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Marc Köhlbrugge

Marc Köhlbrugge
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@marc

Building too many things.
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I suggest not using "Stripe" in your domain name. You're infringing on their trademark.

Seems more like a liability than an asset. Maybe try and sell it without the user accounts?

There's probably easier ways to make money than reviving an old site in a difficult niche

As others have mentioned, invites are distributed automatically based on your activity on WIP.

Reaching certain streak milestones are one way, but it's not required. Just using the site will eventually lead to receiving invites.

Thank you for spreading the word by the way 🙌

I hear you on the applicants being a rather homogenous group. To some extent, that's the nature of a niche community (attracting similar people), but I agree it's both refreshing and valuable to see a variety of people working on different types of projects in their own ways.

1) Are there any specific alternatives to Twitter you recommend I could add support for?

The reason I like Twitter is that the way many people use it, it gives you a decent insight in what type of person they are and thus whether they'd be a good fit. Are there other platforms with a similar characteristic?

2) What type of search / filtering would be useful?

To be honest, I do wonder to what extent I want to invest in developing the applicant functionality. Because it seems barely used and most new members tend to come in via referrals instead. Which might be a more natural way to grow the community and vet new members anyway.

I'm thinking of ways to further incentivize this. Like allowing you to connect your social media profiles and inviting your existing contacts with a single click. But to your point, perhaps we should support more than just Twitter for this. So here too I'm curious what other platforms you think would be a good addition?

Thanks for your input as always!

👆 Removed the feature a while ago because it was barely used and complicated the code and UX a lot.

I've reached out to them to see if they have any "best practices" for joining. Perhaps there's a way to pre-approve WIP members as well. Seems counter productive for them to auto reject legit companies.

Thank you so much @marc, I already tried creating an account via personal email and business email using separate credit cards but I still got auto rejection email. But yeah maybe your contact can manually approve my account that would be great and thanks again @marc

I've read about this. I think you need to sign up using a company email account.

I'll try using a custom/company email. Thanks, @marc

Sign-up using business email but still got rejected after the test payment.

There seems to also be a "problem" if you are using a VPN. Maybe that is also a reason... or your country.

I'm not using VPN but yeah maybe based on where I live also.

I provided Hide my email from iCloud and my VPS is working for one week already. I haven’t even paid yet as I'm using the free €20 credits.

I will try this one.

Yes great idea! I've been working on the onboarding for new users, and adding a default #life project (and explaining it) seems like a good addition.

Same for the homepage filter 👍

Haha, that WOULD be a good incentive wouldn't it

the indie hackers version of a pyramid scheme

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