We're out, dude. It's over.

Andy Hackers is officially independent again.

We're our own company. We own it and we're no longer owned by Stripe.

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 and 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 zero dollars 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 ND hackers for the first time in six years. So I'm

excited. The indie hackers founders have actually become indie hackers again. again. Yeah. Dude, it's funny, you say like, you know, we no longer have the cushy paycheck coming in. And I honestly, I don't know if I don't know how you feel about this, but it's just my personality. Dude, I love wrote a post on any 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 want to 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 from my own efforts, knowing that

nobody can take it away from me, and we're 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 were making

ad revenue. And I think we got up to like $8,000, $9,000 a month in revenue and the first

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