.

I have done startups before (it's a bad habit, I know :-P), worked at small and big internet companies, and as an humanitarian in conflict zones.

I'm happy to help fellow indie hackers that are starting up with business, product, marketing, or entering European markets.

Feel free to connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fantappiealberto/

Enjoy the ride!

Alberto

Hello, community! My name is Lex Smirnoff, I'm an expert of Forex trading, coaching, author of several books and courses. Specialized in this field since 2005. As well from 2006 I`m an entrepreneur and passionate about business development in many different counties across Europe and Globe. I live and work in Barcelona, Spain.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lex-smirnoff-98512993/

Now I represent incredible channel for entrepreneurs and small, medium size enterprises to attract more customers if you already established legal entity and has the products or services to provide and sell (impossible to help start-ups with no product/services, sorry). Ask me if you have interest to have more sales, I will be happy to help your growth, providing you an access to 10 milllion+ users community.

Hello! I'm working on http://fastbmk.com/

Fast, lightweight and reliable bookmarks manager.

Hey. I'm Vladimir from Russia. I'm a procrastinator. I am struggling with my problem - postponing my affairs for later.

I have long thought that I can help in my laziness. And I realized - I need a good push.

I came up with an application where people push each other to motivate each other to do their job.

We gathered a team of 5 people and made such a mobile application - Whipcake.com.

It turned out effectively and fun. :)

Imagine you created a task that you can not do for a long time. And then there is a person who sends you a push-reminders about this task. A real, living person is not an automatic alarm clock.

It motivates, it's responsibility, it works. It helps me personally. :) And my team, too. If that, join. We will kick you. :)

And we are looking for marketer-cofounder.

Hi Everyone! My name is Giselle and I'm a digital marketer from Chicago. I currently do product, strategy, and campaign management for Push Notifications at Groupon.

Previously, I led marketing for Doggyloot (pet e-commerce) from series A through it's acquisition.

I also helped launch Rescuebox.com (pet subscription box) and managed social media and guerilla marketing for the Sandbox Industries Venture Capital Firm.

I'm here to connect with this amazing group of people, learn, and provide advice.

Hello folks, my name is Constantine, I live in Ukraine. I'm a co-founder @ https://proficonf.com/

We're building the next big thing in video conferencing. Hoping to surpass those big players that dominate video conferencing now.

Hello all,

My name is Jaron Ray Hinds. I love rapid lean startup deployment. The latest endeavor is call www.eosblox.com which is a set of modules that make it easy to deploy dApps on the EOS blockchain.

I have been in the startup scene since 2014, prior that I built apps and websites. Seen a few exits, saw many failures. Add me on LI via https://linkedin.com/in/jaronrayhinds ..

Look forward to interacting :)

Hello, I’ve just discovered IH and I really like it.

I’m Juan Carlos from Alicante, Spain. I built several websites from 2003-10, during the golden days of Google Adsense. During the last years I tech IT in a school and develop mobile apps as side projects, firstly in Android and lastly in iOS.

Since Apple launch ARKit I am learning to program augmented reality apps. The new one is shAPPes, an iOS augmented reality app for kids, built with ARKit. You can try it at https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/shappes-3d-shapes-in-ar/id1412316707?mt=8

Hi everyone! I'm a dev from Jackson, MS. I've ran a product agency in the past, then worked as a solo consultant until very recently.

These days, I've just started a day job as a frontend engineer and am currently working on building up DevLifts, a fitness company for developers.

I just discovered the community from a blog post my boss shared with me. Excited to be here.

Hello! I'm Akshay, Founder of growthwizards.co, a content creation company specializing in producing high-quality blog articles, infographics, eBooks, explainer videos and interactive content for content strategists, marketers and SaaS company founders.

Nice to meet you all:)

Was introduced about a year back but hadn't spent much time on the site until recently agreeing to lead a small consumer startup (www.lookoptic.com) and needing to get scrappy with decisions on how to run and grow the business. Recalled some great content on that topic here at IH and have spent the last few hours perusing all the areas I'm currently focused on, and feeling like I've barely scratched the surface.

Would love feedback from the IH community on the business if you're so inclined. My next big hurdle is creating video content variants for ad testing, with some relatively tiny budgets. Any great IH services I should be checking out that support production of simple but quality video content (GIFs would do) a product demonstration collateral?

Otherwise, some backstory. Sharpened my technology chops as product manager on an applications team within Blizzard Entertainment. Moved from technology to freelance small business consulting before taking a role as first marketing hire for artist marketplace Society6, where I led the marketing organization from approximately $10m to near $100m in global direct to consumer revenue.

Taking my first step (tumble?) into startup development, with occasional breaks for dance offs with my 2yo daughter or building minecraft cities with my 4yo son.

Looking forward to getting familiar with all that IH has to offer and learning more about the community!

Hi everyone! I'm Stephen, formerly product @ Google, and now I'm working on PMLesson.com, a site for self-service PM coaching with detailed lessons and courses online.

I'm excited to learn from the community on how to best grow the online course and best provide value to our users!

In other news, I'm an avid blogger at medium.com/@stervy and I'm passionate about the intersection of mental health + technology.

Hey All,

I've definitely been lurking for the last month so figured it was time to actually get involved.

I'm Jeff and I live in Toronto, Canada. I studied economics and politics in school so the tech industry was never on my radar until after I graduated. A friend of mine who was working on a startup is actually the one who got me interested in tech.

Soon after that, I launched my first company (getroxi.com) and though we had some challenges scaling at first, we were able to eventually get acquired without raising any money. It wasn't millions of dollars but it was definitely good. Plus we were very happy to have built something that someone was willing to buy.

After Roxi, I worked on a number of different side projects until I started another company (aircare.io). Initially, it was a marketplace model connecting hospitals with American patients. We actually "closed" a seed round and moved out to SF but because of immigration/visa issues, one of our co-founders was held back and we actually lost the funding. That was tough and definitely impacted the business and we were forced to go back to the drawing board. Now, we've pivoted slightly and are taking a B2B approach looking to hospitals the ability to offer loans to visitors.

Outside of tech, enjoy reading, sports, spending time with family and summer :).

I'm always working on side projects/ideas and open for anyone interested in jumping on board. I'm not a hacker by any means so any technical help/support I can get is a plus!

Heyoo, I've been lurking for a day or so now and think its about time I properly introduced my self :)

I'm Dan. Born and raised in Laramie, WY. Yeehaw... Graduated from the United States Military Academy, where I majored in Chinese (I already spoke the language), but wanted... no... NEEDED to do a study abroad and majoring in Chinese was my only option. Great short term choice, bad long term :/

After serving 5 years in the Army, I resigned my commission and moved to San Francisco where I learned how to code at Dev Bootcamp.

I've started and failed two companies before joining a startup fresh out of Y-combinator, Bannerman, where I ran their sales process, growing them from 0-1.2M ARR in about a year.

I left the company at the 1 year mark and joined another company, Keepe, fresh out of Techstars Seattle where I also ran their sales process, taking them from 20-90K MRR in about 4 months.

I'm currently back in the startup game with one of best friends, Anson. For those of you in SF Bay Area, ya'll might remember a company called Spoonrocket... they were one of the first on-demand food delivery companies.

We're working on a new kind of sales enablement tool called www.useorca.com where we enable teams to automate and sequence social engagements on Linkedin and eventually on and across other channels.

We believe cold emailing is on its way out (not completely, but definitely losing its effectiveness). Email prospecting, like any growth tactic, is subject to the law of shitty clickthroughs... and we think that social is the next iteration of sales enablement.

I don't code much anymore, mainly because I am terrible, just absolutely terrible. These days, I'm all about growth hacking and building relationships.

Outside of Orca, I spend my time producing music, singing, and dancing... and most importantly getting lifted with friends and family.

Living the life ya'll.

Oh and last thing... I always recommend one book in my conversations regardless of whether or not its relevant. If you haven't already... check out the POWER OF NOW.

Let go and all will come.

Cheers!

Hello Fellow Hackers,

I'm Darshan. I am from Bangalore, India. I have been coding since i was 17 years old ( currently 30 ) . I work as a software engineer at a tech startup and love to indiehack on weekends and free time.

In the past i have tried working on various side/hobby projects . Most of them have never seen the light of the day.

But Indiehacker platfrom & stories on people on this platform have given me enough motivation to build something that i can take out to the world.

I have been working on http://lynks.in for past few months. Happy to share that it is almost ready now and would love to hear feedback from you guys :)

Hello, just finding out about this web site. I'm an immigrant to Mexico and run a service to help those move abroad (https://www.beaforeigner.com). I also run a blog (http://www.keenready.com) about my daily life here. I'm a gorgeous geek at heart.

Just wanted to say hi, my name is Ben, and I plan on spending most of the time lurking. I am an active part of the angel community in both Boston and NYC, and looking forward to learning more about the various projects on the site.

👋Hey everyone, my name is Dan and I'm a full stack Javascript developer over here in sunny Venice, CA. I'd love to meet up for coffee! My goal is to hit $10k/month in passive income by the end of the year.

⚡I got started with building things when I built my first computer back in 2002. I got really into hackathons while I was in college and have been building software products ever since :)

🤖Currently, I'm building Slice Capital while doing some consulting on the side. I tend to focus on React/React-Native and building out MVPs. Check out some of the things I've built.

I'm on Twitter and also would love to connect via Facebook!

Hello everyone, my name is Alfredo and I am a web developer from Spain.

I know the Indie Hacker community since almost its start, and I had seen its evolution although I never had published nothing.

I hope to can aport something of my technical skils to this community and to learn very much from its members.

I am developing a side project, that I will talk about later.

Thanks and sorry for my horrible english ;)

Hi all,

I'm Sebastian, living down under for the last 4 years or so but also lived in Argentina and Brazil for pretty much 50/50 of my life.

I've worked in technology for most of my life, started as usual doing gigs with computer maintenance in my very early years then graduating to a full fledged developer after being introduced to it at school and uni and never looked back!

Have fooled around with the concept of a startup and even managed to land a first round of 1-on-1 interviews with investors when I was living in Brazil for an online stock market trader I had developed but unfortunately never made it further than that.

I have always been the lone entrepreneur trying to bootstrap ideas whilst juggling family, friends and work!

Hopefully IndieHackers will help me be inspired to try different approaches and maybe even find companions along the way.

Cheers!

Hi,

I´m Ricardo. I´m Spanish and live in Spain. RoR developer for 3 years and now working to build a business.

I work for a big consulting firm for about ten years. After that time, i wanted to do something completely different that allowed me to have more control over my time and learnt to code.

I´m working 50% as a freelance and 50% on my own projects. I have launched 3 projects but none of them managed to get any traction.

Working now as a freelance in the backed of an application called Leemur, chat stories. Also working in a new project related to education but taking a different path. Less coding and more customer development. Although is taking me more time, I think is probably better approach. I´m getting very interesting information mainly on things that I thought were important for people and doesn´t seem to be.

Although it was great working for a big company for so long, working with great proffesionals and making a lot of friends, I definetely prefer my job now. Hopefully soon I will find the way to be create a valuable product for a ton of users and spend 100% dedicated to build it.

Hello everyone!

I'm Morteza. Long time ago I had a side-project named Appjs (https://github.com/appjs/appjs). As usual, I was busy with my routine days at work so the project could not get big enough.

I want to get back on the train and start new side-projects. So I am here to learn from you guys and be part of the community!

Hi folks! I've been a super-lurker on Indie Hacker for a while now, but only just made an account. I love the idea of making something useful for other people that's enough to pay the bills. I'm from Adelaide, Australia, where I teach mathematics and digital technologies full-time.

I almost finished a web-app last year for scheduling parent-teacher interview times, called Meeting Times, but never launched it. http://meetingtimes.com.au

However, I am super-excited that I just released my digital marksbook for teachers, called ClassGen! http://classgen.com

I'm here to soak up everything that people have to say, because Indie Hackers is a pretty addictive website with a rockin' community.

Hello, I am Bilgehan, and iOS engineer from Turkey.

I am experienced with iOT/connected devices and Bluetooth technology, CoreLocation and iBeacons.

I am passionate about Swift (hello objc fans, yes I know objc is much better in a lot of ways, but still :)), have a love-n-hate relationship with Xcode, and sometimes when I am slightly melancholic, think that my only friend is my Mac.

I currently work on my own market-place application (which is available on AppStore Turkey) and hope to build its Android companion some time soon, if I can find some guidance or any kind of help at all.

I am always open to new ideas, so let me know if you need any iOS related help.

