Indie Hackers

Real stories from real startup founders.

4.9•24 reviews•

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Real stories from real startup founders.

4.9•24 reviews•

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Indie Hackers is a place where the founders of profitable businesses and side projects can share their stories transparently, and where entrepreneurs can come to read and learn from those examples. It's also a community where individual "indie hackers" come together to share their experiences, give and receive feedback, and rely on each other for support.

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Reviewers describe Indie Hackers as a rare high-signal community for builders, especially people turning side projects into full-time businesses. They value the honest interviews, transparent revenue sharing, practical lessons on what worked or failed, and forums or pods that help them learn from others on similar paths. Compared with places like Reddit, X, Product Hunt, and founder Discords, reviewers say Indie Hackers feels more structured and less hype-driven. The main complaints are dated older content, weak forum search and filtering, limited discovery by niche or stage, and a rougher mobile forum experience.

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Indie Hackers is one of the few places online that still feels like a real community of builders. The interviews, the transparent revenue numbers, the honest “what worked / what failed” posts, and the high signal-to-noise discussions make it genuinely useful whether you’re just starting or already shipping. It’s the anti-hype zone for indie makers.

What needs improvement

• The search and filtering on the forum could be sharper (especially for older posts).

• A better way to discover relevant people/projects by niche or stage would help.

• Some of the older interviews feel a bit dated — more frequent updates or a “still relevant in 2025/2026” tag would be nice.

• Mobile experience of the forum could be smoother.

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I looked at Reddit (r/Entrepreneur, r/SaaS, r/indiehackers), Twitter/X, Product Hunt, and various founder Discords. Indie Hackers won because the content is more structured, the community is more intentional, and people actually share real numbers instead of just motivational fluff.

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It's a great community for people working on side projects to make them into full time businesses. I've learned a ton from the pods/ forums.

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email : Valorhaq @ gmail com Telegram channel: Valorhaq_HQ The adage “if you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else”. Is as true of investing as anything else.Everything from the investment plan to the strategies used, the portfolio design, and even the individual securities can be configured with your life objectives in mind. Too many investors like Me obviously focus on the latest investment fad or on maximizing short-term investment return instead of designing an investment portfolio that has a high probability of achieving my long-term investment objectives. It’s like it’s all coming back to me now,but I guess in the heat of things our head always forget to think, just that this time my loss taught me a valuable lesson. Aftermath of an investment scam is usually filled with pains and heartache whenever you try to think about what you lost, I lost so much that I never thought that I’d get back. Thank God for a Team of Hackers “VALOR HACK RECOVERY FIRM” believe me until today I never knew the internet is capable of what I’ve witnessed in the past few days from discovering “VALOR HACK RECOVERY FIRM” to a %100 asset Recovery record few days from the day of contact. Education is key to protecting/recovering cryptocurrency assets, staying informed about the latest and best ways to tackle any attack on our crypto assets is our way out of it all. VALOR HACK RECOVERY TEAM did that for me, it’ll only be stupid to keep gambling your luck or keep loosing money to the local security tech company or organization who claims to be able to recover what you lost. VALOR HACK RECOVERY WILL DO THAT EFFORTLESSLY. if you made it here I believe you’d need the details above ! .

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What needs improvement

• The search and filtering on the forum could be sharper (especially for older posts).

• A better way to discover relevant people/projects by niche or stage would help.

• Some of the older interviews feel a bit dated — more frequent updates or a “still relevant in 2025/2026” tag would be nice.

• Mobile experience of the forum could be smoother.

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It's a great community for people working on side projects to make them into full time businesses. I've learned a ton from the pods/ forums.