New ask Hacker News story: Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives

Any Indiehackers.com Alternatives
4 by wuliwong | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I loved Indie Hackers when it first came out. I'm someone that is always building a side project with hopes of it becoming a legit business. There was a previous website that was really new and had a fun community, I can't remember the name now but I met someone on their and we built a site together and still are in touch to this day. I'm in the US and he is in Latvia. My experience with IH over the last couple years has been poor. Posts get no interaction and the it feels like the focus has moved away from actual indiehackers generating the content through their work and questions. I get that this site has to generate revenue to survive, hopefully they figure it out. Just wondering if anyone else knows of communities for fellow "startup hackers." Maybe the lesson for me is that i just want something like a sub reddit and that's probably where I should look. The idea in general is possibly too narrow to actually support a profitable business, long term.

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