Indie Hackers served as a knowledge-sharing platform for SaaS founders, a valuable audience for Stripe’s financial services. Stripe bought the business in 2017, and six years later, the founders bought it back.
Instead of selling her company, The Fertility Tribe founder Kristyn Hodgdon joined forces with a tech startup to launch Rescripted, a fertility treatment platform and community.
When pay equity startup 81cents founder Jordan Sale was considering joining another company through an acquihire, she explored the option in an unusual way: by going on a 12-hour road trip with the potential buyer.
Mind The Product switched from in-person events to online memberships to survive the pandemic. The move also led to its sale to software company Pendo.
Launched as a portfolio site, ArtStation became an online community and marketplace for creatives before being acquired by 3D game producer Epic Games.
Create & Cultivate, a community for women professionals and entrepreneurs, doubled down on digital experiences amid the pandemic and saw 7-figure profitability in 2020.
This is the story of how Anna Maste and Marianne Edwards, a mother-daughter duo, bootstrapped and sold a membership site for RVers called Boondockers Welcome.
