More than an indie hackers community
Indie Hackers is great for forum threads. We take it further with real product distribution through publisher widgets, newsletter partners, and push notifications. Your product reaches people who might actually use it.
Founders Today vs Indie Hackers
How we stack up across community, distribution, and launch features.
What Is the Indie Hackers Community?
Indie Hackers is a well-known community for solo founders and bootstrapped builders. It started as a place to share revenue milestones and grew into a forum where people discuss building products, share learnings, and support each other. The format is mostly forum-style threads and comments. It has helped a lot of founders feel less alone in their journey. The main limitation is that products only get seen by other indie hackers already on the platform, and there is no dedicated launch or distribution system.
Where Indie Hackers Falls Short
Indie Hackers is a good community. But if you are trying to get your product in front of real users, you will run into a few walls.
You write something great and it gets buried under newer posts within a day or two. There is no way to keep your work visible.
Your product only gets seen by other indie hackers already on the platform. Your actual customers are probably not there.
The audience leans heavily toward consumer tools and side projects. B2B founders struggle to get meaningful traction.
Threads and comments are fine for quick exchanges but make it hard to build real relationships with other founders.
There is no dedicated way to launch a product. You just post about it and hope people notice in the feed.
Everything stays inside the platform. No publisher widgets, no newsletter partners, no push notifications.
What We Do Differently
We built Founders Today as a community that also distributes your product. Not just a place to talk, but a place to get real reach.
Bloggers with 5,000+ daily visitors embed our product widgets on their sites. Your product gets seen by real readers, not just other founders. We pay publishers through an eCPM model.
Every week we put together a Tools Worth Using list and send it through our newsletter partners. They share it with their audiences every Monday.
We are building out push notification partnerships to get your product in front of people who never browse founder communities.
Our community broadcast, push notifications, and algorithm are set up to give your product the first boost signals it needs. No fighting for upvotes on day one.
You get a dedicated launch page, product images, media, and distribution. Not just a forum post that fades away.
We care whether your product reaches people who might actually use it. Visibility without conversion is a waste of time.
Founders Today Is Best For
Indie Hackers May Be Better If You
Indie Hackers is a solid community. Here is where it might fit you better.
If you prefer the classic forum format with threads and replies, Indie Hackers does that well.
Consumer tools and side projects tend to get more engagement there since the audience leans that way.
Their revenue milestone feature is genuinely useful if tracking public revenue is your thing.
Indie Hackers has been around longer and has a bigger name. If that matters to you, it is a solid choice.
Why Members Switched Over
I posted about my product on Indie Hackers and got a few comments. On Founders Today it got picked up by a publisher widget and I actually got users.
The newsletter feature was a game changer. My product reached people who needed it, not just other founders scrolling a feed.
I was tired of my posts getting buried. Here my launch actually stayed visible and kept getting attention.
The community gave my product its first real push. The publisher widgets kept it going after that.
On Indie Hackers I was just talking to other indie hackers. On Founders Today my product reached actual buyers.
I needed a launch system, not just a forum. This gave me a real launch page plus distribution.
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