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Indie Hackers on Business Ideas
How to brainstorm great business ideas
It's been said that ideas don't matter, execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good at execution....
Indie Hackers on Creator Economy
Building multiple products — how (and when) to do it
I remember a time when I only wanted *one* big revenue stream. The idea of having multiple products and services sounded exhausting. But these days, I'm...
Lessons learned from launching on Reddit
Hey IndieHackers! 👋 I recently launched my project on Reddit and got some good results that I'd thought I'd share here! I had two separate campaigns, a...
Indie Hackers on Influencer Marketing
Guide: How to do community-based marketing
_This is a free version of the Software Ideas Marketing Guide on community outreach. Originally, I was only planning on releasing this for members of th...
Indie Hackers on Marketing
What's New: Getting free users to convert
*(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)* Freemium, free trials, paid freemium...the debate rages on: - **Regardless of where you stand...
Indie Hackers on Newsletters
How (and when) to monetize your newsletter
Newsletters are my favorite medium. I subscribe to quite a few of them and I've got two of my own. To me, making a living off of a newsletter would be a...
A step by step guide for finding sponsors for your newsletter or podcast
I run TLDR Newsletter, a tech newsletter for the Hacker News/Slashdot/Indie Hackers crowd. I've recently had a good bit of success doing cold outreach f...
Indie Hackers on Saas
Programmatic SEO
💎 Why It Matters ----------------- You need to *cost-effectively* acquire customers. 🔍 Problem ------------ Writing editorial content is slow, expensi...
Indie Hackers on Starting A Business
5 ways you can copy successful business ideas and still be original
Too many people get hung up waiting for the right idea to start a business I reckon. But especially if you're just starting out in indie hacking/busines...
How to Come Up with Profitable Online Business Ideas
Interested in building a startup, or starting your own small business to make money on the side? Learn by example from dozens of entrepreneurs who share how they came up with great business ideas.
Indie Hackers on Viral Marketing
How to engineer word of mouth
Marketing usually works like this: You have a product -> You find a way to get users -> The users sign up and use your product **There's a small problem...
This marketing strategy actually made me happier
Like many of us in the Indie Hackers community, marketing is not an activity that I inherently enjoy. I much prefer *building* something cool rather tha...
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1. Spend 10% of your time on high-risk, high-reward activities. Ask: which action requires least input and will bring me the highest output? Go through...
Launching over and over again
There's a huge difference between shipping a product, soft launching, and launching. And there's no rule that says you can only launch once. It took a f...
We recently hit 29,000 monthly organic traffic! 🚀📈
Unfortunately, this is no quick win story as content marketing does and will take some time. But the results we are now seeing for our client are expone...
8K MRR in 3 Months After Launch. The Power of Productized Services.⚡
Hey, fellow indie builders! 👋 I'm Heleana and I've been building Videodeck for the past four months https://videodeck.co/ Videodeck Videodeck is a prod...
Think SaaS businesses go up every month forever? Founder Laura Roeder shares why that expectation isn’t realistic.
When SureSwift acquired social media scheduling SaaS MeetEdgar from Laura Roeder, I had the chance to sit down with her and talk about her story. I knew...
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