Praise Rosie Thread 🙌
I just have to say it, @rosiesherry is awesome, and I am so happy that she is leading and forming this community.
I come from a distant time where IndieHackers was solely @csallen and @channingallen, where the forum was just a bunch of people hacking away on their products and reading a bunch of interviews.
Today, you can get in touch with multi-million dollar business founders and serial builders, right in the same community. You can meet those like-minded folks through meetups (well, not right now) in so many cities, and Rosie & team do everything to make us succeed.
Besides that, she is a mother of five, teaches others how to build communities, is leading efforts to connect Women in Tech/IH and empowers software testers around the world.
Time for some praise :)
Rosie, you are the BEST! Thank you so much for all of your hard work in making Indie Hackers such a special community. ❤️
Amazing 😊
Was genuinely just thinking the other day how awesome and helpful your blog is. Thank you!
Thank you @dqmonn and to everyone else who has commented/upvoted, it means a lot to be appreciated 🥰
Indiehackers is incomplete without @rosiesherry
Agreed. Cheers, @rosiesherry 👏👏👏
She rocks!
A few weeks ago when I first posted on my profile about the thing I built in a few nights, I believe she was the one to move it to
Growthboard and she added the first comment to it. The post got so much attention that I decided to push the product forward. My life has been way more exciting since then. 🤘No doubt about that. @rosiesherry is super helpful on twitter too.
@dqmonn Agreed. Have been following IH from long time and definitely @rosiesherry is awesome!!
Rosie is amazing, she is genuinely helpful and always supportive. I wonder however if she's paid for her work here? I am not trying to undermine her awesomeness but I am wondering if it's a paid gig or volunteer!?
I debated whether to ignore or respond to this comment, I really do find it hard. You won't realise it, but putting the words together for this is emotionally draining.
Every time I come out to explain myself, I bring up all my past challenges and traumas. That's not easy to deal with.
And please don't take these words as an attack, I feel it is my duty to educate from my experience as a minority: a women, a mother, a business founder and also half latina (that most people don't even realise). I've been at a disadvantage and have to fight 100 times harder.
Though I still feel a million times more privileged than black people.
As a woman in tech we get these kind of comments all the time, we go unappreciated, we are often underpaid, have less opportunities, shoved to the side, rarely given praise and recognition for the things we accomplish.
So I ask...
Why would I work for free?
Why on earth, as an experienced founder would I work for free?
And why bring it into this conversation where I get the very rare bit of praise?
A few months back I got the same comment, in the context of speaking to someone about the value of the company I previously founded. For context, my previous company is a '7 figure company'. And for some reason I am assumed to be volunteering my time?
What comments would I have had, if I had been a man? High fives! You must be getting paid loads. Rake in the consulting money! Looks like you're killing it! Great hustle!
Why is that?
I'm utterly convinced a guy would not get the same kind of comments.
I'm not being dramatic - I deal with comments like this almost every day.
I know you don't mean it, but it hurts to read this.
🕊 Peace and love. ♥️
Hey Rosie, thanks for the reply.
I hear ya. As a man in tech I am sure it's extremely tougher for folks like you to break into tech. I acknowledge that and I have for many years.
It was NOT my intention to undermine you - the things you've done here at IH are inspiring and empowering, like a light in the darkness of entrepreneurship.
The REASON I asked my question about your paid or free involvement is because in other communities such as Makerlog - of which I am also a member of - most of the work to keep the community going has been done by volunteers.
Here's another thing: what if y'all changed the footer from "IH by @csallen at stripe" to "IH by the IH TEAM" and link to a kind of team-page with all the amazing people that work at IH and that keep IH running as a safe place for everyone who wants to become an entrepreneur!
Hey Rosie! This is just my two cents:
I thought about the same, whether IH pays its people (those that call themselves "x at IndieHackers") or not.
It's not because you are a woman, or because of your ethnicity, or anything that is directly about you. It was because this community and everything about it is seemingly free to everyone, and since IH doesn't make revenue, founders would be paying out of their pocket.
Not that it's any of my business, thus I'm okay with not finding out the answer, but the thought did pop into my head.
Your contributions here are undeniably invaluable and I am grateful for all of it. 🙏
P.S. please forgive me if I said something wrong. English is not my first language. All I have is good intentions with this comment.
Late to the party but 100% this!
Rosie thank you!
Yep! She is doing an awesome job! We are very lucky to have her in our community.
@rosiesherry is amazing. Keep up the great work!
+1
100% @rosiesherry rocks!
There are still some meetups that are virtual :)
https://hopin.to/events/indie-worldwide-june-2020-meetup
You can meet cool people virtually too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SvfApW54A