Reference library
Concepts
Short, durable explanations for the language surrounding independent building, public work, launches, audiences, and distribution.
What is Indie Hacking?
Building and operating a small independent product with direct responsibility for product, customers, and sustainability.
CONCEPT 2What does Shipping mean?
Making a bounded version available to another person so reality can respond.
CONCEPT 3What is an MVP?
The smallest responsible version that can test a meaningful product assumption with real people.
CONCEPT 4What is Validation?
Collecting evidence that reduces uncertainty about a problem, audience, solution, or business decision.
CONCEPT 5What is an Audience?
People who repeatedly choose to pay attention to a body of work, not a number attached to an account.
CONCEPT 6What is Distribution?
The paths through which relevant people discover, understand, access, and return to a product or body of work.
CONCEPT 7What is a Launch?
A concentrated invitation for a specific group to encounter and act on a bounded version.