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Can you point me towards a cool JS framework that is lighter than react but heavier than vanilla javascript? [SOLVED]
Is anyone using (or has used in the past) auth0 for authentication for their project?
Does anyone know why ‘npm run develop’ is not refreshing when I change the CSS classes? [SOLVED]
does anyone here have financial books for their business that they manage?
What tool can you recommend to send thousands of cold emails per day?
When you create bots (twitter bots, Slack bots, etc) from where do you run them?
Should I make this as info product and sell it at gumroad?
How is it possible, that analytics tools like Simple Analytics bypass VPN and can know my location? [SOLVED]
What is your conversion rate (from landing page visit to payed user)? [SOLVED]
Is there any tool available that generates site-maps by running the JS first?
Has anyone here considered TikTok / Instagram reels as one of the main marketing channels for your SaaS?
Would you consider this and look into it further or better decline now?
what do you suggest to manage cookie consents, terms and conditions, and privacy policy?
As an entrepreneur do you have to provide a physical address where you live/operate?
Does someone know a webservice which lets me connect an API and provides signups, billing, and user handling out of the box?
Any recommendation for a good dark mode for mac that basically makes everything (including browser) dark?
Is there a way to forward an old Twitter handle to a new one? [SOLVED]
What is the best way to identify unique website users (without accounts) to make something similar like https://50hacks.co/ from Marc Lou ?
How can I deploy a python function with a requirements.txt file on digital ocean? [SOLVED]
Have you ever developed and maintained a product white label for a customer?
Podcasters and listeners to podcasts here: what’s your take on podcasts on YouTube?
Can anyone recommend a good text2speech api at a good price? [SOLVED]
What is the impact of SEO if some of the content in my page is scraped from some other source ? [SOLVED]
Have you guys used a simple affiliate marketing or referral programe/system/app that you would recommend?
Anyone know where I can find this style images but in different colours?
Why are people coming to podsqueeze from google searching podsqueeze? [SOLVED]
Anyone can recommend a good accountant in the US that can help us do the book keeping and all that is needed to create a company there?
Can someone recommend a knowledgebase tool - that’s good for SEO as well?
Any recommendations for cost-effective drip email software? [SOLVED]
Where do you publish your articles about indie hacking?
Is it possible to use Paddle for 1-time payments (multiple times) for things like featuring something on my website?
which price should I ask for a 1h session?
Do you know someone personally or are you a part of a remote company and can connect me with people?
Would you still make this possible or just answer ‘I’m sorry (Dave), I can’t do that ‘?
Is there any free or cheap API that gives us cool metrics about a given website? [SOLVED]
Anyone here has released an app with LinkedIn integration? [SOLVED]
I tried the add crazy spacing (looks ugly now) but it’s still being rejected. Any idea? [SOLVED]
Anyone knows any SaaS that can help with SSH-ing into remote machines without having to open a port publicly ?
Is it better to have product documentation for users at subdomain http://docs.pagename.com|docs.pagename.com or rather at route http://pagename.com/docs|pagename.com/docs ?
Why are people more willing to buy a course or a book for $20+ than joining a community or buying a logo for $10?
Should that top checkbox select all rows, that are currently found (280) or only rows, which are on current table page?
SEO: any ideas why blog entries don’t get shown with a description on Google search results?
As a freelancer how do you manage to get access to your client’s accounts?
What software do you use to manage your windows in your big monitor? [SOLVED]
Hi. Do you know some app, which uses AI to generate tweet ideas, thread hooks, etc.?
How to name the blog, where you can find posts about making money, developing things, marketing, design and other similar stuff combined?
How do I build share buttons that automatically fills up content ? [SOLVED]
Launching a podcast soon. What is your podcast tech stack? [SOLVED]
How to move childnodes between parent nodes in a nosql db like firebase?
hi, i’m looking to create a (high quality) promo / demo video for a digital product, any advise on which tools/software are good for this?
Can one connect a NoCode tool like Bubble or Thunkable with a JSON coming from a REST endpoint? [SOLVED]
Hi people. So, how much do you care about exit pages in your analytics?
Hey folks, I’m looking for early user feedback for my productivity extension Focus Turtle: <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focus-turtle/dbehoihdibjffmakffjllgijeemhchmh?
Should the In App Purchase to unlock App Icon Changer act like you are buying each app icon, say $0.99USD or have the unlock be for the feature and allow you to pick any of the icons, for $3.99?
https://www.resource.so/explore/twitter What twitter tools do I miss there?
How did you validate or know that your startup idea is worth pursuing?
Any ideas why DigitalOcean functions keeps throwing ‘Make sure to install the ‘google-cloud-firestore’ module’?
Hey there stripe users What is the best way to create a stripe payment link and then connect that user with a slack user id? [SOLVED]
Hi guys, do you have a recommendation for esay reviews/testemonials website or a plug in? [SOLVED]
Any thoughts / suggestions of what I should ask her, find out from her during the call?
To all the athletes, runners Piotr Bryla Pere Ayats Luca Restagno (ikoichi on Twitter) and people with external activities - how do you manage your time?