Cheers!

p.s.: Here is my linkedin account for any kind of reference https://www.linkedin.com/in/bilgehan-işikli-181763a8/

Hello everyone 👋🏼

I’m Abdulmohsen T. Alduwaisan from Kuwait. I’ve been freelancing on the side while keeping my day job for the past couple of years. I help teams come up with, and validate, product ideas.

Currently, I’m building my own physical product, Tre: a living room table for multitaskers. (www.meettre.com).

I also share everything I’m up to on my personal website (atalduwaisan.com).

Looking forward to learning and helping out whenever I can! ✌🏼

Hi, i am gator70, spent 7000 hours building my SaaS

Hi Indie Hackers,

I've been a long-time, quiet member of Indie Hackers and figured it's time to say, "Hello 👋."

I'm Sharnie, and I'm currently a Software Engineer at Spotify.

I enjoy working on side projects, but I never thought it could be profitable until I discovered Indie Hackers.

I once built an entire app for the sake of boosting my followers on Instagram. It worked very well until Instagram gated access to their API. Here's a screenshot of the app if you're curious: https://twitter.com/SharnieIvery/status/972084899204288512

If you ever need help with code or social media marketing related things, feel free to hit me up.

Much love!

Hi, I'm Diya 👋

I'm a Digital Strategist 👩‍💻 & natural wanderer🏕️

I have completed my graduation in Business Administration back in 2016 and currently working with a couple of brands to help them grow and optimize the conversion rates 🎯

I'm ever-curious and constantly trying to evolve to be the better version of myself. At some point, I got into the Open Source world and amazed by the concept. Since then I'm loving to contribute towards the community and doing some pro bono marketing projects for startups.

When I'm offline from the digital world, I must be traveling to find the natural beauty and capture those experience with my gears. 📷 🌎

Hi all,

I'm Laura! First time posting on here. I'm currently based out of Toronto, Canada but originally from the States. No I did not flee the US to avoid Trump = P

Hoping to learn from all my fellow Indie hackers on here and share my tips on being both personally and professionally efficient and productive.

I'm currently the co-founder of Deputy Rabbit (www.deputyrabbit.com) where we help provide beautiful design work at an affordable rate.

Hoping to get to know this community better over the coming weeks. Cheers!!

Hi! I'm Jonathan. I started working about 5 years ago in the SF Bay Area as a Web Engineer, then took my job to the forests of the North Bay and worked remote for a year, then got laid off.

It's been surprisingly difficult to find remote work, so as well as submitting lots of resumes and doing hackerrank tests, I've been working on a passion project as a portfolio piece. I do a lot of posting on forums, and I post a lot of pictures. I got tired of dealing with various photo sharing sites selling me out as their product in various ways, so I'm developing my own web app.

The app is a somewhat typical photo sharing site with a bit of a twist to it, the photos will be stored in an easy-to-setup cloud bucket owned by the user. This gives them full ownership of their data. And, the pictures will be shared through a proxy, providing anonymity and collecting analytics for the user.

It's not deployed yet, but I nearly have MVP developed and I'm trying to figure out where I want to go from here. I started it as a portfolio piece, but now I think I should see if there's a market for it, and if there is decide how I might monetize. I've got a lot to learn, and a lot of questions for you all, no doubt. I'm looking forward to asking them!

Hello, I'm Marquis Shepherd new to the community looking to learn and become a sponge and soak up the knowledge from some successful entrepreneurs while being stuck at a regular 9-5 job its tough to get out and meet like-minded people. Also, want to help provide value for those in need of professional video and graphics for their marketing campaigns with my own business HERD Media.

Hi fellow IHs,

My name is Willy and I think I want to one day start something, but for now I like to try and come on to IH and read some awesome origin stories.

I've been reading some of the contents on here once in awhile, but haven't joined in on any discussions till today. This site serves as a useful resource about starting a business tech/non-tech which is the reason why I keep coming back. Its inspirational and insightful. Continue on the great work! Also thanks for creating this resource for all of us to see.

Hello,

I am Neal Jha - founder of MyDataOrganizer (https://MyDataOrganizer.com) located in Bay Area California - San Jose.

We provide Low-code Platform for building custom business applications as per your workflow requirements.

I will provide free help to build your custom business application prototype .

You can contact me at email in my profile.

I am thrilled to join indiehackers community.

Thanks,

Neal

Hello everyone. I'm John Cole. 40-years large print publication designer turned developer in order to build a site where music fans can earn representing musicians music, merchandise, and tickets. Muezbiz.com is a social site enabling many to profit instead of the too few big outlets: iTunes, Amazon, etc.

This New Mexican first thought of the idea in 2012 when I became aware of Amazon giving an app which allowed their users to enter an independent bookstore, scan the bar code, then buy from them. That didn't sit too well with me.

For a few years I banged around Santa Fe trying to express the idea. I soon realized very few had enough background to understand what I wanted to build ... and, of course, most wanted money.

I made a decision to jump into Lynda.com and learn PHP, etc. fall of 2015. I've gotten really good at conditional statements. !-) The MVP is live, pimples and all.

I have recently turned toward becoming the entrepreneur instead of developer. Only today I discovered Quora's value with pretty fast feedback for a question. Faster then poking around AdWords. There are so many internet outlets to discover value gaining valued feedback. Now my journey is to work out messaging. I'm in it for the long run, and as of now, I have no investors.

I truly don't think the site is going to grow gangbusters, one never knows. Which brings me to indie hackers.

There is nothing like Muezbiz.com live today on the net where others can make money representing others people's content. It's the publishers of content and those representing it who really get paid. The site takes 2.9 percent from both, then pays all merchants fees. Very inexpensive advertising is also available with local conversations and global clubs.

Rattle my chain anytime. I look forward to reading and participating where I can be most constructive.

John Cole, aka Perky

Hey everyone! I'm Vidy, I went to an Indie Hackers meetup in NYC a few weeks ago because one of my friends had told me about it. I also just discovered this.

I mainly do iOS development, full-stack web development, UI/UX design, and produce music.

Oh also, I just graduated from college and I'm trying to get my startup off the ground & trying to learn about this world as much as I possibly can.

Glad to be here :)

Hi folks,

I'm Christoph.

I'm from Munich, Germany 🇩🇪

I made and sold https://www.LinksSpy.com - a SaaS for professional SEOs

My current project is the SaaS Email Marketing Handbook (https://www.saasemailmarketing.net/).

I'm pretty good with email marketing for SaaS/subscription-based products. If you have any questions or want me to look over your email sequences (for free), let me know.

Hello IH!

I'm John and I live in Montclair, New Jersey. I'm a software engineer and spend my time outside work on several side-projects.

My inspiration usually draws from solving my own problems or issues. In an earlier project (https://papyral.com) I tried to create a website for aggregating news/websites in one place and provide a place to share and discuss with connections. This is was my first attempt at creating a service for people to consume, but it took a long time to build (years) and I found it a crowded marketplace. Overall, the experience was amazing and I learned so much. Building a user-facing product is so much different than what I had done daily as an (embedded) software engineer. Papyral is still available, but not maintained.

I'm working on a new project to help reduce my expenditures on cloud services. I slowly built up a consistent $100+/month bill from AWS. Switched to GCP and saved some money initially but then built up over time to the same amount. Considering how low the utilization of my resources were, it was just too expensive!

I have a system I put together manually that allows me spend $5/month and host my resources at home, on hardware I own. Speed and connectivity are the same, along with reliability. This new project aims to automate the system (and network) and make it easier for developers to host resources on their own hardware, be in any location, and serve out content/resources to the Internet. Like ngrok but with features it doesn't provide. If you're interested let me know so I can contact you when I'm ready to open the door for a alpha/beta testing.

I have a longer-term vision to change app development/deployment with such a system and eliminate some of the resources we place in the cloud with the ubiquitous computers in our pockets.

In general, I'm hoping to meet and learn what other people are working on in the IH community. I'm constantly thinking about new ideas and I think this community is a great way to meet people who are doing the same thing I do in my spare time.

Cheers,

John

Hello, I'm new here. I found out about the community from a colleague of mine. I have a full time job in a company that deals with the IoT sector where I mostly do embedded development. But on the side I run a programming course for local graduates (I live in Cyprus) and also have various attempts at some small projects, either by myself, or with some collaborators.

I hope that one day some of my projects could become profitable, but I feel it's too early to consider that.

Hello, I've only just recently signed up. However, I have been lurking through articles and posts for some time now.

I'm Jack, I live in London, UK, and have only been learning web-dev for almost a year now! I am currently working on two projects both of which i hope to release soon. One being a to-do-list (i know, original!) and the other being a site for members to receive feedback and promote their site. Watch this space!

Spent some years leading analytics/product at various mid-large sized companies. I've decided to venture into consulting on data enablement projects to help smaller companies operationalize their data. I'd like to eventually build a product. This community has been amazing at providing motivation and resources necessary for entrepreneurs like me. Much love!

Hello guy!

I am an electronics engineer in the world of web development. During the past 10 years or so I have spent my time working as a web dev & hardware engineer. Last year I quit my hardware job to become a freelancer and while working for other people, build my own projects. Every day I am learning a lot about many different topics of running a business. Yet I don't have a big project online, just my sideproject pwdquery.xyz

I am going to start following indiehackers website (have been listening to the podcast for a while). If you guys need any hardware (and web) help, let me know! I would love to help ;)

Brand new to IH. Just signed in with the tweeter today. I'm in Tampa, FL. Started my own biz senior year of college in 2004 doing branding and web development, which has since transitioned into SaaS model. Currently working my keister off trying to scale WooCredits.com into the multi-million WooCommerce user base. Have 400 paid users in over 60 countries but running out of bandwidth and considering possibility of looking for co-founder/equity dev partner to reach goal of $1MM annual sales. Anyone have experience partnering via IH? Good or bad experience? Thanks and hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Hi there!

My name is Peter and I build and manage networks and infrastructures for startups so they can build and run better apps as well as scale faster.

I'm moving from freelancer to becoming a business called "Hyperscale Engineering" https://hyperscale.engineering (WIP)

I also have a project to simplify remote access / virtual private networking that has been in the validation phase for some time: https://wormhole.network

Hi fellow hackers,

I am Bharath Kallur from Bengaluru, India. I work full time as a Software Engineer and also passionately building www.ideasplatter.com. I am learning a lot while developing IdeasPlatter and want to connect to some interesting people.

Most of my time while I am not working is spent traveling with my wife, learning music and practicing the Hindu Vedic literature.

What's up everybody?! This is Colleen, recently joining IndieHackers. ;) Definitely been learning from the podcast and finally decided to check out the community.

I have been working at a mobile ad agency for a few years and would get constant requests from our advertiser clients for something we could not provide - transparency in mobile ad inventory, especially that which can't be accessed through the duopoly. While we had access to quite a lot of this inventory, almost all suppliers choose not to be transparent.

After listening to me complain about that missing piece my developer husband started building a platform as a side project. Just last month I left the agency to work on building partnerships for this project and now we are a husband-wife cofounder team - what could go wrong?

Looking forward to learning from everyone who is a few steps, dollars and years ahead of me!

Hello everyone,

I'm Dario, an 31yo IT (both Italian and Information Technology) developer - founder of virail.com

I'm submitting my own story of moderate success, hoping to contribute to this community and to get in touch with people like me, expanding my very limited network of contacts.

Around 2013 I was broke because I used my savings to sustain myself while working for free for another, failing, project, and I was in a long distance relationship, my girlfriend at the time lived in Rome: I did whatever I could to save money, including comparing ticket prices for the 2 leading train companies who were running the Milan-Rome route.

As many IT guys, I'm a lazy ass, and as the task of comparing tickets was a recurring one, I decided to create a little script to fetch data from both sites to quickly check which one was the cheapest.

The idea was useful, so useful I decided to build a little web interface around it. Talking with an ex colleague, I also got some SEO advises.

In the following years, while being an employee for other random companies, I kept working on my project, because it made sense to expand the coverage to different routes and countries, as the problem was just the same everywhere.

As the traffic was naturally growing, it made sense to add also other transport means, like buses, planes and BlaBlaCar, as it was booming and perfectly fitting.

I met some business guys and together we founded a proper company, hired some people. Now it is a sustainable business with headquarters in Berlin and Milano.

I'm proud to say that virail is competing with big players such GoEuro, who is funded by 8zeros digits and counts 200+ employees. They are bigger, but it's flattering to think about the fact we are still comparable.

Also, if anyone is in need to suggestions on high scalable infrastructures, I'd be happy to share what costed me countless sleepless nights and save someone troubles.

Hello!

I joined Indiehackers to read people's stories and learn from them.

I am not really an "Indie Hacker" yet. I am a programmer, I work in a field called "high performance computing." In that field people write and execute code which takes a very long time to run. My specialty is very niche: I take that code and shave off percents of its runtime. Depending on context even a 5-10% improvement could result in a noticeably higher ROI for a client's expensive in-house computing hardware.

