Indie Hackers is great. Two comments/requests. It would be great to have some business and entrepreneurship books reviewed by the community. Some are worth reading, but many are not and Amazon type reviews are not reliable indicator or hype vs. value. Another great feature would be to have a small follow up with some of the showcased businesses. Especially the ones that just got started.

Great work and good luck!

1. Been thinking about doing book reviews on the blog actually. Any tips/ideas for crowdsourcing it and getting the community involved? Maybe I'll try using the forum for that.

2. Will try to do updates every few months or so in the future, don't want the interviews to get stale!

hey courtland, another big fan of indiehackers here. keep up the good work! Consider this suggestion as my form of paying it forward. ;)

Don't do book reviews and the value of your site is in the data. What you should do is, for every interview, add a question in the form of "what books do you read" or "what do you recommend people should read?". Then for every book listed, add an amazon affiliate link (don't forget to be transparent about this - honesty is the best policy!) so that it provides some revenue and diversifies your income.

Now here is the kicker -> Add every suggested book as a data point and collate it all into a table(s) as a separate page on indiehackers! You can use all sort of filters such as number of times suggested, genre based on founder types, etc. For the sort of audience you have, there will be very interested in the number of times a book has been suggested rather than the book review itself.

Hope that helps. If you need a sounding board and perhaps a hand, my email is in my profile.

Agreed. This is a good outline for integrating books smoothly into the site. Moreover, this could be expanded to other types of products like useful (actually used) tools/resources: hosting companies, billing automation systems, analytics software, etc. Many of these will also have affiliate link programs and/or can be approached for paid sponsorship deals. Considering the site's growing traffic it could bring significant money while serving relevant ads.

This is what I have seen on a lot of sites that have a podcast. Specifically the Tim Ferris podcast page.

I did it where I correlated the recommendations across all of the entrepreneurial podcasts I listen to:

http://blog.startopz.com/recommended-books-entrepreneurial-p...

this might be relevant here - https://www.highlyreco.com/

Have you seen this? - https://www.highlyreco.com/

You may want to disclose that this is your site before you post it in multiple places on the thread.

sorry.. thanks for the tip.. Will definitely do that next time..

disclosure - one of the makers here..

IndieHackers is a brilliant idea. Being able to learn from other people's successes and failures and seeing that most startups are not unicorns is a great help.

Hey Derrick! Glad to have Pageproofer on the site :D

thanks, it was great to take the time to work through the interview process. Great to review where PageProofer has come from and think about where it's going.

Really excited about an Indie Hackers podcast. Started listening to Side Hustle School the other day.

I love what you have done ! It's a great resource for inspiration and to see how people are creating awesome things..Keep it up :)

I can also recommend http://www.productpeople.tv/ and the related community as a good place where product builders hang out and share experiences.

I enjoy reading articles on your website. Just curious, how do you know whether the numbers of your guests are correct or faked?

Love IH, only a few newsletters that get kept and read as reference in my inbox (the others being SaaS Weekly by Hiten Shah, OfficeSnapshots and The Hustle), and it's only been a few months but already one of my most anticipated emails each week.

Hope the hockey stick goes up, and like a lot of people here, hope to be on those pages soon :)

Awesome! Love The Hustle and Office Snapshots, will check out SaaS Weekly. Been meaning to interview Stephen from OS since back in August, we were on Product Hunt on the same day :D

Great work man with IT! I'm on your email list and watching what you're up to regularly :)

What I would like to see in your future written interviews or podcast (a podcast would be great; I'll subscribe immediately!), is more emphasis on how they got the right customers and how they grew their customer base.

I look forward to a podcast like this to fill the void that the old "startup" episodes filled.

Heya -- I just tried Subscribing but I haven't gotten the confirmation e-mail. Been about 10 minutes. Looks like it's handled by mailchimp so probably their issue but wanted to let you know.

Love Indie Hackers! I've learned a ton from the founders that you've interviewed.

Definitely encourage you to build out the podcast since it will provide even more value to your audience.

Best of luck!

I always found indieHackers interesting, but I had not realized you had a blog. Kudos to you for the transparency, honesty, and opportunity for all of us to learn!

How can you afford to be full-time on $2239/month? O.o

I saved up money contracting before I took the plunge. This definitely wouldn't have been possible otherwise! But also, if you don't have a family, serious debt, or health issues, it's pretty easy to be resourceful and live cheaply, even in an expensive city like San Francisco.

Ah that makes sense! You sound better at living affordably than I am ... doing very similarly with the sidehustle and still pretty far from going full time.

Sounds like your good with money. Wealth has offense and defense, earning a lot is helpful, but spending less than you earn is key.

A lot of people are full time on $0 a month

One year I decided I wanted to save as much as I could. I went for the greater part of the year on under 2k per month. Saved a ton load of money, like 80% of my take home earnings.

Live like that for 10 years and you can retire like that for the rest of your life.

When I try to be even remotely frugal my girlfriend calls me cheap and annoying. It's quite annoying.

Loving your drive for this site Courtland. Very inspiring.

Man I love your website - so inspiring !

I love IndieHackers!

IndieHackers is one of my favorite platforms! I've read most stories and do business with some of the founders there successfully after reading about them on your platform.

THANK YOU! You are not making only yourself wealthy, but many more so. I really appreciate your site.

Thank you! I love having incentives aligned where me doing my job better helps everyone both myself and everyone else :D