Courtland Allen
@csallen
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Founder of @IndieHackers
USA
Joined June 2008
Starting a business, but don't know what your mission is? How about: making your life better. Working on the things you enjoy, at the pace you set, from wherever you want, with the people you love, so you can be happy… these are perfectly fine reasons to start something.
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I was working outside of Starbucks at the mall, and this guy on his laptop next to me started chatting to me about AI coding, and it turned out to be the one and only @Steve_Yegge!
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The plan was clean. The escape? Not so much. Midway City doesn’t play fair. Wishlist this 4-player coop heist FPS on Steam today.
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One of the best things coding agents can do for you is explain things: - an undocumented codebase - all the changes it just made - an unfamiliar SDK or API - a code execution path from start to finish It's fast, accurate, and super helpful. My favorite prompt: "Teach me how
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Even the most self-sufficient kids need a squad to take on the ARC. Token Black knows the value of teamwork (and a deep wallet). Rally your friends and dive into ARC Raiders to fight the good fight. If you’re lucky, maybe Token will spot you some high-end upgrades.
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you think that completing a quest will make you happy but as soon as you get the reward you find yourself in a deep depression until you start a new quest. it's not the reward you want, you just want to be on an actual quest
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Pieter Levels (@levelsio) and I sat down over a pint to talk about how he’s making $3m a year as a one-person company, what Europe can do to spur economic growth, and his experience as a digital nomad in over 150 cities across 40 countries. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:37 Pieter’s
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Someone help me understand the appeal of Claude Code, compared to Cursor: - Doesn't have a real textbox, so it's hard to select/manipulate/copy text in your prompts as you write them - Doesn't stream back AI responses, so you have to wait for them to finish before reading them -
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Imagine the countless trillions of useful published works that could theoretically exist, but that were never written. Because nobody was interested. Or nobody thought of it. Or the audience was too small, too niche. But then the web came along, and gave everyone the power to
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🚨UNEEKOR BLACK FRIDAY SALE - Up to 30% OFF best-selling golf simulators!
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I'm at a point where "vibe coding" is much slower for me than normal coding. But my code is far better.
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The only thing more astonishing than the number of nerds on HN who criticize agentic coding without ever having tried it themselves, is the fact that I am still astonished by it
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Half of my close friends are now multi-millionaires 😊😊😊 And yes we met before they were successful Indie hacking (and then ETF investing the profits) works!
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A healthy environment gives you safety, Safety enables ambition, Ambition encourages learning, Learning develops skills, Skills produce wins, Wins provide evidence, Evidence fuels confidence, Confidence becomes courage, Courage creates opportunities, Opportunities
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If you think it's a problem that the world now has AI-generated software full of bugs and technical debt, I have something shocking to tell you about all the software we've been using for the past 50 years…
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In 2000, the S&P 500 had an elevated trailing P/E of 26, well above its long-term avg. of 14. For the next 11 years, the S&P 500 delivered zero returns! The current S&P 500 trailing P/E is 30 – even higher than 2000. History rhymes. For standardized performance visit our website.
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It's costing me roughly $10/hour to code with Claude 4, and it's 100% worth it
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Claude 4 is the first model I've used that will perfectly follow these vibe coding instructions:
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Best thing about being an indie hacker is waking up every morning excited about all the stuff you want to make
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I think there will be a cultural reversal to individual isolationism in within 1-2 decades. It'll be trendy to live near friends/family and prioritize community. It just needs momentum: A few solid examples, some studies, a viral blog post or two, then a hit book about it
@csallen That’s the side effect of liberalism, First it liberates us from bad thing, but eventually it liberates us from the community, family, parent role, friend role, human nature. Among my friends, I managed to reverse it, they all went from childfree to 2-3 children, living in
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It gave me this even though I've had memory turned off for months:
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