Ask HN: Side Project You're Working On?
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2018 where @startupflix convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
Community Debate Themes:
Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
CATEGORY Ask HN Roundtables →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 4 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 4 comments
chezmoi: a tool for managing your dotfiles across multiple machines. https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi
I'm trying to merge whatsapp|facebook|twitter|medium|youtube|google photos into a single monster, respecting privacy too.