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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 4 min read
How I Sold $12K of Lightroom Presets in a Country PayPal Forgot
The Problem We Were Actually Solving I started with a simple product: ZIP files of...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 3 min read
I Built a Payment System for Bangladesh—Heres Why Stripe Failed Us
The Problem We Were Actually Solving In late 2023, my solo product hit a wall when 47% of signups.....
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Mustafa ERBAY2d ago • 11 min read
BGP Knowledge for Indie Hackers: Is It Really Necessary?
The world of indie hackers typically demands deep knowledge in areas like software development,...
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sarah mokoenaMay 22, 2026 • 3 min read
The Egregious Myth That Platform Stores Are the Only Way to Sell Digital Products
The Problem We Were Actually Solving When I first started working with Bangladeshi...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Automated Crypto Payment and Delivery for Digital Products: A Desperate, Working Solution When Your Country Blocks Google Pay and Apple Pay
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Selling digital products in a restricted country is...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Selling Without Stripe in a Country That Stripe Can't Reach: When Compliance Becomes a Technical Problem
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We launched our product in Venezuela, where we...
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sarah mokoenaMay 22, 2026 • 2 min read
Digital Creators in Venezuela Don't Need Your B.S. Solutions
The Problem We Were Actually Solving My platform's payment system relies on third-party...
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sarah mokoenaMay 22, 2026 • 2 min read
The Folly of Relying on Traditional Payment Platforms for the African Creator Economy
The Problem We Were Actually Solving When our platform began to gain traction with African...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Selling Digital Products Anonymously Online is a Pipe Dream
I'll never forget the day my digital product was blocked by the payment platform I had integrated it...
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sarah mokoenaMay 20, 2026 • 2 min read
Building a Digital Product Platform for Africa's Creators Is Impossible with the Major Players
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We faced a huge problem: PayPal, Stripe, Gumroad, and...
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DevToolsPicksMay 22, 2026 • 4 min read
OpenAI Codex Gets Appshots and Remote Mac Control: What Indie Hackers Need to Know
OpenAI shipped Codex Thursday on May 21: Appshots (Command+Command context capture), remote locked M...
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DevToolsPicks5d ago • 5 min read
Anthropic Academy: Which Free AI Courses Are Worth Taking for Indie Hackers in 2026?
Which Anthropic Academy free courses are worth taking for indie hackers in 2026? Honest breakdown of...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Selling Online Courses Without PayPal Sucks - Here's What Really Works
The Problem We Were Actually Solving When I first built my online course platform, I...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Solving Stock Photo Sales Without Succumbing to Stripe's Walled Garden
I've been building a platform for selling stock photos, and like many others, I initially relied on....
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Building a Global E-commerce Platform Without a Global Payment Solution
The Problem We Were Actually Solving In hindsight, I was trying to solve the wrong...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Traditional Payment Platforms Are Not for Indie Founders
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our solution, CryptoSpark, is an e-commerce platform...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Platform Fatigue is a Real Problem for Digital Sellers
As I was building my SaaS product, I initially intended to use Gumroad or Payhip to sell tutorials,....
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Building a Shopify Alternative in a Country That Hates Crypto: You Will Fail Without a Custom Payment Gateway
The Problem We Were Actually Solving As I set out to build a Shopify alternative for...
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sarah mokoenaMay 20, 2026 • 2 min read
Disrupting the Digital Creator Monopoly in Africa
The Problem We Were Actually Solving As a solo founder, I was used to taking on the world...
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DevToolsPicks4d ago • 7 min read
GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 for Indie Hackers in 2026: Which Flagship Is Actually Worth It?
GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 compared for indie hackers. Real API pricing, cost math for SaaS workload...
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DevToolsPicksMay 22, 2026 • 6 min read
Namecheap vs Porkbun vs Cloudflare Registrar vs GoDaddy for Indie Hackers in 2026
Cloudflare charges $10.44/year at-cost. Porkbun is $11.06 flat forever. Namecheap renews at $13.98. ...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Solving the Platform Problem of Selling Digital Products in a Country with Financial Restrictions
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The real problem I was trying to solve wasn't just...
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DevToolsPicksMay 21, 2026 • 4 min read
Figma Just Launched a Design Agent: What Indie Hackers Need to Know
Figma launched its native AI Design Agent on May 20, 2026. Free during beta for Professional and Org...
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sarah mokoenaMay 21, 2026 • 2 min read
The Great SaaS Platform Rebellion
The Problem We Were Actually Solving When I started this project, I was under the...
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