Ask HN: What do you need help with in your side project or startup right now?
What is it that you need help with. Let me or someone else point you in the right direction or solve it for you.
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2018 where @cronjobma 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 1 comments
I've made my new year's incentive to grow a tiny service to at least 50$ MRR and publically document it.
My current problem is that I need a problem to solve. What do people actually require? What sort of value can I provide?