Who are the best Indie Hackers to Follow?
I am relatively new to the IH community. I've been here just 2 weeks and I'm still learning all the ins and outs.
I'd love to know who you think are the best Indie Hackers that I should follow.
Drop them in the comments below :)
Cheers
Well, I'm not that bad :D
Haha love it @Akcium. Earned yourself a follow. :)
Some good suggestions already. I'll throw in @rosiesherry as well.
In general though, my advice is to seek out IHers with momentum and follow them.
Who is growing their business faster and better today than 3 months ago? 6 months ago? A year ago?
They're the people you want to surround yourself with, listen to, and get motivation from.
Don't let yourself fall into the trap of becoming a wannapreneur.
Great advice @louisswiss. I already have @rosiesherry on my follow list too. Thanks a million.
@louisswiss & @harrydry are great too.
Thanks @shree. I'll check them both out :)
+1 here... i have learned a ton!
@8bit Is also a good inspiration on how to start here - and on community building
ooph!
i'm so weird.
thank you for the vote!! 😂
Ahaha great GIF !
Haha absolutely @xavier. @8bit is the one who introduced me to the world of IH.
glad to get you addicted... i mean, introduced...
I like so much what @harrydry is doing ✅. He has a project called https://marketingexamples.com/ which explains different marketing explains for growing your site, reaching out to new audiences, etc.
I follow @sircharleswatson and I think his project https://ggapp.io/ is cool for people who like the videogames industry 🎮.
And I'm building https://www.chooseyourplant.com a worldwide community for houseplant lovers 🌱. I like to tweet a lot about my improvements, why I do them, the insights I have, and I like to ask for feedback. If you want someone active, I'm your guy :p
Cheers Victor! Love your site. I bought some expensive water Lilys from Patch plants a few months back, but couldn't keep them alive well ...
So need to read up. You should share it on Reddit. I imagine there's a great houseplants subreddit :)
and of course, if you need any help choosing your next houseplant I would love to help you with that!
Wow! what a great words from you @harrydry! I'll take a look then and I'll post it.
IMHO Lilies are easy plants if they have kind of the conditions they need, but they are usually super picky with hard water (they are sensitive to calcium, etc).
Do you have any experience with that? Would you mind exchanging a few words via twitter? I have a couple of questions I would love to see if you could answer them and help me out
These are all great @devictoribero. Thanks for all the recommendations. I love the look of https://www.chooseyourplant.com/ . It looks like a great resource for all things indoor plants!!
thank you so much @gordon! if you need anything, you can find me on twitter and ask me anything you would like help with!
https://twitter.com/devictoribero
Check out @dvassallo (https://twitter.com/dvassallo), especially if you want to learn about selling digital content.
This is a great find! I've just been reading his twitter over the past 10 minutes and there's some useful stuff there. Thanks.
Yeap! It's a rare find indeed!
Thanks @fenske. I saw some of @dvassallo 's stuff about twitter last week. I will have to check out his stuff in depth soon.
@growthbites is doing a great job imo
Thanks, @yahiabakour! Glad you're liking the content.
Pieter Levels, Dani Mancini, Pat Walls, Jordan O'Connor, Sabba Keynejad, Tom Evans all run cool businesses
loads more ...
Awesome thanks a million @harrydry. I will check them all out. Much appreciated.
Welcome Gordon!
I can mention some that, in one way or another, have inspired/taught me something:
@csallen
@levelsio
@Shpigford
@patio11
@petecodes
@Mubs
@sahil
Great list!
Wow, nice to be mentioned with all of those people!
Thanks for the mention!
Thanks very much @realgabriel. I will check these out for sure. I appreciate your response :)
@csallen it would be great if we can just hover on a username and there is a small context popup where we can easily follow people
You can! Although I suppose it doesn't work on usernames that are mentioned in comments/posts.
A meta answer to this question is to follow the indiehacker who is doing what you want to do. Ideally they'll be a few steps ahead of you but not so far ahead that they're working on things completely meaningless to you.
In my case, I was building Alchemist Camp, a site + YouTube channel with screencasts for programmers learning Elixir + Phoenix. I was thinking about how to grow the site and what might be a good second product for my audience.
I found Chris Oliver's story on IH. He'd been running a site + YouTube channel with screencasts for programmers learning Ruby on Rails for the past three years and had just launched a second product called Hatchbox that served the same group of customers.
Nearly everything he's written and podcasted about has been applicable to my business. Learning from his experiences definitely played a part in helping me 5x Alchemist Camp in 2019, despite being in a tiny market. I'm following his work even more closely now that my 2nd product I just launched, Phoenix Igniter is very, very similar to his Jumpstart Rails, just a couple of years behind.
I'm not suggesting that you follow Chris. Find someone on the path you're on or want to be, but just a little further along than you are.
This is a great ideas @alchemist. I will seek out more of those who are a few paces ahead and in areas related to my niche. Much appreciated.
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