Cloudflare made it much easier to become an indie hacker
Published in 2022, this chronicle by @gmays details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Pandemic Bubble (2020–2022)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 9 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 2 comments
Very interesting list, thanks author.
The R2 section caught my attention. "R2 is like Amazon S3, but without bandwidth costs"
(Isn't that an interesting name, it's "S3"-1 haha)
I will echo one of the sentiments then... some of it seems too good to be true. So you could easily and supercheaply host a static website on Cloudflare, couldn't you?
Or... is this one of those initial offering prices, and after a lot of adoption it eventually reaches parity with other cloud providers like AWS/GCP/Azure?
I would be curious to know if someone is hosting serious enterprise applications in Cloudflare.
The email forwarding solution seems quite tempting too. I currently use hanami.run which is already cheap, but this feature is currently free. But again, for how long will it be free?