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Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.

I know I’m on thin ice with a title like that. Getting featured on the HN front page is high on every Indie Hacker’s bingo card, not to mention “hacking...

Courtland Allen had four startups fail, one a Y-Combinator alum, before creating Indie Hackers. Those failures had demoralized him and he had given up on the traditional Silicon Valley path to success. But within 8 months of launching Indie Hackers, Stripe acquired the company. Courtland Allen had four startups fail before he created Indie Hackers, a community for independent developers. But this time was the jackpot: less than 8 months after the site went live in 2016, Allen received an email from Stripe CEO Patrick Collison with the subject line "Acquire Indie Hackers," he told Insider.  ...

68 B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers 
These platforms generally make it easier to find customers, create more focussed products, and build trust. Shopify, Slack, and Salesforce are examples of B2B products with more mature and well known marketplaces, but there are a whole bunch more. They range from more fully featured marketplaces that have integrated user reviews and payment handling, to more basic "integration directories." Out of the 100+ marketplaces and integration directories I found, 68 stood out to me as the ones worth considering as an indie hacker. The o...