Maker Mag

The first magazine for indie makers

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The first magazine for indie makers

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Maker Mag is a community-driven magazine for indie makers, by indie makers.

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Ness Labs

Maker

Hello PH! Super excited to introduce Maker Mag, the first ever magazine for indie makers. It's a participatory publication, with currently more than 40 writers creating content for everyone to learn, grow, connect, and discuss what matters to makers. Why does this matter? Because indie news publications are a great sign of a community's vitality. They are a space to inform, inspire, and connect. At Maker Mag, we brainstormed some principles, which include transparency, diversity, and honesty. We just launched with some interesting articles, such as interviews of @rrhoover, @abadesi and @bentossell about building diverse communities and supporting other makers, tips to get started as a digital nomad or to better manage your finances as an indie maker, and long-form pieces about friendship, imposter syndrome, the definition of a startup, and more. We hope you find it useful and join us on this exciting journey! Please consider contributing too. 🎉 Many thanks to all the contributors!

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8yr ago

Women Make

@rrhoover @abadesi @bentossell @anthilemoon Congrats on the launch Anne-Laure! I'm impressed by the quality of the articles ✨

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8yr ago

Leave Me Alone

Massive congratulations on the launch! I've seen so much hard work go into this in the past few weeks, and I'm astounded with the quality of the content 🙌

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8yr ago

Kelly Miller

Amazing work as always, @anthilemoon!! :D It has been so much fun to read

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8yr ago

@anthilemoon Congrats on the Launch! I already read an article on commute to work and learned a lot!

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8yr ago

LogoCreatorAI

Maker

@rrhoover @abadesi @bentossell @anthilemoon Congrats on the launch 🎉 A huge amount of effort went into this, nice job 🙌

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8yr ago

Product Hunt

Glad to have the opportunity to contribute. Are you going to print a physical version, @anthilemoon!? 😃

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8yr ago

Ness Labs

Maker

@rrhoover Thanks for contributing! 🙏 That would be a whole other challenge! But yes I would love to have a quarterly print edition. Big fan of print magazines 😊

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8yr ago

Maker Mag

Maker

Hi @anthilemoon and #Makermag team! I am so proud for what we have collectively achieved. This is absolutely a stellar work of collaboration and effort, and I am so proud of @anthilemoon for making this happen. Online communities are powerful; they allow people to connect regardless of where they are in the world. And our launch articles reflect that. Starting with @jamesstewart’s article on friendships formed between makers, where we encounter people around the world and learn new different things from other lived experiences. Following this is @anthilemoon’s interview with @abadesi on on the importance of diversity in order to allow underestimated people to truly work in their fullest capacity w/o spending needless time worrying how they can fit in. Coming in with nomad life are @bsamel’s articles, which include an interview with @pierregillesl who has decided to quit his job in Paris to travel and work full-time on this project. There is also the article by Irma Mesa on products to maker remote working life easier. And of course, we also have financial tips for you by @devarsh and @valentinourbano to survive as an indie maker and a nomad. In the side of community and product discussions, Frances Foster examines the conflicting debate on what a startup really is. @anthilemoon interviews @bentossell on his amazing journey, from getting into @producthunt and becoming a no-code maker and most recently joining Earnest Capital. @anthilemoon also @zacharycsy, a precocious 17-y/o maker interested by product innovation. Of course, as @producthunt has been instrumental in expanding the makers ecosystem, my interview with @rrhoover is an in-depth look at @producthunt, including @nireyal’s Hook Model, and how @producthunt is of great value to the makers community. Product Hunt has enabled discussions that had historically mostly happened within tech hubs to become more global. It’s also beautiful to witness makers from different verticals collaborating and interacting with each other.

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8yr ago

@anthilemoon @jamesstewart @abadesi @bsamel @pierregillesl @devarsh @valentinourbano @bentossell @producthunt @zacharycsy @rrhoover @nireyal @jic94 Wow. My partner and I are now concluding a two year digital nomad/entrepreneurial networking tour of Southeast Asia/HK and Shenzhen,in China. I have just pitched a story to Makermag on Troublemaker, a co-working space in Shenzhen, but hopefully I can share other experiences as well. Co-working spaces, governmental support, governmental challenges, exhibition opportunities, positive moments, negative situations, cheap hotels in big Asian cities, food etc...Though I am now primarily focused on my AR-based startup, I have a background as a writer, videomaker and photographer. There is definitely a need for Makermag and I wish the team all the best!

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8yr ago

Maker Mag

Maker

@anthilemoon @jamesstewart @abadesi @bsamel @pierregillesl @devarsh @valentinourbano @bentossell @producthunt @zacharycsy @rrhoover @nireyal @stephen_black Yessss, Stephen. Here's the page for contributions :D. Looking forward to read it! https://makermag.com/contribute/

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8yr ago

@anthilemoon @jamesstewart @abadesi @bsamel @pierregillesl @devarsh @valentinourbano @bentossell @producthunt @zacharycsy @rrhoover @nireyal @jic94 Thanks Julian.... Actually I had filled that in before I saw your post. Do you have a word count suggestion? You ran that excellent piece on Ryan Hoover; that was a treat. Deadline?

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8yr ago

Love the clean layout and the @rrhoover interview is super interesting. Any plan in having a crowdsourced article section/contributors section ?

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8yr ago

Ness Labs

Maker

@rubenvivanti You can contribute already! It's a participatory publication. 🎉

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8yr ago

Prototypr

@anthilemoon yeah the articles are good! I probably have many you can republish there if you like, maybe this: https://medium.com/swlh/top-reso... I had published some in the Startup on Medium, but this may be a better fit! How will you operate differently from things like buzzfeed?

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8yr ago

Ness Labs

Maker

@graeme_fulton Thank you! Tbh I never thought of BuzzFeed as a likely comparison. 😅 What do you mean?

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8yr ago

B.S. Detector

i appreciate the value of what you've created — it's essentially dev.to for the business end of things — and i don't mean to be a negative nancy, because it's a positive contribution to the community. and this is a criticism of product hunt and the startup scene around it as much as it is your platform, so please don't think i'm singling you out. but aren't you at all worried about a trademark dispute with make magazine (https://makezine.com/), the actual first ever magazine for indie makers? i know it's suddenly in vogue in the entrepreneurial community to call one's self a maker, as evinced by the green chicklets here on product hunt, but isn't the term more applicable to those in the maker movement, which is more oriented around open source hardware hacking, electronic art, 3d printing, crafting, and skillsharing than the for-profit development of software as a service? my local library has a makerspace and it's not a place where you go to learn to be a digital nomad, it's a place where you go to make 3d printed l.e.d. earrings. i assume it's unintended, but as a person who has dabbled in that scene, it kind of feels like you're trying to coopt and rebrand an already established subculture.

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8yr ago

Ness Labs

Maker

@selfagency Hey! Thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback. I think the same way nobody should decide what an "artist" is, nobody should decide what a "maker" is. It feels a little bit like gatekeeping to me. I hope we don't have any legal issues with Make Zine as we're targeting a different audience. There are many magazines called "Make" or "Maker" already, Make Zine just happens to be the most popular by far.

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8yr ago

Once more, great work Anne-Laure! Quality, well-written articles on interesting topics - including wellness which matters so much. I read a few articles already and I can't wait to see what comes next.

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8yr ago

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