| 1 | Nov 7, '25 | Nike: Everyone is an athlete Apple: Everyone is an artist Shopify: Everyone is an entrepreneur Cursor: Everyone is a developer Cluly: Everyone cheats What's about your company? | 360× | 4.6M | 4.4k | 215 | 1.8k |
| 2 | Feb 27, '24 | Another serverless horror story 😅 | 294× | 3.8M | 19k | 1.5k | 3.5k |
| 3 | Apr 14, '24 | This case is wild: She stole $10.7% ($44bn) of Vietnam’s yearly GDP in total. According to prosecutors, over a period of three years, she ordered her driver to withdraw 108 trillio | 278× | 3.6M | 3.8k | 534 | 897 |
| 4 | Apr 7, '25 | "Cursor, please fix this small bug" Cursor: | 269× | 3.4M | 23k | 1.4k | 2.6k |
| 5 | Mar 23, '24 | A developer who doesn’t understand the value of trust in doing business. | 170× | 2.2M | 7k | 288 | 1.2k |
| 6 | Dec 24, '24 | o3 is incredible | 129× | 1.6M | 28k | 978 | 1.1k |
| 7 | Aug 16, '25 | GPT-5 Pro is incredible. | 116× | 1.5M | 30k | 917 | 1.2k |
| 8 | Jun 10, '25 | View post on X | 113× | 1.5M | 47k | 3k | 1.3k |
| 9 | Oct 6, '24 | This is so good. (Link in comment) | 106× | 1.4M | 6.6k | 358 | 4.2k |
| 10 | Apr 11, '25 | Vibe Startup 🤝 | 95.4× | 1.2M | 31k | 1.9k | 2k |
| 11 | Dec 16, '22 | Web development In 2002 🤝 In 2022 | 86.8× | 1.1M | 8.7k | 1.2k | 411 |
| 12 | May 30, '24 | Do you agree? | 82.6× | 1.1M | 13k | 974 | 2.1k |
| 13 | Sep 8, '25 | Founder: “I just need a really simple slider so I can ship fast.” Designer: | 82.1× | 1.1M | 25k | 641 | 1.8k |
| 14 | Mar 18, '25 | Nike: Everyone is an athlete Apple: Everyone is an artist Shopify: Everyone is an entrepreneur YouTube: Everyone is an storyteller Cursor: Everyone is a developer What's about your | 79.7× | 1M | 6.2k | 418 | 2.5k |
| 15 | Nov 10, '24 | Peter Thiel: “[…] if you hear the words ‘big data’ and ‘cloud computing’, you need to run away as fast as you possibly can. Just think ‘fraud’ and run away.” | 79.2× | 1M | 4.5k | 431 | 2.4k |
| 16 | Oct 3, '25 | My sample mug finally arrived 😂 A few months ago, I was too frustrated with Opus always “absolutely right” so I opened a merch shop for the meme. I asked Anthropic for the permiss | 58.2× | 745k | 4.6k | 176 | 678 |
| 17 | Oct 20, '25 | We’ve found the root cause of AWS outage today. Sorry guys. | 54.6× | 699k | 9.3k | 1.1k | 1.6k |
| 18 | Jan 27, '25 | DeepSeek R1 on Groq is insanely fast. Thought for 0 seconds hahaha ⚡ * video isn't sped up | 42.4× | 543k | 1.3k | 132 | 824 |
| 19 | Dec 14, '23 | OpenAI “leaked” GPT-4.5 👀 Most advanced model brings multi-modal capabilities across language, audio, vision, video, and 3D, alongside complex reasoning and cross-modal understand | 41× | 525k | 1.3k | 226 | 382 |
| 20 | Jan 31, '25 | Web development In 2005 🤝 In 2025 | 39.9× | 511k | 9.4k | 963 | 757 |
| 21 | Mar 11, '25 | Timezones, explained. | 33.8× | 433k | 8.2k | 409 | 762 |
| 22 | Feb 14, '24 | View post on X | 33.1× | 423k | 6.2k | 737 | 428 |
| 23 | Feb 26, '25 | Claude in Cursor: - Ah, I understand it now - Ah, I see the issue - Ah yes, you're absolutely right - Apologize for the confusion | 32× | 410k | 8.7k | 468 | 575 |
| 24 | Sep 17, '24 | BoltAI — All AI models in one app. | 28.8× | 369k | 1k | 47 | 770 |
| 25 | Jul 26, '25 | View post on X | 28.5× | 365k | 5k | 163 | 439 |
| 26 | Jul 18, '24 | Me: “I just need a simple design so I could develop and ship it fast” Designer: | 27.5× | 352k | 6.8k | 205 | 608 |
