Indie
General
2_ENTRIES- If [$], it means it's not free and probably means I haven't tried it but still decided to add it because of the several references.
- This repo was once [#1 on Github Tren...
This repo was once #1 on Github Trending! :_)
Posts
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Iām Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months by Pieter LevelsThe challenge that started it all for Pieter. It inspired me to do something similar. What matters is to create and ship a lot, learning in the process, until something is worth pushing further.
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Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice by Patrick McKenziePatrick has written over 500 posts and I have obviously not read all of them, but of the many I've read, I chose this one...
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Why You Should Do A Tiny Product First by Amy HoyThis is the first of a series by Amy Hoy. I'll be honest, I don't even remember what this was about, just that I found it worth my time. Oh wait, yeah, Amy told me not to code, at least at fā¦
- **[Running A Software Business On 5 H...
Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week by Patrick McKenzie...and this one too :D
- **[Storemapper
Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50,000/year in 2 years (with live metrics) by Tyler TringasThis is just an example of a business more than one would be happy with :-) Besides liking how Tyler shares his story building Storemapper, I think he always maximizes for valuable content.
- **[How to get more customers](https:/...
How to get more customers by Justin Jackson.This is a bit of a too specific topic for this general selection of posts, but the hell, you need to read it before it's too late. Ok, I'm starting to sound marketingy :D
- **[Indie Startups
Indie Startups: The Ingredients of Success by fpgaminerNumbers with meaning. fpgaminer analyzed all the products featured on IndieHackers, extracted some statistics and got to some conclusions. Also worth reading for the approach.
- **[What you should know as a founder ...
What you should know as a founder of a software company by Ivan MirA guide to the complex world of modern software business: everything from UX design to marketing and writing, with a list of resources to start with each topic.
Books
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Start Small, Stay Small [$] by Rob Walling.
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Getting Real by 37signals. - More focused on building web applications, I really recommend it. Short, straight to the point, very easy to read and full of valuable content.
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MAKE [$] by Pieter Levels.
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Just Fucking Ship [$] by Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman.
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**[Marketing for ā¦
- **[Building Micro-SaaS Businesses](ht...
Building Micro-SaaS Businesses by Tyler Tringas. - A collection of very well structured posts that cover the most initial struggles of an indie dev on the way to build a MicroSaaS. I can personally endorse it and I'm eager to read the yet to be written chapters :)
Other
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SideProject Books - Side Project Books is a curated collection of books for anyone interested in building a business on the side. By Mubashar Iqbal
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The SaaS Bootstrapper book list - Collection curated by Mac Martine.
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Anything You Want [$] by Derek Sivers.
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Founders at Work [$] by Jessica Livingston.
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SideProject Book - [$49].
Tools
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**free-for-dev**A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev. Very useful for bootstrappers to keep initial costs low ;) By R. I. Pienaar.
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**Stack-on-a-budget**Another list of SaaS, PaaS, and Iaas offerings that have free tiers for developers on a budget. Very useful for exploring ideas and building out proof of concept. By Guillaume (256kb).
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**Tools Of The Trade**Spectacular list of categorized tools for developers resulting from HackerNews threads. By Chris Barber and Craig Davison.
- **[awesome-selfhosted](https://github...
awesome-selfhosted"This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers." Lots of salvageable software :P by Edward D.