Have you tried Outverse?[1] It's a new startup aiming to solve this problem, with support for forum spaces, threads and more. I've been using it for some time now and would definitely recommend it! Makes it easier to save threads, common questions, etc and has a super intuitive interface overall. I'm looking forward to using it for my open source project, and it solves a lot of the problems I've had with current platforms.
Congratulations! That's incredibly impressive, and is so inspiring, especially for all us fellow indie hackers out there. What were your main ways of acquiring new users? Do you have any marketing advice that helped you out?
Well done again, and wishing you continued success with your app!
Initially I would use Instagram and follow some hashtags and like people's posts and follow them to get them to look at my profile (I got about 150 downloads that way).
One day I decided I wanted to try out ReactJs and so I made a web calculator version [0]. The goal was to make something better than the current incumbent (Black Iron Beast). This turned out to be super helpful. It usually ranks number 2 on most Google queries for 5/3/1 calculators and lead to about 200 downloads for the app.
I also started using Apple App Store Search Ad with their $100 credit and honestly the result are great. Having your app show up first for some keywords is a huge boost.
Another indie hacker here, to add to OP’s reply, I’ve been using Syften[0] to monitor relevant keywords across various sites to find people my product can be of value to, or I provide answers to their related questions (which can lead them to checking out my profile and then product).
I’m building Conjure[1] a habits, behavior and goals platform, so I track everything from ‘habits’/‘productivity’/‘quantified-self’ type keywords, to people looking for alternatives to XYZ product name, to specific questions I’ve answered before (eg organization, time tracking, building exercise habit, achievement, etc).
Perhaps, in the state between our last waking moments and death, it could be possible that we might have a spiritual realization about the way we've treated others and ultimately lived our lives. Perhaps, we are given one last chance to view the events of our life from a "higher" point-of-view, thus giving us a chance to reflect upon our memories and look back upon the actions we've taken throughout the course of our lifetimes.
I think you'd like the film Mullholland Drive (2001), it dealt with this theme in such a profound way, that to be honest, it completely transformed my whole way of thinking around death, life, hopes, fears and the essence of dreams. Would definitely recommend, by far one of the best films I've ever seen.
“The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn 'em all away. But they're not punishing you,' he said. 'They're freeing your soul. If your frightened of dying, and your holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.”
Hate sounding like an ad myself but the builtin adblocker on Brave is a lifesaver for cleaning up shitty mobile sites (ie, almost all of them).
Not looking forward to have to whitelist the programs being side-loaded into my VR interface so I don't get giant modal popups blocking my entire universe.
"You have violated the terms of service and your account has been suspended. You no longer have access to Reality."
You know you're going in the wrong direction as a species if a corporation can have control of your every interaction, and they can take that access away if they so wish. They do it today, why should it be any different when the metaverse exists?
I think it's fine if a company can control what I do in their property, real or virtual.
The issue (and I wouldn't say this usually) is government. There need to be updated monopoly laws so that that companies with defacto state-level control over what people do cannot exist or are treated as utilities that everyone had a right to.
And government has to stop restricting people from doing stuff in real life, so that we're not pushed into on online dystopia. Importantly, this includes ready ways for everyone to go about their lives and interactions with government without a need for a smart phone, digital ID, or anything similar. Maybe if governments solve the monopoly problem this can be revisited.
Yes, companies do not have some kind of right to do anything they want because "they worked for it". It's the other way around: people grant companies the privilege of making money as long as they provide a benefit and thus (of course) don't hurt consumers.
Companies are an agglomeration of humans, and we should never allow an organized group of people to make life miserable for ordinary individuals. If that happens, then democracy is lost.
I'm confused by the strength of your disagreement. You're using a website that has rules about what you can do. Presumably you only let the people you want to into your house? Are you saying you don't agree with property rights? I suspect I'm misunderstanding.
There's a big difference between personal ownership and corporate ownership. There's a huge legal and ethical gap between your living room and a Wal-Mart parking lot.
>I think it's fine if a company can control what I do in their property, real or virtual.
and this argument:
>Presumably you only let the people you want to into your house? Are you saying you don't agree with property rights?
"Property rights" are not some universal constant. They're just whatever we pragmatically decide is a reasonable amount of control to grant to someone to make life run smoothly for everyone. We're allowed to make different rules for different cases, and the "living room" and "Wal-Mart" cases clearly warrant different rules. Specifically, what happens in your house - a private place where you sleep - directly impinges on your personal well-being and safety, while Wal-Mart - a corporate entity with no feeling, consciousness, need for sleep or sense of pain - is almost entirely unaffected by what happens in one of their parking lots, which also happens to be a public place.
There is no reason, no benefit to society, to allow a corporation unbridled control over your behavior merely because they need premises to conduct business.
"Well, in most universes, there is one law of gravity that works on red objects, and a totally different law of gravity that works on blue objects. But by a random coincidence with a very small probability, in some tiny fraction of the universes, the law of gravity happens to be same for both red and blue objects. These are the universes where gravity can hold planets together, so these are the only universes where life can appear."
Do you think such would be a philosophically satisfactory explanation on why red and blue objects obey the same law of gravity?
Not a huge fan of the new Firefox Proton UI, the tabs look more like buttons and I found the previous design a lot more streamlined. The new design doesn't feel as usable as it should be IMO, and it'll be a reason for me to move to another browser if the design isn't updated in the future.
At the moment, I've switched off Proton in the about:config section, but it's only a matter of time before this will no longer be an option. Hopefully Firefox will go back to the old UI or at least make some changes!
I loathe the days that window managers and apps decide to steal multiple pixels vertically for useless appearance "improvements". Thank you for making less content visible on my screen.
