# Indie Hackers

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Also called: IndieHackers, indiehackers.com

An online community where [founders](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) share how they build [profitable](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/profit), often [self-funded](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bootstrapping), businesses, with posts, interviews and [revenue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue) numbers.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) reads Indie Hackers interviews to see how other one-person software companies found their first customers.

Official site: <https://www.indiehackers.com>

## Connects to (5)

- [Bootstrapping](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bootstrapping): Building a company with your own savings and the money customers pay you, instead of money from investors.
- [Founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder): A person who starts a company and owns part of it from the beginning.
- [Startup ecosystem](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/startup-ecosystem): The people, money and organizations in one place that help new companies start and grow.
- [Hacker News](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hacker-news): A news and discussion site about technology and startups run by Y Combinator.
- [Indie hacker](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/indie-hacker): Someone who builds and runs a small software business on their own or with a tiny team, usually without outside investors.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/indie-hackers