Awesome Indie

Resources to help independent developers make money from their digital products.

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Awesome Indie

Introduction

What is Awesome Indie?

Awesome Indie is a curated list of resources to help independent developers make money from their digital products. The focus is on small, profitable projects that can provide passive income and potentially lead to financial independence. The resources cover a wide range of topics, including communities, newsletters, podcasts, talks, posts, blogs, case studies, events, books, tools, and courses.

Key Resources

  • Communities: IndieHackers, bootstrapped.fm Forum, ##passiveincome on freenode, HackerNews, MegaMaker Club, FounderCafe, Nugget.one, Makerlog, Aussie Founders.
  • Newsletters: Bootstrappers.io, IndieHackers, Indie, The SaaS Bootstrapper, Hackerpreneur, Bootstrap Money.
  • Podcasts: Startups for the rest of us, Product People, bootstrapped.fm, Bootstrapped Web, Entreprogrammers, IndieHackers, The SaaS Bootstrapper, Smart Passive Income, Giant Robots, Mixergy, How I Built This, Build your SaaS.
  • Talks: David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08, Tyler Tringas on Storemapper and MicroSaaS, Bootstrapping Side Projects To Profit by Pieter Levels, Marketing for Minorities by Patrick McKenzie, Talking about CoderPad and business at Dropbox by Vincent Woo, Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08.
  • Posts: I’m Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months by Pieter Levels, Do not Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice by Patrick McKenzie, Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week by Patrick McKenzie, Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50,000/year in 2 years by Tyler Tringas, Why You Should Do A Tiny Product First by Amy Hoy, The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch — By Yourself by Clifford Oravec, How to get more customers by Justin Jackson, Indie Startups: The Ingredients of Success by fpgaminer, What you should know as a founder of a software company by Ivan Mir.
  • Blogs: Patrick Mackenzie, Rob Walling, Pieter Levels, Tyler Tringas, Joel Spolsky, Signal v. Noise, Pinboard, The Bootstrapped Founder.
  • Case Studies: IndieHackers, NomadList, Bugmuncher, Basecamp, Baremetrics, Carrd.co, CandyJapan, Awesome Self Funded.
  • Events: MicroConf, MicroConf Europe, BaconBizConf, StartupSchool, Business of Software, Business of Software Europe, B2B Rocks, PeersConf.
  • Books: Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling, Building Micro-SaaS Businesses by Tyler Tringas, The Single Founder Handbook by Mike Taber, Getting Real by 37signals, MAKE by Pieter Levels, Rework by 37signals, Just Fucking Ship by Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman, Marketing for Developers by Justin Jackson, Hackers&Painters by Paul Graham, The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau, Technical Blogging (2nd Edition) by Antonio Cangiano, The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick, Zero to Sold by Arvid Kahl.
  • Tools: free-for-dev, Stack-on-a-budget, Tools Of The Trade, awesome-selfhosted.
  • Courses: Marketing for Developers by Justin Jackson, 30x500 Academy by Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome. Feel free to add resources that can help indie developers succeed.