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Awesome Indie Awesome

Resources to help independent developers make money.

Making money from your own code has never been easier, but it's still hard. Here, I try to curate a list of resources to help everyone interested in making money from their digital products get inspired and give it a try. Be it monetizing side-projects, bootstrapping business ideas, etc.

Projects don't need to be big, actually, it's better if they are not, they just need to be profitable. They might provide a passive income after the initial bulk of work, and who knows, maybe even help you reach financial independence.

Going indie does have lots of lifestyle perks :)

All these resources might help inspire you and put you on the right track but in the end what matters is to MAKE and TRY stuff. So devour this content responsibly :)

Contributions are more than welcome.

by @mezod (Doing things every day with everyday.app)

Notes:

  • If [$], it means it's not free and probably means I haven't tried it but still decided to add it because of the several references.
  • This repo was once #1 on Github Trending! :_)
  • Icepy translated this repo to Chinese :)

Specific topics

In the future, I'd like to have a list of resources for more specific topics or FAQs such as:

  • 'how to get ideas'
  • 'how to find betatesters'
  • 'how to find my first 100 users'
  • 'how to validate my idea'
  • 'where to advertise my project'
  • 'what paid ads work better'
  • 'i've got 100 users, how to grow'
  • 'how do i deal with support'
  • 'types of digital products'
  • 'legal aspects'
  • 'typical mistakes'

Help me make a proper list of specific topics!