50 Best Tweets About Indie Hackers (2026)

A curated collection of the sharpest, most-shared X posts about indie hackers—saved so you do not have to dig through the timeline yourself. Updated weekly.

Solo builders sharing real revenue numbers, launch days, and the projects that died quietly.

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  1. 01

    @starter_story ·

    You don't need a BIG idea. @jonathanfishner generates $9,000 per month with a TINY one. 3 lessons from his micro SaaS: 1. Pick a weirdly tiny audience 2. Don’t monetize too early (or too late) 3. Distribute content where that audience hangs out

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    @marclou ·

    I met OG indie hacker @jessethanley in Japan 🇯🇵 He's living such a crazy life, and I don't know where to start, so here are random facts: - He's running his SaaS @Bento solo and makes a ridiculous amount of money - Unlike most founders, he knows how much is enough and works 4

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    @alexcooldev ·

    If you’re an indie hacker without much capital (like me back then basically $0): Don’t reinvent the wheel. > Pick an app with a proven market > Build a version that’s slightly better, cleaner, more polished > Add small but clear differentiation > Market it on channels they

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    @marclou ·

    My friend @AlexandruGlv is building a micro SaaS while working a 9/5, but the growth is very slow, so he asked for my opinion. (for context, his product is a database to find YouTube influencers to sponsor) I went to ChatGPT and asked: "How to find youtubers to sponsor?" It

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  5. 05

    @dramaricic ·

    Only way for solo founder like me, to distribute product is to build in public. After 40 days of building in public: - I wrote 2.5k posts - Got 1710 followers - Viewed by 1.4M people - Connected to other builders - Learned a lot I would say things are going great so far. Love

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  6. 06

    @maubaron ·

    it took me 3 years to make $100,000 with software because i followed indie hacker advice - invest as little as possible - build everything yourself - focus on building, not selling i lived this way for years i used free zoho emails instead of paying $7/month for google

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    @ujjwalscript ·

    Right now, every developer with Claude and an API key is trying to build a massive, world-changing generative tool. And 99% of them are becoming OBSOLETE in six months. The actual gold mine in 2026? Using AI to build hyper-niche, painfully boring software for industries that

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    @1752vc ·

    How to get your first 100 users 🚀 1. Build in public. Share wins, failures, lessons, and progress consistently. One post a day is okay; 3–4 is better. 2. Copy competitor distribution. Find where competitors get backlinks and mentions, then submit your product to the same

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  9. 09

    @zuess05 ·

    Follow your passion. Build in public. Launch on Product Hunt. That is exactly how I spent 3 months building an app just to get 0 paying users.

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    @eliana_jordan ·

    If I had a 9–5 and had to start my indie hacker journey from scratch, this would be my exact strategy: • Build a better version of a proven saas/app (1 core feature) • cursor codes while you work on your 9-5 • Ship in 2–3 weeks • Grow on X + SEO in parallel • No code changes

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    @Layton_Gott ·

    Step by step guide on how to validate your product idea... The RIGHT way. Step 1: Go where people complain. Reddit, X, App Store reviews, YouTube comments. Search your niche. If 10 different people in 10 different places are frustrated by the same thing, that's signal. Step 2:

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    @starter_story ·

    He spent months emailing 300+ influencers and got ONE reply. Then Avneesh found two free platforms that took SaveWise from single-thousand users to tens of thousands - without spending a dime on ads. His product helps people stack credit card points and airline miles on stuff

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    @alexwtlf ·

    Build in public is dead. every time you ship something cool, 100 copycats appear the next day. or a seed startup just releases your exact feature. at this point, builders are just doing free work for people with better distribution

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    @wickedguro ·

    Going to reach $120k MRR soon. But here is the thing, it's not exciting anymore. Yes, I know it sounds pretentious, but I definitely understand indie hackers who build many products. Because once you reach that number, it becomes a game of scaling, it's boring, and you know you

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    @andrewzacker ·

    Just hit 1,900 followers 🎉 I started posting my build in public updates just 4 months ago, and: • Got accepted to the biggest indie event of the year - Hacker Residency • Found an AMAZING co-founder with 200K followers (@FlorinPop17) • Grew my first SaaS to $1k MRR INSANE what

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    @Hartdrawss ·

    this is NOT the time to chill and keep building features nobody asked for in your vibe coded app... you're holding the biggest leverage you'll ever get in your life — a $200/month AI stack that can research markets, find paying customers, and automate distribution in the time it

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    @andrewzacker ·

    Just met my fellow indie hacker @HsanC_ in Bali. He grew his X to 10k and his SaaS to $1k MRR. Exchanged our learnings, knowledge and goals. The main benefit of building in public is the connections you build. In the AI era, connecting with humans is SUPER VALUABLE.

