Johnny Pacheco's activity on Indie Hackers

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I thought I was building a tech blog. Turns out I was building a distribution asset

I think AI agents have an authority problem we're treating as a permissions problem

I launched a project to see if people would pay for your Indie Hacker idea

Built a claim-level fact-checker into our AI rewrite tools — here's how it actually works

Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its toll

Hitting $40k+ MRR with bottom-of-funnel content until AI search forced her to change tactics

I built a Chrome extension where right-click menu items run real JavaScript

I could not tell if Google's AI Overview was citing my sites, so I built a way to check

Update: clawed back from ~3-4K to ~8-9K daily clicks after the May Google core update — here's what actually worked

My first paying user told me I was charging too little. It took me 4 months to listen.

I built a tool to find people already talking about problems your product solves

Banned on Substack, Reddit, and Etsy in my first month – for offering people free promotion

Co-founders suck…

I Just Discovered My Analytics Numbers Are Mostly Fake. Here Is Why.

5% churn at $3k MRR is $150. At $20k it's $1,000. Nothing about the product changed.

32 commits later, the biggest improvement wasn't technical

I Tested Agenmatic for Finding Customers in Communities — Here’s What I Learned

How to rank #1 on ChatGPT?

Hitting $15k/mo six months after getting sued and acquired

Hitting $125k MRR as a solo founder by doubling down on the right segment