Rosie here -- the Indie Hackers community manager. Welcome! π
This short guide is meant to help you get the most out of Indie Hackers.
Indie Hackers is a community of people helping each other build profitable businesses and side projects. The key word here is "community." Don't be shy!
For starters, take a second to introduce yourself and share your goals in the comments below. π
Just say a few words about who you are, why you're here, and what you hope to accomplish or learn in 2020.
Take a moment to say hello to someone else as well!
We've interviewed hundreds of successful indie hackers. I recommend reading a few of their stories. It's a great way to get an overview of what's possible.
@csallen also puts out podcast episodes if reading isn't your thing!
There's no time like the present. Check out the "Start Here" page for a list of practical steps and articles that can help you take action.
Not only will it help you get started, but it should also introduce you to some of the best parts of the Indie Hackers community.
This is just the tip of the iceberg! If you're ever feeling lost or confused, post in the Meta group or tag me (@rosiesherry) in any comment or post.
Don't forget to introduce yourself and say hi to someone else below! π€
Hello!
My name is Sasha from Toronto, Canada. I enjoy my day job, so I my indie hacker aspirations are closer to a side-hustle. The goal is to build something that caters to a niche audience that is easy for me as one person to manage.
I am working on tendship (https://tendship.com) which is a private journal that sends you a reminder if you whenever you stop mentioning a friend. It is in open beta right now and I am just making some improvements to it right now (e.g. add screenshots to the landing page).
Given that the current order of the day is social distancing, its message of "spend more time with your friends" might be ill-timed haha
very neat! i had a similar idea about "reminding me to follow-up with specific humans" many, many times. i like the concept!
and yes, i'd DEFINITELY get a screenshot up. that would be nice.
also, the price... it was confusing because the "free" tier looks like i don't get to write anything... but, the text above it cleared that up.
but, if i didn't read that text, i would have thought that i have to pay
just to writesomething... which isn't true.so, some text changes for clarity might be worth it!
Thanks for the feedback! I'll update the price tiering to be more obvious.
cool! great work and keep it up!
Hi Sasha, I really love this idea - don't worry about the timing - I think it's still powerful to remember to reach out to your friends - at this time especially.. :)
Hello Sasha! That's a really interesting concept!
Hello all, my name is Anthony, I live in the US and I work as a cloud consultant. My idea is to build a Lyft/Uber type app for personal crisis response. Specifically for suicide prevention. Volunteers would take calls / text / WhatsApp / chat / one-way video calls (using something like Twillo) from people in crisis. I am still at the idea stage, but have completed my business plan except for dev costs.
Hi Rosie, My name is Thomas and I am from Ireland. I've been slowly building Rizetv over the past year. RIZE.TV is a sports network for the next generation of sports fans. I think it's at the point that it's time to let the world in and Indie Hackers seems like the perfect place to do just that. I am really passionate about sports and love working with and coaching young people to preform to their potential.
@rosiesherry β @Thomfi is one of the
#yenCHARLIEcohort members! teehee!Hi There! My name is Faith, and I am from the US. I work in education, and it's my mission to help make public education work for everyone. Today's schools are outdated; we are failing to prepare our kids for the future.
My goal for 2020 is to find a team of like-minded people who will work hard to find and share educational solutions.
I'd love to hear about your thoughts on education, I home school my kids for the very reason that I feel the education system is outdated.
I was homeschooled myself and I loved it! My wife and I feel similar ways about the US school system, and weβve been homeschooling our oldest so far.
Followed on Twitter, always need more indie homeschooling people in my network :)
I love that! Thank you π
Hello my name's mounib
I'm 17 years old teen and i want to start a tech company and become millionaire before 25 yo
Welcome aboard! Do you have any ideas that you would like to pursue?
Hi rosie can i send you an email or send me and email if u want we'll talk please
My name is Abraham, I am from Nigeria I'm a full stack developer who specializes on vue.js for front-end and Laravel for the backend development. I'm really passionate about learning new technologies and improving my skills set.
welcome! glad you're here!
what specific skillsets are you thinking about improving? any specific technologies you want to dive into?
Thanks for reaching out.
I'll love to know how to build better TDD applications with laravel and Vue js and also learn about graph ql and AWS
I'm open to working on any cool projects.
cool. so, you can go do that right now, right? build a small app / project?
or, do you want to work with someone else who's using these techs? is this the #1 priority?
My name is Sarit Prajna Sahu. I am a B-Tech and MBA with more than 7 years of IT experience. Currently, I work as a Business Development Consultant at UUO Innovation INC. We are based out of Bangalore, India and Delaware, USA. Our first product is called napEazy. It was conceptualized by experienced Aerospace Engineers working with Airbus. It is an Airbus Spinoff company. We have plans to launch it on Kickstarter soon.
I am really excited to be here to have a healthy exchange of learnings during the early stages especially. From the last few months, I have been researching on the Dos and Don't of crowdfunding. I would love to share those here. Also, when I have some spare time or willingly take some time out, I watch some sitcoms or read business self-help or motivational books. Once in a while, I may want to share some excerpts from those books here too.
Happy Learning!
welcome to IH! i have experience with Kickstarter having launched a software project (~56k) a few years back... here's a free ebook that i wrote that i've been giving away for free for a while (it's a bit old, but, still the principles are good).
lmk if i can help more!
I am Hemant and I strive to passionately develop and pursue ideas that have the potential to implement and fuel business growth. Looking for co-founders to join me to work on a startup (SaaS Platform) that requires creative challenge, passion to solve problems that impact businesses and people, communities. My ideal team is made up of 1-2 Full-stack developers, one UX/UI Expert, Data Scientist, Marketing specialist, Interns (full-stack developer, UX/UI experts (if the skill set matches with the requirements). Equity partnership only but the potential of the platform is to scale to $100M+ with the right team. Willing to chat and see if there is a fit, and purpose aligns with each other.
just something that might encourage some folks to join you on your
epicquest...... what are your "superpowers"? how do you complement your "ideal team" with specific skills, experiences, etc?
that would be helpful for folks who are thinking about connecting with you.
and... more specifics would be useful. outside of "SaaS platform" you've essentially said nothing about the problem space, the ideal, go-to-market customer(s), and anything else that would help give guidance...
right?
Would love to know your idea too.
right now, we're primarily building a community, but closely following is a small software platform to serve that community.
and that's as far as i've gotten.
i want to start small, keep things manageable, and make sure i'm delivering a kickass experience. so far, it's good, but, it could be better.
i have a long way to go.
It's quite interesting that you have a concrete vision of how your team should be like! All the best Hemant :)
Hey everyone!
My name's Andrew. I'm working on a few projects that I'm excited about. First, (and the reason I found this great group) - I'm producing daily vlogs for @8bit. We've been friends for over a decade, so I feel like I get his humor, perspective, and style.
Next, I'm working on producing a new kind of screen-free learning over at PressPlayLevelUp.com. It's experiential audio, long-form teaching mixed with a very mellow, smooth soundtrack mix. Think.....buddha bar for learning? π
I'm also the producer for the Getting Things Done Podcast. Love getting to do that. More stuff at AndrewJMason.com as well.
Great to meet you all!
SWEET!
let's make sure to get a
productup on your profile here @ IH so we can track the progress! let's go!Thank you for the opportunity Rosie. Hello Indie Hacker Community!
My name is Tina, and I am passionate about gaming and helping others.
Initially, I joined the community to offer my gaming experience and in hopes of finding co-founders like a full-stack developer to create a SaaS and solve the problems for 2 underserved markets: social gamers and independent game developers.
Given recent events, I post today because I am confident our SaaS can also help small businesses in their recovery & relaunch efforts since social in-game advertising is the most powerful form of advertising. The SaaS inherently also help non-profits, corporations, tribal casinos.
I have been in the gaming industry for over 2 decades: tribal casinos, slot and table games consultant and vendor, social marketing affiliate for companies like Playtika and DoubleDown.
With a core team of two others (5+ years together β LEAN, Marketing, Sales, IT, Project Management, software experience) and $50k seed funding, we made it to the βProof of conceptβ phase with a Facebook game, (22,000 downloads, 1,1000 players, 60,000 games played) advertising hurdles killed the chance for self-growth (long story short, could only use an approved company, they didnβt vet their ads, (clickbait malware and viruses hit our players, had to remove ads.)
