I replied on Twitter but let's do it here also. What I really like is seeing a nice balance of #life stuff but also people working hard on their projects. There's no hate, no discussions, just people logging their activities and others liking/commenting.

It's nice (for myself) to work on a streak by doing work stuff but it's also nice to be able to log side projects, gym sessions, achievements and experiences.

What I would advise is to simply use the Telegram bot to log your activities and upload photos, and come around to wip.co daily to scroll through the other user's achievements. Pretty wholesome and inspiring.

I think of it as a builder community who support each other, sharing best practices, see what other's are doing & trying & working on (quite inspiring and creative!). A group of people have similar excitements, frustrations, and really can "get" one another.

it's probably easier to find this if one live in a certain area of the world, but much harder in others? I find this place so much fun.

I was following Pieter's posts here for years w/o having an account myself, just to try to understand his work habits so I could emulate them. I created an account b/c I don't seem to have anyone near me who I can meet up with to cowork and talk about indie hacking every day the way Pieter/Marc/Andrey/etc. had it set up in Dojo Bali, so this is the next best thing. My childhood / school friends aren't into indie hacking (or even programming) so that's not an option either. Seeing other people's progress (like Ben w/ Watchdog), especially when I've met them IRL, gives me added motivation to get something done that day, even if it's just a small step. I also block Twitter b/c I waste too much time on it, so this is a nice way to get some social experience / take a break without risking wasting a ton of time. Indie hacking is my #1 professional priority, I'd sooner work as a garbage man and do indie hacking on the side than have to work a traditional office job for the rest of my life, so I'm happy to pay to support this community.

As for how to make the most of it: get to know the individual people by meeting them IRL if you can or following them on Twitter, check out their projects, comment on their posts, like their posts. Set a goal to hit a certain streak (ideally w/o using non-indie-hacking-related posts to keep your streak going, IMO Marc should police that more).

Find all the cool Laravel peeps here ;)

I'm still new here, but I saw that I prefer to follow people's projects rather than a person directly. I saw that people share a lot of "daily" things that I'm not interested in. Things like "eat lunch", "gone to the gym", "doing cardio"

But, in their projects profile, they share info about the projects... and I'm more interested on that. I'm sure I'm loosing some things on the "personal part" but... time is limited.