Ten years ago that skillset would remain solidly confined to large clients with deep pockets. Now though with cloud computing, bare-metal virtual machines, machine learning, and other changes in computing landscape I wonder if there's new & unique opportunities for people like me.

I don't know anything about making good UI or beautiful websites. But I'll talk to people and see what sorts of problems they need to solve and if they intersect with my skills. I've started attending development oriented meetups, particularly those sponsored by local companies. So we'll see!

I'm 6 years experienced web developer with expertise in Asp.Net Core, Web APIs and Angular6.

I am looking for projects matching my skills

Hi, I'm Nish. I live in Maryland. I am a Sr Software Engineer currently working with React, ReactNative, Gatsby, TypeScript, GraphQL and NodeJS technologies. Outside of my job, I'm currently working on https://spinthebottle.co/ with 2 other co founders. I recently joined indiehackers for an inspiration of ideas to build passive income stream.

Hi everyone!

Just want to say, love the forum and podcasts here on Indie Hackers. I've learned a lot, and it's great to hear I'm not alone in this tough journey.

I currently run a consulting company where I provide FP&A (financial planning and analysis) and accounting consulting with the main focus on ensuring people who use my tools are happy. It was incredible to see how many people were just not happy with their jobs, and by creating a tool for them that shaved 100's of hours off their monthly schedule, it was really rewarding to see I helped make their day a tad bit better.

My goal with my consulting company is to eventually productize it. I realized early on with one of my clients that I hated submitting proposals and then charging hourly for it. I'm hoping that by productizing my services this will eliminate pain points on both ends.

Outside of work, I'm also an avid martial artist and love helping others where I can. I'd love to connect with many more here in this community!

Hey, I am Nick. I have been lurking for a few months and have really enjoyed this community. I am product owner/software dev at a 9 person company called SVI, based in Fayetteville, AR. We build all kinds of corporate training software, but specifically a micro-learning LMS (Learning Management System) called Learner Mobile.

Hello fellow IndieHackers!

I am Renaud from Paris (France). I have been building websites for a long time, for various projects that I never completed. After graduating, I worked as an infra guy for a startup (then acquired by a big corp) for 8 years.

After leaving, my partner-in-life and I started working on Talegraph (https://www.talegraph.com/), a website that enables photographers to tell stories using their pictures. We both love photography and missed a way to share our adventures with our friends and family and not just plain pictures, so we decided to create it ourselves and try the entrepreneur life.

We are iterating fast and are just starting to get our first customers 🚀

So far the journey has been amazing, and we are looking forward to the next step!

Hi! just joined today. im Matt, been doing PHP work for about 10 years and just got my feet wet with fullstack javascript & React about a year ago.

Hi Hackers, just joined. Been a follower of IH articles for sometime.

Founder of several failed products. Always enjoy trying out new ideas and validating ideas in the market. Currently working on a survey / data collection web + mobile app product.

Hi,

I am Milan and I am new to Indiehacker community.

I am trying to productize our service business by creating a programmer as a service model.

My business provides outsourcing programming service at a monthly rate of $299.

Link: http://xpditesolutions.com/hire-development-teams.html

Hello all, I am new to indie hackers, but have been quietly hacking away on my own coding projects for many years. Recently, in collaboration with my father, I have launched my first attempt at an online business - Autotutor.com.au. Autotutor is a high school maths and physics exam preparation website. Any feedback on that would be most welcome. Besides programming, my hobbies include cycling, weight training, and I've just started boxing training too. Lot's of physical activity to compensate for sitting in front of a computer for 10-12 hours a day most days.

Hi All;

I'm Mike, I'm a DevOps consultant and writer based in rural Suffolk, UK. I've been working in the industry since the mid-nineties, and still have an untempered enthusiasm for OpenVMS systems as a result (I'm sure it'll come back in fashion at some point).

As a consultant, I spend my day either working with enormous clients designing infrastructure, or working with startups to make sure they are set up and ready to deploy cool stuff to the world. Thankfully I make a point of working with more startups then Big-CO's since startups have a tendency to be more fun!

In the evenings I either work on my next book or try to cram Elixir knowledge into my brain to work on a few app ideas I've had.

Outside of the tech stuff, I spend as much time as possible with my children (2 and 3 years) and my wife wandering around the countryside and pointing at things and saying 'Oooh, pretty!'

Glad to have stumbled upon this place, seems relaxed and full of interesting folk.

👋 Hello, I've been here for some time, but only recently got into some indie hacking action.

I'm Tomas, I'm from Slovakia but currently traveling around Asia to get some perspective and see the world.

During college I worked in some startups as a front end developer and later designer. In my last college year I founded a "startup agency" Lunadio (https://lunadio.com) together with two classmates. It was a great experience, but after a year I knew that that's not the place I want to be in.

I left in May this year and I'm working on my first project FeedBear (https://www.feedbear.com). I "finished" a working site only a few days ago. Currently I'm looking for ideas how to position the service in the market / what unique value can I provide. (I asked about this in a separate post).

It's been only two months of this freedom, but I really enjoy it so far. And I'm sure I'll enjoy it even more, when I manage to get the first customer 😃

In my free time I enjoy exploring visuals through photography (https://www.instagram.com/tmvst/) and video.

Hello!! it's a big pleasure to be a part of IndieHackers community

Hello everyone,

I found here helpful topics and discussions. I like it.

I have a startup that helps companies easily process employee performance reviews and suggestion management. http://persono.com.tr

Hey there!

I'm Sanjeev from Bangalore,India.

I've started web designing using Django stack very recently and I'm open to some great ideas for web applications from anyone!

I'm looking forward to meet some new people.

Hi Indie Hackers.

This is my first time on the forum - avid listener of the podcast.

I'm a UX designer living in Edinburgh, UK and I have a side-project called Vocal which you can check out here: https://www.bevocal.co

Vocal helps businesses gather customer comments and suggestions privately and anonymously. Customers can find them easily by location and they can respond to customers through our chat feature. It's trialling in a neighbourhood called Marchmont right now but we hope to expand to the rest of the city shortly.

I'm not a technically minded founder and am really interested to meet anyone who is and who likes the idea of helping businesses understand their customers better.

Tom

Hello mates 🙂

I'm gilbert,22 from uganda and co-founder and CTO paidReview.

I am self-taught programmer and have always been fascinated by technology and how it can change lives . I quit my my job last 3months just to start a company and hell yeah journey began but turns out the journey fancy as I expected and lots of creepy problems that are bumping up will make it.

About paidreview , its an app (https://paidreview-web.firebaseapp.com) that lets you get paid by recommending products to people. Its really helpful for brands as they don't require savvy expensive budgets just to access influencers , they can rely on social media users since everyone is everybody's hero.

Other than am trying to build a SAAS company from a harsh territory, I hope by joining here I can find like-minded individuals who can mentor me , get partners as well 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hi guys! Nice to be here, great community!

I'm Matt, I'm enterpreneur and growth hacker from Poland.

I'm co-owner of fast growing SAAS start-up and a growth hacking agency, but your projects here are just great!

I hope that I'll be able to introduce to you some of my solo projects too. ;)

Hi,

I'm Ricardo. Been living in London for the last 4-5 years but originally from Portugal, Lisbon.

I am a full stack developer who has been focusing more in frontend. I am workin on a music learning platform that allows users to learn music through interactive exercises using their own midi devices. It's still very early but I made a landing page and after sharing to Reddit and some facebook groups got 180 people signed up, so now I feel also more committed to finishing this and put it out.

Would love some serious feedback about https://www.midicircuit.io/

Hello to everyone.

I'm a developer located in Sofia, Bulgaria and currently working on a couple of side projects. If there are any other indie hackers located in Sofia, Bulgaria please feel free to message me for a cup of coffee :)

Greetings Indie Hackers community,

My name is Chris Stoikos. I am an outside the box entrepreneur that has created hundreds of millions of video views in the past 2 years using disruptive methods. I grew my last company, The Beard Club from $0 to $30M in revenue in 3 years.

I am now in the process of selling a chunk of my shares and my board seat to start another project.

I came across this wonderful website in search of a developer who wishes to team up and bring this wonderful vision I have to life.

Everyone on here seems super friendly, and I am honoured to be writing this post.

I am a high energy individual with a lot of ideas, all of which I match with proper execution. Building projects is my passion. I was laying low for a year or so as I just gave birth to my first child. This sparked the exit from The Beard Club, and the desire to start something else.

You can check me out on Instagram (I have not been too active) at: @cstoikos

or my personal website at:

christopherstoikos.com

Forbes and entrepreneur wrote some cool articles that talk about different parts of my story if anyone is interested in reading:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/video/305779

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/275926

https://forbes.com/sites/julesschroeder/2016/11/29/25-marketing-influencers-to-watch-in-2017/

I look forward to getting to know this legendary community, and having this platform instrumentally introduce me to a new friend and business partner.

I currently live in Gold Coast, Australia, and can be reached at:

i.am@christopherstoikos.com

Talk soon guys!

Chris

Hi there! I'm Paul. I'm a Lead Solutions Architect at TSYS, Founder of Rugged I/O and an insatiable learner with a passion for Cloud Computing, Payments Processing Solutions, Product Development & Serverless Architectures.

I am a full-time solutions architect for a payments processing company in the Atlanta area and live near Woodstock, GA.

About 4 years ago I developed a passion for programming and product development by working through the Laravel Framework. In that time I managed to build 2 SaaS applications that are https://ruggedtasks.com and https://ruggedprojects.com

Besides working on these applications, I am currently studying for my AWS Certification which I hope to sit for in July 2018.

Is anyone here working as a Cloud architect? Would love to connect

Hi my Name is Jonh mark i run private freelance agency also work as full stack developer.

P.S

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen we are Solum DeSignum and we are developing websites from scratch hand crafted custom made websites.

Hello y'all, I'm Daniel and i'm just another tech geek.

Hi, my name is Anderson Dutra, I am a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

I really like AI and nowadays I've been studying a lot about CyberSecurity, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Few weeks ago i've tried to start a business but it get wrong by some reasons, I have created three bots to invest in cryptocurrency, one of them works in 2 exchanges and analyse all USD and BTC pairs in there and send tips on telegram it can buy and sell alone too, I have a job (Business Intelligence) and I would like to start a business, I have some ideas, some good tips?

Hello,

I'm new to the community! My name is Austin and I'm in the St. Paul, MN.

I currently consulting as a Business Analyst and spend most of my time either sifting through some form of data or translating needs between teams.

I found the community through the podcast actually. I've been really looking for inspiration on starting a business and was pleasantly surprised when I found out about the community itself.

I'm a huge fan of new software and am always trying new things as they pop up. I've had a lot of fun looking through the things that people in this community have built, and hope one day I'll be able to contribute value in the same form.

Hi all 👋

My name is Jeroen and I'm from the Netherlands.

At the moment I run a digital agency and I am the founder of FullService (https://fullservice.co). We provide unlimited premium services for a flat fee per month. Our services start at $500/month and we offer web development, graphic design, content marketing and a few more services.

I started this startup with Arne Hendricks (https://www.indiehackers.com/user/Arneh) because oftentimes it can be really hard to find good, reliable freelancers or agencies and, besides that, it can be a real hassle to get constant high quality work done.

I've been on Indie Hackers for a few days now and I already really like to community! :-)

Hey there! I'm brand new to Indie Hackers. I first heard about this site on the excellent "Build your SaaS" podcast.

My name is Ryan Bennett. I've been in technology since 1995 and have worked for a number of companies in roles ranging from developer to Vice President of Technology. On and off for the last 6 years, I've also been a consultant and have done development, architecture, training, and strategy consulting for a number of well-known brands. I've also launched a number of small side projects that are in the vein of the Indie Hackers ethos that while unsuccessful, were great learning experiences.

I've hit a very strange wall recently and I'm working on figuring out how to break through it. I took a break from consulting in 2016 to join a company as their VP of Technology. The company was in a very turbulent period and I simply was not happy, so I went back into consulting. Soon after, my largest (and only) consulting client who had been with me for my entire consulting career closed up shop. Since this past December, despite attempts to rebrand, market, interview, network, and even begin working on my MBA, I've had very little success and close to $0 in income. Being 40, single, and with two young kids, I am trying to figure out my next move.

I've had opportunities in the past to join companies as an early employee that I was unable to take advantage of only to watch them become wild successes. I have friends and former colleagues that have built great products and companies. I just can't seem to break through at the moment.

