What’s Indie about Hunting?
What is indiehunters.com?
It’s a community for makers.
Get immediate help from a community of successful makers, when you need it most!
Why am I building an Indie Hunters list?
I regularly feel like I am out at sea on my own(see what I did there re the hero pic 😃 I am also devilishly handsome — A young Matt Damon to play me in a move adaption of my life story blah blah)
I like to chat.
I like to help.
I don’t like forum type capability, I want real-time interactions with people.
I don’t like people who have an agenda.
I like free stuff.
But there are numerous communities out there already
Once upon a time I really wanted to be part of the wip.chat community, but it’s member are becoming so self-absorbed that I can’t be bothered anymore. If you’re not in, you’re out. I choose out. Honestly, wip.chat is about as welcoming as Stack Overlow. But at least you can get an answer on Stack Overflow, in wip.chat, to me at least, all one gets is gifs, ridicule and god-like preening (to clarify these as just my opinions from the sideline, I’m sure if I stumped up the $150 per year 😙 that might change — but I can’t help the way I feel).
Then there are communities Product Hunt which is amazing, but again it feels like you have be part of the crowd or have a unicorn product to get noticed. I really struggle with the timezone for Product Hunt — it feels like if you are not in USA then everything becomes that bit more difficult.
Indie Hackers is awesome, but I don’t like the structured forum feeling.
Reddit is awesome, but there is a lot of rubbish before you get to the good stuff.
I wanted to created a small community where people could chill, shoot the breeze and get a bit of help along the way. Kind of like the anti Stack Overflow. Dumb questions are embraced, people answer the same questions time and time again. People are encouraged to ship. People are encouraged to be their whole selves. Everyone’s success is celebrated. People like me could have a home :wipe dust from my eye gif:.
What do I hope to achieve?
An area of the internet when I, and people like me, can feel at home with kindred spirits. A sense of belonging.
Why indiehunters.com?
I think the audience will primarily be indie makers — and those who frequent Indie Hackers, and Product Hunt. Plus the domain was available. Why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What’s the tech stack?
Haha. Carrd.co for the website. Telegram for the community chat.
What does success look like?
Essentially this will die if there is not an active community. At a guess I think this needs to be in the 200–300 range to provide value. It could grow to more but I’m not sure that would be valuable for newbies. A small and cozy group of active contributors is how I would define success 👊
