Founders

started wondering what % of twitter indie hacker influencers' MRR comes from other indie hackers - many of the products I see cater to that scene.

building /amp and /guess. prev: 2x founder, improbable, github, amazon. ntik.me

i’d guess high, 20-50%

only other founders care about your mmr, so if you use it for marketing, you will be inevitably selling to other founders (which is not necessarily bad)

customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

good point re. marketing. I agree that it's not necessarily bad - but starts to feel zero-sum across the whole community if it's really as high as 50%.

Not zero sum at all. Everyone helps each other move up.

If I sell my product to you at 20 dollars per month you’ve added 750-1250 dollars of value to my business.
Based on 3-5x mrr.

If indie hackers all just buying from each other they’re adding a lot of value to each other. Same happens with startups.

i used to think this way but you can really extrapolate this to the whole economy apart form food, shelter, hygiene etc and get really pessimistic

now i think as long as people pay for your product you probably create something valuable

my current zero sum complaint is shitcoins haha