By the time we found one that vetted their ads, it was too late, since Facebook Canvas upgrades inevitable and we had no funds to cover programming costs. Like many indie game creators, we were priced out of the market.
Indie developers made social gaming. Then, big companies and foreign entities bought out some of the best social games. Players are there, but the game category has become stagnant.
The skill-based social gaming market is underserved because indie developers like me, targeting an underserved massive group of players like me, have been priced out of the market.
I am here in hopes of rounding out my core foundersβ team with developers, and not only come together to help players and other indie game creators, but also help small business across the U.S. harness social digital marketing in the most powerful way to help them recover quicker.
Thank you all again for the chance.
My name is Dave Mongan, and I'm building an "active-mindfulness" app that helps people cultivate better mental routines. I've been working on it (bootstrapped) for the past year, along with the help of various developers, and I'm currently beta testing the iOS app.
Background
I was previously a product manager at Tesla ('13-'17) where I ultimately managed our in-person experiences (touchscreens, sales tools, etc). I've long struggled with ADHD and have found that adding some structure to my days helps me be more productive since my natural inclination is to be pretty haphazard. I initially tried the Five-Minute Journal but found it lacking "teeth" in terms of my work productivity, so I went searching for a better system. What I found has become an iOS app called Headway.
About Headway
Headway is an active-mindfulness routine that helps you achieve your goals and be more mindful of your behaviors using twice-daily questionnaires. The morning uses a brew of psychological tactics, including visualization and premortems, to help you prompt and plan for productivity. The evening uses active questions, which start with "Did I do my best to...?", to speak directly to your effort rather than your outcomes. Active questions were created by author and executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D., who's used them with thousands of people, including Fortune 500 execs.
Why I'm Here
I'm looking to launch Headway with an annual subscription in the near future. I'd love to get:
If anyone would like to test, just submit your email here and I'll set you up!
https://getheadway.app
Thanks!
Dave
What's up! My name is Mike and I'm a marketing/growth/product guy based in the US. I currently consult for a handful fo early-stage SaaS companies but am in the process of creating an MVP for my very own SaaS product (a tool that helps podcasters easily cut their episodes up into branded social content). Excited to join IH after hearing about it for a year or two now, meet some new folks (maybe a technical cofounder!), and have some enjoyable + insightful convo with the community. Cheers!
HELLO everyone, I'm Nhi from Viet Nam. You can call me Sam (my adorable pet's name). I'm currently working as a Digital Marketer. Recently, I'm passionate about Python and the way it automate daily boring tasks.
Wonder is there anyone a digital marketers or from Viet Nam?
I am into digital marketing myself, it's also what I study at my university.
Hi there, my major is not marketing, but business administration. I graduated 7 months ago and I found digital marketing is fit to my personality. That's why I choose digital marketing. Where do you live btw? we can keep contact with each other. It is nice to meet some one has the same career path here
I live in New York and no problem, I followed you. How about yourself where are you from?
Hi, Im Alistair a developer from Scotland, I have experience in Java Android, c# (xamarin, wpf, mvc/web apis), but also dabble in other languages such as python when they're needed. Ive been struggling to get over the hurdle of actually creating a marketable product and not just bouncing from one thing to the next when I have a new idea (My "almost finished but never released" catalgoue grows by the month). I'm here because I have 2 project ideas that I want to float past people and get some actual feedback on to give me the drive to actually complete one of them!
Hey IndiHackers, My name is Srinivas, a junior software developer. I want to start a side project on my own, Looks like IndieHackers is the great place to be in. Thanks, looking forward to learning more from the community. Happy Hacking...
Hi @rosiesherry! My name is Blake and I'm a dev from New Zealand. I recently quit a job at an early VC backed startup to pursue my interests and projects because I was so tired of pursuing funding rather than profit. I'm building a piano teaching tool at the moment, though I'm not wholly committed to anything yet, and I'm keen to meet people on the same journey.
My name is Vincenzo, I'm from Italy (currently locked in my house π ). Six months ago I joined a fresh team (we're 4) of a startup and and we launched our beta just 2 months ago.
The only small (BIG) problem is that we work in the sport tourism industry so you can imagine our situation at the moment.
I'm graduated in Business management and I have a master in Marketing and I'm passionate about its new digital trends. Beyond sport and travel I love food and the restaurant industry, I'm also curious about everything related to innovation that's why I'm always trying to improve myself and keep up to the new trends.
Here to meet new people, give feedback and receive suggestions!
Viva l'Italia!
SEMPRE!
I feel your pain too (I have a business that is largely events based). It's so hard to know what is actually going to happen. :(
Hi rosie! how are you dealing with all this in this moment?
Hi Rosie, hope you're having a great day. I've been following Jon S for years, but am just a digital copywriter who's done a bit of coding. But you never know. I'm starting to build my own site with Flywheel and am interested in Bitcoin too actually. I live in Toronto. That's it!
Happy Learning!
i'm the happiest when i'm learning things. π―! welcome to IH!
Hello, world! My name is Alexander, I'm a 22 year old coder, proficient in C++, Swift, and learning JS. I love projects that benefit the Earth and I enjoy hiking and astronomy.
omfg. if i had IH when i was 22 (that was like 16 years ago...) i'd be soooooo much farther than where i am today... i'm sure of it!
best place to learn. glad you're here!
greetings! the name is Ardi from Indonesia, a freelance translator, copy & content writer, proofreader, as well as an aspiring tech talent. I was looking for an opportunity to get myself familiarized with code & programming, since I have a little to none exposures of CS domain. I was trying to follow up any sites that might provide me with a better support & sources, hence here I am. Many thanks in advance :d
hi ardi!
so, what do you think you want to build and/or learn here on IH? how can we help specifically?
Hey everyone,
My name is Huw and I'm an independent game developer from the UK working on a solo game project for my fourth year. It's just about getting sustainable through steam's early access system and I'm looking to maximize the success of my launch by delivering a good game and being the best dev I can be.
I'm looking forward to having great discussions on here! :)
Hey Huw! I got into programming because of game development (I used to make Warcraft 3 and Team Fortress 2 mods). I'm impressed that you are reaching sustainability so early in your career! Nice work!
I occasionally flirt with the idea of getting back into gamedev, but it was difficult to make the numbers work out. This is not advice per-say, but here are some things to mull about:
Traditional startup advice also applies. Validate things early without too much investment. I guess in gamedev, it would be making smaller games and see if they get traction (think spluenky, superhot and so forth).
Sorry for all the rambling!
Hi Sirotkin, thank you for taking the time to write this out!
That's awesome about the modding, I've seen a good number of people go from modding to being developers, good way to do it!
Absolutely, given the nature of my games graphical style it definitely has niched itself a bit but I have found some instances where I've been able to branch out of my niche. I appreciate the comment about considering moving on if it saturates but I think my only goal at the moment is making sure I get the game fully released to the level I've promised to the community. I used to have so many game ideas rattling around but I have stopped myself these last few years, I do have an idea for my next game and I feel like it will be much more successful than my current project.
Thanks for the advice, It's something I'd like to consider but being my first game this 500 thousand line project doesn't have very good infrastructure for being translated so I'll be keeping it in mind for future projects.
Absolutely, I aim to post something daily in our main subreddit and have a large backlog of content in the form of videos/screenshots/discussions/questions and so on for the community, I release updates on roughly a weekly basis and reply to pretty much every comment across all community platforms and try to be as engaging as possible which I think has helped get the game to where it is so far.
I estimate probably upwards of another year or so of developing this game until it's ready to be released but I think I will still release occasional perhaps monthy little content updates post release and will never truly drop the project.
Cheers for the talk! :)
YES. YES. YES.
the best way to do this is to talk to your early community (or "pre-community" as i sometimes call it!). talk to them because they will become your first / early customers!
i can't wait! as a video gamer myself, i love hearing how folks build their games. one of my favorite movies ever is "Indie Game: The Movie":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dINgx0y4GqM
Thanks for commenting 8bit, The community that has developed around the game has definitely been one of the biggest reasons for it's mild success, I love the community :)
I remember Indie Game: The Movie, I used to follow Ed Mcmillen on Newgrounds when he used to make flash games, amazing what he has since done in the proffesional space.
it's really neat to follow some of these folks β and see how they've matured and changed over the years. what a privilege it is.
