Your first time on this page? Allow me to give some explanations.
Awesome Indie
Resources for independent developers to make money
Here you can see meta information about this topic like the time we last updated this page, the original creator of the awesome list and a link to the original GitHub repository.
Thank you mezod & contributors
View Topic on GitHub:
mezod/awesome-indie
Search for resources by name or description.
Simply type in what you are looking for and the results will be filtered on the fly.
Further filter the resources on this page by type (repository/other resource), number of stars on GitHub and time of last commit in months.
Awesome Indie
Communities
Other
Not exclusive to indies/bootstrappers but still with relevant content for us.
invite here](http://www.bootstrappedchat.com/) invite link currently dead, working on it!) - Slack that probably originated from the bootstrapped.fm forum. Not really moderated.
invite here](http://sideproject.xyz/)) - Slack community for people working on their sideprojects.
A public todo list for accountability, and a Telegram chat of 800+ makers. Freemium.
Not exclusive to indies/bootstrappers but still with relevant content for us.
Newsletters
Podcasts
Both Ian and Andrey are experienced startup founders, both have had major blows and successes in their career. You can learn a lot listening to them.
Get a fly-on-the-wall perspective from 4 developers turned entrepreneurs, as they struggle with the business and learn lessons the hard way. This is the weekly mastermind group of the entreprogrammers.
Talks
Other
Posts
Others
Blogs
Others
Turning the process of creating a B2B SaaS business into a formula.
Blog focused on the economics of the SaaS business model and SaaS pricing.
A lot of content for big funded startups, but still relevant to bootstrappers.
Case Studies
Awesome Self Funded tech companies list. Curated by Alex from @Jitbit
Events
Not specific to indie founders:
Books
by Tyler Tringas. - A collection of very well structured posts that cover the most initial struggles of an indie dev on the way to build a MicroSaaS. I can personally endorse it and I'm eager to read the yet to be written chapters :)
by 37signals. - More focused on building web applications, I really recommend it. Short, straight to the point, very easy to read and full of valuable content.
[$] by Arvid Kahl. How Arvid and his partner Danielle started, ran, and sold the bootstrapped EdTech SaaS FeedbackPanda, with everything that worked, should have worked, and didn't work.
Other
Side Project Books is a curated collection of books for anyone interested in building a business on the side. By Mubashar Iqbal
Collection curated by Mac Martine.
Tools
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
A collection of services with great free tiers for developers on a budget
Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of hosting and managing applications instead of renting from Software-as-a-Service providers