IndieHackers is a subreddit focused on people who bootstrap their way to success by building products.
Self-promo restricted auto-detected from community rules — always read the full rules before posting. Rules mention promotion — read them before posting.
r/indiehackers is the 12th largest of the 13 communities we track in Startups & Entrepreneurship, with 183.9k members. That is about 4% the size of the niche's biggest community, r/Entrepreneur. Across Nichory's full directory of 363 communities it ranks 349th by member count.
At around 10 years old it is reasonably mature: the culture and rules are established, while there is still room for new contributors to become recognisable names fairly quickly.
Its Nichory signal score is 10/10 — our blend of audience size and how fast the community has grown per year. Scores this high mean an active audience that is worth writing for properly.
This community allows promotion only under conditions — typically a designated thread, a participation ratio, or moderator approval. Read the rules first, then either use the thread they provide or write a post that teaches something, with your product as context rather than the headline.
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