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Indie Hackers runs on founders describing what actually happened, honestly and at length. Typally puts your words into Indie Hackers the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Indie Hackers already does without talking you out of using it.None. Posts and comments are typed.
The valuable posts are detailed retrospectives — real numbers, real mistakes. Writing one takes an evening, and founders are the group with the least spare evenings.
In practice people use it for: Milestone posts, retrospectives, long comments, product descriptions, and interview answers.
You do not configure anything in Indie Hackers. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Text goes wherever Indie Hackers has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
The editor supports markdown, so dictated symbols format. Speak plain prose.
Typally types into the editor, so a long honest retrospective costs an evening's worth of value for fifteen minutes of talking. Spoken founder writing keeps the candour that typing quietly edits out.
A founder speaks a retrospective on a failed launch — what was spent, what was assumed, what actually happened. It takes fifteen minutes and generates more useful conversation than a year of polished updates.
Tell it the way you would to another founder at a bar, including what went badly. Sanitised founder writing is the kind nobody engages with.
The editor supports markdown, so dictated symbols format. Speak plain prose.
No. Posts and comments are typed.
Specific and honest ones with real numbers. Vague optimism gets ignored.
Yes, and speaking them tends to produce the candour the community responds to.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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