Would you define legitimate content? Super interested.
non-sensationalized, technical accurate accounts of entrepreneurship. not, "it was built it in 3 months." while conveniently leaving off that it was springboarded from a previous veture that took 3 years to develop a base for.
That last part seems very specific. Any particular example you are thinking about?
Re:IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
by wheelerwj on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:44PM
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there were a few, i think park.io and then another having do with music, submithub i think? those are the two that came to mind.
there was another, machine learning for company logos, the title was something like "50k monthly run rate after 3 months" but it was based off of sales after running a promotion which amounted to a couple grand in a few days.
the shitty part is that all the stories are great, they don't need to be sensationalized, but he over sells them and then your left feeling let down.
Hi, I founded park.io and built it from scratch by myself - not sure why you listed my site here.
Great, thx. Will look into those to learn. :)
Check Ministry of Testing story on IH.
1) its not disappointing that growth hacking works. Growth hacking is supposed to work. Growth hacking is just marketing 2.0.
2) it is disappointing that spam tactics get rewarded. But that has nothing to do with Stripe... mostly.
I also think IndieHackers is lite on legitimate content, but its a great content marketing play by Stripe. Anything to suggest otherwise is just jealousy induced bitterness.
Well done Stripe, congrats Courtland and Courtland's brother.