| 27 | Mar 7, '23 | |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Stop buying domain names |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_ | 26.3× | 337k | 1.5k | 82 | 130 |
| 28 | Dec 21, '24 | I bought the M4 Max 48GB RAM and first thing I did is to test local LLMs. It can barely run llama3.3 70b, but qwen2.5-coder 32b works very well. I'll test with MLX next ✌️ | 24.7× | 316k | 1.3k | 58 | 813 |
| 29 | Aug 17, '25 | I'm super productive with @expo. Implemented native widget in less than an hour. Here is the recipe: | 24.6× | 315k | 1.8k | 63 | 2.3k |
| 30 | Feb 28, '24 | First option I disable when setting up a new Mac Ain't nothing natural about this 🥲 | 22.9× | 294k | 1.4k | 53 | 120 |
| 31 | Jan 28, '23 | This is insane 🤯 Someone folked Chrome to render web pages in a terminal 🤯 Def not your average indie hacking project. This is why I love builder community so much 😁 | 22.2× | 284k | 1.2k | 161 | 271 |
| 32 | Oct 3, '23 | "You're just lucky. You have unfair advantages." The "unfair" advantages: | 21.9× | 280k | 1.6k | 104 | 209 |
| 33 | Sep 16, '24 | Do you agree? | 20.4× | 262k | 3.9k | 155 | 266 |
| 34 | Jun 20, '25 | Ship fast vs Ship perfect | 18.8× | 240k | 2.5k | 135 | 350 |
| 35 | Feb 19, '23 | Spent Sunday afternoon on this little animation 🥹 WDYT? #buildinpublic | 18× | 231k | 463 | 13 | 91 |
| 36 | Apr 30, '25 | F*ck originality. If I find a great UX from another app, I will shamelessly steal it if it improves my customers' experience. | 17.3× | 222k | 4.3k | 193 | 580 |
| 37 | Feb 27, '24 | UPDATE: Netlify CEO confirmed OP won't be charged | 17.3× | 221k | 3.5k | 65 | 113 |
| 38 | Nov 5, '23 | Now I’m building my own businesses, I realize how absurd it is for an “idea” guy to get 90% equity of a new tech startup. | 17.3× | 221k | 488 | 14 | 102 |
| 39 | Jul 16, '23 | I bought this DR 30 dot com for $9. The (not so) secret? It’s expired recently. Follow these simple steps to find a good expired domain for your startup ↓ | 16.6× | 212k | 597 | 39 | 1.4k |
| 40 | Mar 23, '25 | I’m proud of BoltAI. One-person company, 2 years, 8,000+ customers, 100% bootstrapped, profitable. Thank you all for your support 🫡 | 16.3× | 209k | 2.4k | 69 | 500 |
| 41 | Feb 28, '24 | @bytebln Not gonna lie, this could be us software engineers in a year. It’s terrifying | 15.8× | 203k | 1.2k | 5 | 61 |
| 42 | Feb 27, '24 | Also on Hacker News: Not my story. I don't have enough experience with serverless and would stick with a good ol' server + Cloudflare | 15.8× | 202k | 426 | 6 | 48 |
| 43 | Feb 3, '25 | I built something silly but useful ✨ Introducing: Oh One Pro Use o1-pro, o1 and o3-mini to analyze any document. ❓ Problem OpenAI's reasoning models are very powerful but it has li | 13.9× | 179k | 716 | 68 | 874 |
| 44 | Oct 16, '23 | |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Stop buying domain names |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_ | 13× | 166k | 440 | 22 | 35 |
| 45 | Oct 13, '24 | This is insane. Imagine someone at Apple got so pissed and then replace your app with their own, stealing 2M users. Is this even legal? Can someone enlighten me. | 12.1× | 155k | 582 | 24 | 78 |
| 46 | Apr 29, '25 | Running a startup is basically alternating between “it’s so over” and “we are so back”. There is no in-between. | 12× | 154k | 2.9k | 380 | 296 |
