Indie London
The UK's #1 Indie Hackers community.
Indie London's November newsletter went out to 608 makers recently, including an interview with Harry Dry, Founder of marketingexamples.com. Marketing Examples is a gallery of short, sweet, practical marketing examples... like Dribbble for marketing.
You can read it here:
https://www.indieldn.com/post/how-harry-dry-grew-marketing-examples-to-40k-newsletter-subscribers
We discussed:
- The risks of not talking to users
- When building in public is NOT worth it
- How 1% of his articles drive 50% of his growth
...plus much more. Have a read, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Indie London's October newsletter went out to 600 makers recently, including an interview with James Berry, Founder of salesbotdepop.com. Sales Bot is a Chrome extension for Depop sellers to increase their sales.
You can read it here:
We discussed:
- The importance of shipping early
- His favourite indie products
- Why you shouldn't fuss over your tech stack
...plus much more. Have a read, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Edit: https://ramenclub.so
Indie London's September newsletter went out to 574 makers recently, including an interview with my friend Julian Canlas, co-founder of Embarque.io, a productised SEO content marketing business on $3,500 monthly revenue.
You can read it here:
We discussed:
- The importance of self-belief and niching down as a maker
- Wearing many hats running your business
- His favourite indie products
- Why he almost quit two months in
...plus much more. Have a read, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Well deserved early success @jic ❤️🙌
Admire your commitment to producing quality content (which isn't always the case when it comes to agencies!), your writing discipline and authenticity.
Look forward to following Embarque's journey more!
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Thank you so much, Christina 😭. I've had such a stressful day today visiting flats, so this really made my evening!!!
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Awesome Interview Charlie. Would have loved to read a specific case study where Julian was able to help a client with his skills :)
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Hi Ak! VEED is one of my biggest clients (bootstrapped to 1.2m ARR), and SEO is its main marketing channel :). I have some blog posts that currently rank on Google's first page.
You can see some of my blog posts:
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The https://indieldn.com newsletter just hit 550 subscribers.
You can check it out and subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/indieldn.com/indie-london-august
We post a monthly email to the London Indie Hackers community, including:
- details of the next remote meetup
- locally made products / articles
- milestones from the community
- bulletin board (e.g. looking for work, recruiting users for research etc)
Our goals is to make London the world's most supportive Indie Hackers community, and a creating well-read newsletter plays an important part.
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congrats! local newsletters seem like an awesome idea especially at a time like this, love it!!
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Thanks :) Generally I think locality is pretty underrated. There's demand for local products, services and content, and far less competition compared to competing for global audiences.
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Congrats Charlie. Most people would have downed tools with Coronavirus and all that. Respect for pushing on and giving LDN some vibrance
Mind adding me to the mailing list (harrydry1996@gmail.com). Can't seem to work it out.
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Thanks Harry. Will add your email to the list.
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You have a typo in your first link: https://indieldn.com/ or is it a pun for In Die Lnd? :) Greetings from London!
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Thanks, updated @steveo :)
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Congrats Charlie, I just joined :)
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Thank you, and welcome 😎
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The Indie London newsletter went out to 532 people earlier this month. It included our latest founder interview with @wilhelmklopp, Founder of Simple Poll - the easiest way to post a Slack poll.
Find out how he got to 600k Monthly Active Users below:
Wil's one of the nicest guys in the local scene and super talented, I know I learnt a lot from this interview, and hope you do as well.
For more interviews like this, sign-up to our newsletter here:
https://mailchi.mp/indieldn.com/indie-london-july
Any questions? Comment below 👇
A story of merging indie businesses :)
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As of today, the Indie London and IndieBeers communities join forces to create one place for London Indie Hackers to learn, connect, and help each other.
The community now lives under the unified Indie London name with a newsletter, a Slack community, flagship Indie London events, social IndieBeers events, and much more to come.
I first met @charlierward through Indie London, in 2018, just after he had hosted the first IndieBeer event. It was exciting to see new initiatives spring in the community: it meant that whatever happened to Indie London meetups, the community would stay alive through Charlie and the work of others.
Now that I have moved to Oslo, I will be phasing out my involvement in the London community (but still hang around!). I am excited to partner up with Charlie and leave the community in his hands.
There is a lot we are working on as part of this transition, and there will be more to come. 🔜
See you all soon :)
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PUMPED ⛽
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Looking forward to the day when Charlie goes all in on this!
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Thanks for everything you've done @ghyslain. The Indie London meetups have been amazing and it's such a helpful and supportive community. Best of luck with your move to Oslo 👍
You're definitely leaving it in safe hands with @charlierward. Excited to see how the community evolves!
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As a happy member of both these communities, super pleased for them to be coming together 🔥
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I realize now I have never joined one of your meetups, but I look forward to the next! Best of luck in Oslo!
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Congrats!
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Great news for the indies of London!
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Thanks for everything @ghyslain. All the best in Oslo.
Excited and grateful to have been featured on the Indie Hackers podcast to talk about the Indie London events.
(It's my first time on a podcast and I have been grinning like a Cheshire cat every time I open the Apple Podcasts app and see my name there 😅😸)
Running the community has brought me so much over the last year, among all new friendships.
Thanks @csallen for starting it all online with @IndieHackers
so that we can make many new friends offline 🤗
And thanks to all that helped along the way:
@dmitrigrabov for his advice, @RossySheil for the early support, @MrGrillet for helping since day 1, @charlierward for taking London to the next level, @NiteshSharoff, @alexterenda, @anthilemoon, the team @inreachventures, our speakers and all
that helped throughout our events 🙏
The podcast conversation prompted me to write up all my learnings from running the community.
As I mention, there is a great amount of positive energy coming from bringing passionate people together. I encourage everyone to start their own group. 🔥
Just check it out 👇
on our Indie Hackers product page:
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-london
or on Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamghyslain/status/1067773082092355584
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Congrats @ghyslain! I am organising a meetup next week in London: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/london-meetup-15-10-cd1fd81479
It would be great to have you there, can you make it?
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Wish you included a short summary here, too 😃
Congrats on the great results, London now has a serious IH lobby! Hope Vienna gets to your results, too. -
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I welcomed again last evening a great crowd of entrepreneurs and bootstrappers for the 7th Indie London event.
The event emphasized stories of success that do not come from technology but first and foremost from solving real customer problems.
Our first speaker Johnny Boufarhat shared how he started with a purpose - to genuinely create real connection online - and iterated until he solved a real customer problem with Hopin.
Second, Masibu Manima shared how his side-projects have gone on to generate £1m in revenue - with no code; by focusing on solving real people problems rather than trying to lead with a software solution.
Finally, we were lucky to have a lightning talk from Holly Leslie of Adla - just back from the latest YC Summer batch in Silicon Valley.
I am very grateful to have the opportunity to host such inspiring speakers at the Indie London events and get support from companies such as Cloudflare, Inc.
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Looking forward to this one, as always. See you there!
A new home page featuring more pictures.
I wanted something warmer that highlight the energy that you get from meeting other indie makers at our events.
The page feature pictures, reviews and links to the different way you can join us: Meetup.com, Slack group...
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Cheers Charlie! And congrats on 600 subs!
My pleasure, and thanks!
Great work Charlie. 1% of articles driving 50% of growth was really useful.
It's an interesting mental model isn't it. Like a more extreme Pareto principle.