I'd love to hear about what your past experience has been connecting with people that you found through IndieHackers beyond individual posts.
Did you ever chat with someone over the audio/video call?
Did you ever meet anyone?
Were there any encounters that were meaningful to you?
In my opinion, @jimzarkadas is the king of talking to fellow indie hackers. Check out how he does it: 1 and 2.
Takeaway: When you get along well in a comments section or when people are into what you do, just ask them for a quick call.
That way, I’ve talked to three people from IH so far.
I regularly chat with a lot of IHers on Twitter and even met some of them in real life. IH is the best place to connect with other like minded people.
I've chatted with quite a few IHers, some of those chats ended up on youtube :) but that was "intentionally"
Mar-May 2020 there were a lot of activity because of sudden remote work and I had an opportunity to meet with people who are good in marketing, sales, landing pages etc, so we had chat on those topics. Also, I've attended unofficial IH meetups with 5+ people
all in all, nice experience from all of them
I've chatted with a couple indie hackers on Twitter. It's nice meeting people that share the feeling of being indie and trying to get by.
In general I think it's a very friendly community, full of people ready to help you grow.