The Indie Hacker Economy Is a Pyramid Scheme
latexr
18 points
8 comments
July 27, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
Alessio97
I rent boats for a living, and in the evenings I built myself an app to practice my guitar. My users have never heard the term MRR—I had to look it up this week. If you want to make money with a product, build the product, not buy the method. Distribution is the only problem because there's too much junk.
slilo
Medium.com Economy Is a Paywall Scheme
poulpy123
I don't think the person knows what is a pyramid scheme
vivzkestrel
- A didnt kill X, B did - jeez my guy, atleast use your own thoughts to craft a title - right now i can only see the LLMs thoughts not yours
ilioscio
"`Foo` is destroying the indie web, click here to create an account to login and read the article"