My question is, most makers need to eat while shipping side projects or making indie products, so where do you find contracting work? In my case, some of my work comes from word-of-mouth from previous companies or networking I've done Some other ones I pitch to, mostly early-stage (funded) start...

For reference, this is what humans.txt is all about: http://humanstxt.org

I think one of the benefits of indie businesses is that customers are usually talking directly to the founder. I think it can be good to mention this explicitly, but without being a douche. I already avoid using "we" and say "I" instead. How do you approach this in email communication, on your w...

I've added [email protected] to Gmail as an alternate email address. I have registered [email protected] to Google+ and upload a profile image already. However when I send emails from [email protected], I go to the recipient gmail inbox and still see an image-less photo. Help would be appreciated!

Because I'm a non-native English speaker, I'm not sure about my writing. Content written in natural English converts better than unnatural content. People engage better with your content when it's written in natural English. Before I publish my content, I have it checked on several grammar chec...

Hey friends, I'm working on new productized type of consulting specificely for startups, side projects, and indies. The offerings are (Logo + Identity) & (Landing Page + Graphic Design / Art). I'm trying to offer the service low enough that it's very affordable for the target audience, but high e...

I usually work with my 15" Macbook Pro, and sometimes at work with a external 21" 1080p. Now I'm considering to go further. Options are: 1) Simple: 24" 1920 x 1080 at 60 Hz . ( AOC - ultraslim ) 2) 21:9 UltraWide FHD (2560*1080) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01BV1XB2K 3) Double set of 1) ( f...

Just want to keep my online profile consistent with other places!

Right now hashtags are unique per user (e.g. I can only have one product with the #betalist hashtag), but they are NOT unique across users (e.g. multiple people could have a product with a #betalist hashtag). Right now this works okay, but has a few limitations:• We cannot use the hashtag as a s...

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