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What 125 indie product taglines have in common
We sorted every builder's tagline on Shipfolks by hand. A third only name the category, one in seven says something only that p…
How much of a small site's traffic is bots? We counted ours
In 15 days of our server logs, 29% of page requests came from declared crawlers, and another 3,744 requests were scanners probi…
Three months of Shipfolks in numbers
115 accounts, 59 public builder profiles, 122 shipped projects, 16 messages and no revenue. What the first three months of a sm…
What freelance developers list as their skills
Counted from 45 profiles. Flutter beats React, seven in ten skills are named by exactly one person, and a handful of people lis…
What independent developers are actually shipping
Counted from 99 shipped projects on Shipfolks. Two thirds are mobile, most builders show exactly one thing, and almost nobody l…
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