Has anyone generated anything using Dall-e, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion for something important rather than just fun?
Do you think I should create another podcast only to share my interviews?
What would be the best length for the trial period of my SaaS?
Currently looking in Chargebee and Gumroad. What are the others?
I am thinking on selling on Gumroad. Any one has experience with that?
do you know an easy to integrate (in Next.js) tool to manage a changelog / product updates, possibly with a widget to integrate in the page?
Do you know anyone competent or how to find a good professional in these areas?
Does anyone of you use an affiliate network to promote your SaaS?
Luca Restagno (ikoichi on Twitter) and everyone else using Hivoe: what’s your typical response rate for the welcome message?
I never posted on Indie Hackers and wanted to fix it. Do you have any tips for posting on IH? [SOLVED]
Do you know if it is possible to measure returning users with Splitbee?
Is there anything that I can add to this example file (ie it’s link, as I can’t change any code) to trigger a browser to download the file instead of just open it?
Question for the PH Experts here How do I prepare the crowd for my PH launch?
SaaS developers, if you notice that there is a bug that has affected several users, how do you deal with information about the fix?
Do you write your own for these pages, or are templates generally available ?
Do you think it’s worth launching Userdesk on PH?
What software can I use with Mac Big Sur to blur the background of my built-in webcam with any video recorder or streamer?
How do you write automatic emails from your SaaS projects: as yourself (a person) or as “we” (fictional team of the project)?
How would you realistically measure the max MRR Podsqueeze (or any other SaaS) can reach?
Does anyone know where to find a stock video that looks like a living room with a fireplace and a burning fire? [SOLVED]
Is anyone here writing online or sharing updates on their progress consistently that would be interested in being an accountability buddy?
Solo-entrepreneurs, how do you prospect early users for your ideas and product?
Is there anyone who has JungleScout and wouldn’t mind running a query on this listing?
Looking for great podcast episodes. No matter what topic. Any recommendations?
My simple doubt is, do you think it’s worth posting articles on platforms like IH during the holidays?
What are your thoughts one getting competitors sponsored slots in my podcast?
Is it normal to have a time gap before users commit to pay for you SaaS?
I spend a lot of time reading about incorporation. C Corp vs LLC, Delaware vs NY, Stripe Atlas / Clerky vs something local. For the sake of simplicity I’m currently leaning towards using a NY local agent to register my LLC in NY. Anybody thinking this is a stupid idea?
What to look for when hiring a freelance developer? [SOLVED]
Hi folks! Would anyone here be connected to a litigator or e-discovery counsel?
Would you trust a community server to deploy your app analytics?
As a freelancer do you bill the time you take to learn and figure things out?
Looking for an advice What are the best websites where you can submit your product?
With DaisyUI how do you add a dropdown to a text input, as in when the text input is activated the dropdown activates ?
• Does ChatGPT use the Davinci open AI model for text completion or something else?
What are the channels that brought you the best results in the short/mid term?
Does my app need to be approved by apple for me to be able to test the subscriptions?
Out of curiosity from fellow builders, how have YOU validated your product and/or business? [SOLVED]
Has anyone experience in creating an affiliate program for your SaaS?
Looking to add an affiliate program with https://www.rewardful.com/ but also https://tolt.io/ looks good any tips?
Anyone recommends and used a startup submit service for lower tier directories (so not PH for example)?
Anyone really tried Fiverr, Upwork or some different platform to offer their services as Freelancers?
I’m working on new design for https://www.resource.so/ Do you like pure black more or should I stick with current design?
Anyone knows why I get an error while trying to subscribe to the app? [SOLVED]
Hello. What is the beast approach to build url shortener like this?
Where can I find info about setting up a company with multiple co-founders across countries?
Hi guys, does someone have experience in preparing workshops for companies?
As small business owners, what do you think they’d want to learn about?
Hello everyone! Anyone knows how to setup Stripe for the following context?
Why are there certain twitter posts that include images that perform really bad?
Is there a service where I can easily have people writing content to my blog and share the profit with them?
Is there any ‘doodle’ like service that allows for the participants to pick the date and the time on all the days they are available?
Are there newsletter databases that offer insights about finding the right newsletters for advertising your product?
Or is it so, that you need to pay whenever other people are involved in your scheduling? [SOLVED]
Does some have experience with using Linkedin sales navigator or Dux-soup to find customers?
Does it make sense to reach out and see if there is the possiblity of cross marketing, so they mention my product in scenarios where it makes sense and I mention theirs?
Any feedback on which one should I start of with or any other better way to put the pricing?
Are there any slack directories where I can add the community? [SOLVED]
Also, Tiago Ferreira what tool are you using for your cold email outreach?
Luca Restagno (ikoichi on Twitter) is ^^ a good usecase for Hivoe?
Can you recommend an API to dynamical make videos given an audio input?
Does anyone have a recommendation on a Document AI that can capture data from scanned documents?
Who are the people in the SaaS space that you enjoy following?
So is it worth targetting these to get maybe possible 2nd or 3rd result on the page?