What is the difference between a Maker and an Indie Hacker in your mind?
https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/maker-report
What is the difference between a Maker and an Indie Hacker in your mind?
🤔 Or is there no difference?
Myself and Hiten are doing research on makers. We’re digging in to learn:
- đź’¬ How makers describe themselves
- 🚲 What products they’re most excited about
- 🏋 What habits help them as makers
We’ll be sharing what we learn in the coming weeks. We’d love your opinion: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/maker-report
The more people we hear from, the better.
p.s.
We’re also building free tools for Makers / Hackers which you’ll get early access to by signing up
Makers make for the sake of making. Indie Hackers care about generating revenue from the things they create. Of course there are makers who are indie hackers, too, and there are likely some indie hackers who don't enjoy the "making" part of their business.
Perfectly said. I've always thought of makers as having started in the DYI hardware space before it became more digital. I think of indie hackers as a subset of makers.
Thanks for replying, Courtland! That's interesting.
In my mind makers are more product-oriented whereas indie hackers are more biz-oriented, which is pretty close to what you said.
Money is motivation for both of them I think.
Love this one đź’Ż well said
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Interesting story: Last January we put the IH community on Product Hunt, it got to #1, and there was a huge influx of makers from PH. For the next few weeks I got numerous complaints from IHers that the culture on the forum had changed and become overly focused on launching things with no revenue.
Here’s one of the relatively recent (since I joined) topics on makers vs IHs that generated quite a discussion. I think you can find some info there.
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/makers-diluting-ih-ee6a9c6aed
That was a super interesting discussion to read. Thanks for sharing the link!
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