2016
Courtland Allen launched Indie Hackers with about ten founders who had agreed to share their stories and revenue numbers.
“I'd gotten like 10 people to agree to share their entire story and their revenue numbers”
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Indie Hackers
9 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2016
Indie Hackers' first revenue was a company offering about $750 a month to sponsor the site, roughly two weeks after launch.
“sure we'll give you like 750 bucks a month and that to me was insane”
2016
Courtland Allen says Indie Hackers was covering all his bills within months of launch.
“i got to the point i think in february 2016 where like any hackers is going to pay all of my bills”
2017
Courtland Allen and Stripe negotiated a deal over about a month, and he joined Stripe in April 2017.
“over the course of a month like worked out kind of a deal and i joined stripe in april 2017”
2017
Indie Hackers had exactly 1,403 users on the day Stripe acquired it, according to Courtland Allen.
“we had exactly 1403 users on the day that we got acquired by stripe”
2020
Courtland Allen says the Indie Hackers product directory had about 12,000 products when he recorded the episode.
“I checked the other day and it was like 12,000 products on there.”
2020
Courtland Allen says the Indie Hackers forum grew from a few dozen conversations a week to about 250 posts and a thousand comments a day.
“gone from just a few dozen conversations a week to the point where there's like a thousand comments a day over 250 posts every single day”
2020
Courtland Allen says 15 to 20 percent of surveyed Indie Hackers members said they would not have started their company without the community.
“a good 15 to 20 percent of people depending on the month say they would not have started their company if they didn't encounter some story or some person”
Undated
Courtland Allen says Stripe keeps an internal 'crazy ideas list', and that a community for early-stage founders had been on it for years.
“stripe has this kind of cool project internally called like the crazy ideas list”
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