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What is an Indie Hacker? How To Get Started

Tim Wong
9 min readSep 3, 2023

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What is an Indie Hacker?

An indie hacker is any individual who builds and launches products that generates revenue, simply said.

Unlike the traditional entrepreneur, there are many key differences that makes an indie hacker… an indie hacker.

In contrast to the traditional entrepreneur, the cornerstone of the indie hacker philosophy is freedom, shipping speed and making money.

One of the GOAT indie hacker: Pieter Levels, makes around $200k a month from indie hacking. Yes a month, not a year.

His twitter bio 👇🏻

MRR is monthly recurring revenue, a golden number which every indie hacker chase (more on this later).

If that number intrigued you, read on 🚀

This article will help you understand more on the indie hacker movement, the pros and cons of it and how you can get started yourself.

It’s also geared more towards software products because a large number (not all) of indie hackers come from a coding background, more on this later.

How it started

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Tim Wong
Tim Wong

Written by Tim Wong

Software Engineer & Writer. Enjoy reading the encapsulations that is formed in the enigma machinations of my mind.

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