Absolutely!
btw... you're username is like... the best.
Hi folks, I am Kenny, a full stack developer. I like React, Lo-Fi, Next and Deno. I am passionate about products that have quantum leap effects. Currently seeking inspiration for new project.
Hi, this is Syed. I am Full stack developer and looking to get some business.
Hey!
I am vikas from India. On my 6th month of career break, after working for 9 year as a software developer. Now that I am super charged from all the sleeping and reading I have done during this break, I am ready for action.
I am working on a knowledge management tool. The goal is to make capturing, consuming, sharing knowledge easier. The differentiating factor from existing tools would be to force (promote) the way human brain stores information, through abstractions and association. Currently on mockup stage.
Hey Everyone!
I've been lurking on IndieHackers for awhile now, and it's been quite motivating to see all the ideas and success that people are achieving.
For years I've had countless ideas for online projects and businesses. I've even tried to get a few of them off the ground in the past. I usually stopped working on the projects because I was discouraged with how long they were taking to build. I realized recently that I hold myself to a standard that's much too high for a side project. I wanted everything to be perfect.
Moving forward, my goal is to get one of the project ideas that I have online in an MVP state and take pride that I finally was able to launch one. For this I've decided to build a site called CarSharingData which will provide in-depth market reports for Turo (and at a later date: Getaround). A few sites already exist that provide this type of data. My goal isn't to make a fortune, but rather to get over the hump of launching my first project to the world. It's a project to help my self-growth.
I look forward to continue reading about all the people, projects, and successes on IndieHackers and I hope to have my own stories to add in the future.
Hi, My name is Edvin and I am from Seattle. There is a group of 7-ish of us that are currently in the process of building our portfolios as developers (we are all attending bootcamp), we decided to do some research and see if we can come up with an idea that will be a great portfolio piece but also if it turns into something more that would be cool, me personally am excited about the idea of building a startup, so even if I get a developer job soon I am still planning on being active here and try to build something on my own or with my original group or someone I meet here.
Hi there!
I am Nikola, 21 years old and I am coding on the side for 1 year. I know HTML, CSS, and half of JS :D. I can't wait to improve my skillsets, get a job and be able to create a tech company that hopefully solves large world problems. (very passionate about Ai).
I can't wait to hear from you guys!
Hi, My name is Antonio Mello, I'm a Brazilian software engineer living in Germany. I've been doing front-end development for quite some time (around +6 years) but pretty much had touched in every single part of the process of creating of an application end to end. I'm also an avid reader and privacy enthusiast so I lot of the stuff I'm interested in getting involved revolves around that.
Lately, I'm bored with my daily job. Technology though, is still a huge part of my life. Always felt like it is a mean to an end and people are not benefiting from the things we are creating it is just pointless.
So you feel like there's something I can contribute, as a developer or infosec related, don't be shy. Drop me a line and we can sort this out.
Hi, I'm Pavel from Ottawa, Ontario - worked in DevOps management for last 7 years and now starting Reliza Hub @ https://relizahub.com. This tool provides single view for all Dev / DevOps activity in the organization.
Hi, I am Anes Abismail an Android and iOS developer, I started my journey when I was in high school, I learned Java and Android, I enjoy building apps especially apps that comes from a personnel problem.
My goal this year is to learn more and participate in open source projects, as well as try to make a living with my skills.
my name is Steven I'm teaching myself software developer and and Hardware mod
Hi There,
My name is Jonathan from Israel and I'm a CTO turned entrepreneur.
For the past year, I've been working on https://justplaythesong.com/ which was my long time passion - to teach songs interactively for people who already know how to play. My thoughts were that while most people would like to play songs as amateurs (i.e. hit the ceiling of what they'd like to learn in their first year and stay hobbyists), there are mostly solutions for people who want to "go pro".
After close to a year of intense work, I'm starting to think that there isn't really a justification for this and that I should shut down.
I stumbled upon this community amid my thoughts of pivoting to B2B SAAS for professionals, wanting to learn no-code for quick prototyping and agile cycles, and mostly, feeling a bit deflated after a very intense year.
I would like to build a scalable business that will support myself and a team and for that, I would like to hit the elusive "product-market fit" using no-code before building software.
This time around I've decided to work the opposite way from my usual habit (effectively "if you build it, they will come"). I will choose a sector, then interview clients on their problems and needs, then build mockups of a solution and get feedback, then a very lean MVP with no-code, and only after clients commit to paying, will I feel I'm "on to something".
Would love to learn and assist this community.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hi Rosie my name in Simone from Italy. Working as a full-time IT Manager for a big retailer down here, 2 kids and a dog, Iβm here looking to start a side project, mainly for fun and self learning. Inspirations welcome!
Heya guys!
I'm Cheyne, a software engineer from Sydney, Australia. I currently have several side projects that are increasingly making more money (still very minor though) and I am planning to turn these into a full time project in the next few months. im hoping this community can help me figure out the next steps.
Iv recently launched a digital signage / content display platform called VuePilot (https://www.vuepilot.com) that i'll be focusing on.
Hopefully I can get some valuable feedback :)
Hi. My name is Vishesh Handa, and I'm the author of GitJournal - https://GitJournal.io - A mobile first note taking app for developers and privacy advocates. It essentially allows you to edit markdown files and sync them over any Git repo.
My goal for 2020 is at least 1k MRR. The goal for March was to be feature compatible with Google Keep. Let's see if I can make it.
Hi Rosie,
I am here hoping to learn how to build a company and startup my own SaaS services. I am glad to be here and would like to share ideas and brainstorm with anyone here to start something together!
Hey Everyone,
My name is Dave and I'm from Baltimore, MD in the United States. I'm a business intelligence analyst with a strong desire to get my side project up and in alpha in 2020. I've started data collection and processing for an app I'd like to develop that helps personal trainers develop customized workout plans for their clients. My background is primarily in Python, Excel, and SQL, as well as working competency with Tableau, Power BI, and R. I'm looking forward to giving and receiving feedback on my project and helping others flush out their ideas!
Hi Rosie, I just started a blog and finished a Basics Online Course with YouTube videos- Create Your Own Bling Cell Phone Cases and Canvas Art . Iβm a designer selling my art and phone cases. Iβm excited to be here, to have found this awesome community. @willcloudforfood - I am doing this for Suicide Prevention - awareness of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255. I am technically challenged, so I am constantly looking for help with building my blog. I also want an ebook. Free is always good.
Hi! Iβm a developer and have run a couple of successful companies. For the last 20 years(!!) Iβve been building a telco billing company, which Iβve now exited from. As it happens Iβve become a billing expert, and have developed a unique set of principals which can help companies who have complex billing requirements such as bespoke contracts. Iβm currently between gigs and thinking about a few things including productising or consulting in the billing space, but Iβm also interested in a CTO role or working with other startups.
Hello!
My name is BuΔra from Istanbul, Turkey. I am high school student preparing for the college. I spend most of the time (almost all of it) on the computer (trying to) code stuff. My main goal is to turn this investment of mine into a prosperous lifecycle. I don't work in any job currently, but I'm searching one that can utilize the investment, but to no avail (the employment rates here is very bad)
Thanks to me unable to stop coding stuff (and scanning the whole internet in the mean time), I prioritize coding over college :D [a.k.a procrastinating]. For those who wonder, I write code since my 6th age (yes, since 6! no jokes). My first program was like a combination of english words the programming environment suggested for me. It was Visual Basic I guess.
But I'm quite uncertain that my investments will turn out to be valuable in my country. I need to build something that is useful. That's the only certainty I know of. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi!
I'm Ryan Jacobson from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. I've been working on a side project for the last 5+ years and I'm just starting to market it. It's called Grryno (https://grryno.com) and it's a game server hosting service without any monthly fees. It's a pay-for-what-you-use service. I'm very nervous about finally putting myself out there.