Short story long, I'm hoping to network, meet some great people, and get some ideas on how to really capitalize on my dream, which is to eventually build a successful product (or more than one at some point) from the ground up. I have a list of ideas to draw from and I have the skills to turn them into products, and I'm already getting some great insight on how to move forward from this community.

Hi there.

I'm Bill. I am from Thailand. I run a small indie software business with a team of 6 people. Now we are focusing on our Cloud based HR software called EZY-HR (https://www.ezy-hr.com).

My background is in Mechanical Engineering and I self taught my coding skill but never take a full time programming job before.

After reading a lot of startup blogs few years ago, I and my friend decided that we should try to start our own, so we blindly picked one market that we tought would not be to hard which is HR.

I was wrong about it. Now I know the HR is harder to understand than my Thermodynamics stuff I learn in engineering school.

So we started with 0 staff with any background in HR or any related field. The first 2 years was like doing everything that got asked from our first few customers. This is very dangerous and a sure way to fail. Fortunately we survived despite doing a lof of silly things and finally got a real HR people in our team. After that, everything seemed to fall right into the place.

So one thing we learn is do not follow everything customer asking for. It is very important to have someone who really know everything about the industry/customer in your team and that person must be able to validate the customer requirements before we start implementing it.

Now we are very happy with the way that we are running profitable, bootstrap business with no outside funding. Lot of our customers asked if we are one of the Startups? but I always answer them that we are just a small indie <family> business instead.

Hello everyone, my name is Anuoluwa from Lagos, Nigeria. I learnt about IH, when Quincy Larson mentioned it on his Twitter TL. I am a self-taught software developer, I don't have any regular job now, I have some ideas, so I want to build viable startup and solve social problems, I need help to understand business part of tech(funding, value chain, execution etc), you can suggest helpful platforms, books, materials and any other resources that will help me on this journey. Thank you.

Hello everyone, my name is Anuoluwa from Lagos, Nigeria. I learnt about IH, when Quincy Larson mentioned it on his Twitter TL. I am a self-taught software developer, I don't have any regular job now, I have some ideas, so I want to build viable startup and solve social problems, I need help to understand business part of tech(funding, value chain, execution etc), you can suggest helpful platforms, books, materials and any other resources that will help me on this journey. I'm life long learner. Thank you.

Thanks for creating this thread Channing. I'm new to the community; however, I've been an avid listener to the Indie Hackers Podcast. So I guess that makes me a "lurker". Anyhow, I'm excited to share/contribute.

For the last year and a half I've been working on a physical crude oil platform. We got off to a quick start and had 750KB transacted on www.theahe.com; however, we quickly realized that the incumbents did not appreciate the disruptive nature of our platform and were blacklisted. After doing some soul searching we realized the real issue is the friction involved with selling wellhead volumes. As a result we're building a SaaS solution ahe.meteorapp.com that streamlines the workflow allowing all documents / data to be aggregated and stored online. As I said earlier, excited to meet you all (I avoid y'all as I'm a native Californian).

Jason

Houston, TX

Hello, I am from South East Asia, ~ 30 years old. I am now to this forum. Looking to learn something new so I can setup my own company!

I have a SaaS project https://www.docsapp.io/ focus on Documentation/API Docs/User Guide. Now it is ramen profitable. Looking to grow it using tips and tricks from IH!

Hey there. I'm Marc. A Designer, Author and Tutor. I'm the founder of MentorOla (Bringing the very best Design Mentors & Mentees together in one place). Looking to make my latest project the very best it can be, and looking for great advice from the many awesome folk here on Indie Hackers.

https://mentorola.com/

Hello developers!

I'm Luca Carducci, CEO and founder at Skaffolder.

http://skaffolder.com/

Skaffolder is a SaaS platform that allows to quickly build custom web applications in many programming languages.

Starting from a visual interface you can define data models, API and pages of your web app.

With one click you can get the source code generated from your metadata on your GIT repository.

A lot of developers love our platform, and you? Give us some feedbacks :-)

What do you think about Skaffolder?

Hello Indie Hackers! 👋 I'm Ronalds Vilcins, a latvian front-end developer and digital designer based in Riga. With more than 10 years experience in the web industry I have worked for a wide range of clients, from brands and agencies to small private companies, both locally and internationally. If you are looking to work together or just start a conversation ping me! 👋

Hello,

My name is Prabu. I'm a developer with about 12 years experience working a variety of companies. I'm originally from Sri Lanka, but grew up in Sydney, Australia. Currently I reside in London.

I'm looking to dip my toes into building something of my own (or with some partners).

Currently in the idea generation phase, which I'm finding tough!

Any tips?

Thanks.

Hello everyone my name is Ibrahim. I am a self-taught programmer (more or less as a beginner).

Right now I'm just navigating myself through to the freeCodeCamp bootcamp, and it was yesterday that I received a tweet about a podcast from IndieHackers and so I listened to it carefully.

So today I decided to create an account here at IndieHackers and I haven't looked back or feared anything since.

Hello everyone. New to the community and I'm loving Indie Hackers so far :)

My name is Tony Lea and I am a Developer in Southern California (Close to San Diego). I've been working on a side project https://devdojo.com for a couple years now and I'm doing "OK" but hope to grow more. I'm currently at about $800 - $900 per month. I'm planning a new release of the site which has been overhauled with more content, updated pricing, and a slick new design.

I hope to dedicate much more time to create more content and add new features, at the moment I dedicate about 15 hours a week to my side project. I still have my day job and I have to make sure to save time for my family, but one day I'm hoping to spend all my time working on the DevDojo.

If y'all could take a look at my site https://devdojo.com and give me any kind of encouragement or constructive criticism I would love to hear it :)

I know that I just need to keep pressing and eventually the project will grow. When I submit my product here be sure to follow me so you can see how I grow after the new release.

Thanks again. Look forward to being a part of the community.

Hi everybody!

Long time reader, first time signer-upper.

I'm Tom, I live just outside of Toronto and I'm an engineer-turned-PM. My day job is working as a product manager for Buffer where I get the opportunity to build some really cool things with even cooler people!

However, I've always been driven by my side projects. A few years ago I launched Lessons Invoicing for iPhone (can link if you want). I did no marketing and it sees a few sales a week - those who use it seem to really love it. I haven't given it much love in quite some time, so I'm planning on giving it a refresh at some point soon and maybe even some marketing. Retention and love for the product is very high!

My current side project is teambook.io. I originally built Teambook to replace our "Team Stats" Paper Doc at Buffer, which at 70+ people, became quite unwieldy, and difficult to parse & search.

Teambook uses Slack to generate an automated Team Directory that anybody on the team can explore. It also aggregates the top messages sent each day in Slack (I'm loving this feature personally) and has an AI-based Slack bot that you can use to ask questions.

To be frank, Teambook has a bit of an identity crisis, and I'm hoping the IH community can help me hone in on what Teambook should ultimately be.

If you're a Slack admin, feel free to give it a go! I'd love love love to learn from you. Right now, the only user is Buffer and I've already learned a ton, but I need more input :)

Always happy to talk shop, or just say hi :) Thanks everyone!

Hi, I'm Andrew.

I've built and sold a venture-backed startup, and now I'm working on an indie business to help other founders raise money 💰.

It's called Deck.vc and founders who are getting ready to raise can submit their pitch deck and get a report with recommendations from an experienced VC analyst. I'm also trying to do it with as little code as possible, as an experiment to see how far I can get with just Zapier and some other tools.

I'm in New York most of the time, though I've spent a lot of the last few years snowboarding in Canada and have a 3 month stint in Philadelphia coming up. I'm big into travel, restaurants, and concerts.

Hi there,

My name is Austin. I currently live in Woodland, CA but originally from the great state of Texas. 🌵

I do a little bit of everything at PagerTree. Our goal is to make a better on-call experience accessible to everyone. Been working on this since 2016, full-time since 2017.

In my free time I like to hang out with my wife and play hockey.

Hello, I'm Gareth, I'm from Dublin and I'm primarily a frontend developer.

I've been looking at the helpful advice and information on this site for awhile now. Its very nice to have a collective of like minded people who are striving to to achieve entrepreneurial success with their programming skills.

Its also very motivating seeing the success of others with detailed overviews of how they personally monetized their side projects.

Knowing what might work and what won't is invaluable information to have.

Normally, I'm writing down what I'm learning or what I think is interesting on my blog http://jsdiaries.com/home/ but I have taken a break in order to focus on a crypto currency dashboard with a series of metrics to display your profit/loss from a transaction.

My idea was to simplify data visualization charts for displaying profits, without being to complex for someone unfamiliar with detailed analytics.

My intention is to monetise it with specific crypto ads but I am thinking of introducing a premium service where you can save your crypto currency transactions to your account and can customize the dashboard in a settings page.

I may still need to expand on that idea for the premium service.

Still early days and its a bit buggy but you can check out an early version of this here. www.coin-profit.com.

Looking forward to see how I can improve with the help of this community.

Hey fellas!

I'm marketing manager of the music startup Louder.me. We are developing an eco-system for independent artists and music lovers who are looking for new songs. On the one side, it's a web-platform where artists can show their music and be heard, on the other — a mobile app where listeners quickly find unheard songs.

I’d like to get your feedback about product of Louder.me. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

Tommaso from Italy here. I am a UX designer currently freelancing while studying different topics from programming to entrepreneurship.

My goal for the time being is to find a suitable product offer to develop further. I'm currently doing user research in two distinct areas: tax/accounting and property management.

I'm always looking to get in touch with other entrepreneurs or professionals in the field. If you need any UX advice or have any suggestion regarding the topics I'm currently researching let me know.

Cheers!

Hello!

My name's Imad and I'm from Bangalore, India. Been tinkering around with a few side projects. Here's what I'm working on currently. https://thebulletin.co/

Hi I've been lurking around for a while but never said hi! Great to be part of this community.

Hey mate, I am Jatin, a digital hospitality advisor and a travel blogger from New Delhi, India. I earn a living ny running 2 onlune travel firms and enjoy my life as a (non-commecial) travel blogger :)

Hello All

I'm Augustus and I live in Calabar, Nigeria.

I am primarily a python/django developer.

I found indie hacker on twitter, it was mentioned in a tweet by Quincy Larsson of freecodecamp.

Indie Hacker aptly identifies who I am......a developer trying to build a start-up.

I have tried my hands on a number of projects in the past, but none of them worked out.

I am currently working on a social networking app and i really intend to give it my all to make it a success.

I am glad to be here and will appreciate any help I can get here.

Hello Everyone,

I'm Serkan from Istanbul, Turkey and i have my own company.(industrial automation)

I'm not a web developer or a serial hacker.

So I didn't make any money from the internet. But this is my childhood dream and i will definitely try it.

I'm here for learning more about digital startups.

Thanks to everyone who are sharing their experiences!!!!

Hi guys,

I'm one of the founders of http://thebetleague.com/

The Bet League enables gamblers to analyse the performances of +800 of the best betting Experts in the world and subscribe to their predictions.

Never lose a bet again, sign-up 💸

We would love to connect with people in the betting industry :)

Hello hackers!

I am Olga, a founder, business soul, full stack developer and a sports addict from Russia living in Barcelona! Great to be joining this amazing community! ❤

I am introducing innovation into the menstrual space by building Aura, we deliver girls the best products for their period, selected products to lift up the mood during the sensitive days and a huge portion of inspiration and knowledge about our bodies, all of this on a monthly basis and tailor made! 🍓 www.aurabox.co

I am working on a couple other side projects at the same time, as I absolutely love bringing ideas to life! I specialise in innovation, business development, entrepreneurship, all combined with full stack web development. Will love to help anyone here with anything in those fields and out of them! 😁

Apart from that I love classical music, sports of all types, traveling the world and my dog. 🙌🏻

Happy to join you guys and ping me for anything! Cheers and lots of love from sunny Barcelona! ❤

www.olgashirokova.com

Hey there, just joined and put up my first industry resource for entrepreneurs. Realised I should probably have introduced myself.

I'm Aben, I work as a marketing analyst for an app development brand Appscrip. I do digital marketing and work on publishing industry studies for our entrepreneurial following.

I like finding potential market gaps in niches that people wouldn't expect or would have thought was long stagnated.

Outside of work, I play the guitar(still learning), catch up on world events via John Oliver on Youtube or netflix something, and play with my 48kg Golden Retriever

Hi All,

I've been a big fan of IH for a while and subscribe to the newsletter. I love the interviews. I'm a product manager working at a social enterprise based in Australia. I'm taking some time to travel overseas and am launching a little side project.

It's an email newsletter and I'm really enjoying the learning aspect of it - figuring out everything from scratch, putting together content, getting more familiar with Mailchimp etc. - stuff that I haven't really done since I was doing rudimentary web design for local businesses while at Uni.

