Founders
What Indie Hackers Can Learn From the Way Tech Press Covers Startups
You will probably never be covered by a major outlet, but the way good tech journalism frames a company is a free lesson in positioning.
Building It
Articles by Adrian Wei
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Growth
Reddit Is the New SEO, and Founders Are Noticing
As AI answers eat the search results page, founders are chasing a different prize: being mentioned in the conversations the models actually read.
Build in Public
The Changelog Is the Marketing Now
Solo founders are quietly turning their release notes into their best growth channel. Here is why a boring list of fixes outperforms most launch campaigns.
Build in Public
Continuous Shipping Killed Launch Day — and Founders Are Better For It
The one-day launch is dying. The teams shipping the best software in 2026 treat releases as a metronome, not a fireworks show.
Launches
A teardown of a recent launch from a known indie hacker
Anonymized teardown of a recent indie launch that landed — what the founder did, what they didn't, and which moves are actually transferable.
Product
POVChat.ai is making AI chat finally feel like a conversation
Most AI chat products feel like talking to a customer service rep. POVChat.ai is trying to make it feel like a dinner table.
Product
The design decisions behind Makeform.ai's form generator
Makeform.ai turns plain descriptions into working forms. The interesting part is everything the team chose not to ship.
Founders
ChatSlide bets the future of slides is speed-of-thought
A look at how ChatSlide is collapsing the gap between idea and finished deck, and why translation and charts are the parts that actually matter.
Product
The case for boring tech in 2026
Postgres, Django, a single Linux box. The most under-rated startup stack in 2026 looks suspiciously like the one from 2014.
Product
Why pricing pages got worse in 2025
The dominant pricing page format in 2025 looked nothing like 2018. A diagnosis of how the genre lost its way — and what to copy from the holdouts.
Build in Public
Build-in-public metrics that actually matter
MRR screenshots are a lagging indicator and a bad incentive. The metrics indie hackers should be sharing instead.