[HN Gopher] Indie Hackers is indie again ___________________________________________________________________ Indie Hackers is indie again Author : TimLeland Score : 25 points Date : 2023-04-05 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.indiehackers.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.indiehackers.com) | urbandw311er wrote: | What exactly does indiehackers do? | ChanningAllen wrote: | Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own | terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company | (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person | community. | theery wrote: | Wow! That's crazy. I wonder exactly how that went down. | culi wrote: | How what went down? If you mean Strip not owning it anymore, I | think the post explains pretty much everything. They're on good | terms and Strip is simply supporting rather than owning IH now | adam_arthur wrote: | Doesn't explain it at all, really. | | Presumably Stripe owned it before, now they don't... or own | some smaller portion (since it's stated they're an investor) | | Likely either founders bought back a portion of the company, | or Stripe relinquished ownership out of goodwill. Perhaps it | was worth very little, I'm not familiar with it | tchock23 wrote: | Happy for Courtland. Should be a good move in the long term. Hope | they keep the (excellent) podcast going. | ingend88 wrote: | Wow this is a big one! Congrats csallen@, what drove this change | ? | enumjorge wrote: | If I had to hazard a guess this might be a cost-cutting measure | on Stripe's part similar to cuts on content marketing that | other companies have done. DigitalOcean divested from CSS | Tricks [0], and there was an article earlier today about Amazon | shutting down DPReviews [1]. Maybe the Stripe founders gave the | IndieHackers folks a chance to spin it off again as opposed to | shutting down. | | [0] https://geoffgraham.me/goodbye-css-tricks/ | | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455797 | Bjorkbat wrote: | Very exciting! | | On a side-note, I wonder if this decision relates to Stripe's | ambitions to IPO soonish. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-05 23:01 UTC)