How does Indie Hackers make money?
Hey IHs,
I'm fairly new to this platform and am curious about the revenue model of Indie Hackers.
What I know so far, is that @csallen started a blog years ago which later became this platform (Which is amazing by the way!). I wonder, how you can make money out of such a niche and if IH still makes money after the acquisition by Stripe.
If this platform generates revenue, does anyone know how much approximately?
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More entrepreneuers = More businesses = More money transactions = Stripe
I guess you're right
It doesn't generate revenue as Stripe funds it all and it's pretty much here to serve the community as best as we can.
I'm sure @csallen will have his own perspective, but from mine (as a Community Manager) it's pretty cool. I've been here almost a year and I've never been asked to push Stripe's brand in any kind of way. My focus has always been on how to help indie hackers.
From my perspective (as a user) it is so cool as well and I wish I knew about it years ago.
I didn't know about Stripe until I listened to the podcast, so besides the "at stripe" in the footer, nothing let you think that another brand is enforcing its will.
That's a great move of Stripe and the funny fact about this is (at least to me), if I trust IH, I implicitly trust Stripe and their promises.
my guess: it's kind of content marketing for Stripe Atlas and Stripe
I hope IH never faces corporate cost cutting 😣
I think everybody here hopes for that ;-)
It must be the content strategy for stripe, and a pretty clever one. Im guessing it must have been tough at the beginning tho, I'm guessing veryittle money to begin with. Although the network itself is extremely valuable, but not in direct transactions
Paid podcast spots. Not all, but a few. That's my guess.
Stopped doing this when I joined Stripe, which is why there are only ads on the first handful of episodes.