I've been starting to think about this lately, especially as I've been trying to focus on building my LinkedIn presence. I'm somewhat fatigued with social media and would rather find another way to get clients. Can you have a viable service business and/or personal brand without those platforms?...

Just wanted to put this thought out there for others. There are some tools out there for businesses that have either extra user seats or extra resource allocations beyond the projects you'd use them for. So maybe pool the price of the tool with another maker? E.g. OhDear (one of my favourite mo...

I'm working on the next phase of my Toybox project and would like some feedback. In the spirit of the project's aims for being as self-contained as possible, as well as 80/20 versions of features, I'm building commonly built SaaS features into the starter kit Think testimonials, feedback, suppo...

Context: I'm in South Africa. The ZAR/USD exchange rate has shot from ~R16/$ to R20/$ in about 2 years. One "theme" of project idea I've had lately is to make essentially similar tools to ones often used by SaaS builders, but with localised pricing and branding. Forex fluctuations alongside inf...

I'm heading back into the freelancing market from the beginning of Feb. Job market is a bit tight right now in tech (tons of layoffs, little hiring/salary reductions), so decided to give freelancing a proper go. I've got roughly half my time/income booked with one long-standing client, which giv...

Hey peeps. I'm looking around for communities specifically dedicated to freelance work - whether for software development or otherwise. Specifically I'm trying to find some more places to get feedback on the fixed-price model I'm testing for . The Roast post gave me some good feedback on the pag...

Hey peeps. I'm looking for advice about a one-page site I'm designing for offering productized Laravel work. https://niksoftwaretest.carrd.co/ Background: I intend this to fit in as a side hustle - regular, repeatable, fixed-scope work in my skillset. I've done some moonlighting before and have...

I've long had a bit of a conflict around social media. I want to use these platforms less and less over time. At the same time content marketing seems to be one of the simplest and cheapest strategies for indie hackers to get eyes on their product. This mostly goes for things like Twitter/X and ...

I've recently returned to employment after a short stint with freelancing. I did this specifically to free up the time on freelance overheads for other things in my life, such as being an indie hacker. My thinking was that if freelancing isn't the ultimate thing I want to be doing, it's actually ...

What are you working on these days? Undecided. I finished (or at least got it to a point I find good enough to use) as a personal starter kit for rapidly building SaaS, but now I'm out of ideas that I think are viable. For now, tinkering with some things and continuing to organise PHP South Af...

I'm in a country where Stripe is not available, and no local provider offers multicurrency charges yet. For me, it's been a long standing hurdle in my mind for local creators to compete internationally. Stripe Atlas and foreign incorporation is generally available, but exchange control laws make...

Been tweaking the landing page a little bit, but the project is now officially live. https://github.com/nikspyratos/toybox

Today I got the self-provisioning script done. After fighting with Caddy, AWS and DNS for a few hours, it was much smoother sailing to improve the app boilerplate, and finish up the deployment scripts. I think this can officially be considered V1 now. There's more I want to do in future (e.g. re...