It started over 5 years ago when a friend of mine showed me his own tech startup that he was running using Linode servers. He was making about $3k a month from it and I was very impressed about how simple it seemed. I thought, "This is gonna be easy! I'll do the same thing, but with game servers. I'll be rich in no time!". It's definitely not that easy, and this project has turned into a labor of love.
My goal right now is to get 10 people using Grryno regularly so I can get feedback to help improve the service and make launching and running game servers as easy as possible.
Hi! Nice to meet y'all.
I am Rick Silva. I am in Raleigh, NC (originally from Boston). I have been a Software Developer for a zillion years. I know how to build database-backed websites using Postgres, Python, Django, etc. but I lack an idea. I have time on my hands to build something but no product idea.
Any tips on ideation would be super appreciated.
Hello IH,
This is Ashutosh from Delhi, India. I come from a day job of a SE with well versed in Full stack development. I have been actively involved with technologies like Java, Spring Boot, HTML5/CSS, Thymeleaf and other similar techs.
I like doing side hustles and build something of my own. In the past I have created various applications. One of them is www.breatheindia.in | This application tracks the data from Government API to fetch the latest AQI data of cities across India.
I've created many demo projects as well.
Currently I do my day job and post work have started working on my own business with a team of 2 people and creating a Bookkeeping product for Indian markets.
Actively looking for WFH home opportunity, partners and advisers for promotion and revenue generation strategies.
Would love to help you all with my experience. Will be happy to help :)
-Ashutosh Anand
Aye it's Lucini from New York. I have no prior knowledge of coding nor development. I actually started November 2019 and slowly gaining ground. I am recording some of my milestones on paper but it's really the different languages of code ex: I just learned some C++. I'm always looking to collab or even just contribute to someone else's project. Hopefully, I can use my experience and knowledge gained to advance myself as an entrepreneur or at least start a sustainable business to generate revenue residually. So yea, I'm also 21 hit me up. Thank you for reading.
Hello!
My name is Hung Nguyen, currently undergraduate of State University of New York at Oswego, Computer Science. I am also the Founder of Developer Student Club chapter DUT powered by Google Developer - https://google.dscdut.com/. This is my personal website https://www.nguyenhuuhoanghung.com/
I am building the side project which is developing community within the university in Danang, Vietnam. Our product is the website in which students can post their projects (ideas or MVP) and find some partners to do these projects together. We are collecting ideas from students and other people as well as people to brainstorm the solution and test our hypothesis before starting building real product. We are working remotely, US and Vietnam. If you have any ideas or want to join with us, please ping me. Thank you.
I am also looking for a(n) (Associate) Product Manager internship in the US for this summer. If you guy want a young and dynamic APM intern, please not hesitate to contact to me. Thank you again!
Hi - I'm Dave Hurt currently living in Boston, MA, USA. I've been working on a new product concept for about 4 months now. Mostly interviewing folks to better understand the industry and use cases so that I can focus on a strong value prop. We are launching a private beta next week and would love feedback on how you've found B2B SaaS companies that would be interesting in joining our beta program.
Our product is called Verb Data and it's a no-code, end-to-end solution for embedding user-facing dashboards and reports into SaaS applications. With Verb, developers donβt need to manage servers or infrastructure and product managers can implement new reports or dashboards on the fly.
I'd love to hear if you have experience with embedded analytics for SaaS or building your own custom dashboards. Thanks!
Hello,
I am a 20 year old college student who attends NYU - I joined this community because of my growing boredom and sense of uselessness in academia. I have wanted to drop out for the past year, but fear of losing a clear path to a healthy and stable job has kept me in school. I can no longer take the mundane work that my university continues to pile onto me.
In my past I have created an e-commerce clothing business and poker blog (one of my passions), however both have halted at this point. I am looking to dive into a new project and hopefully make it my day job! I wanted to join this community for a chance to connect with others who have started the path of entreprenuership and finally be able to utilize my work-ethic and eagerness to build something from scratch.
What is a better time to do this than in between wasting my tuition money on online essentially large FaceTime sessions? I am looking forward to connect with some other members who have previously shared the struggles I do currently.
Hey Indie Hackers!
I'm Lewis and I'm from Newcastle (originally London). I'm working on a little side thing that I hope will take off, based around the massive increase in new building developments happening around the country.
I come from a DevOps day job which has meant I've taught myself enough Python to get me by. I'm also learning-through-doing my way into Vue.JS.
Wish me luck!
Hi there. My name is Wayne I am a MacOS and iOS developer from Cape Town, South Africa. I love all things Swift, from iOS to server-side swift. I have built a Mac app called Shepherd that helps users launch multiple programs from their menu bar (https://shepherdapp.io) and I am currently building an iOS app called Sipped that helps users track their drinking habits. (https://sipped.app).
I do freelance development whilst trying to hit my developer side project goals. I am looking to join indie hackers for some inspiration, motivation and to look for some great tips from other developers and founders.
Hi everybody,
my name is Mislav and I am from Zagreb, Croatia. I am a software developer and a cofounder of END2END, Croatian software startup company founded by me and 2 colleagues a year ago. All of us worked for more then 10 years in telco world for big telecommunication companies and just wanted to run of way from corporate way of working and living because we realized 10 years is more then enough to become aware we are not the corporate world players :)
Of course, as our expertise is telco, we continued working in telco world to earn for our living, but want to find a new niche and try something else. One of ideas we have found so far is partnership with Atlassian and developing products for their ecosystem. We are trying to launch our first atlassian marketplace app for Jira - 'Worklog express' which is our first try to develop something that will hopefully be used and not anyhow connected to our usual 'telco' enterprise business :)
As we are quite new to 'outside' world, we have to learn a lot about launching new products and finding our way to reach our early customers, so hopefully this is a right place to start gathering good ideas.
Hello there,
My name is Thibault! I'm from Paris! I made a profesional transition to the web development couple months ago. I knew nothing about that. I'm learning Vue.js and Node.js(express). I'm just discovering what Indie Hacker is, and it's very nice concept! I'm going to create something in the futur, I don't know what yet but It will comes ! So I'm here to be inspired first and then we'll see ! :)
ps: here my portfolio : https://thibault-decousus.netlify.com/
(I'm still working on the performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practice, etc with lightHouse) but if you want to give some feedback, please feel free! :)
Hello, my name is Idir and I'm a self-taught Golang developer, and before that, I was working as 3d artist for 7 years, and in early 2019 I decided to change career and become a developer. My objectives for the next five years is to get experience and launch my tech company.
Hi, I'm Damian from Brighton, UK. I've always wanted to create a digital product that people find really valuable and can provide me with a sustainable income. Indie Hackers (especially the podcast) has given me so much insight into other bootstrappers and has helped me to formulate what direction I want to take things.
The product I am working on to launch as a v1.0 is called Photonix (https://photonix.org/) and is a cloud-based photo management app. It aims to be the central place photographers go to manage their photos. It streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos. It is responsive across multiple devices and has advanced search features utilising AI for object detection, colour detection, style classification and more. There is an online demo you can try on the site or run the Docker image yourself if you are so inclined.
It is an open source project so please check out my GitHub project (https://github.com/damianmoore/photonix/) if you would like to get involved. Eventually I'd like to provide a managed SAAS version to sustain development. Any advice or comments would be much appreciated. Hopefully I'll be able to update here in the near future.
All the best to my fellow Indie Hackers and please reach out if you think I can be of assistance.
I am new here - my name is Hakon from Iceland.
I have a startup called https://www.MyTweetAlerts.com - it is a new and better way to search Twitter. Email alerts for Twitter and Slack notifications. We have a lot of advanced filters for Twitter - we can filter by a number of likes or retweets or number of followers - so we can spot tweets before they go viral and many more features.
I am also helping a lot of companies with online marketing (Google Ads, Twitter Ads, SEO, Social Media, ...).
I have many pet projects and own a lot of websites. Some of them are:
Look forward to learning what you all are doing and take part in this community.
Let me know if you want to test MyTweetAlerts.com or if you need help with online marketing.
Hi, my name is Dunstan Christopher. I am a ServiceNow Specialist. I own a start up IT company in Austin, Texas, USA.
I am developing a Saas solution and i want to validate the idea in a B2B environment. Can you guys provide some insight as to how I could validate the idea before development.