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    @joncphillips ·

    The fear of building another SaaS that nobody uses is quietly keeping me stuck. I’d rather brainstorm domains than validate ideas because brainstorming feels productive without any risk of rejection or failure. At some point I need to admit that the newsletters are the fucking

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    @wickedguro ·

    Postiz is on $159k MRR. I don't think you should build in public to get customers for your business in the traditional way: talk about your work and make a lifestyle video about your work. Usually, to make money, you need to give value. So if you build in public + teach really

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    @alexcloudstar ·

    The indie hacker community is becoming toxic. Everyone's selling courses on "how I made $10K MRR" to people making $0. Meanwhile, the real builders are too busy building to tweet about it every day.

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    @LoganTGott ·

    The best advice I've ever given to SaaS and AI founders? Build in public. Shipping a new feature? Post it. Hit a revenue milestone? Post it. Pivoted your entire offer? Post it. Got rejected by an investor? Post it. The ones who build in public always close deals faster, hire

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    @tibo_maker ·

    I flew 10,000km to feel normal 👀 I live in a tiny town in France and the closest indie hacker is 3 hours away by car so I flew to Da Nang, Vietnam to live and work with other indie hackers for a few weeks and it's been amazing 🤩 I still love my remote + no-call policy, but

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    @themkmaker ·

    i used to silently read Indie Hackers in 2018. today, they published my story 🥲 Here's how we grew Youform to $18,000 MRR in 2-years in a highly competitive market: https://t.co/BPuB1BU2nZ

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    @hariprasad_bg ·

    Micro-SaaS builders are losing money. Here's why: • $100/month on tools (Codex or Claude) • $10/month pricing • Need 15 customers to break even (Stripe fees & tax not even included) How would you tackle it?

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    @shimkeyy ·

    been thinking about this: every "build in public" account posts their wins almost nobody posts the part where you have zero clients, no job for weeks and you're just sitting there with a product nobody asked for yet the honest ones never go viral. funny how that works

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    @T_Zahil ·

    10K€ MRR in a year and a half. Solo. In real estate. We're continuing the resident introductions for the Uneed Residency. Today: @Pauline_Cx ! Her main project, IACrea, is a marketing solution for real estate agents. And the track record speaks for itself: going from zero to

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    @alexcloudstar ·

    Most indie hackers are building solutions to problems they've never actually had. I spent months building a todo app while my biggest problem was procrastination, not organization. Build for your own pain. Everything else is just guessing.

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    @GohilHardy ·

    Day 2: SHIPPED ✅ Launched ShipChain yesterday for indie hackers who struggle with consistency. - 5 founders signed up. - 51 visitors in just 24 hours. Using my own product to stay accountable. Don't break the chain 🔥

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    @kylegawley ·

    Indie hackers launch loads of products because they're shit at talking to people If you talk to lots of people and build up a network you will learn where the real business problems are It's hard work and it's much easier to just launch a bunch of random stuff, post about it on

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    @Layton_Gott ·

    Building an audience as a solo dev is brutal… You block off Monday to write a week of posts. Then Tuesday hits. Prod breaks. A feature slips. The video you promised never gets filmed. Support emails pile up. You forget about posting for a week and a half. Now engagement is

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    @ericdjav ·

    Spent 14 months becoming a "successful indie hacker" so I could finally afford the lifestyle of an entry-level salary.