| 47 | Dec 6, '24 | I’m a self-taught developer. But I also have a CS background. | 11.9× | 152k | 3.3k | 174 | 119 |
| 48 | Feb 27, '24 | @_lhermann Oh same thing happened to the OP: a 3.44MB size sound | 11.3× | 144k | 508 | 1 | 11 |
| 49 | Aug 7, '23 | 💡Tip: disallow OpenAI’s web crawlers from accessing your website. | 10.8× | 138k | 583 | 97 | 384 |
| 50 | Jul 4, '23 | Me working from home be like: | 10.5× | 135k | 550 | 46 | 45 |
| 51 | Apr 21, '24 | Me: My startup is profitable now. 100% bootstrapped. My non-tech friends: | 10.3× | 132k | 1.2k | 20 | 87 |
| 52 | Aug 16, '25 | For the uninitiated, it’s a meme obviously | 10.1× | 129k | 829 | 6 | 14 |
| 53 | Apr 14, '24 | @LBacaj Yeah. And corruption is to blame. Because many did the same and got away with it. And because they have to bride a lot of people, they always need to stack more cash prepar | 9.8× | 126k | 419 | 8 | 17 |
| 54 | Mar 26, '23 | Muzzle is still my most favorite landing page, hands down 😂 | 9.7× | 125k | 566 | 30 | 150 |
| 55 | Oct 16, '24 | New wallpaper. Motivation. | 9.2× | 118k | 873 | 46 | 274 |
| 56 | Feb 16, '24 | Guess I will keep renewing this domain name 😂 | 9.1× | 117k | 901 | 4 | 26 |
| 57 | Jun 13, '25 | Entrepreneurship suits me because I’d rather be proved wrong by the market than by a bad manager. | 8.4× | 108k | 2.8k | 252 | 411 |
| 58 | Oct 22, '24 | Ship Fast != Ship Junk "But I have to tell you, there's some stuff in our industry that we wouldn't be proud to ship, that we wouldn't be proud to recommend to our family and frien | 8.2× | 105k | 486 | 32 | 210 |
| 59 | Jun 21, '24 | “It’s just a wrapper” —said someone who never builds and launches anything. | 7.2× | 93k | 782 | 55 | 55 |
| 60 | Oct 24, '25 | My wife was teaching our 6yo that we need to work hard to get what we want in life. Then he asked: “But why do I never see daddy working?” I always try to stop working and play wit | 6.7× | 86k | 927 | 6 | 64 |
| 61 | Mar 29, '25 | You can easily earn $10k/mo with freelancing, or even more with an agency. But it’s way harder to grow a SaaS to $10K MRR. Yet everyone, including me, wants to build a SaaS. Why? I | 6.7× | 86k | 520 | 10 | 235 |
| 62 | May 9, '25 | @krzyzanowskim Wait what? Why? I have so many questions 😂 | 6.5× | 83k | 441 | 0 | 3 |
| 63 | Feb 17, '23 | Solo startup founder, explained 😁 | 6.4× | 82k | 537 | 75 | 45 |
| 64 | Jan 28, '25 | Looks like DeepSeek is only censored if you ask in English. Switched to Vietnamese and it tells everything about the Tiananmen Square. | 6.4× | 82k | 597 | 32 | 66 |
| 65 | Mar 11, '25 | This was the most hilarious refund request I received. They even cc’ed someone at FBI 😂 | 6.4× | 82k | 688 | 10 | 47 |
| 66 | Apr 19, '24 | After 2 years indie hacking, I’ve just reached the $100k revenue milestone 🥹 | 5.9× | 76k | 871 | 12 | 49 |
| 67 | Apr 16, '24 | Startup founders, is this you? 🙈 | 5.8× | 74k | 1.1k | 63 | 47 |
| 68 | Oct 14, '24 | This is sick. | 5.6× | 71k | 572 | 22 | 255 |
| 69 | Aug 9, '24 | localhost is not real. launch your startup. | 5.3× | 68k | 544 | 42 | 40 |
| 70 | Jun 10, '22 | Startup founders who neglected marketing be like 😆 | 5.2× | 0 | 2.9k | 225 | 101 |
| 71 | Aug 21, '25 | “He’s not a vibe coder. He is an AI startup founder.” | 4.8× | 62k | 1.4k | 77 | 95 |
| 72 | May 5, '24 | Your success on LinkedIn depends on your cringe tolerance. Agree/disagree? 😜 | 4.5× | 57k | 449 | 13 | 20 |