Hi, Eddie from US, I work at tech co. as QE, started as black box with no degree, now grey/white box. Using education dollars from work to take classes (js,python) . Looking for the next thing. I do not enjoy corporate life anymore... Trying to see what I can do next.
Hello! My name is Kelley and I'm from the US. I'm a marketer who teamed up with my developer husband to make remote work tools for companies who are new to the WFH lifestyle. Our first product is called Screen Brander (https://www.screenbrander.com/) - a way to brand your remote team's Zoom calls.
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I'm Aakash from India. I just started college and am a computer science and engineering student. This is my first exposure to the technical field. I started learning web development and have taken a liking to it. I'd like to learn more about it and improve my skills.
Hi, I'm Ben. Founder of Krellian (krellian.com), a software platform for interactive digital signage. I'm based in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK.
After 8 years working remotely for Mozilla full time, I decided to start my own business. I've just finished YCombinator's Startup School and am currently on a local "High Potential Startups" accelerator.
I'm in the early stages of refining the value proposition for my product and am considering bootstrapping the business through consultancy work. I specialise in web applications, connected devices and web-based operating systems. You can find out more about my experience on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamintolafrancis/).
Hello, My name is Nabil from France and I am here to read the successful stories learn from people who succeeded, try to have the maximum motivation to be able to pull away a project (mobile app - I'm a mobile developer)
Hi Rosie. I'm Dan. Dipping my toes into freelance/indie development. Looking forward to exchanging ideas and collaborating with other like-minded developers to build something impactful and of value
Hi Rosie, I am Krishna from India. I'm from a non CS background hoping to learn Cloud Computing and Server hosting or futuristic technology within short time (if possible).
Thanks for the support,
Cheers.
Hey @rosiesherry Ziggy here from London, I'm here to learn. Having just quit my day job I am browsing this website to see what skills I need to learn to get my ideas off the ground and into action. Really enjoying seeing so many like minded individuals making a go of it themselves.
I would say i have 0 experience with coding but have an interest.
I stumbled across this site researching AI trading Bots to see if it was possible for the average person to invest money and make it work for them with the help of deep learning bots. Turns out it is. Glad to have found this community.
Hi There! My name is Celestin, I come from Kigali, graduated in computer engineering. I'm a full-stack developer who specializes in PREN/MERN stacks: PostgreSQL/ MongoDB, ReactJs, Express NodeJs - React Native, Firebase, GraphQL, and Apollo - JavaScript, Html and CSS. I'm really passionate about these skills and technologies and learning new staff for setting my career path. I have been coding for 2 years.
I am looking for any start-up which uses some of the mentioned skills to contribute and share my knowledge and experience.
I'm Root Kan.
I'm trying to teach you Hacking, Programming, Networking and many other things related to Technology.
My Goal is to Educate Every people on internet and Giving them all learning courses for free.
I just want to provide Everything Related to IT in one Place.
Hi Rosie, My name is Criston Mascarenhas.
I have an unpronounceable name, call me Moytza - I live in the UK and work in hospitality. However, I'm super keen on learning (anything goes!) and as such I'd like to create a platform to gain feedback on βthat thing you doβ or help improve others with their βthing they doβ. Completely new to online communities, I'd love to hear some of your views on such platform - would it work?
I've come across StackExchange but that's quite developer orientated, whereas my plans are for a more generic skill-set. "Learning to draw? Show us what you have and we can tell you what we think."
I'll head straight to Ideas&Validation :)
Hey Rosie,
This is Afsha, I have created a startup business which was once a well established business owned by my dad in another part of the world. Im looking for someone who is an expert for social media marketing, Seo strategies, sales funnel and all that good stuff and i think indiehackers is the best place to break the word. I would love to work Or partner with somebody who is as passionate as me in scalling this business
Hello :) My name is Gio and I am a software engineer from Toronto. I've been slowly hacking away at a embeddable commenting platform similar to Disqus (https://disqus.com/), but with a more data and privacy-friendly revenue model. This is my first foray into building a product from scratch and so I specifically chose this product because it's relatively simple to build.
I think I am about 2 to 3 months away from actually shipping a beta out and getting feedback from users.
A big reason why I joined IH is because I'm searching for a cofounder. Something I've noticed in the year that I've worked on this product is that I severely lack design skills, and as much as I'd love to learn these skills, I rather just have a business partner come in and take on that responsibility so I can focus on writing software.
So who knows! Maybe I'll have a serendipitous encounter here with a cool designer who wants to work on a fun project that will hopefully make us good money!
Hi, my name is Philip. Iβm an investment banker advising companies on raising equity... itβs time to face the inevitable, that is, i could be doing better things with my time... Looking to seek inspiration from others, gather thoughts and eventually build a business that iβm truly passionate about!
Hi Phillip. I look forward to the opportunity to work with someone like you.
Hello everyone! I'm Victor, author of Animation CPU. Animation CPU is a new mobile game dev platform. I'm looking for a way how to fund the project, build community, and deliver Animation CPU to the peoples faster right now. TestFlight is available
animationcpu.herokuapp.com (temporary site, main site add1hp.com is under construction)
My Name is Tanner. I've started up several businesses in the past year and currently purchasing another. All of the business Manufacture products, and sell them to our customers. I'm looking to automate and create specific solutions for each business, and the struggle is I know nothing about coding or software! I am a builder and can design products, but I'm getting bogged down in the operations! Two of my businesses are B2B and requires a lot of hands on work with lead generation, quoting, sales follow up and more.
Looking to talk shop on the best solutions in the market finding the right solutions for my projects, and provide some insight of whats worked for me.
Hi, my name is Justin Horn. I pretty much just completed the mvp for my current project "dayplanner" . You can download it on dayplanner.online.
I decided to quite college and go down the entrepreneurial route.
I hope to find some nice tipps and maybe some teammates/coworkers/-founders on this site
Hi everyone. My name iz Sulejman and I'm from Bosnia & Herzegovina. I'm software engineer by trade, backend stuff only. I live by the mantra that sofware engineering is a way of life, not just a career choice. Currently I'm working with a .Net Core, MS SQL or MongoDB stack. When I have some free time, I'm trying to learn Golang or read a fantasy book(Wheel of Time is a must! :)) to relax. I would be interested in some kind of collaboration, to level up skills or maybe even start something profitable, if the chance presents itself. Best regards to all.
Salute to all ,
I am about 'Jesus' age, when he died .
-Professorially don't know who I am, doing QA testing , learning Hacking. One day you will hear about me. (under diff user name:))) )
Wish I can do Computers, since School, instead of killing time hanging around the city, in Belarus. With co-fuckers.
Thanks. Spasibo. Dosvidaniya
We salute you. :) Age doesn't matter really. Just grit and iron will to put hard work in. I'm aware that this maybe sounds like something from a fortune cookie, but that is it really. These things are under our control. So march on and best of luck.
Hi! I am Ali from Toronto. I work as a management consultant but I've always been very interested by this tech community. I have been reading a lot on IndieHackers and love the idea of quickly testing and launching products!
Hello there ! I'm Nacer, I've been making video games and apps using templates (reskinning) for 5 years now and i've acquired expertise in App Store Optimization, analyzing and researching for winning niches, Also made cool friends in this industry and now i'm taking a computer science course in the university and self teaching at the same time to get the technical aspect of it. I also had a couple weekend projects making SaaS web apps that we pitched for local startapp funds, Now i want to get the whole picture and connect with the right minded people so we can create an empire making millions in the process.
Hey everyone! Iβm Rehman. Iβve been selling software my entire adult life. Lived / worked in Bucharest, California, Berlin. Currently living in Amsterdam working at a Dutch scale-up.
Keen to engage with the makers here and get involved on the commercial side of things in B2B projects.
hi thanks for coming on here and talking
Hey guys,
I'm working in San Francisco for a large company as a QE/SDET.
On the side I also have a store on Amazon, selling home decor products. The eCommerce is congested nowadays, there is more Chinese sellers/manufacturers in 2020 than American sellers - so I decided to sell my inventory/listing.
I am passionate about technology and entrepreneurship, I want to switch my focus to software and build a business.
