Indie Hackers

“I don't think I've ever conducted a text interview that I didn't end up putting up.”

“The first week created a bunch of fake accounts, which I had heard other people doing. I was like, all right, this seems cheesy, but you know, I'll try it. And I would have conversations with myself.”

“Being able to rely on some sort of online community, whether it's on any hackers or another site, like if you can go somewhere, and people are also doing what you're doing, and you can tell them what you're up to, and they can give you feedback, and, you know,…”

“Generally speaking, like, all of us tend to overweight, like, novel advice. Like, things that are new, or flashy, or we haven't heard before. And we tend, it's like so easy to ignore the things that we hear all the time. You know, like, oh, make something peop…”

“Part of the text interviews was that you have to share your revenue. So everyone is completely transparent. And the number of people that I reached out to who I thought would have really good stories for the site that people can learn from, who were willing to…”

“Things get submitted to Hacker News. I think that's probably our number one growth channel. People on Hacker News reading interviews.”

“If I look at the IndieHackers traffic stats, something like 60% of the traffic is from not in the United States, let alone in Silicon Valley.”

“If you think about the kind of person out there who's gonna, like, just listen to your podcast and read your interview, and he's just waiting for someone to reveal all the details, and then they clone everything that you've done and, like, make some, like, cra…”

“I think, when we launched IndieHackers last, last, when I launched it last August, it was like 10 interviews. And it took me three weeks. I sent hundreds of emails. To get 10 people to agree to do an interview. And one of them was me, so it was really only nin…”

“The way that I look at it, like my mental model for building a startup, is that essentially your whole goal is not to quit. I saw a really good tweet the other day that was, here's the secret to success. Pick any idea, work on it for 10 years. You know, you wi…”

“I think people don't read enough, and I get the opposite of this often. I hear people say, oh, stop reading and just start doing. That's true, but I think if you're the kind of person who is going to have the determination and the grit to, like, actually start…”

“When I was scouring Hacker News trying to come up with an idea the company that I saw that inspired me the most. And actually the first person that I reached out to for an interview afterwards was a company called Nomad List.”