https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-hackers/indie-hackers-is-indie-again--NSIAlb7LggSjzTavQZb * * Start Here * Explore * [indie-hack] [indie-hack] Community Connect with other founders and creators. Explore Browse the best of Indie Hackers. Products See what everyone's working on. Podcasts Learn while you're on the go. Meetups Meet indie hackers across the globe. Store Buy an Indie Hackers t-shirt. Newsletter Stay up-to-date in 5 minutes or less. [indie-hack] [indie-hack] Log In Sign Up 81 Likes 3 Bookmarks 38 Comments Report Indie Hackers is indie again! by Courtland Allen Exactly six years ago (to the day!), Stripe acquired Indie Hackers to help us grow and inspire millions of people building online businesses. Today, I'm happy to announce that @channingallen and I are indie hackers again! Specifically, this means we're back to running Indie Hackers as a standalone business, owned by the founders. Although we're no longer part of Stripe, Stripe continues to be supportive of IH as an investor to help us get going. This has been about four months in the making. Branching out on our own is something we mutually decided on with Stripe, and we're excited about it! It goes without saying that I'm incredibly grateful for Stripe's belief and support of Indie Hackers over the years. It still blows my mind that @patrickc reached out and took a chance on us when we were just a tiny bootstrapped company ourselves, that we were able to run freely and autonomously despite being part of a much bigger company, and that we now have the chance to own Indie Hackers again. Stripe couldn't have handled things any better, and I want to personally thank @patrickc and everyone else at Stripe for their support through the years. So what now? Well, if we want to survive and thrive, we're going to have to generate revenue just like any other business! I'm an entrepreneur at heart and always have been. In fact, working a Stripe was my first and only salaried job. Right now we're sitting at exactly $0 in MRR, so the journey is just now (re)starting. I'm fired up!!! [nonexisten] Courtland Allen , Founder of [product-6] Indie Hackers on April 5, 2023 81 Likes 3 Share Say something nice to csallen... Post Comment 1. 2 Damn. How exciting. Good luck chaps :) [nonexisten] harrydry * 6 minutes ago * Reply 2. 1 Get in there [nonexisten] Rrmdp * 7 minutes ago * Reply 3. 8 Whaaaaaaat. Wow! I think we need a podcast episode on this (stat!). [nonexisten] mijustin * 2 hours ago * Reply 1. 3 Dude, you know what would be way crazy? If you did a combined episode of Build Your SaaS (or Mega Maker) and Indie Hackers like the Indie Hackers/Acquired or Indie Hacker/Startups for the Rest of Us episode mash ups! [nonexisten] janetacarr * 42 minutes ago * Reply 1. 3 We should! [nonexisten] mijustin * 21 minutes ago * Reply 4. 4 Congrats! But how did this work? Did you buy back the company from Stripe? [nonexisten] racketracer * 2 hours ago * Reply 1. 1 Interested to know more about this! It seems like this was more of an acquihire? [nonexisten] xaviablaza * 2 hours ago * Reply 5. 2 Curious to see how you'll be growing it the second time around. Congrats! [nonexisten] heilly * 2 hours ago * Reply 6. 2 Wow! This is crazy and exciting! Congrats guys! Can't wait to see what you do with it. [nonexisten] macmartine * 2 hours ago * Reply 7. 2 Exciting news @csallen [nonexisten] simonda1ey * 2 hours ago * Reply 8. 2 Wow, amazing excited to see what happens in the future. How are you planning to grow and monetize? [nonexisten] timleland * 2 hours ago * Reply 9. 2 Congrats - exciting times ahead! [nonexisten] Meri_Hammond * 2 hours ago * Reply 10. 1 YES! Congrats guys, I'm excited to follow your new adventure [nonexisten] federicopascual * 37 minutes ago * Reply 11. 1 This is awesome. I love IH since I joined 6 years ago. But I cannot deny that it's developed very little since then and I am spending less and less time here. I hope you guys can bring back the sparkle you could feel in this forum in the early days. [nonexisten] tropianhs * 42 minutes ago * Reply 12. 1 Wow awesome, can't wait to see what's in store! [nonexisten] evergrowingdev * 44 minutes ago * Reply 13. 1 Lets go! [nonexisten] joelh * an hour ago * Reply 14. 1 Edit: This is congratulatory fire! Congrats! [nonexisten] janetacarr * an hour ago * Reply 15. 1 Oh this is such fantastic news! Congrats chaps. Can't wait to see where you take IH from here [nonexisten] jmckinven * an hour ago * Reply 16. 1 Congratulations, that's amazing! It's interesting that I now want to (re)support IH more than ever, since you're now indie. [nonexisten] scottmathson * an hour ago * Reply 17. 1 Awesome, good luck fellas [nonexisten] zachwilliamson * an hour ago * Reply 18. 1 Exciting!! [nonexisten] vimota * an hour ago * Reply 19. 1 Sounds awesome! Can't wait to see what you guys will be building. [nonexisten] gregor * an hour ago * Reply 20. 1 Awesome, congrats! [nonexisten] louisswiss * an hour ago * Reply 21. 1 Congrats! If you do a podcast episode about this, I'd love to hear more about the Stripe investment and it'd be fun to look at this through the lens of your validation checklist: https:// docs.google.com/document/d/ 1e-pmkZCM96V_3FhwYFK5ubY8l52YNk9j4i25HWt6oyY/edit#heading= h.eqrnmfrqlu9c [nonexisten] bradsimantel * an hour ago * Reply 22. 1 Cool! Congrats, Courtland and Channing! [nonexisten] GeoffRoberts * an hour ago * Reply 23. 1 Congrats to you both! That's quite a journey, I'm excited to see what comes next!! [nonexisten] LouisSayers * an hour ago * Reply 24. 1 Very awesome! Excited to see what you guys cook up. [nonexisten] sahil * an hour ago * Reply 25. 1 Woo, congrats guys! [nonexisten] dohertyjf * an hour ago * Reply 26. 1 Amazing. This is the reboot(strapping? ) we all really wanted to see. Good luck and this community is rooting for you and Channing! [nonexisten] davidwu * an hour ago * Reply 27. 1 congrats! looking forward to version 2 [nonexisten] igorkrasnik * an hour ago * Reply 28. 1 Congrats! One of the best online communities in the world! Endless possibilities! [nonexisten] burger * an hour ago * Reply 29. 1 I stopped using IH a few years ago. I saw this news, and now I'm back! [nonexisten] ryleyrandall22 * an hour ago * Reply 30. 1 Congrats, Courtland! I can't wait to see what you guys will do with it. Let us know how we can help [nonexisten] valsopi * 2 hours ago * Reply 31. 1 Rooting for you! This is a special community, excited to see what you do with it again! [nonexisten] joshdance * 2 hours ago * Reply 32. 1 Really excited about this one! Congrats! [nonexisten] nestorvc * 2 hours ago * Reply 33. 1 this is big! 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