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ksl

2mo ago

How do you estimate the value of your audience when selling sponsorships?

I've been thinking a lot about audience monetization lately, especially for founders and indie makers.

Many of us slowly build small but valuable audiences over time:

  • newsletters about startups or AI

  • niche blogs or dev communities

  • SaaS products with engaged users

  • waitlists or early adopter communities

  • founder-focused X / Twitter audiences

At some point sponsorships start to make sense.

Ivan Dudin

2yr ago

What do you do if you need a quick CRUD API deployment for a small project or experiment?

For example you need to write or edit arbitrary entities very quickly from the backend or frontend, read them, filter them. We create experimental projects almost every week and this is a very common task
Zhao Naomi

3yr ago

What should I do next? Just keep building or stop and seek validation firstly?

Hey hunters, I recently working on a product called Demokit. It provides a library of product demo videos to indie hackers and startup teams to watch excellent videos of different types and analyze the video scripts through AI technology, enabling users to learn about the production ideas of these videos, providing inspiration for their own product demo video creation, reducing the difficulty of video production and improving efficiency. My current confusion lies in whether just providing users with text scripts for reference can really bring them value. I'm thinking if I could provide a simple web-base video editor and present the scripts as video templates, allowing users to directly edit them, would it be better? However, doing so would extend my development cycle, which makes me uneasy. I don't know if this is meaningful or not, and I'm afraid that users don't actually need it and I've spent too much energy on it. And personally, I prefer to use tested video scripts as a reference and my familiar video editor to complete the video creation. I need to understand the opinions of ohters in order to further improve and develop this product. I hope this product can bring value to indie hackers and small startup teams, and I need your feedback and suggestions. Thank you for your time and help. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please share them in the comments section. I would really appreciate your feedbacks on what to do next. Thank you!
David Usher

3yr ago

What do you consider as your strengths and unique skills as a UI/UX designer?

Tell me about your strengths and unique skills as a UI/UX designer
Daniel

12mo ago

Most social tools feel like they were built for someone else.

My friend and I were running into the same brick wall over and over again: we'd attempt a tool, be excited for about 10 minutes and then it'd be like it was built for another team, another workflow, or honestly, another era.
Some were clunky. Some were too complicated. None of them worked how we needed.
So we set out to build Loopify, something we'd actually want to use ourselves:
Quick. Efficient. Simple. Doesn't get you thinking you require a training program just to book a TikTok.
We are looking for as much user feedback as possible. Talking with teams, individual creators, small brands, anyone who's had to fight through tools just to keep up online.
If that sounds like you, I'd love to hear:
What's your biggest friction point with current tools?
What's one teeny feature you'd love to have but never see?
Or just something you dislike doing that could be simpler?
Seriously appreciate any ideas you pitch our way.

Nika

12mo ago

Should VCs take on the (financing) role instead of the state/government?

Yesterday, @rrhoover shared a Forum about Y Combinator and the topics they are interested in.

These 5 grabbed my attention in the list:

  • AI for Scientific Advancement

  • Healthcare AI

  • The Future of Education

  • AI Residential Security

  • AI Research Labs