| 73 | Sep 16, '24 | A lot of f were given but it’s a hilarious post 😂 | 4.3× | 55k | 579 | 39 | 160 |
| 74 | Jun 14, '25 | If I actually knew how to hit $10K MRR in 30 days, I will absolutely, positively, undoubtedly not going to share the blueprint with anyone. I don’t think anybody would 🫣 | 4.2× | 54k | 757 | 14 | 91 |
| 75 | Oct 20, '23 | Indie hackers allocating time for marketing | 4.1× | 52k | 564 | 32 | 48 |
| 76 | Mar 2, '24 | Indie hackers after TallyForms reached $100K MRR 😝 | 4.0× | 52k | 445 | 9 | 63 |
| 77 | Jan 10, '25 | I’m a college dropout. Today I learned that a professor from my university is using my AI product. It feels nice 😊 | 3.8× | 49k | 778 | 21 | 46 |
| 78 | Sep 13, '24 | AGI confirmed | 3.7× | 47k | 635 | 32 | 34 |
| 79 | Jul 18, '24 | “Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.” — Brian Armstrong | 3.6× | 47k | 509 | 60 | 330 |
| 80 | Jun 7, '25 | I don't find the need to change web browsers. I use Safari for browsing, and Chrome strictly for development. I rarely need to use another browser. | 3.4× | 44k | 471 | 16 | 32 |
| 81 | Mar 2, '25 | Friends, yay or nay? :D | 3.2× | 42k | 422 | 0 | 109 |
| 82 | May 27, '25 | Sorry @dagorenouf | 3.2× | 40k | 488 | 17 | 64 |
| 83 | Aug 21, '23 | I got an exciting news to share My wife @Haithu_Nguyen just quit her job to help me growing our indie products 😁 | 3.1× | 39k | 552 | 2 | 12 |
| 84 | Sep 29, '24 | Life is too short to fix your typos when talking to an LLM. | 2.9× | 38k | 633 | 54 | 13 |
| 85 | Jul 15, '22 | Startup founders were born special, they said 😬 | 2.9× | 0 | 1.5k | 140 | 82 |
| 86 | Jun 13, '25 | We’ve found the root cause of the Internet outage yesterday. Sorry guys. | 2.9× | 37k | 568 | 37 | 152 |
| 87 | Nov 11, '24 | All developers secretly have the same wish: rewrite everything from scratch 🫣 | 2.9× | 37k | 582 | 27 | 14 |
| 88 | Sep 25, '24 | Founders realize that building a Youtube channel is hard. YouTubers discover that building a product is hard. | 2.7× | 35k | 587 | 16 | 42 |
| 89 | Feb 13, '25 | Me when I see other founders making $100k/mo 😤 | 2.4× | 31k | 491 | 18 | 43 |
| 90 | Apr 11, '22 | Naive first-time startup founders who thinking building a good product is enough 🥹 | 2.2× | 0 | 945 | 149 | 106 |
| 91 | Jun 17, '25 | Sorry but your startup is not "failed" if you haven't shown the product to at least 100 potential customers. | 2.2× | 28k | 472 | 14 | 69 |
| 92 | May 5, '22 | Startup founders, do you have a marketing plan yet? 🥹 | 2.1× | 0 | 1k | 103 | 50 |
| 93 | Feb 11, '25 | “How’s your startup doing, Daniel?” Me, a new indie hacker: | 1.9× | 25k | 483 | 24 | 29 |
| 94 | Aug 9, '23 | @marcba | 1.9× | 24k | 729 | 59 | 15 |
| 95 | Jan 23, '22 | Code review at early-stage startups 😆 | 1.4× | 0 | 726 | 75 | 14 |
| 96 | Aug 29, '22 | Startup vs Market 😂😂 | 1.4× | 0 | 557 | 98 | 53 |
| 97 | Aug 13, '23 | Nature is amazing 😂 | ⚡ 1.1× | 765k | 433 | 28 | 37 |
| 98 | Jun 23, '22 | Bootstrapped startup founder: Eating ramen 🍜 & building cool stuffs on the cloud ☁️ 🥹🥹🥹 | 1.1× | 0 | 580 | 18 | 15 |
| 99 | Aug 12, '25 | @aidenybai So Swift developers are swifties now 😳 | 1.0× | 13k | 528 | 2 | 7 |
| 100 | May 21, '22 | Startup founders, we need a better launch plan 😬 | 0.9× | 0 | 455 | 42 | 17 |
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