Is Indie Hackers the best community for you? 🧐
Indie hackers is an amazing place, but is it the best one for you?
What similar platforms do you use?
Indie hackers is an amazing place, but is it the best one for you?
What similar platforms do you use?
100%. Friendly people, awesome founder @csallen and community manager @rosiesherry
+1
right now, it's one of the better places on the internet for early founders and project builders!
Ditto. Great resource for newbies.
No doubt, it is
+1
Yup. It by far provides the most value to me out of any other community I've been a part of. And the best part is that the people here are super friendly!
super-friendly!
I regret every day I do not post or lurk on here. Best by far for advice and stories about small internet businesses.
I like some subreddits too and spend time on some slack/discord groups (Indie London and Indie Milano).
i lurk like a mother. i love it.
I have learned here a lot. This site is real quality. You can feel and see the respect, the knowledge, how encouraging and positive members are.
+1!
I lurk here and r/SideProject but the content here is far and away a lot better
is the community "better"? how would you describe the difference(s)?
I also find value in a discord server hosted by an Architectual, Engineering, Construction (AEC). tech company, Hypar. I love indiehackers for the tech community and find this other discord community helpful for domain specifics. A place where I don't have to spell out AEC ;)
very neat!
It is the most friendly of startup communities.
+1!
I've been here for approximately one month and find at least one very helpful bit of advice information daily. At this time, it's probably the best for my current indie needs.
i'm so glad you're here!
This is by far my favourite community. I also lurk on some subreddits, but I'm mostly on here and Twitter.
I actually really wish IH had a mobile app so I could get notifications or chat with other IHers thru it. Any plans for that @csallen?
there is a mobile app in development!
@levidxyz is building moon!
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/moon
😊 Thanks for the mention, John!
@geoffchan23 notifications and direct messages are on the roadmap for Moon 👍 Let me know if you have any other requests!
Awesome! Definitely gonna be following your project :)
(Btw, this might be the most meta project on here)
whoot!
Thanks for letting me know!
I saw someone was working on an indie hackers mobile app - is there a search function for this website (never really use website search functions). Bet you could find the guy developing it.
You rang? 🙂
https://themoon.app
@levidxyz!! https://www.indiehackers.com/product/moon
Love this community. My astronaut indie hackers tee shirt arrives this week.
omg. i need one of those.
And I ordered the shirt from https://cottonbureau.com/people/indie-hackers but it hasn't arrived :/ FedEX says it's held up.
Be weary, but isn't it awesome??
doh!
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PS: Would love to hear your conversion-hesitations.
sweet! i'll take a look.
As of late, my times been spent between Reddit, a few slack channels generally about Community ‘stuff’, Khoros community,
and Indie Hackers.
I go through bouts of doing nothing but lurking to doing nothing but commenting between them it seems.
which one provides the most value would you say?
Pretty simple question, but I don't have a simple answer. I love IH. First, communities where I'm not just lurking around, but some times write some comments. I even think IH making me a better human being, because it opened so many opportunities to help other founders.
BUT. I don't call myself a founder. I call myself a mobile developer and IH is SaaS concentrated with a rare glimpse of mobile developer topics. From what point of view IH not the best for me, but same time I didn't found anything better.
... you're a "founder" insofar as you've "founded" a project.
we don't need to glorify or "puff it up" or anything. it is what it is!
glad you're here.
I agree with you. I can call myself a founder, but I choose not. This way I keep myself more concentrated on the thing where I need to improve to reach the next stage of personal growth.
I'm happy to be with IH community.
cool. do what you have to do.
It's my favorite place. I think this is the best community I've seen on the internet. The people all seem to be great and helpful.
+1!
The community is so friendly and so full of early stage founders. Even ones who are further along are so eager to help. It's an amazing pocket in the vast internet truly dedicated to early stage founders.
it is an amazing place. that's why i'm stuck here!
Yes , it is . I just feel for first time a real and honest feedback every time I ask a question or comment something.
+1!
My favorite online community, yes. I hate Hackernews with a passion. Very negative, and when you have something of value, people expect you to give it away free - or share precisely how it was built so they can dupe it.
I'd love to find more things like Indiehackers, have not so far. Incredible interviews, too. I've learned more about a couple of our competitors from the interviews, and also, while this might not sound positive, begun to find patterns to the lies they tell in interviews. All of this is very worthwhile.
HN can be super-negative at times.. but, i wonder how much of that is cultural...
To learn about how to be a better entrepreneur, and to get my spirits up, yes.
To grow my business, also yes, but indirectly.
I'm not sure on what basis should we evaluate the value of a community. I am new at being a part of them. 😅
this place helps my spirit too.
90% HN / 10% IH for me personally.
Hey @dewey, I would love to know what you get from HN. I find that unless you give away huge value on tools for developers or post controversial click-bait, you get either no interest or, they expect you to give away what no one should give away. Comments tend to be along the lines of "I'd only consume your API if it was totally free, whitelabel and with no rate limit."
So, if you get anything worthwhile out of it, please do share how.
Hey Saul, the value of HN is in its comments and the diverse range of submitted articles / links that are not products. If it's seen as a "Submit your product" growth machine like PH that's not really the main purpose I'd say and I can see how it's maybe not the right venue for that. These can be very hit and miss, I usually don't even read these. Also its generally known that it's a hard audience to sell to (As seen on the infamous Dropbox Show HN) as everyone thinks they can build your product in a weekend, which is of course (most of the time) not true.
Generally I get a lot of value out of reading comments and discussing with people there, it doesn't have to be about tech or products all the time. Click bait isn't really allowed if you submit links as they shouldn't be editorialised and there's a rule to take the "original" headline of the submitted article. The technical discussions are on a way higher level than on IH, that's why I prefer it there.
+1 on the diversity of topics. i find some amazing stuff there every single day!
For that, yes. And as soon as I did my comment here, I went there. And got an API that we might be able to use. So, yes, totally agree. A place to learn about things, sometimes get a tech solution.
It is. I don't know. I've learned a lot here. Also as there are lot of people who are doing their first project, and the general tone here is pretty much positive. I'm here for about 2 monthts and I can remember one or two times that someone was negative or toxic. Which is not really the case with other communities from my experience
it really is overwhelmingly-positive.
I love how open and respectful ppl are here. We're all of a similar mind and kind of understand each other's struggles. It's a great place for any entrepreneur and startup. It's the best community I've ever been a part of!
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As a subreddit (or a community built on any third-party platform) we'd have limited control of our brand, our forum's design and functionality, our ability to grow, and just about everything else we care about.
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I've been asking myself a similar question. Have you considered using a subreddit or a Linkedin group as your MVP for an online community?
Good question. I've done it twice already to test interest in an online community. Both using Facebook groups - even with screening questions, growth in the groups has been pretty steady. Of course, its free to join Facebook groups unless you give some really specific instructions. For a free community, yes, its a great MVP.
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glad you're here!