Iβm specialized in corporate solutions
Hi, Rosie! I'm Ilana, a newbie at the site because of burning desire to learn coding and have couple ideas in mind to start. I love tech, business, and how finances play games with our lives. By saying that, I want to connect with pros and code related stuff, learn as much as I can and begin a journey into entrepreneurship. Hopefully, will connect with community to share my ideas and find partners in endeavor.
ππΌHI there Indie Hacker community!
I'm Irving. I'm a product manager at a mid sized tech company. I've been itching to start a side project for some time now. My goal is to build a product from scratch and have real people use it. I've never considered myself an entrepreneur, but throughout my career - the desire to build something valuable has only grown. I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of the community! Take care.
Irving
Hello, my name is Fortune.I was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. I am in love with the internet and building online businesses. When i was 5 years old i would build websites on the computer. I am 23 now and i am taking my online businesses more serious than ever, i have even dropped out of college to chase my dreams of being a super successful internet entrepreneur. I am very excited to connect with all you guys in this community and grow my knowledge .
Hello! I'm Ethan and I'm an aspiring entrepreneur and digital nomad. I love learning new things and applying my knowledge to help people. I look forward to being a part of this community and sharing my skills and hopefully picking up some new ones in the process.
Hello, my name is Supui but you can call me Tony. I am based in New York City. I am a full stack web developer who specializes in JavaScript and an Elixir enthusiast. I just want to keep growing and eventually bring value back to the world while getting paid for it.
My goal is to be able to work because I choose to not because I have to . NYC rent is crazy expensive so probably going to feel this way for a while π
Hey! My name is Jon. I'm a co-owner to a development company. It didn't start that way. I've served in roles like Support, Sys Admin, Developer, Sales Engineer and everything in between. It was hard walking away from problems in customers' apps/sites every single day. There wasn't time, budget or allowance to improve them in those roles. So out of a desire to marry the need to pay off debt, and demand which seemed obvious - my wife and I started Expert Ready. It was purely a side hustle for several years. I went full time in 2019, and it's been a wild ride. I'm really looking to learn from this community - maybe foresight and inspiration for the road ahead! We also are in the middle of diversifying by building our own product - so I could really use some validation and possibly accountability to bring this to life. Lastly, we have a team of 4 so help in any form that we can give back would feel great.
On the personal side, I buy way too many books. I have a degree in Biblical Studies and try to be a nice guy most of the time. I've coached several age groups in Soccer (boys and girls) and LOVE seeing people young and old inspired to try something new and challenging.
My name is Ossian Rey and I'm from the Philippines. I've been working with this company called ReliaBills (https://www.reliabills.com), a recurring billing software[/URL] that help businesses get paid. I want to collaborate with other SMB in this community if they ever need to automate their invoices or payments.
Hello, my name is Helmut, I'm a Senior Software Engineer looking for a good idea to work on in my spare time. Hopefully, I'm going to find it here. Wish me luck
Hi Rosie - looking forward to exploring and learning more from the IH community. My goal is to create an online platform for people who want to come together around shared professional goals... https://VirtualPeer.co - a beta version is up and running right now with a small group of people. The platforms not my own alas! But it's good enough right now to test the main concept :)
Hi Rosie, my name is Josh Ternyak and I am from Minnesota. I am a 15 year old front-end web developer and have built a custom html website theme over at loveyourlanding.com. I am very passionate about building websites that are designed well and help others.
Hello! Willys, here! I'm developer with 7 years experience. I've worked on some differents projects on web and desktop stacks (fullstack). I love games and some series, and i'm here to learn with you guys, and try to make something new and amazing. I think i can do it haha.
Let's try! =)
i think you're in the right spot friend! this is one of the friendliest places that i've found on the internet... i shit you not!
so, what are you going to build?
Thanks, 8bit!!!
My First Idea is some type of CMS to Churchs build theirs websites in a simole way. There's apps like this on US, but in my country (BR) is pratically none. Other ideias is Dev simples apps to publish focusing on Ads.
really? the
Church CMSspace has been around for a decade+ here in the united states... hell, i was helping to build that space!great opportunity then if there's nothing local! you have all the tools you need!
Hello there, I am guy called Nerijus from Lithuania. Working remotely for the company in Denmark, while at the same time trying to build side project - classified advertising site for my little home-town. Initially it was just educational project to learn Vue.js and .Net Core, but then decided to ship it. That's when I have faced my deep desire to be perfect, I am stuck with the project for over 2 years.
Does anyone else in this community faces perfectionism? How do you get over it?
um, yes!
every single day i think...
but... i work through that every single day... sometimes it's a small voice. sometimes, it's a very loud voice. with a schedule / routine and close friends (and community!) i can usually get past it.
sometimes, though, i don't.
but, keep trying. get up, keep going. this is a good place to build strong friendships and bonds that can help you overcome it!
Thanks for cheering me up.
Yeah, routines, time chunks, showing up every day even for 15 min, pomodoro technique, daily reminder why I have started this and what I want. All these tricks work as long as I use them.
i've tried
pomodorobut it didn't stick. what's the secret?Nice to meet you. Im Sarah and Expat living in Thailand for 20 years.....Great information here and fascinating to read. Look forward to reading more and becoming part of the community. If anyone needs an online teacher for their kids right now, I have over 10 years experience teaching online and happy help amidst this virus crisis and most other times as well. You can contact me at fringefluency@gmail.com. My rates are fair and I work hard to ensure quality. Thanks and take care everyone.
are you planning on launching a product here on IH? are you expanding your offering or business?
hello I-Hackers, my name is deep and I'm based out of Berlin. I'm here to get support / network / mentorship to kick off my startup. Right now I am in exploratory stage i.e. do not have any solid idea. I do know that I'd like to serve Business to Business community which values ethical sales. I have tremendous experience in B2B sales, sales management from $1B saas enterprise to $20M Saas scaleup. Product / Tech is my handicap. I'm happy to help anyone who is interested in knowing more about sales strategy, processes, organisation. And I'm looking either for (1) tech leads who have in-complete founding team (sales/bizdev/marketing) or (2) ideas waiting to become startups through collaborated research , customer development interviews.
hey deep!
glad you're here!
this is a great place to start your search for a cofounder or folks to work with! a suggestion would be to create a new project/product and start talking about what you're looking to do / ideas that you want. there's a great category here that would be perfect for what you need!
good luck!
Hey there - my name is Anthony. Lots of programmers and developers here so I'm afraid I might look a little lost.. I'm a physics teacher, STEM coordinator and learning technologies specialist for a large private international school. My job does see me teaching basic programming at times but I've essentially got one foot fixed in the structured 'science curriculum' world and another in the much more fluid 'Project Based Learning' / 'Maker Ed' world and my passion is to pull these two worlds a little closer together to make something that is both academically rigorous and creatively agentic (See: agentic learning). I'm trying to build a community of 'Maker Learners' who are interested in connecting STEM learning with hands on 'Build-It-Yourself' products. I've got ties to factories that make electronic components and a list of product ideas that I'd like to package the components and learning resources for. By the end of 2020 I'd like to see myself with a small but growing community of maker learners and with 1-2 project kits produced that are both sold online and used as the backbone of after-school clubs that can be run for communities.
Probably one 'offshoot' of this that I should mention on a page filled with so many programmers is that I'm really interested in creating a 'Python Physics' online textbook. After getting amazing physics results because of their excellent teacher (hehe) my students often come back from universities across the globe and complain that so much of their first year of physics has had to be spent getting their programming skills up to the level required for computational physics courses. If I could give them a leg-up here and send them to university with foundational computational physics knowledge then I'd be a very happy educator. Making python programs/3D models/sims and learning physics in the process is still very much in the maker learners ethos, but I've started viewing it as more of a niche child idea due to the specific goal of creating a textbook/programming hybrid that aligns with high school physics content.
So, if your passions are making stuff, learning stuff or programming in python - hit me up :)
um, YES! DO IT!
start a new project / product here and start building it! keep track of your progress and share it as you build.
writing an online textbook is effectively just "writing" and the medium / delivery system could be via web, .pdf, etc...
building the habit of writing it out, daily, is a great start... and this is a great place to start building it! congrats on the (future) publication!
