... answer An indie hacker is someone who builds a business on their own terms. Usually small, usually online, and almost always without outside investors. "Indie" means independent. "Hacker" doesn't mean someone breaking into bank servers from a dark basement. It's the older, kinder meaning of the word: a person who figures things out with whatever tools happen to be lying around. Indie hackers build SaaS tools, browser extensions, newsletters, templates, mobile apps, APIs, and oddly specific marketplaces that ...

... profitable project for years (2009-2015) until Twitter's (now X) API changes killed it overnight. Since then I've been quietly building something new, dogfooding it on my own finances for years, hosted on a server in my basement closet. I finally found the time to polish it and open it up. I named it ZenExpenses ( https://zenexpenses.com ), an expense tracker and budgeting app built around one idea: you upload bank statements (CSV, PDF, Excel, QuickBooks) instead of connecting ... ... your bank account. Skipping the third party bank connection is deliberate. I'm holding out for the day open banking is properly adopted. And no, it is not hosted on my basement

... building in almost the exact same lane with FounderFlow. Curious how you're handling the "which business needs me right now" problem specifically, that's the part I've found hardest to get an agent to judge well, versus just executing tasks it's told to. Comment from Stephen Aitken(@s8ken): Launching SONATE by https://yseeku.com It's time this project left the basement

... first 100% offline AI business card scanner. Scan any card in 30 seconds AI enriches the contact instantly who they are, how to follow up Push to WhatsApp, Gmail or Google Sheets in one tap Works completely offline basements, remote venues, no signal areas DPDP Act 2023 compliant zero data ever leaves your device We've already launched on Android and iOS and the feedback from our first users has been incredible. Now we want the Product Hunt community ...

... from Wasi Uddin Sami(@wasi_uddin_sami): Looking for SALES representative for my SaaS, this system is dedicated to solopreneurs who make content. This system helps people in writing scripts helps track market trends and also allows to monitor competitors, and helps solve sales objections. Need representatives from USA, UAE, and European countries. Comment from Joe Rucker(@joe_rucker): Hey - Zeke here. Active CPA/JD working at the intersection of institutional finance and AI at a national consulting firm. I build ... ... John Oshalusi(@greatertomi): Hi, I'm on the hunt for my next role. Full-stack engineer, 9+ years in and still really into it. TypeScript/React on the front, Node/Python/GraphQL on the back, with the usual Postgres/Redis/Mongo crew in the basement

... Comment from Rajkumar Jarupula (@rajkumar_001): curious to know how you observed this? any data you saw regarding this? Comment from Agnel Nieves(@agnel_nieves): This is exactly the kind of push we needed. We'd been soft building @Basement Browser for about a month and saw this announcement right before the deadline. Scheduled our launch that night. For context, Basement

... would not be expensive. The models are p2p shared and compiled, we share cpu/gpu time(think SETI but ai) when we are not using our personal ai and the hardware itself could be a raspberry pi in your basement so not expensive. When We do use it we can use other people idle cpu/gpu so its like you have better hardware. The numbers you are seeing with ai as far as infrastructure are a false indication of the true cost ... ... Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @marces_wiliam  Unil the output remains in my computer and needs approval first, I am okay with that ;) Comment from Henrik Pedersen(@henrikpedersen): The distinction I keep coming back to is read vs

... either specialized tools for part of your game, or a gym-scale commitment most home setups can't support. -- As a product guy and social entrepreneur my instinct is to tinker, so I started building prototypes in my basement to solve the "gym-scale" problem for people who want to train hard at home without having to make all the same old compromises (space, weight, specialization, price). When the first one went up, the slim profile looked like a python ...

... this random (possibly dumb) idea that what if my skin had an MBTI? So I turned it into a little game and turns out I m The Sponge Seeker Absorbs moisturizer like WiFi in a basement Basically, Dry skin craving hydration Honestly, this was way more fun (and accurate) than I expected ...

... operations and revenue at @Causal , which was acquired by Lucanet in 2024. In sales, you always know exactly where you stand. In engineering, you don t. The sales leaderboard shows the top performers, the basement-dwellers, and everyone in between. At first, this is terrifying, but it quickly becomes inspiring. If you know who s outselling you, you can reverse-engineer a way to improve. At Top Hat, I built a dashboard that showed every sales rep their conversion rates ... ... against goodharts law. even cases where the goals appear very clear like sales seem like they can be way more nuanced -- having someone sell a ton of deals that have bad terms, overall bad direction (quick hits vs

... time. This is not a cliche. It is doable. 2. Get fiber internet, a 4k camera, a microphone, and lights. It will pay dividends. 3. Separate living from the working environment. When I shut the door of my basement, that's it. 4. I have my "office" shoes. I am primed to think that work just started when I am in them. It's a neat way to divide my routines. 5. Every once in a while ...

... what venture I was going to pursue. Instead I did what any proud, independent, self respecting, 30 year old man, and newly graduated MBA recipient does... I moved out of my own place, and into my mother s basement, crashed on her couch, and became a Rideshare Driver for Uber/Lyft until I figured things out, and found my way forward. #LivingTheDream LOL Ironically it was during my experience as a Ridershare Driver that I gained the inspiration for my first ...