Channing Allen
@ChanningAllen
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Co-founder @IndieHackers I tweet lessons from my 50+ weekly chats with founders. Mostly how stuff works and how to make it work for you.
NYC
Joined December 2009
Vibe coding will cause lots of heartbreak for non-technical “idea” people. And honestly I can't wait lol. They've been on the sidelines swearing up and down that: “If I could only build my brilliant idea™️, I'd be making millions in no time.” But now that building is easy,
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Listen to @johnrushx!
@DmytroKrasun @dagorenouf @ChanningAllen @levelsio @marclou Tbh, I’m building two products for more than a year now in private because I don’t want them to be copycatted right away as it happened with Seobot and Listingbott.
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Building in public doesn't make sense. For most companies. Most of the time. Even indie ones. I guess it does if you're building for builders. But I don't think you should. Overcrowded. Winner-take-most. Incentive to grift (a bit). But if you're building for the other 99.9% of
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Update: Not back to recording vids again yet (~3 more weeks?) but physique is now equal to my 36yo physique
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Don't retire. It's bad for your health and your happiness. If you earn enough to become "post-economic," apply the skills that made you rich to a new project that's as important to you as you are to it.
Being retired at 28 is weird Other than dating, gym and hanging out with employed people on weekends What else do you do?
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Update: mission accomplished. She's the one. That didn't take long.
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Chase meaning instead of happiness and you'll catch both. Chase happiness instead of meaning and you'll catch neither.
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For the 5 people who care: Postponing Workout Wednesday vids till mid-November when we launch our new product. Basically at the finish line now! I'm designing and building user onboarding this week. But the last 1% is the hardest 9%…
Workout Wednesday nerds! These are nickels and dimes: 5 pull-ups then 10 pushups. Rinse and repeat until you fall over. I usually do these at home when I don't have time for a real workout but here I did them at the end of a full gym session because I need content
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Don't retire. It's bad for your health and your happiness. If you earn enough to become "post-economic," apply the skills that made you rich to a new project that's as important to you as you are to it.
Being retired at 28 is weird Other than dating, gym and hanging out with employed people on weekends What else do you do?
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Public service announcement: Twitter isn't real life and you don't have to build for other indie hackers.
@dagorenouf i have the most insider information on actual revenue numbers from diff indie hackers the problem is availability bias you and others have too much of your perception shaped by X (and specifically the IHers who are active on X) so then you think the way to get big is live your
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My favorite essay I've ever written was on the theory of innovation (below, I removed the paywall). Such a fun topic to research and write about. But it's 10x more fun putting all that theory into practice. https://t.co/QCJfBkUfU1
indiehackers.com
Why world-changing ideas often emerge in parallel — and what that reveals about how innovation really works.
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For our new startup we wanted to build something innovative & ambitious while also de-risking demand. So we took a product people already know & love & added 2–3 features that "should've" been there all along. The difference feels less like addition & more like multiplication.
the first user review of our new app is positive! 🤩 don't know if it counts toward product validation though since it comes from my personal assistant and she's very very nice to me
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the first user review of our new app is positive! 🤩 don't know if it counts toward product validation though since it comes from my personal assistant and she's very very nice to me
New milestone. We're officially moving the IH team (journalists + my assistant) into our new app & away from the 2 Big Tech incumbents our app replaces. This is basically late-stage dogfooding i.e. alpha testing. Inviting beta testers soon.
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Update: I ordered more cheap junk from Amazon
This isn't my first bookshelf collapse and it won't be my last I'm probably done ordering cheap junk from Amazon though
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New milestone. We're officially moving the IH team (journalists + my assistant) into our new app & away from the 2 Big Tech incumbents our app replaces. This is basically late-stage dogfooding i.e. alpha testing. Inviting beta testers soon.
can't believe it: our new app is now proving sliiiightly more convenient for me than the big tech incumbent. and i LOVE the incumbent. moved my workflows over to dogfood our app & my muscle memory now reaches for ours over theirs. still a very close call but HOLY SHIT
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AI video content is cool but AI + VR content is the future 😂
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Workout Wednesday nerds! These are nickels and dimes: 5 pull-ups then 10 pushups. Rinse and repeat until you fall over. I usually do these at home when I don't have time for a real workout but here I did them at the end of a full gym session because I need content
Was 36 here. Now 38. New goal: get undeniably more ripped by 39 than I was at 36. Might start posting "workout Wednesday" videos on X, the everything app
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Favorite example that didn't make the final cut is Frida Kahlo Famously got in a bus accident that left her bedridden, then had a mirror installed over her bed & taught herself to paint self-portraits while lying flat. Even after recovering, she kept painting horizontally.
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Here's the essay: https://t.co/BfnHayzmMx I also included a companion piece with 21 real-world examples of high surface area in practice
indiehackers.com
The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life.
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