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The Newsletter I Almost Quit at 73 Subscribers
Nine months in, Anya had drafted the goodbye email. Then a stranger in Utrecht replied to issue forty-one, and the whole thing quietly changed shape.
- newsletter
- distribution
- indie-hackers
- story
Building in public when nobody is watching
Nine months at follower 19. One honest post on a Tuesday. What changes when an indie account stops performing and starts thinking out loud.
- building-in-public
- distribution
- story
My first open source PR took six months to merge
A junior dev in Porto spots a bug in a library half the internet uses, opens a PR, panics, and walks away for half a year. What happens after is the actual story.
- open-source
- story
- career
- maintainers
The Product Hunt Launch That Didn't Trend
Maya finished #14 for the day. 230 upvotes. She thought she'd lost. Two weeks later she realized the leaderboard was never the asset.
- product-hunt
- launches
- distribution
- story
One purple pen: notes from an editor who refused to rewrite
A story about a magazine editor, a stubborn writer, and the small lavender mark that ended up shaping how we ship websites at onedb.
- essay
- craft
- story
The night the SaaS site rewrote itself
A founder, a deadline, a sleeping co-founder, and the eleven-hour rebuild of a SaaS landing page that taught me everything about restraint.
- saas
- story
- landing-pages
I left the accelerator after six weeks
A developer-tools founder got into a program she'd wanted for years, walked out before demo day, and is glad on both counts. A nuanced account of what these programs actually teach, what they cost, and who they're built for.
- accelerators
- fundraising
- story
- indie-hackers
Consumer products and the ninety-second rule
A weekend with a friend's seven-year-old, a half-broken iPad, and what it taught me about why consumer products live or die in the first ninety seconds.
- consumer
- onboarding
- story
Boilerplates are bicycles, not cars
A developer in Porto bought a $299 SaaS starter, built three dead products on it, then wrote his own setup over a weekend. The fourth one worked. Here's why.
- boilerplates
- dev-tools
- story
- saas
Notes from a software agency that shouldn't have survived
Six people, three rooms, an espresso machine that screams. What I learned working with a small software agency in Lisbon that has outlasted three economic cycles.
- agency
- story
- business
Thirty seconds that ship a company: notes on great launch videos
What the OpenAI demo, the Arc reveal, and a launch I helped a friend ship at 4 a.m. taught me about the form of the modern launch video.
- launch
- video
- story
The community I built by accident
Two years ago Priya forced a Discord into existence and watched it die. Three months ago she opened another one and ignored it. Eighty people moved in and built it without her.
- community
- distribution
- story
- indie-hackers
The Podcast Nobody Listened To, For Fourteen Months
Tomás recorded forty-seven hours of indie founder interviews in his closet in Reykjavík. Eleven downloads an episode, most of them him. Then episode 28 broke the pattern, and he figured out why.
- podcast
- distribution
- story
- content
The Dev Tool I Quit For A Year
In January 2025 I turned off GitHub Copilot. Inline completions, ghost text, all of it. I kept it off for twelve months. I didn't come back triumphant. I came back changed.
- dev-tools
- productivity
- story
- opinion