[Part 1] The Indie Hackers World Championship
I will not write a lot about the interest of this idea: it is pretty obvious. The idea of a big contest with experimented or beginner hackers building a new product without leveraging their community or their past products should raise the interest of most of us.
Of course, some projects have been successful without leveraging the community of the owner, as noted by levels.io for his project interiorAI.com.
But I think there is still a doubt for many successful projects. Obviously having more than 100k followers does not hurt, and can be used for an “excuse of failure” by many beginners: “I don’t have 100k followers, I cannot succeed”.
This is why I think a “fair-contest” would be welcomed to show that everyone can succeed, and to dismiss the idea that building a community is the only way to succeed.
Setting every competitors at the same level in terms of money, popularity, and community is the only way to detect new talents or to confirm existing talentuous entrepreneurs without any doubt.
