What's New: Here’s why people are moving from X to Bluesky
(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)
Here's what you'll find in this issue:
- 1M users in 24 hours. Bluesky is riding the new user wave.
- Bitcoin is hitting all-time highs, but will it last?
- $131K MRR from a headless browser. Joel Griffith focused on practicality over perfection.
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Here’s why people are moving from X to Bluesky 📱
On the evening of November 15th, Bluesky (a platform often dismissed as a knockoff of X) announced a jaw-dropping milestone: 1M new users in just 24 hours.
It’s been a meteoric rise for the app, which only just opened to the public in February 2024, after nearly a year of being invite-only. Now, it boasts 16M+ users.
So, what exactly is Bluesky, and why should anyone care?
In the news 📰
💰 People spent $100B+ on in-game purchases last year.
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💵 Black Friday SaaS deals: 2024 edition.
⏰ 100+ clients in 48 hours from Product Hunt.
💻 Here's why Google doesn't take your site seriously.
🧠 Psychological closure can increase SaaS retention rates.
Bitcoin is at an all-time high ✨
In November 2022, crypto was dead and gone. Bitcoin was worth a measly $15K, a 78% drop from the all-time high of $69K just the previous year.
ETH, the second largest cryptocurrency, had dropped from almost $5K to just $900. Venture deals had basically frozen to a halt. And, of course, the exchange FTX had just evaporated $9.7B dollars, putting a stain on the industry that it’s still trying to erase.
But here we are two years later, and one bitcoin is now quietly worth more than $90K. How in the world is that possible?
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A headless browser service 🔎
Joel Griffith, a full-time software engineer, stumbled upon the idea for Browserless after writing an open source library for another project. While working on the library, he noticed that developers were struggling with headless Chrome.
After building an MVP, Joel struggled with charging users. He ran a closed beta for nearly three months, but now he wishes that he had started charging sooner.
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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Michal Kankowski, Darko Gjorgjievski, Stephen Flanders, and Rob Hope for contributing posts. —Channing