Thanks John - The Python Physics website is currently just a Google Site with that custom domain attached. My plan is to just slowly populate it with Google Colab notebooks that fold together physics content with examples in python. I'd be happy for these to be copied freely by teachers. In no way is it a 'business idea' but very much a passion project/hobby designed to create something useful for physics teachers and structure my own python learning journey along the way! That being said, I would like it to be clearly labelled as a MakerLearners project and Exhibit A for what 'Making to learn' can mean in the programming space.
I'm not too familiar with this space, so right now I'm not sure if 'Maker Learners' or 'Python Physics' should be the project I outline here... to be honest the only two pages I've explored on this site so far are here and your post re: EdTech for school closures!
There have been some pretty cool new online STEM classes coming out of both India and Canada
...suggest you try to start your searches there
Thanks! I've noticed a massive Arduino following coming out of India - comparable to what I see here in China. I've been lucky to live close to Shenzhen Electronics Market for many years now, but soon I'll be moving to the Middle East. I am curious as to whether that move will see me taking a greater advantage of India's 'Maker' scene.
Hey I'm Shah. I just stumbled upon indiehackers.I found it interesting.I am chemical engineer with growing interest for coding.
hi! glad you're here!
what would you specifically like to learn re: coding?
Not decided exactly anything yet. But I would love learn to develop web app on SAAS model. I have only slight idea on programming with python because I had used python for Simulation/Modelling to solve simple problems. I know HTML/CSS. I will glad if to be guided to learn SAAS web app development. Can I develop a SAAS app only using python?
question: is it more important that you learn to program or that you learn to build a business?
Although my end goal is to build a business. I have enough spare time to learn properly.
great! so, coding is a fundamental part of that? or, no?
because you could build a business without learning to code.
Yes. I'm kind of person who likes to know how stuff works. So yeah, im ready to learn.
then you're in the right place! this place is one of the better places to learn cool stuff. go for it!
Hey Shah - do you mind if I ask what kind of systems you were modelling with Python? I'm trying to collect examples of uses of python for my physics students and there is an engineering module in our course. I'm curious as to whether you were modelling processes that we cover in our course..
I had learned modelling with python as part of similar undergrad course.
We were modelling chemical reactors, heat exchanger and distillation column. Our codes were written to solve specific course book problems.
Ah, that's amazing! I don't know if you've seen my own post here, but I'm trying to offer my students examples of computational physics being used to solve real world problems. If it wouldn't take up too much of your time, do you have anything that I could add to an online repository of examples I'm trying to put together for physics teachers? I would of course be 100% happy to cite the examples as your own. If you'd be happy to help, please just send me an email through my profile :)
I just went through your posts. I find what you are doing is great. So I would love to help you with an example. But I don't know if I can come up with a good physics example. Because whenever I think of physics only 'projectile motion' pops in my head lol. I think a simple example could be heat transfer simulation of 1D/2D object. What do you think?
I'm very happy to join IH today. My name is Jean, I've been building side projets for almost my entire life. Starting at 12 I build my first website to promote skateboarding. Since I've evolved as lead dev, R&D director or CTO on several startups. I like the startup phase where everything is possible and finding such clue that make business global. I'm here to help other entrepreneurs bringing ideas but also to find feedback on mines. I want to learn from young and more robust hackers here.
Hi, I'm Ragip from Turkey. I'm a SEO Specialist and blogger.
Hi, I'm Bogdan from Ukraine and I'm developing Domain Name Automated Management system to manage domains portfolios, suggest domain prices discounts, make bulk marketplaces/registrars API calls and much more.
Hello everyone,
My name is Simon and I'm quite new to this community. I've been lurking for a few days and I need to compliment on the spirit here, I like it a lot!
I'm a software developer and I've co-founded 3 businesses so far, and am currently doing freelance work on the side.
My goal for this year is to start making smaller tools for daily use that will generate a passive income. So that's what's in my mind at the moment! It's quite nice to have found this crowd of hackers in high spirit :)
Hello. My name is Ian. I don't have goals worth sharing at the moment, but sure hope someday I will.
Max from Russia is here! Front-end dev with some design bits.
I am working full-time on growthclub.online - a peer to peer coaching platform focused on founder's personal growth.
I want to get feedback and support from the community since many here are founders or have experience with online communities. I want to exchange my insights while building the platform (I am at quite an ab early stage) with other hackers who work on similar things. As a goal, I hope to achieve 500 $ MRR by the end of 2020.
Hi @maximzavadskiy. I like this project. Looks promising. Good luck
Thanks! Feel free to sign-up we have a bunch of founders already onboard. Will be happy to hear feedback from you
My name is Meghashyam from Mumbai,India.I am a project manager in Telecom with 18 years of experience and now learning data science and AI technologies.
Hi, i am an entrepenur from argentina. I hope to find answer and how to grow my business and also help others.
Hey All! I'm Daniel and I'm a new software developer in the UK, loved the idea of this community, and am looking forward to trying to use it to try make my own applications in my free time! Got some ideas for things I'd love to make, and if they end up good I'd love if I could turn them into an income. Probably will just lurk for a while but looking forward to participating in the community!
Hello Rosie!
Iβm glad to have found this community,
My Name is Yinka, Iβm a pharmacist and a business entrepreneur in Nigeria.
Due to my keen interest and passion in IT, I finally decided to take on IT (self learning) to build a career in wiriting codes(python especially) and also chart a career path in Data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning and be a freelance data analytics consultant. I want to major my IT skills in the health field in the sub Saharan African countries as I see the need for this in this region.
I recently started learning how to write codes using python and I am looking at taking some meaningful certification courses online within the next few months, then get into an IT institute abroad. How about this?
I hope this forum can help me build this career and achieve this dream.
Thanks!
Best of luck!
I'm new here. my name is Mike Kim from Korea. I like web and very glad to find the best learning place. Thank you so much.
Hi ClΓ©ment, full stack developer from France, specialized in Django. Love learning new technologies and do real stuff with it!
Hey, Denis from Kenya here. Great to join this community
Hi! Iβm Murphy Randle. I started my career in the animation industry, but now Iβm a full-stack engineer working at Day One. Iβm burning to ship some apps of my own, though itβs a challenge to find the time because Iβm also a father of three, and I enjoy making videos for egghead.io. I have a goal to ship two simple, but useful, apps in 2020 and begin building a passive income stream that can support further indie development.
Hi, my name is John. I'm a university student studying Computer Science. My goal is to improve my skills set and be professional in my field.
Hello indie people!
My name is Jim and I am a 20 yo full-stack developer who works on react and django.
Me and my team are launching a social network (https://subranch.com/) which aims to help communities organize themselves based on topics and be easily discovered by other people regardless of their size. My goal for 2020 is to host a large number of communities on our platform and grow out team size with like-minded people!
hey am Bello Hadi from Nigeria a student of applied geophysics interested in tech this year i wanna perfect my backend skill using node.js and also get employed in any firm .
Hi. An education project drew me here.
My name is Angel Castro, and I'm the owner of a digital marketing boutique helping Local brands to build brand awareness & drive customer acquisition.
We develop a holistic understanding of their resources and goals and create a custom strategy to help them grow and achieve exponential results.
I'm really passionate about helping SMBs and constantly supporting them with the knowledge they need and latest tools to take their business to the next level.
I'm excited for what we can do for them, as well as engaging or partnering with you.
Weβre just getting started!
Feel free to reach out at any time.
Cheers!
Angel
My name is Ayush. I'm a computer science student in India. I'm trying to gain new skills and ideas to gain some money and experience during my college time. Here for tips and ideas.
I hope it's gonna be great.
Hi, My name is Al Amin, I am from Bangladesh. A software guy mostly works on PHP stack. I'm really passionate about learning something new and doing automation tasks as much as possible I can. Recently I worked on an unmanaged VPS Cloud Server to maintain an e-commerce application. I'm eager to learn DevOps as well as SRE.
Hi everyone, my name is Portia, a serial entrepreneur. Am really passionate about bringing my expertise to scale innovative and impactful tech ventures through customer and capital acquisition. This year my company will be opening doors to a global digital accelerator that gets startups from pre-seed proof-of-concept stage to seed stage investment readiness while building high performance and productive founders. It's great to be part of this online community :)
Welcome, Portia! Wow, that sounds intense. I wonder how that will feel online? Iβve done a bit of studying about YC and it seems like a lot of what people get from it comes from being there in-person. Iβm really interested in knowing how the online format goes for you!
