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Comment by martin_a | Hacker News Reader

If Indiehackers would not be such a bad website. It could be a really nice website, but somebody thought it should be an app and it sucks.

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That was me. If I could go back in time 3.5 years and make a different decision, I would! Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full rewrite today. (I'm the only developer/designer on IH.) But I do try to make regular incremental improvements around performance.

Sure the tech isn't great, but you've made a really great community with great content. You shouldn't be ashamed of choices at all - tech doesn't have to be perfect to deliver on its goals.

The community and content is great. Outsource some of the work?

IndieHackers is a great resource. It serves its purpose very well and built a great community. That is all that matters.

Csallen. I love the site. I understand you’re the only dev /designer. Why not open source the GitHub repo so others can send pull requests and make it better.

FWIW. I visit your site every day and look at the top posts.

You’ve probably single handedly created a community of people who go solo and build profitable things.

I remember YC refraining from funding solo founders. It turns out there are 1000s of solo profitable businesses and you don’t need to go YC route. Thanks for giving me that confidence.

You’d probably rebuilt it from the ground up as the architecture seems to be the problem. That’s not something a community could easily do without some kind of leadership. That would still take up a lot of his time, probably more than just doing it alone.

I’d guess it’s not just merging a few pull request and it’s suddenly fast.

I really dont know what happened with the redesign, the original site was fine. Then they did this "fancy" redesign and it sucks so much that it limits my visit and time spent there despite the content which it can be pretty good. It is honestly baffling.

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