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    @victor_bigfield ·

    your marketing plan as an indie hacker is probably "post on twitter and hope" mine was too. for 9 products. the one that actually worked? i went where people were already searching for a solution. not where other founders were posting screenshots of their dashboards reddit >

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    @elgermerlo ·

    For the first 6 months I was selling to indie hackers when my product was clearly built for small agency owners Same pain, completely different willingness to pay Indie hackers would say "cool" and churn after trial. Agency owners paid without blinking and asked for invoices

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    @rcmisk ·

    how to validate, build, and ship your indie SaaS (fast, with AI): first, i'd kill bad ideas early. use Claude to stress-test your assumptions before writing a line of code. scrape Reddit and X for real complaints in your niche. build a fake landing page. measure clicks, not

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    @sandislonjsak ·

    Most indie hackers don’t understand that after you build an app there must be someone doing customer support and regular maintenance/regression testing. Building an app that manages itself is super complex and only some of them can actually pull it off. Most of the thing I try

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    @rcmisk ·

    here's the actual irony of indie building: most founders spend 90% of their time on the product and 10% on distribution. but the product can be rebuilt in 3 months. a real audience takes 3 years. you're optimizing for the thing that's replaceable and neglecting the thing that

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    @ybouane ·

    The biggest lie in the Indie Hacker world: Product Hunt. Today I launched Clawly on Product Hunt… and it got 0 upvotes. Not because nobody saw it — but because nobody could. We like to think PH is merit-based, where the best products rise to the top. In reality, visibility

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    @nikita_builds ·

    The great filter of startups is gone and I find it a little sad we used to be a niche group on the internet called indie-hackers (thank you @csallen) we would grind our asses off to ship half a page in a day, it was fun because no one could do it. We were alone. The cost to

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    @kylegawley ·

    Building a funded business is 10x easier than bootstrapping Unlike most indie hackers on here posting anti-VC tropes without ever having raised capital, I have raised funding in the past Let me tell you why it's easier so you can make an informed decision not based on clickbait

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    @chhddavid ·

    day 1: FINALLY ready to build in public (a vibe coding tool for non-devs) today I set two goals: 1/ get to $10k MRR (now it's $0) 2/ start building in public think I finally understand what it's all about: showing up, showing your face (!!), and sharing the good AND the bad,

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    @sergeynazarovx ·

    I don‘t really understand how indie hacking works when you have co-founders Products built by indie hackers rarely reach unicorn valuation or achieve a strong exit. In most cases, scaling a product to that level is extremely difficult without venture capital. Of course,

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    @victor_bigfield ·

    hot take: the best thing that happened to me was failing 3 times before making $1. most indie hackers ship once, it flops, and they quit. i shipped LearnFast and nobody came. i shipped YTFinder and nobody stayed. i shipped The Visual Hackademy and made some money but couldn't

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    @Tahseen_Rahman ·

    Hot take for indie hackers: “build in public” isn’t posting screenshots. It’s posting numbers when they hurt. Right now ours is $0 MRR. Still shipping. #buildinpublic

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    @HyperSalesman ·

    Last year I got scammed by DocuSign. Woke up to my renewal jumping from $100 to $300 for the same garbage e-signature tool. Went on X to complain about it. @christomitov messaged me saying he'd built an alternative. We met. I fell in love with the product. He asked me to be a

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    @sav_theo ·

    Most indie hackers look for app ideas on Reddit, Twitter, and Product Hunt. The smarter play: go read 1-star reviews of apps already making money. Every angry review is a validated problem with a paying customer attached to it. Stop brainstorming. Start reading complaints.

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    @Tahseen_Rahman ·

    Indie hacker truth bomb: "Build in public" doesn't mean share everything. It means share the REAL stuff — the bugs, the pivots, the $0 revenue months. The polished "journey" posts? That's marketing, not building in public.

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    @MakadiaHarsh ·

    patterns in the work of builders who actually ship if you study enough founders, indie hackers, client projects - you start to see the same structures repeat. different stacks, same blueprint. here's what separates builders who ship from those who stay stuck: 1. a season of

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    @xdrewmiko ·

    I'm building an app from scratch in 24h once again! Project name - Hackerpage! It's a competitor for LinkTree. But for Indie Hackers! 🧑‍💻 Why? - This will be the first project I put on TapLaunch. - You will be able to fork it and build anything you want on top.

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    @hridoyreh ·

    Indie hackers love building features. Users love solving problems. Those are not the same thing...

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    @bmykhaylivvv ·

    built amplifresh to scratch my own itch - needed better social media automation for my side projects shipped mvp in 2 weeks, now sitting at $500 mrr with 47 paying customers the twitter growth was unexpected but posting daily about building in public really works most users

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