I've been reading some of the forums and have found some things really useful so thought I'd sign up so I could thank some people and maybe contribute.

Cheers,

Tom

Hi there, I'm Thomas from Hamburg, Germany. I searched for an entrepreneurial podcast and found indiehackers on iTunes half a year ago.

I studied Computer Science and worked as a developer for a computer vision startup in the past. Currently, I'm in a management program of a mechanical engineering company. After two years working there, I have to admit to myself that I don´t like to work there anymore and the type of work in big companies is not meant for me. I stopped programming two years ago and have started to do it again since last month as I want to become a freelance developer and grow my side project.

I met a guy at my company who is my partner in our side project. We both like to learn new stuff everyday and recognized that we both have the problem to store and review all the inspiring pieces we find in books, blogs, podcast and social media posts, which we then want to integrate sustainably in our daily lives.

We are in contact with professional coaches who told us, that they have a similar problem, they call it "manage their knowledge library". While they are coaching, they need the right knowledge from their knowledge library just in time. Also, they want to share their content with their clients so that they can work on it between coaching sessions.

We are working on a solution to solve this problem for ourselves and for the coaches. Additionally, we are talking to the coaches´ clients in order to find out, how we can provide a better remote communication channel between them and their coaches.

Besides this, I'm very curious about you and your stories here at indiehackers and would love share my experiences, challenges and knowledge with you!

Hello everyone,

My name is Dmitri and I'm a CS student at UCLA. I've been working on random side projects at school / hackathons for a while but only recently discovered the concept of "indie hacking".

This summer I'm going to build some projects and see if I can make them profitable eventually. Either way, I'll learn something.

I'll be lurking around.

Hey There!

I've been lurking for some time.. it's time to participate

I'm G, live in Bakersfield, CA a small city in Central California, known for County Music and (other things). I've been self-employed since the age of 22 with various small businesses in range industries.

My team & I currently run a print and media agency call Deprigo (Deprigo.com). We primarily work with local & national non-profits at a deeply discounted rate to help them extend their marketing budget.

I am also building a business management application (SaaS App) called Syrreo for Freelancers/SMB to streamline their workflow Quotes>Orders>Projects>Task all within one application.

I'm getting ready to launch beta version soon and would love to get some honest feedback from IH community. If interested email me info@syrreo.com or connect with me @

https://www.linkedin.com/in/griar/

Hi everybody , I'm an italian "aged" new startupper... I'm not sure to be an Indie Hacker, for sure I'm foolish enough to think to become entrepreneur at fifty ;)

Hey, I am Divs Margol

Hello,

I am an Android dev. I have freelanced and worked professionally on over 15 apps. I am now seeking to go indie. I also interested in growth hacking and generally the business of apps.

I am currently working on an app that has started making a small amount of money. I am seeking to get product market fit and then grow it.

Hi All,

I am Kushal, all the way from Fiji Islands. I've been following IndieHackers for some time now, and I have to say - Truly what an incredible bunch of people. I am a Developer by day, but I do not have a product at the moment.

I am always keen on helping fellow hackers here, you can connect with me https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushal-pillay-79649266/

Thanks All, Happy Hacking

Hello every one, I'm Gurpal and I was introduced here by a friend.

I'm amazed by everyone's journey here and hope that my journey will a great too.

I did a diploma and degree in IT. Learnt to code there(HTML, PHP etc...), and throughout the years did bits and pieces here and there. But never ever felt like a good coder.

I want to build something, it's been eating me inside. Just want to build. But i feel a little rusty and I may have forgotten a lot of stuff.

I have an idea that I am looking to build. Will be looking for lots of help on how to go about it.

Thanks for letting me join, looking forward to learn from you all.

Hey there,

I'm Nitesh, I live in London and I build my first successful business in 2011 and ran it for 6 years working in online retail.

I've been running free entrepreneurship workshops for 2 years and I'd like to share three bits of advice I feel applies to everyone starting off:

1. Failure is only permanent if you stop. If you carry on, it's just an great story.

Failure feels detrimental and life threatening.

What if I told you the more you fail, the quicker you'll succeed?

If you've gone your whole life avoiding it, accept that one day it may happen and remember to be gentle to yourself.

Just like a toddler learning to walk, the falling down is as important as the getting up.

2. Growth only occurs when you're uncomfortable.

If you are sailing through, you're not at your potential. You can do more. After all, a job is easy when you've been doing it for years.

Seek uncomfortable, hold that uncomfortable level for an hour, then a day, then a week - and watch the magic you can create in one single month.

3. 20 seconds of courage.

It only takes 20 seconds of courage for you to change your life. That's it. 20 seconds to give your business card to someone famous, 20 seconds to gather the courage to pitch to a potential investor, 20 seconds.

Contact me at Become Business with any questions you need help with, I'm happy to help!

Hi I'm Mark, Russian Canadian full-stack js dev, enterpreneur and now shifting more and more into marketing and self-starting simple ideas, trying to get traction!

Here's a latest creation to test waters: https://hodlometer.com

Previously I had great success with animated gifs: http://gickr.com and now want to replicate it badly or do even better!

Shoot me a message if you have an idea and want to partner for implementation, I aim to release MVPs super fast to try them with customers (aws, firebase, react, react native, etc).

Hello,

I am a visual artist and am in a continuing education program to learn more about website design, development, social media, and marketing. I have not read any articles yet because I can't wait to get off my computer to draw for my latest project.

Hey everyone!

Im a lecturer in software engineering at RHUL an entrepener in residence at Ignite (and accelerator) in London UK. Before that I co-founded 3 tech companies the last of which still stands (userelease.com). I left i got incredibly burned out.

Ive still got the itch to do thing on my own and as i continue to recover im looking forward to launching some of my own experiments and seeing where they take me.

This my first time commenting on the forum but ive been reading IH for a long time.

Hey, I'm Pablo Rosales, currently trying to move into living on my Newsletter and writing, of course I'm just getting started :) My site is at pablorosales.xyz check it out ;)

I'm a full-stack JavaScript developer (previously Python, PHP and Java), if you need something let me know!

Hi, I'm Viktor from Würzburg, Germany.

I love mobile development and work as the iOS developer for Garmin in Würzburg and run in parallel my side project – AutoWorkout. This is the app which automatically recognizes fitness exercises using machine learning techniques. Check http://autoworkout.app/ if you want to know more. And here are a bunch of articles explaining how the whole stuff works in general:

• https://towardsdatascience.com/run-or-walk-detecting-user-activity-with-machine-learning-and-core-ml-part-1-9658c0dcdd90

• https://towardsdatascience.com/autoworkout-how-to-improve-motion-activity-classifier-predictions-d047feead616.

The idea behind AutoWorkout as a project was simply to learn machine learning by solving a real-world problem. And it turned out to be a market segment which is truly emerging right now, so I'm excited to work further on that.

I had some past experiences running an educational startup and organizing developer community in my hometown Dnipro, Ukraine where I moved to Germany some years ago from, so feel free to ask for help!

I really enjoy being a part (hopefully more active in the future) of IH community because of how much value it brings to those individual devs like you and me.

Hello there! I'm Luana, a Brazilian expat living in Dublin, Ireland. I work as a UX Designer and I am also working on my side hustle, which is an App to help women with curly and coiled hair to find organic products.

My main goal is to give women of colour a chance to find better products that are not linked to cancer or fibroids, . I'm working on the discovery (research phase) still. Landing page is on (www.curlita.com) but probably will go through some changes before the MVP.

Hi, I'm Chris, based in Windsor in the UK and working as a python/javascript developer (mostly Django, NuxtJS and VuetifyJS) in Hammersmith

I just launched (and am now trying to work out how to market) https://www.python-private-package-index.com/, a cloud-based private Python package index. Its designed to take away the effort and hosting costs of open source, self hosted solutions such as devpi, pypiserver and pypicloud, at a much lower price point than existing products like packagecloud, cloudsmith and gemfury.

I've just started another thread asking for feeback on this at https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/looking-for-feedback-on-my-project-private-python-package-index-7f8d8dd14b. Would really appreciate any kind of feedback you have on this - is it a tool you'd find useful, are there any features you'd like to see added, etc? I'm also interested in any suggestions of how I might market it - as a developer by trade, the marketing side is something I'm still getting to grips with

Hi All, I stumbled across this place recently and I like the vibe. Bit more grounded in reality.

I've been hacking about with all sorts of code since I was a kid way back when.

I've had a couple of successes and have recently cleared the decks to start afresh on a couple of projects. Both consumer mapping apps/sites, which hopefully I'll be able to share with you in the not too distant. One with an obvious revenue stream, the other just a bit of fun with no obvious income, but it's an itch I want to scratch.

Hello, everyone!

My name is Allen Elks. I live in the triangle (Raleigh, NC). I learned to build websites in the late 1990's, and I've spent the last 11 years as a software engineer. I worked as a developer in the adult entertainment industry for a long stretch of my career. I have co-founded a company that I later left and worked at another startup a few years ago. Both last a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm currently in grad school for technology entrepreneurship. I have found it quite valuable, and our curriculum suggests we use our coursework to launch a venture. I love blending the things I'm learning from academia with the lessons from the Indie Hacker community.

My current status is 'Exploring'. I'm trying to talk with as many designers as possible to better understand their issues and validate some product ideas.

Hello there,

I'm Mark from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. New to Indie Hackers, so didn't participate much (yet). I'm building a new survey/form solution called Tripetto (demo here https://codepen.io/tripetto/project/full/AbbmLR/ if you are interested and want to have a look. It's a rather unique approach I think 😉).

Now looking for ways to gain attention for it. Did a launch on Product Hunt yesterday. Indie Hackers seems interesting as well. But still figuring out how... Let me know if you have any advice on the product itself or building up an audience!

Hey,

My name is Dave and this is my first time on IH. I am a recent college grad and I joined the community to gain insight on how to grow a startup. I recently launched a website: https://crowdlustro.com/

The site is an aggregation of investment crowdfunding deals from all major portals and allows investors to write and share reports/advice on these investments. When I started searching for crowdfunding investments it was tedious because it requires searching through many different portals with different accounts etc. I made this site to make the process easier for myself and hope it can help others as well.

I would love feedback/advice on any aspects of the site.

Hey there, I'm Nick and I am a web developer. I just recently found out about Indie Hacker and just started listening to the podcast. I've had the idea of having my own business for a year or so now and am hoping to learn a lot here.

Hi,

I'm Joris and I'm a math Ph.D dropout who started dabbling in iOS and Android programming. I'm currently mostly doing contracting work for one big client (educational company). I've been in a few small startups but none have taken off.

The last few years I've worked on my own idea (MusiMate, a classical karaoke app for aspiring cellists) and that was a very draining experience since I was doing everything from composing, music editing, audio editing/mastering, backend, frontend, to marketing. The last of which I'm the least good at, probably one of the reasons for its failure.

I'm currently living in Taipei with my wife and two kids (but soon moving back to my home country the Netherlands) and I'm learning Mandarin. Right now, I'm deliberating whether to start a new language learning platform/app. I'm a little hesitant to start it by myself giving my past experiences, so I've been trying to find some likeminded people with similar interests.

Hello, I am a UI designer and I live in Montreal. I always was interested in online businesses. When I was 20 I started designing websites and generating traffic through blogging. I then launched a wrestling company that paid for my university. After school, I freelanced in graphic design.

I now run an agency that specializes in UX and UI for data-rich applications (ffctn.com). It's a small team but I got to work on lots of different user interfaces with small and large organizations.

I am also working on a project planning tool for agencies called Min.team to help bring visibility on the pipeline.

I love working on products and I want to do more of that in the next few years. You can reach out on LinkedIn if you sense an opportunity: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreelapierre/

Hello, hackers!

I'm Igor, entrepreneur and developer from Russia, who likes to build things from the ground up.

I'm working as independent consultant, developers team lead and mentor, but also participate in several startups and side projects as technical person.

Some stuff about me on the Internet:

• https://www.codementor.io/piton

• https://medium.com/@igor.petrov

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/игорь-петров-b50a56b9/

Besides doing consulting for the living, I participate in online medical service startup - Medetel, developers-friendly content management SaaS APIQ, and e-commerce development company Zellmo.

Hello! I'm Alex. I've been lurking here for a while indeed 🙂

The most interesting stories to me are from those who have been lucky enough to succeed by their own merits.

I'm a freelancer, developing community-related software for over 10 years - mostly extensions to existing forum platforms and migration tools.

My dream project relates to a privacy-centric access control system that solves many pain points of the current web applications.

Hi there - long-time lurker here.

