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Building in public is fun and attracts customers that share your culture and attitude. Thus they are more loyal.

Only when done right. When low-effort posting of said build in public data is done it just looks spammy. It's the IndieHackers problem, that whole site is full of people going "I agree, I did that with <mysite>.com"

Everything looks spammy if you do it without craft, quality and soul.

IndieHackers used to be such a brilliant resource for genuine conversation and camaraderie. I think the homepage layout revamp with a hundred different columns and tabs and tags and sh!t completely ruined the earlier ethos.

I remember posts routinely getting dozens of comments and responses. Nowadays, if a post gets low double digit comments, it is doing very well. Sad, imho.

Yeah tbh I think they just gave up on it. It's running on autopilot these days with very little being done to turn it back into an actual community instead of a place where all you see is dead or dying low effort moneygrabs.

I thought I was the only one that felt this way about the homepage revamp.

There’s also no effort to tone down excessive self-promotion posts and posts that instead of kindle discussion on-site, they link out to third party sites.

Sad indeed.

Yeah, it’s just a spam sink nowadays. I guess Stripe figured that not a lot of indiehackers were converting into stripe customers so they decided to let it die of neglect.

It's also slow AF. One of the slowest modern sites I have seen. Why does every page load take so long?

I don’t think it was ever snappy and I’ve had an account there since 2017-18. It’s slow compared to other sites but not that much slower than it was say 2-3 years ago.

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