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Alex Saint didn’t need another launch. He needed people.
He’d built solo apps before—put in the hours, hit publish, tweeted it out... and got nothing back. No users. No feedback. Just silence. What he really wanted was someone—anyone—to test things before launch day.
So he built IndieCru.sh.
It’s a space for indie hackers to find early testers. You share your app, open a feedback program, and start getting real input while it still matters. No more building in the dark. To make it fun (and keep people coming back), there’s a leaderboard, private test spaces, and a native token called $INDIE that rewards testers for actually being helpful.
Alex launched solo—no cofounder, no budget, just a livestream and an MVP. Somehow, it hit #8 on Product Hunt, pulled in 500 users, 80+ feedback programs, and 12 paying customers.
Now $INDIE keeps the whole loop running: devs use it to get featured, testers earn it by testing. And just like that, finding beta users doesn’t feel impossible anymore.
OpenAI just bought itself a body—and hired the guy who dressed the iPhone to give it a soul.
A $6.5 billion all-stock deal folds Jony Ive’s 55-person hardware studio io into a new “io division” inside OpenAI. Ive stays an independent artisan at his firm LoveFrom, but gets the keys to every future OpenAI product, physical and digital.
Ive and Sam Altman have been sketching “beyond-the-smartphone” gizmos since 2023; think pocket-sized, screen-free companions that whisper ChatGPT in your ear rather than another glass rectangle. First reveal is penciled in for 2026.
Why pay iPhone money for a year-old startup? Owning hardware lets OpenAI skip the Apple/Google tollbooths and plant generative AI directly on your wrist, lapel, or dashboard—before Meta or Humane nail the form factor.
Pocket’s shutdown notice landed like a punch to the tab—“Where do we park our half-read articles now?” The answers flooded in: Reader by Readwise for seamless cross-device sync, Instapaper for that no-frills scroll, Raindrop.io when you need folder zeal, and niche picks like Omnivore and GoodLinks for anyone allergic to corporate servers.
Migration dread ran through every reply—JSON exports that break highlights, missing tags, and years of bookmarks vanishing into the void. If your read-later queue is about to implode, this thread is the emergency exit you need.
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