I'm a technology consultant and data scientist (read more about me here https://ericbrown.com). I've been working for myself for a long time and a few years ago got tired of selling my hours and started looking for ideas to build a few products.

In 2014 I launched Trade The Sentiment, which was based on my doctoral dissertatioin. The website was a service for investors who wanted to use social sentiment for investing decisions (I use twitter messages and Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning to generate sentiment readings). In 2015 I sold the business to https://sentimentrader.com and joined the acquiring company as CIO and part -owner. Since then, I've been focused on building out https://sentimentrader.com to modernize the site and add additional features.

I currently spend 50% of my time on https://sentimentrader.com and about 25% of my time on consulting projects while working on new side-hustle ideas.

I've been following Indie Hackers for a while now and love reading about the various ideas people have.

Hello Fellow Hackers,

This is Nishant, I am mobile app developer having 8 years of experience. So basically I am developing apps since iOS 3 :)

I have expertise in developing, promoting & scaling mobile applications

I run a mobile app consulting agency https://mobilefirsthq.com

I am also working on a product called "AppFixers" which is Application Maintenance As A Service. Planning to launch it soon.

Hey all

My name is Rohan and I live in the NYC metro area. While I'm sure I have a lot in common with others here, there might be one area where I'm different than many of you --- I have next to no technical ability.

I can handle some basic site building and plugin config stuff, and that's about it. Many of you seem like talented developers so I envy you!

But a little about me: I've spent my professional career in digital strategy and ops, working both for big agencies and big brands. I've built and run a somewhat-notable ecomm business in the past. And I'm definitely happiest building things and helping others think through those nebulous topics that I seem to feel at home with like strategy, positioning, branding, etc..

In my day job, I run large-scale digital retail ops efforts for a big brand.

Looking forward to getting a bit more involved where I think I can add value for others.

Hey everybody! 😁

I'm Jake, lover of all things food and fitness (mostly weightlifting, Jiujitsu, and yoga.)

I'm really passionate about UX design and entrepreneurship. And I enjoy copywriting and front end development too. 💻💼

I love learning new things and meeting new people. 📩 Shoot me a message if you're interested in anything I mentioned. Or if you're not, I'd love to learn more about your interests. 🙌🏻

Hi guys! I'm Bartosz from Germany.

I'm trying to build a startup from many years 😁 But now I'm a MegaMaker and nugget.one member. I think you are amazing! I hope that I am successful too. I want to make a like roninapp for virtual assistants. Good luck guys!

Hi, I'm a communication scientist who is currently working in Indonesian private university. Instead of my academic work, I am curious in building a tech product and keep updated with tech trends.

Before I join the university, I used to work in a digital agency as a digital strategist. I designed and plan a digital strategy for several brands I handled. I also host and created a digital marketing talk for Indonesian people who interested in digital marketing. Please see www.pejuangdigital.id and www.thehatch.id if you want to know about it.

Now, im currently building a tech product called Nomadspace. It is a platform to help a digital nomad to find a convenient coffeeshop to work.

Hello everyone, brand new here.

I am a software engineer in Chicago coming from a non-traditional route. I was an Econ / Spanish major in undergrad and my first job was in healthcare consulting. After about a year I was teaching myself to program and that ended up becoming something I was so passionate about I could not think of doing anything else, so I ended up enrolling in a bootcamp and leaving that job.

I have now been a full-time engineer for a SaaS company in Chicago for 11 months and love what I do. However, I have had the entrepreneurial "itch" for over a year and actually tried to start a consulting business last year and I would say it went pretty mediocre at best...

I dream of bootstrapping my own SaaS company in the coming years and hope this community can provide inspiration and guidance. I am beginning to think of ideas to launch as side projects and plan to implement side project marketing and sales tactics to get my product to Beta. I am also starting the Masters in Computer Science Program at DePaul in the Fall part-time, which should keep me busy.

Personally, I love to surf, play soccer, code, play video games (big Fortnite fan right now), watch and read Star wars and hang out with my wife and puppy. I am looking forward to connecting and starting my Indie Hacker journey!

Hey there,

Replying to this post has been on my todo for a couple of days now.

I'm Emil

I've worked at a kindergarten till last week as alternative to mandatory military service in Austria

As I've already done before, I now work full time on my side-projects:

Find Better Questions (a tool for Quora Marketing) and

Votre (a Personal Relationship Manager and Diary)

Find Better Questions is my focus now, as I see more demand for that. I started building Votre for myself, and just to learn coding in general.

findbetterquestions.com was started with the people / potential customers. I've been working on it way too long without launching it, but it will go live in June now.

Hi everyone, I'm Tarek and totally new to IH.

I worked in finance for a large corporation and now I've transitioned to working on a couple of projects including BizDev for a web-hosting company (eurovps.com) and building a startup that we hope will be a great resource for growth marketeers and online entrepreneurs of all kinds and backgrounds (growthmentor.io) Our new sign-up page went live a few weeks back and we'll be launching beta very soon so exciting times ahead :)

I decided there's no time like the present to reach out, share my experiences and hopefully get to learn about building a successful online business from some of you talented, interesting and inspiring people out there.

Hey! I'm Noah. I'm 17 (almost 18) and I build a conference app SaaS platform! I'm a full-stack JavaScript developer but I specialize in backend. I've been a developer since I was 13.

I own a company called Filiosoft where I do most of my work.

Hi, I'm Simon. I live in a small town called Andover in Hampshire, England. I have been building things and programming since I was fortunate enough to be donated a 386 IBM compatible in 1996.

My day job as a software engineer involves building online platforms for various pharma companies.

Outside of my day job I have built tapestry.cloud a blog aware, extendable, static site generator that uses the PHP Plates template system; as well as a small, yet growing ecosystem of documentation, plugins and examples.

Cool to see I'm not the only Iowan here!

Hello all, I'm Luke, a UX designer and research in Iowa City. I've been doing web UI design since around 2000 or 2001, and have worked in all creative design aspects of IT during that time but really focused on user interfaces and product UX.

I was self-employed for years but couldn't get along with my boss so I eventually hooked up with a NYC-based startup, riding along and helping them make their products for 3+ years as they grew. (This was around when Bootstrap CSS came out and it permanently changed my brain.) I then spent a few years at a large private biotech company designing UIs for ordering custom DNA and RNA products, surrounded by smart scientists who constantly challenged my ideas and made me a better designer and person.

I spent the last few years working through a design agency with a Fortune 100 client helping them design embedded display UIs for GPS-guided vehicles and machinery.

I'm currently a free agent, managing our family's rental properties and enjoying being a dad while my 2 little ones are still little and searching for some good, smart people to join on some interesting new UI or UX product work. And in the meanwhile I am attempting to fulfill a decade-old dream of learning Ruby on Rails, via Michael Hartl's tutorial.

Ello folks, How's it going?

I'm Ian, I live in Berlin. I currently freelance as a writer. I have generally messed about with all aspects of tech for a long time, alongside being a performer and technician. While I frequently am caught with Ableton open on one screen and VScode on the other, I'm equally as likely to be found in a cloud of solder smoke.

Outside of that, I'm a Gym noob, a damn good cook, and a nervous expectant father.

Recently started taking code a little more seriously and am concentrating mostly on React since it's my favorite 'flavor of the week' frontend, and Python after being converted by a friend.

I'm very much at the stage where I'm making some example projects partly for fun and partly as a portfolio. In the future, I hope to be working in software or web dev, and still writing - hopefully doing both for the same company!

Your blog is great. I read a lot of interesting things from it. Thank you very much for sharing. Hope you will update more news in the future.

http://gamesforkidsus.com/

Hello Indie Hackers!

I'm Jonny and I live in Baltimore, Maryland. I started my career as a software developer, but have since transitioned into marketing. I still enjoy front-end dev. I joined IndieHackers to learn and network with more like-minded, entrepreneurial people.

I currently do consulting with my business partner, and in our spare time we create side projects.

Our latest project is https://www.startupsfromthebottom.com, where we deliver a startup idea in your inbox every day.

When I'm not working, I like to spend most of my free time hanging out with friends and family.

Hi there,

My name is Sahar, I'm a backend engineer, originally from Alexandria, Egypt, recently moved to the bay area. I'm currently working on http://twirl-app.com/, enabling fashionable items to be smart in the sense that they become discoverable, helping people to show off their unique styles. My current goals are:

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• Market research, how to reach out to interested users, find my customer.

• Partnership strategy with young fashion designers and retailers.

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Glad I came across this community, always love to connect with other professionals working on their ideas.

✌️ Hey!

🙆‍♂️ I'm Marcin, but to make your life easier, you can call me Martin

⚔️ Design is my weapon to fight with Problems I encounter. I have experience with Branding, UI/UX design, Marketing and a bit in programming. I like to have knowledge in different fields.

👨‍💻 I'm currently working on my side-product I've built from scratch: https://mailist.app – a Very simple app which helps you not forget about things you saved to read later. Try it out! :)

🛎 How can I help you? I can guide you through the whole process of introducing a product to any market.

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🌞 Have a good day!

Hi, y'all, this is luis ignacio.

Is there anyone around interesting in space? as in: "let's conquer the galaxy?" This is really questions. I'm looking for partners who are probably insane enough to pursue such goal. Contact me, l'd love to talk about this more with ya.

Hi,

I'm Jan. I'm from Nuremberg, Germany, currently living in the nearby Fürth but I'm half British. I've come across IH a couple of times now and thought the time right to sign up.

By profession I'm a full-stack developer (PHP, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS / SASS) with a background in startups - I've founded startups and helped startups for the last 10 years - my last position was as Head of IT at the new ZOLLHOF startup incubator here with partners such as Adidas and Siemens.

Burnout and a couple of unfortunate circumstances have given me a new look on the whole scene which has made me a lot more critical about it. The result is that the IH movement makes more and more sense to me by the day. Currently, I work as a developer at a software consulting company based here where I help well-known German bank build software. In my spare time, I'm building two side projects - one for fun (a digital version of a 4000-year-old board game called Ur) and another one (hopefully) for profit (a tool that helps people organise their household).

I'm glad to be here and I'm looking to get to know a lot of you more :)

Hey all!

I'm Steven, I'm a full time Software Engineer in Cambridge. Right now I'm looking to start a side hustle / project - nothing happening just yet!

Hi, it's Anton!

I've heard Courtland in his interview in CodeNewbiew podcast and decided to join you, guys.

I've always wanted to create great things in the IT world, but programming seemed difficult to me, I tried online courses, and I gave up every time.

I still think that I have to be able to code at least some prototype to launch and lead my own IT (preferably AI) company.

Recently I've started to learn JS again (FreeCodeCamp) with the intention to become free, be able to live anywhere in the world and build my own company (I'm 25 now).

Tell me please what to read, what to learn and practice, and how to use IH the right way to assist me with my goals.

Thank you.

Hi, I am Giorgio. I currently work full time as a data scientist. I use statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to make optimal decisions based on data. Normally I work using clusters of machines to process TB/PB of data for my models. This is what people call "Big Data."

This is not just my work. I just love doing it. It permeates and drives other decisions that I make in my life - from which car to buy, to finding a job. Maximize efficiency with the information I have is my modus operandi.

I tried and failed at my first startup attempt. Back in 2010 I founded a Saas company that simulated the world energy market and predicted energy prices, among other things. I recruited 3 people that were working for me just based on equity, no cash involved, in their spare time. I regrettably made a lot a mistakes first time founders make. 4 years into this side project, and 2 kids more than when I started, I called it a day.

I have learned a lot from that experience and promised myself I was going to give it another try, with a more systematic approach this time around. I want to learn from you all to maximize my chances of success.

Hi, I'm Matt. I co-founded Stormpulse.com in 2007 and launched it in 2008. It became an epic bootstrapping journey from nothing to profitable freemium and finally raising VC in 2013. We pivoted to enterprise SaaS as Riskpulse (rename) where I was the founder CEO for 10 years. I am now our Chief Strategist but the entrepreneurial bug remains and I am looking for more ways to connect with others in the early stages, to stay sharp and help however I can. Nice to meet you guys!

Hello!

I'm Alex.

I've worked at a couple small tech businesses, a mid-size company, and two startups (one I'm currently still working for).

Currently I'm also working on my own project, a website builder/host. I'd love to get some feedback on what I have so far. It's in a pre-alpha state right now. You can check it out at https://crafty.click/

Hi Everyone! I like creating content and optimizing, so I am a content/SEO person. I have built a nutrition site up to 2million uniques a month, would be happy to share what I learned. I am currently based in SF, but will be in Beijing from the middle of October to November if anyone is around and wants to meetup! :)

👋 Hello all! Long time lurker, first post!

