#274 – Indie Hackers is indie again!

We're out, dude. It's over. Endy Actors is officially independent again. We're our own company. We own it, and Mhmm. We're no longer owned by Stripe. Hearing it hearing it out loud, it just, like, feels different. But how do you feel? Do you actually feel any different? Yeah. I feel great. I mean, obviously, this is not, like, a decision we just made yesterday. This has been months in the making, but now it's actually real. Like, it means we no longer get our awesome paychecks anymore. We no longer have an awesome cushy monthly budget. I think my last paycheck hit my account last Friday, and that's it. We now have a business that does $0 in revenue. That's burning probably $10,000 a month, not even including our salaries. But on the flip side, we no longer have a boss. We have a company, a Delaware c corp to be exact, and, we can do whatever the hell we want with it. We are officially indie hackers for the first time in six years. So I'm excited. The indie hackers founders have actually become indie hackers again. Yeah. Dude, I it's funny. You you say, like, you know, we no longer have the cushy paycheck coming in. And I've honestly, I don't know if I don't know how you feel about this, but it's just my personality. Dude, I love that. I wrote a post on indie hackers, like, I don't know, a couple of like, a month ago. I think it was titled hunt before you eat. Like, I love the idea of having real intrinsic motivation to do things. I don't wanna be out on the street. But I don't know if I can say that I love not getting paid. I actually quite like getting paid, but I like earning it. I like knowing that it's coming for my own efforts, knowing that nobody can take it away from me, and we are now in the position that every indie hackers in where we have to do that. And we've been here before. When I started indie hackers in 2016, we weren't owned by anybody, and we're making ad revenue. And I think we got up to, like, $89,000 a month in revenue in the first eight months before getting acquired and then promptly cut it down to zero. So it's been a long time since I've actually been an entrepreneur. And Sean Purry came on here and kinda called us out He just shat on us. Two or three weeks ago. Just shat on us. But little did he know, we were already way ahead of him because we've been negotiating and doing paperwork and talking to lawyers and, like, making the Stripe divestment thing happen since November. Ahead of them ahead of them in information, not ahead of them in, like, dollars made. We're very, very behind. Are you worried about not having a paycheck? Are you, like are there things in your …