Indie Hackers
What is Indie Hackers?
Indie Hackers is a community website and forum for founders building small, profitable online businesses, often solo and bootstrapped. Members share revenue numbers, launch stories, interviews and advice.
The culture favours transparency and building in public, and members often look for and recommend tools.
Why Indie Hackers matters
For products aimed at founders and makers, it is a place to learn, meet early users and see what tools people recommend.
Related marketing terms
Building in public means sharing your product’s progress, numbers, decisions and mistakes openly as you build, to grow an audience along the way.
Bootstrapping is building a company without outside investment, funding growth from savings and the revenue the business earns.
Hacker News is Y Combinator’s community news site for technology and startups, where links and Show HN launches are voted on and discussed.
A Product Hunt launch is posting a new product on Product Hunt for a day, where the community upvotes, comments and ranks the day’s launches.