🤖 My name is Diego from 📍Concepción, Chile 🇨🇱 and I’m 30. I learned how to code💻 by myself and developed my own blog (https://www.noincomedev.me) on top of React⚛️, Apollo🚀 and Material-UI. It’s very ugly but I made it to probe myself 🤷‍♂️ that I can ship software built with modern technologies. I consider myself as a maker. I haven’t any succees stories but I am always thinking about making new things. It took me a while to realize that what the most I like in life if to code!

Currently I am working on small side-project called Tablrz🎲 (https://www.tablrz.app). I like boardgames and within my group of friends we play a lot (A LOT!)of Settlers of Catan 🌋so I build this app to keep track of our game results! I am working to add a league manager so we can run our own Catan league!🏆

As my handle said I currently have no income📉💰 but I got my first client! I am working on a small appointment system for small phisyotherapist. This is not what I want. I would like to become a bootstraper or get hired for remote position. If you have any open position please tell me! I work with meteorjs, react, apoll and mongodb.

Before finish I would like to thanks all of you, because this amazing community keeps me motivated to follow my dream of becoming an #INDIEHACKER.

Regards,

Hey 👋🏻!

I'm Roland and I've been running my own software company for a year now. Mostly client work, but we also have our own projects. Previously I've been Lead at DeinDeal for almost 4 years and prior to that I launched a couple of games and apps on my own.

I'm a self-taught iOS developer, but I always tinker with other technologies. I'm constantly writing about my journey as a developer on my blog, from struggles I had, to tools I find useful.

Earlier this year, we've launched this year ChallengeBeat, an app for challenging yourself and/or your friends to either create new habits, lose old ones, or prove who's best at Mortal Kombat 😁.

Today we've launched Goalee, an app whose only purpose is to constantly remind yourself of your true goals in life. Each one of us gets lost in daily struggles, big and small; but in the grand scheme of things, most of them aren't worth losing focus over. So ... remind yourself often what your real goals in life are, so that you don't fall astray.

My most desired goal is to create products that improve people's lives. Well ... I guess I could extend that to improving people's lives, in general, since I also love mentoring and helping people when and in every way I can.

Hey there!

I'm Thiago, I've been listening to the podcast for a while and recently joined, but didn't have the opportunity to intro myself yet.

I'm a product/UX/UI/frontend dev and I build products that improves people's lives.

Right now I'm building Brutal, a feedback marketplace to help startups to receive qualitative video feedback so they can make confident product decisions.

Glad to be part of this community! 💪

Hey hackers! My name's Adriaan, I'm a full-time software developer at Input Logic (a software agency). I've just launched my first solo side-project called Learnly--an app for teachers to create and share assignments. My goal right now is to get enough customers to cover operating costs. The post-build stage of the product lifecycle is very unknown to me since I spend all of my time building apps. I'm really looking forward to experimenting with different tools and techniques to build a customer-base. It is way outside of my comfort-zone (if only "build it and they will come" were true)!

I'm thinking of starting a blog series called "From Zero" where I'll document the different things I do to promote Learnly, and how these things effect the number of customers. I'll be posting on medium

Cheers!

Hey,

You can call me Fady. I live in Germany.

I am an engineer by study and profession. However, I am trying to shift my career to be a developer. The idea of an indie hacker is very appealing and fits what I like to do, which is building cool different stuff, that solves problems.

I am really hoping that the community would help me get there. I just do not know where and how to ask for help.

At the moment, I am working on a couple of side hustles with Laravel framework. I am mostly doing Back-end development.

I really wish that IH would help me get out there and start working on cool projects and hacks. :)

Hi everyone, I'm Kadir and live in Turkey. I am a developer and I'm dealing with my own venture project recently.

Hi everyone 👋 I'm Tony From France 😊

I'm a ReactJS developer who worked for a large company 4 years. I have some notions of Webdesign, Machine Learning & Marketing. So i want to apply my skills to grow personal projects.

My goal is to win enough money with my projects to live with and work on projects i love.

My interests points are : Real Estate, Music (Latino & African) and Languages.

Just to tell, i play guitar, piano & I love to cook.

For now i just run a t-shirt shop & an Firefox Automation Extension for Instagram. My goal is to start a subscription service ( always seeking the idea ).

I'm really excited to join indiehackers 😊😊 It's been a long time i looking for a community like this !

Hello All, I haven't had a chance to lurk because I joined just a few mins ago!

I'm Vikas, based in NY, 20 yrs ent. infrastructure/ 18 years Cybersecurity (6 in defense sec ops), 12 in consulting (big4 & my own smb focused firm). In full transparency I stopped coding in HTML4! Please be nice I'm overwhelmed already!

A couple of years ago I started helping a large number of SaaS CTOs with vendor risk assessments/ compliance (hipaa/pci/soc2/iso/nist etc) to be able to sell B2B deals. One of my clients suggested I start a platform and that's how https://JustProtect.co was born.

JustProtect is a cybersecurity management platform that enables startup CTOs manage their entire cybersecurity program without spreadsheets or consultants and helps enterprises execute internal and vendor risk assessments with 75% efficiency.

We, my former CTO and I, started building in 05/17, launched mvp in 09/17 and got our first enterprise poc in 10/17. He and I then parted ways (happy to share story over drinks!). Since then I dug in rebuilt a team, got more clients, and we most recently got accepted to DreamIT (http://www.dreamit.com/securetech#about-securetech).

Today, I find myself running a local instance of the platform, looking at the DB and code, supporting clients, reworking UI/ UX and frantically getting ready for the floodgates to open.

A engineer i'm working with suggested I come here to see if i could pick up hints / tips to get feedback / increase traction as it's holding back certain investors and therefore my team. Till then it's me :)

All of this while trying to stay married and manage 2 kids under 3! If I can help any of you please don't hesitate to reach out.

Any feedback / hints / tips / best wishes are gratefully received!

Till soon Hackers :)

Hey everyone, I guess this is an old post but I'm new around here and figured id post and intro too.

My name is JP, currently i'm a Project Manager in Down Town Austin TX building high risers. My job is cool and fulfills my passions to an extent but tech just calls me. I have been studying tech companies, application and dabbling in Codding for the last 2 years and have been developing and app for the last 3 and a half years, some what on and off.

I'm really exited about joining the community and hope to make some connections and meet some great people in Austin and the rest of the world.

Hit me up if you are in the area and would like to grab some coffee or a drink, I'm also currently looking for Co-Founders and a team.

Hope to also be able to bring something to this community in the near future.

Awesome to be here,

JP

Hello there!

My name is Myles and I'm a front end developer. I like to experiment by breaking and making small applications.

I'm specifically interested in UI design/development. Although I don't have a UI designer/developer role at my current job. I'm studying, practicing, and working my way to get there.

I'm currently working on designing and developing an app that helps coders/designers collaborate on projects. There are a few apps out there (including indiehackers) but I want to narrow down the niche and focus on beginners who need a couple real-world type projects to add onto their portfolio. The open source world is such a neat place and I feel as though schools don't usually show that. You can think of it as a tinder for collaborating.

Besides coding, I love rock climbing and I'm an ultra runner who runs in sandals (not even joking haha).

Hi everyone👋 ,

Collette here, I’m a designer by heart and a newb hacker from Dallas, Texas. Right now I’m looking earnings as much as I can and figure if I out ways to execute it in the real world.

I Just started my first project https://thatsreallygood.co/finds.html which a newsletter featuring curated finds for makers and entrepreneurs.

And I’m just opened a studio so I’m excited rob join you all.

Hey all! My name is Mahmoud, and I can't believe I haven't heard of this website until yesterday!

I have an engineering background and have been coding for 15 years. I founded a price comparison startup in the MENA region for three years (2013-2016), we went through all bootstrap stages, a couple of fundraising rounds but then I failed. Then I joined the region's (MENA) first unicorn as a product manager and was spinning off some personal products in my part-time.

Yesterday, I was talking to a friend about a couple of ideas to work on and he told me about this site!

Hi all,

I'm Ryo, and I live in Oakland, CA. In college (class of 2012), I cofounded a MarTech SaaS company called TINT - www.tintup.com. Over 6 years, we grew TINT to 5M ARR and 37 people. We were fortunate enough to exit this year, to a company called Filestack. I've led an engineering team, a marketing team, and even an operations team, but at my core I'm a front-end developer with experience in growth marketing.

With the recent exit, I'm looking to join a new team of people interested in creating a SaaS business. Would love to share any knowledge I have with the community, and looking forward to meeting other hackers creating wonderful projects.

Hello guys,

I am Cheruiyot. An Engineer from Nairobi Kenya. Am really glad to be here where fellow tech enthusiasts, code gurus, nerds and jolly hackers interact and share great ideas together.

My mission here to learn and share with others. I am currently building two Apps; in Fintech and Social networking.

I hope that these two projects I am undertaking will one day show case the great potential that Africa has and also add value to each and every human's life in the planet.

One more thing, you are very welcome to visit my country Kenya, hit me up when around and I will be your safari tour guide.

Cheers!

Hey Indie Hackers, glad to join the community.

I love e-business and what there's behind.

I failed with a first project (not online anymore) and bootstrapped a couple of others in my former corporate jobs. Anyway, nothing aiming at becoming the next big thing.

Nowadays I share my thoughts about web financial design through my newborn site zioube.com.

Looking forward to learn as much as possibile from your experience!

Hello,

I am Gautam Lakum from India 🇮🇳.

Profession: Design Sprint Facilitator, Product Designer, Co-founder of SprintCube (www.sprintcube.com).

I help enterprises, startups find solutions to their critical challenges at the product/organization level as a team. I help them get started with innovation.

I strongly believe:

Getting started is more important than being right.
Fake it, till you make it.

My latest article: How Design Sprints can work for organizational processes? – LINK: http://bit.ly/dsforprocess

It's a pleasure being here on Indie Hackers.

Hello everybody,

my name is Hannes, originally from the north of Germany, but about to move to Brussels, Belgium next week. Until last year I worked as a project controller in a global project for an automotive supplier based in southern Germany. Through the project I also met my current bosses who were on the project management team.

Last year they started modelling a project management software which will be released for beta-stage soon. I am currently working on a marketing strategy to ramp up one of the pillars of CAMPR, the online business.

A friend of mine recommended to check out IH and I have been lurking around for a couple of weeks now. I am really glad about the insight you guy give into your work and I hope to be able to give back to this great community as well!

You’re welcome to check out what we will have to offer soon: www.campr.biz

Cheers!

Hello everyone!

I'm independent iOS developer from Latvia (that's in European Union btw).

I have experience in software product management in the payment industry. Recently dropped product management role in a corporate job to switch to the iOS development and have more time to build own products. Currently, I'm working as an independent iOS consultant for AntiLand.com and building own products.

Some kind of career path can be found on linked, feel free to connect: https://lv.linkedin.com/in/aivarsmeijers

Currently planning to grow one of my iOS apps from pizza money to profitable product or start a new one.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hold-your-breath-longer/id1188724407?ls=1&mt=8

Outside of development, I'd like to spend time outdoors with my family and dog (Jack Russel Terrier).

Hey IndieHackers! I'm pretty new to the whole having an online presence but have heard great things about this community so here I am!

I'm Shaun and I'm a bit of a whirlwind story: born in South Africa, grew up in Dubai, went to University in New Zealand where I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer. Since then I've designed a self leveling system for washing machines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td0UIyaJcEI), did Intellectual Property strategy consulting for a bit followed by developing stretch sensors. If you've been following the Musk and Maezawa #dearmoon project, you'll know of the Zozo suit (https://zozo.com/nz/en). That's what I spent most of last year developing which was pretty exciting.

I've since taken the leap and started my own project to solve a problem I've had in the travel industry. I finally clicked the submit button to Y Combinator last night so fingers crossed I get into that... otherwise would love any advice you have for my first venture attempt! I am currently full time with 2 others who are very part time until we can get something decent up and off the ground.

Be safe y'all!

Hi IndieHackers!

My name is Vlad Khomutov and I am the founder of Fast Venture which offers unlimited UX and product support for startups and Propel Digital which is my consulting business.

I started as a self-taught UI designer in the mid 90's and made a transition to a pro :) when someone offered me $200 to design and code a 5-page static website.

Like most designers of that era, I was deeply influenced by Eric Jordan of the early 2 Advanced Studios and science fiction movies like Minority Report :)

Over the years I learned front end and backend development (LAMP), founded or co-founded several tech startups, built cool products for startups and large companies in North America, Europe, an Asia.

Presently, I am looking for early adopters to help me refine and grow Fast Venture.

I live in Toronto, Canada, train in Muay Thai, and have a 3yo daughter.

Stumbled upon this site via a random link on Reddit and immediately fell in love with the vibe.