I am Jai Aswani, I am from India I'm a Salesforce Developer who specializes in Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visiualforce. Looking forward to learning new things from the community.
Hi all! My name is Ammar, long-time IH lurker finally joining. 2020 is the year I go indie. I've got a handful of ideas that I want to start testing and validating. Looking forward to learning from y'all
Hi, I'm Komron. I'm located in Czech Republic, I am a full-stack software engineer. I'm passionate about building things. I'm exited to be here to share/exchange tech/growth knowledge with like-minded people, learn from people in this community and get into this vibe.
Hi! My name is Mdundzi, I am self taught developer (html/css/js/php), who like toying around with app project.
I just want to learn how to improve my skill and level up my knowledge as a programmer.
Hi my name is Hendrik.
I help creating transparent web analytics for everyone at Offen.
A fair alternative to common web analytics tools. Respect your users while gaining insight into their behavior. Self hosted, open source and free. https://www.offen.dev/
I'm really curious what the IH community thinks about our project and I welcome feedback on how we can make it better. I look forward to having great discussions and meeting interesting new people!
Hi,
I am Aditya and am building Questo - a life coaching platform for tweens & teens.
I believe the schools are failing to teach the most important skills that matter today - and a life coach can not only help a child find meaning to learning but also bring about strong mindset changes which will have long lasting impact on their careers and life outcomes.
I have been an ed-tech entrepreneur for 6 years and see myself building something really valuable in this space - alternate learning / mindsets / EQ / Life skills / 21st century skills.
Aditya
Greetings from Lugano Switzerland Rosie, and thanks for another interesting digital adventure!
Take care π€
My name is Bryce. I am currently the founder of Windmill a startup looking to create sustainable methods of food distribution. We want to give local farmers the ability to distribute their produce 24/7. I am currently looking for a technical co founder skilled in mobile development.
Hello my name is Randal Larson. I have been a developer for the last 10 years, currently I run a small digital marketing agency. After looking around a bit I decided to join because it seems like a good community of people helping each other out.
Hi, I'm Oscar. I developed most of my career in Physics, but moved to IT as the market place was full with opportunities. Now I want to build projects on my own and eventually turn them into business. I'm at the very start, but giving the step of actually getting started.
Hi πI'm Jeffrey Fate. Long time in tech, now pivoting to coaching dads of 1 year-olds and building a knowledge business from what I've learned going through that phase myself.
This year, my goal is to help 1000 dads and hold 11 events.
I'm pushing as hard as I can to learn what my audience wants and needs.
Hey! I am not a dad (nor am I interested in ever being one), but I found this podcast that was a bunch of dads called A Bunch of Dads (https://www.tested.com/bunch-of-dads/) fascinating. It only had a 10 episode run.
Hi, I am Martin from Germany! I worked for 3 years in a highly successful startup as a Backend and Devops Engineer. But now has the time come to work on my own ideas and products and I am excited to get feedback on them from fellow indiehackers :)
My goal for this year is to launch Update-Whisperer, which has a new take on automated dependency updates (think dependabot but without any need for a github repo). I also want to focus a bit more on freelancing in the devops area
I do a bunch of devops things. Can you give me a pitch for what you're building? How is better than dependabot (which is pretty much a one-click operation)?
Using dependabot was a breeze, thats for sure!
But I wonder, what about companies that do not use Github, because they use Gitlab or Bitbucket, or who do self-host (for compliance reasons)? What about other softwares than packages of package managers (NPM and so on)? What if you want to build your software whenever a new Node.js version is published? During my devops time I simply told travis to run once a day/week to pull the newest Node.js 12.x version and build docker images and so no. But I would be glad to have a had a more reactive approach to that.
Huh. I am shocked that gitlab has nothing similar, but https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/399#issuecomment-385013762 seems like it is unlikely as a close integration with gitlab.
You can probably just serve the gitlab audience and do well for yourself.
Thanks for the link! Maybe I will first build an product for the Gitlab and see how it will be adopted.
Hey! I am Jamie Dujardin. Learnt to develop 2 years ago and then went down the traditional corporate consulting path. I am now moving back to the world of development and entrepreneurship!!
Passionate about photography, the sustainable economy and sport!
me too!
or specifically, about photography... or actually, videography.
okay, maybe we're not much alike... LOL!
but, glad you're here!
what made you move out of the previous career path? have you written about that anywhere?
My name is Thomas Millar. I have a full time job in Silicon Valley. I've always enjoyed building what I would consider "dumb things on the internet" in my free time. Recently i've be interested in selling knick knacks and making some revenue from these side projects. I've been reading Indie Hackers for awhile, but it's only now that I decided to jump in and join the conversation. I'm really curious what this community thinks about my projects and the feedback anyone can provide.
A little site that I built on the side when I was in college, and have recently revamped is, https://billclintonswag.com/ I'm thinking about attaching a store to it so that you can buy your creations on a t-shirt or mug or something. Curious what the community thinks.
Hey Thomas,
Iβm new to this development world and I was wondering, do you make money from building interactive websites (i.e. when people interact and upload their album images, then share and challenge people) like the Bill Clinton one you did, or is it purely for internet entertainment? Iβm really interested in the world of building mobile apps and programming.
omg. lol.
i have no idea what this project is though (at the moment). perhaps, building it out so you could actually buy something would be a neat progression! you can share your progress and how you're doing it on IH!
welcome!
i remember when he was running. i wasn't old enough to vote... but, i remember his big nose. lol.
Hello
Hi, I'm Olabode a full stack developer I'm really excited to be here to gain more knowledge and improve my skills set.
hi!
what specifically are you looking to learn? what skillsets? the categories can help (so don't forget to check those out)!
Hello everyone - Iβm Nancy, new to I.H. Would love any advice as a new member and to meet other creatives in my area (Fishers, Indiana - USA). Iβm a brand and website designer, thanks!!
hi nancy!
i've only been here for a few weeks, but, this is literally my new fetish.
there are tons of folks whom i'm sure could use your help and perspective... so, welcome!
Hi John!! Thanks for your reply and insight. I am excited to be part of this awesome community and learn but also help in any way I can, be well :))
Hi all! I am Yong Kang from Singapore and I am currently waiting to start university. I really like the concept of automation and I hope to create products that improve people's productivity through automation. Currently immersing myself in machine learning courses and internship so that I can create an AI automated product.
hi! welcome to IH!
excited that you're here to learn... tons of learning all-around!
question... is there a reason why you can't start building something now? an "automated" product isn't terribly-difficult to put together... especially with
#nocodesystems out there.thoughts?
Hi folks,
I'm Andrei, co-founder of https://cartloop.io β a personalized mobile messaging platform for ecommerce. My background is in DTC, ecommerce, product management and marketing.
Along with my co-founder and a team of 3 engineers we've started building the Cartloop MVP in February.
We're about to start onboarding first beta users in the upcoming days. If you're running a Shopify store and want to increase retention/sales feel free to reach out. π€
hi andrei!
i don't know how many folks here use shopify, but, i imagine quite a bit! you'll probably be able to connect with them quickly β i'd recommend getting your first
PRODUCTup and built out outside of your profile and start posting those updates!lmk how i can help!
That's awesome, will definitely do that! ππ»
Salutations,
Name is John from California and I am inspired to be an Indie Hacker. I am a data analyst by day and programmer by night. I have many web app ideas that I want to get out but have an on and off relationship with my projects. I want to fully commit and create something by end of 2020. Hope to tell my story along this journey! :)
hi john from california!
i'm john from california!
ROFL!
i'm an idiot. (but, can you see the "john from CA"?! lol)
committing to a project isn't hard... especially if you have a community around you. alone, it can be very, very difficult. i would know... i've been building indie projects for years!
lmk how i can help!
haha i appreciate your dad joke!
What was your first Indie project?
Also, nice youtube vlog!
the first indie project... omg. i feel like i've gone through seasons! my first "indie project" really felt like my small social network for adoptees (i'm adopted from south korea). it was ultimately a failure, but, i re-purposed the codebase for something somewhat successful... a social network for world of warcraft players!
lol.
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