[HN Gopher] Indie Hackers is indie again
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Indie Hackers is indie again
 
Author : TimLeland
Score  : 25 points
Date   : 2023-04-05 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
 
web link (www.indiehackers.com)
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.
 
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