Ask me anything (about UX / startups / entrepreneurship / tech products / e-commerce). I'm here to help.

Hey everyone...My name is Tobias and I live in Germany.

I have been participating since 2014 in various startups and since 2016 I am professionally freelancing (fullstack web & mobile development).

It was always my motivation and dream to build something on my own (=> bootstrapping). Now I have done the first step, cancelled my freelance contracts for the next 3 months and work on my project full time.

My main skills are located in IT, but I am also interested in all the other parts of launching a digital business, such as the business side, marketing and design.

If you want to follow my journey and read more about my learnings, you can also check out my post here on IH :)

https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/case-study-from-zero-to-profitable-business-in-3-months-9411409923

Hello! I'm John and I live in Richmond, VA. I have been lurking for the past several months and have learned a lot, but wanted to take a few moments to make an introduction. I am a data scientist and web developer—I enjoy all things data-related along with building analytical applications.

I run a boutique data science company called Boxelder Analytics that offers full-spectrum data services including data engineering, development of machine learning models and deployment of these models as a service. We build recommender systems, predictive models and optimization systems where there is not an easy commercial off-the-shelf solution and it must be customized.

I am currently building a product called Hemlock that is an extension of these services and enables other data scientists and quants to deploy their Python & R models instantly via a REST API, manage access, and documentation. I'm really building this to solve a pain point that I have with my own company, but think it will solve a problem that other folks doing similar things have as well.

I am always trying to make myself a better technologist and business person, but strive to also lead a simple, balanced life spending time with my wife, dog and family hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains or somewhere around the water in Virginia Beach. I'd like to be more active on IH and want to help out where I can or continue to improve myself and my business through feedback.

If I can help in any way please connect with me on LinkedIn or send me an email.

hey guys,

I'm a content creator based in Taipei (mainly video) and looking to build an ESL learning chat app specialized for Chinese speakers. I'm sussing out various scripts for app building and looking for someone to partner up with. So if you guys know anyone in Taiwan, give us a shout! Happy to be here :-D

Hey guys!

I'm Ivan from Seville (Spain) I have been working as frontend-developer for 4 years and this month I will start working as full-time maker.

The company where I am working (https://commite.co/) has opened a new lab department and I will be managing it. We have helped several startups in San Francisco and New York to create solid MVPs and profitable business and now we want to prove us that we can develop our own products.

Our rules are simples I will be working as solo maker mainly but I can request some hours each month from other departments.

I am eager to share our knowledge and progress with you guys.

Happy launching!

Hi, I'm Shao, I develop and I design, I like EduTech among other things. I'm based in Minnesota right now, trying to launch this little journaling app ZenJournal

HI there my name is Abhishek and looking for doing something in internet marketing.

Hi everyone,

My name is Eoin. I’m founder of Tines (https://tines.io), a cyber security automation platform that allows security teams automate their manual, repetitive tasks. I started Tines earlier this year and launched towards the end of the summer. Learning a ton as I continue to fumble my way through this wild entrepreneurial journey.

Looking forward to joining this conversation!

Hi I am santosh . I am a developer . I am working for a product base company and build a social network "lykapp" . But I always want to build a b2c product of mine . I know money is a huge problem . For that reason I decide to make a blog platform where i can provide some imp development blog . Need some advice .

Hello, I am Elavenil, from India. Born from a middle class family, i worked hard to creating my own firm now. Do not give up on your ideas. Be confident and learn from failures.

Hi All,

I am relatively new to IH as a non-technical founder. I have been working with a friend on an analytics and insights app for accounting software called www.glancemetrics.com, which has been fun and challenging.

I have found it very motivating reading through IH about everyone's side hustle and hope to be posting about my journey and successes soon.

Hello hackers!

I'm Jose! Since I was a kid I have always been surrounded by tech, so when I went to Uni I studied Computer Engine to work with the things that I love.

A few months ago I created a project with a couple of friends, it's started as a side project but now we're trying to convert it in a proper startup. The name was easy to choose, Vualala (https://www.indiehackers.com/product/vualala), we love our name, it's a mix between the French interjection "et voila" and the verb "volar" (fly in Spanish), so represents perfectly what we do.

Vualala tries to solve the problem of searching for trips with a particular budget. So, selecting the origin airport, the dates and your budget, vualala's algorithm will search the best combination of flights and hotels.

Hi everyone,

I create Traktomizer (https://traktomizer.com) which I started to help my recording artist friends try to gain an edge on platforms like Spotify.

An artist and producer myself, as well as a programmer, I know a lot of artists working in the new streaming economy and thought maybe I could help them, so I dedicated the past 4 years or so to doing that.

Recently I ported Traktomizer as a web app, which you're welcome to use for free at https://analyser.traktomizer.com and also created a batch audio analyser version for digital music library owners.

I made some more notes on my profile and I'm looking forward to learning, participating and sharing my knowledge with you all.

Thanks and see you around,

Steve

Hello everyone,

I'm def lurking much. I'm extremely curious to learn about all the magic moments, projects, and exciting things people are building out there! I am a beginner to my journey to becoming an indie hacker and I'm very happy to get started.

I currently help build communities at Meetup and also host the Community Builder Podcast. It's a podcast for community builders. We share stories, lessons, best practices, and tips from world class community builders.

Feel free to reach out as I work closely with all types of communities on a daily basis.

Keep Hacking,

Travis

Hi there!

I'm Miles from Stockholm, Sweden.

Started out building the company voxo.ai, a speech analytics platform used mostly by banks atm.

Currently building https://bookself.app, a social book recommendation platform 📚📚📚 It is basically a reading list which is shared with your followers. Simple as that.

I built it because book discovery is important (opportunity cost of reading a bad book = weeks or months) and personal book recommendations from trusted people is the best way of discovering great reading.

It is currently in open beta so try it out at bit.ly/bookself or bit.ly/bookselfandroid and let me know what you think :) @bookself

Hi 👋

I'm Daniel and I like to make stuff.

My background is in business, but over the past few years, I’ve learned how to hack things together and build simple web apps.

Great to join the community and happy to help out.

Hi, I'm Ibrahim, I am from Pakistan.. been lurking around for a long while after leaving my first startup, due to partnership crisis.. Started the job again as a Software Engineer, I am a Nodejs/Python Backend Engineer by profession. I needed enough courage and money to start something again here in Pakistan conditions are not much favorable for Entrepreneurs. I am into indie games these days just to make myself crawl out of the hesitation.

Hello! 👋

I've been lurking for maybe a month now, and decided to join the community.

My name is Maxwell. 🙇‍♂️

I live in San Jose, CA, and have enjoyed a career change from Auditor for a public account firm, to software engineer. I currently work for PayPal, here in San Jose, and have been loving it for a little over a year now.

I recently starting thinking about starting my own business, and the more I think about it, the more excited I get. 😁

I actually haven't built anything yet, 😅 and am at a bit of a loss for ideas, and how to actually know if an idea is viable before writing any code. But, I am anxious to build, and ready to get my hands dirty while trying to get a business off the ground.

Hi all! I'm Tony. Been lurker for awhile and it's cool to see this site as well as the project grow over the last couple years.

I'm currently in New York and over the course of the last few months, built a full fledge unified crypto trading platform call Quadency (www.quadency.com for those interested). Quadency allows one to view and trade all their crypto coins from one place.

By trade, I'm a full-stack engineer with a decade of experience. This was a really cool thing to build from ground up. A lot of interesting challenges that we've overcame in all aspects of software engineering, front-end, backend, infrastructure, database, you name it.

If you guys have any technical question or any questions about the platform, holler!

Hello All, Seeking to grow the WUaS Corporation & Press: Bookstores / Computer Stores / Robotics' Stores, Med Sch robotics, 3D, Academic, Poetry, STEM, Textbooks, EdGames, VR -Planned in all 8k living langs, w machine translation @WUaSPress

... in each of all ~200 countries' official and main languages, and indeed in all ~7,097 living languages with machine translation

Stanford, CA

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html .… Best, Scott (scottmacleod.com)

Hi all, I'm an Indie Hacker from Amsterdam. I recently built Simple Analytics in less than 2 months and I would love to interact with like-minded people! I got #3 on Product Hunt and #1 on Hacker News, crazy times!

Simple Analytics gives you analytics you need without invading the privacy of your users, with a simple interface & integration

Features

📈 Pageviews

📥 List of referrals

🔝 List of popular pages

📱 Device dimensions

Hi all, My name is Peter.

I've built a social web app called InventoryApp for people to connect interesting items/products with friends.

My tech stack is elixir + next.js + rabbitmq + redis + postgresql + elasticsearch.

I've also been accepted into YC Startup School this year.

Cheers to all you hackers! 🤘

Hi I'm Ceora. I just created my account yesterday (I think). I'm relatively new to coding/tech. But I'm currently part of a small start-up called Frauvis which is a platform for black women in or interested in tech. I am trying to get more involved in the tech community so this is one of the ways that I'm doing that😊

Hello I started a technology company about a year ago. I provide website, hosting, design, and maintenance. I am also studying machine and deep learning and hoping to leverage that technology in some type of service or solution. My full time job is a HPC support. engineer. I am just looking to network with like minded people who have or eventually want to have their own self sustaining company

Hi there, I've been lurking these forums for god knows how long now so I figured I'd introduce myself.

I'm Bryan from Amsterdam, Netherlands and I started doing side projects since about two years ago. My initial focus was to improve my own learning process by making tools that assist the learning process. This has totally got out of hand and now I am still here making these tools!

My latest project is TopicTrails (https://topictrails.com/), a tool to annotate and reuse these annotations in your own documents by referencing or embedding them.

👋G'day all,

I'm Rob and I live in Queensland Australia.

Have only just discovered Indie Hackers, and am thinking this is one of those "I can't believe I didn't know this existed" moments. :D

I've a background in Marketing and Web design/dev, and have been working with a large WordPress agency (XWP) for the last few years.

Currently working on a WordPress plugin with a couple of colleagues that sets out to make it significantly easier for WordPress devs to build custom Gutenberg (new WP editor) blocks. Plugin is called Block Lab.

We're a couple weeks away yet from a stable version, but enjoying digging into what represents a big UX change for the webs most popular CMS.

Outside of my work, put a football at my feet and give me a day playing with my kids and I'm a happy man. :)

I'm Josh, from Minneapolis. I like to think of myself as an entrepreneur first that just happens to code well enough to get by. I dropped out from college three times and have no more than a couple weeks of college credit to my name. Sorry mom :(

I started building web things when I was 9. I was wondering why my form didn't post (I didn't have a back-end). I'd like to think I've come a long way!

I've exited a few times from the hosting industry with companies you've probably never heard of for amounts that are laughable by today's standards. Since then I've bounced around doing this and that.

During the day I consult with startups and entrepreneurs who are looking to build something. From time to time I'll hook up with BigCorp and help them understand why they're having so many fraudulent transactions and help them identify such transactions.

During the evenings I build my little projects that solve personal pain-points.

I'm here because I'm frankly terrified of making a public push for my latest project. I thought this would be a good first baby step.

I love to talk shop, and eat food, and I always enjoy a good tequila. :) If you want to do one, or all three, you know where to find me. :)

Hi there, I'm Tim, from Cologne (Germany).

I co-rounded and helped run a few companies, most notably Sedo.com (a domain market place) and Eyeo.com (the company behind AdblockPlus.org).

These days, I am also quite interested in SaaS projects, and together with my friend Ulrich, I set up http://SaaS.group. With that group, we are acquiring revenue-making, ideally profitable, lean SaaS start ups. Should be at least a few $100K in revenue per year. So if you have a SaaS project which you got bored about, and which fits those criteria, please let me know.

Oh, and you can find more about me at Schumacher.me

Hi Hackers!

I'm Martijn, from the Netherlands but live in Kiev. Moved to Kiev about 2,5 years ago to be closer to the guys who are working on Historysearch.com with me.

My goal is to turn History Search into a filesystem for the web. What History Search does for you is make it super easy to retrieve any webpage you've been using any words you remember on it. This makes it super easy to find back articles or gmails (is that even a thing? 😅), open documents or quickly navigate web services.

How it works is, History Search uses browser extensions to index the text on webpages when you visit them. This way any word you remember will be enough retrieve it for you. So its both technically and literally an index (you know that page in the back of those dusty encyclopaedias).

History Search is a product I'm very passionate about, and have spent the past 3,5 years working on. For any interested the full story on there: medium.com/swlh/moments-before-success-or-failure-d0f50ff148ea

Finally something recent I'm very proud of after so many years of hard, is our public launch on producthunt.com/posts/history-search yesterday, where we were accepted with open arms and got over 700 upvotes 😻.