I committed to Indie Hackers Plus for a year. How would you use it to drive traffic?
I’ve been building and shipping indie apps for a while now, but growth has always been the hardest, least repeatable part.
This year, I decided to stop half-assing distribution and committed to Indie Hackers Plus for a full year — not because I expect magic, but because I want to systematically get better at traffic, positioning, and audience-building.
What I’m trying to do differently this time:
Be intentional about where I post and why
Learn from patterns, not one-off success stories
Turn insights into repeatable workflows (not just inspiration)
Before I blindly consume everything, I’m curious:
If you had IH Plus today and wanted to drive traffic to your product, how would you use it?
Specific sections worth paying attention to?
Any underrated features or workflows?
Things you wish you’d ignored earlier?
Not looking for hype — looking for honest, practical advice from people who’ve been there.
If I had IH Plus and wanted traffic, I’d mostly ignore the content feed and treat it like a research + pattern-mining tool.
Specifically:
– Search past product launches in my category and map what actually worked (headline, angle, timing).
– Track 5–10 builders slightly ahead of me and study how they narrate progress, not just wins.
– Turn recurring advice into a simple playbook I test weekly (one channel, one message, one metric).
Biggest mistake I made early on was consuming broadly instead of extracting patterns narrowly.