If you’re an indie hacker and making products for other indie hackers is your game, then the Indie Hackers groups is definitely something to get product ideas from. To date, there’s 42 groups:
- YouTubers
- Coronavirus
- Newsletter Crew
- Writing Feedback
- Remote Workers
- Self Care
- Developers
- Learning to Code
- Growth
- Ethics
- Landing Page Feedback
- Product Development
- Beta Testing
- Productivity
- Self Development
- Jobs
- Legal, Tax, & Accounting
- Deals
- Design and UX
- Money (Pricing)
- Virtual Meets
- Ideas and Validation
- Indie Swap
- Indie Parents
- New York City
- The Seven Figure Club
- The Five Figure Club
- Course Creators
- Productized Services
- The Six Figure Club
- San Francisco
- London
- Digital Nomads
- No-Code
- Community Building
- Podcasters
- Book Club
- Meetups
- Meta
- Looking to Partner Up
- AMAs
- Daily Stand-up
I previously written about unbundling Craigslist. This is similar. Just reading through the different groups and the discussion threads, you get a ton of ideas. In fact, each group in itself can have a dedicated community, with their own forum, Telegram chat group.
Each group could also potentially be a product in itself. Just some examples of groups matched to an existing product already available out there:
- Jobs - Remote OK
- Newsletter Crew - Substack
- Legal, Tax, & Accounting - Freshbooks
- Deals - Honey
- Design and UX - Refactoring UI, Tailwind
- Productized Services - Productized Startups Community
- Digital Nomads - Nomadlist
- No-Code - Makerpad
- Podcasters - Anchor.fm
- Meetups - Meetups (the app)
Even though there’s already existing products serving those groups, it’s not a stretch to see how there can be space for many more alternatives. And there are many groups that’s under-served actually. Groups like the following, and potential ideas:
- Coronavirus - this is huge. In crisis there’s also opportunity. What kind of products can you make to address the disruption faced by individuals, companies and industries due to the pandemic?
- Writing Feedback - instead of roasting my website service, how about roasting my conversion copy?
- Self Care - this is another huge market. How many are thinking about mental wellness for remote workers who are isolated due to coronavirus, or in foreign lands alone?
- Ethics - we’re beginning to see more privacy-first products emerging, like Simple Analytics. Privacy as a unique sell will go mainstream.
- Virtual Meets - with coronavirus, meetups will be livestreamed, or on Zoom. No one had yet cracked the remote experience of a large groups gathering virtually.
- Indie Parents - a trend to come in the next 2 decades, once all the indie hackers start getting married and having kids. Because let’s face it, nomading the world with children is an entirely different game altogether.
- New York City/San Francisco/London - hyperlocal is a niche in itself. Worth diving deeper into for your own town/city.
- The Six/Seven Figure Club - mastermind groups for millionaires! Think about the spending power available from this group.
- No-Code - what was once a minority might very well grow into the majority of indie hackers. Already valued at billions as an industry, this is a definite trend to watch.
What other product ideas can you unbundle from Indie Hackers groups?