What's New: Indie hackers shared their weekend projects

Here's what you'll find in this issue:

Indie hackers are sharing links to the projects and businesses they've been hacking on this weekend.
Google's cache links are officially dead, and the replacement sucks. Here's what to build to fill the gap.
From 0 to $20K MRR. Jason Chin focused on building Notion templates in public, and hit 356K followers on X in the process.

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Indie hackers are sharing their weekend projects 👌

For many, the best times to hack on their projects are nights and weekends.

So this weekend we invited founders to share with a very simple prompt: "What's everybody working on this weekend?"

Check out the cool products people are linking to in the comments, or jump in and share your own.

In the news 📰

😏 How to do meme marketing.

💻 Marblism: From a prompt to a SaaS in minutes. #ad

🤖 New AI tools can dig up skeletons in politicians' social media histories...and yours, too.

🔎 Five ways to identify organic growth opportunities.

📸 Made on YouTube: Photos and recaps.

👕 Company swag will never die.

Google killed cache links 🔗

Google has officially killed their much beloved cache links feature.

"Cache links?" you ask. These were special links that pointed to a saved snapshot of each webpage in Google search results.

But now they're gone forever, leaving gap in the market that could be filled by ambitious indie hackers with new software tools.

Here's how indie hackers can cash in on Google's cache void.

SaaS Watch 👀

SaaS Watch is a roundup of all the latest micro-SaaS acquisition opportunities. Here are the top three for this week!

AI design platform: 0 users, $0 per month, $1K asking price.
AI-powered platform for business ideas, personalized startup roadmaps, and mentorship: 10-100 users, $42 per month, $4.4K asking price.
Credit-based SEO tool: 1K-10K users, $344 per month, $24.1K asking price.

$20K MRR from building Notion templates in public 📝

Jason Chin started building in public before he even had a product.

A few years later, he's grown to over 356,000 followers on X alone.

And his first business, Easlo, is at $20K MRR.

We interviewed Jason to find out how he did it.

Courtland's Tweet Pick 🐦

Great point. Every indie hacker who can code wants to build SaaS, because they think only code scales.

But media scales, as does labor, as does capital.

It's worth expanding your horizons. —@csallen

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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Courtland Allen, Darko Gjorgjievski, and James Fleischmann for contributing posts. —Channing