Where are the women indie hackers?

Yes!!! I've been thinking about the same thing. I'm not sure why "hacking" or "geeking out" is associated with being a male but we are here as well so hello there :) 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽

To be fair, though, one thing I love about IH (unlike the hateful Twitter or Reddit) is that the indie hacker community here is very encouraging.

I've stopped lurking in 2022 (hello resolutions) and have been posting a lot recently on IH and I have to say almost every person I engage with on this site is positive and constructive even when they give you tough feedback.

I'm cc'ing a few @Laura @stephsmith @rosiesherry

I've also come across fewer women on IH platform. But there's also fewer women in tech for various reasons. So I am assuming it to a reflection of the same trend - proportionally. It would be interesting to uncover if there's an even smaller percentage of women in tech who are Indie Hacking.

Hey Chica!!

I am here!! :) Can I help you with something? Do you need girl-power for encouragement or anything else? Let me know. I am totally open to help you in any way I can.

Warning: you might not like what I have to write next... 🤔 or maybe you're gonna love it!

I'm a girl. Love pink (the colour). I have a BS in Physical Chemistry. An MBA with Finance focus. Love math. = All very "guy interests."

I have been a minority, not only with my gender, but also my skin colour on the three continents I've lived so far (while there are a billion of my people on the planet).

Yes I am like the queen of diversity 👸 ...blah, blah, blah

Many years ago, when I lived in Silicone Valley, I heard Carly Fiorina speaking at Stanford about "where have the women gone?" even after decades of push for STEM...

I don't think it's a lack from the world (indie-hacker or otherwise) being open to us.

I think the answer is more complicated...

• that women truly have a choice and frequently come to the conclusion that we have other things we want to pursue that are not the same as men, and
• that we unfortunately don't support each other as much as we could and so often end up pitting women against each other, for anything...

Check out the chapter from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari on gender. It striking how we women are with each other versus some other species.

Before looking for men to do anything differently, I would love for us to do things better.

Again, if I can help you, do reach out. ✌️

We're here 👋

Hi @webinsider 👋

Indiewomen is also great place to meet fellow Indiehackers!
https://www.indiewomen.club/

We're here 💪🏻I've been thinking the same since I've joined the Indie Hackers. I believe soon we'll be able to see more IH women and support each other 🎉

I have to admit that, it wasn't easy to start sharing my progress in public, after I shared my first post and got a reaction, I felt more confident and motivated. Don't hesitate to build your product, you can do it! 💚

About me 👉🏻I'm Begum from London, I've been working on Watchphile, in this way I'm learning a lot, at the same time trying to share my progress on my social accounts.

Yes! This most definitely needs to change.

I see the absolutely disgusting and insane "feedback" that women in tech receive on most platforms when sharing in public. I understand why some are hesitant to eve bother.
I truly hope that IH is more supportive and less toxic in that regard. It has to start somewhere.

Haven't checked their IH, but on Twitter I follow (listing those who aren't already tagged or commented)

• @dinkydani
• @arunimakhunteta
• @dashbarkhuss
• @michwirantono
• @threehourcoffe
• @ingridanciaux
• @lunchbag
• @LindsayTrombley
• @mjwhansen
• @aprilynne

I agree and have been wondering the same thing!!!
Especially wondering where the brown women indiehackers are too.

Definitely more of a lurker on IH and working to change it, but am dipping my toe into the Twitterverse.

About me:
Heller! I'm Sophia!

Pretty new to indiehacking. I left my job in November to pursue running my branding agency full time and I am (soon to) launch my first product a landing page copywriting guide.

Here 👋🏽

Thank you for this !! I was asking myself the same question today, I want to get more serious about indie hacking and challenge myself to build a first product. The first thing I was looking for : support from other women makers 🙏🏻

I’d love to brainstorm on how to narrow down ideas, and find accountability buddies. If anyone is interested 😉

Here's a recent Twitter thread by @xavier that mentions many female founders: https://bit.ly/3ngBaNM

Yeah, it's a problem! It seems like there are even less than when I started. 9/10 people on my twitter are dudes.

There is the Women Make community https://womenmake.com

Does lurking count? :)

One of the lurkers, here... can't even tell you how many times I've resolved to stop lurking and get more active. That imposter syndrome thing resonates, for sure, and I also struggle with time management -- sometimes it feels like I should be doing other "more important" things to build my business, vs. spending time on IH. (I might just be kidding myself, though, as an introvert who generally likes to keep to herself.)

Here!! Just grinding and using all the tools there is to succeed.
Being a woman or not, it's a matter of hard work and consistency.

:waves: I think I can finally claim this title now that our app is live on product hunt?

Hi 👋 I'm glad there is a strong community of indie hackers here!

We are here. 😄 However agree with all the comments about there being more males in the tech world than female. Hence, you see more male indie hackers

Heeey! We're here and we exist! I've been indiehacking since highschool but only recently started doing it full time. 🥳

Hey 👋I indie hack about if you'd like to connect

I think that on one hand there are fewer women in tech in general, which means less women indie makers but on on the other hand, I think it's just hard to find people, that your connections are not connected with because of how social media tends to work

Is it possible that there are not many women Indie Hackers because there are not a lot of women in tech. Since only a percentage of people in tech do Indie Hacking, it further reduces the number of women doing it?

Also, unfortunately, in many countries, women often have a higher mental load due to them being the main caregiver in their family. This leaves them with less time and energy to be indie hacking.

@basakbuilds @PoliSaez @dardang

Hi!!

It's not just you. This is basically the same thing I felt when going through my undergraduate compsci program. I would usually be the only female in class most of the time. Women are not usually encouraged to pursue entrepreneurial and/or technical ventures and honestly, most don't even want to as we are groomed early towards the traditional careers as you mentioned. 🤷‍♀️

But hey, we're here to change these statistics. 😊 Happy to connect and way to post about this! 👋😄

I've bumped into a few women Indie Hackers - but I'd tend to agree there appear to be fewer, certainly from a visibility perspective.

Maybe it's worse for women but men are also encouraged to pursue safe traditional careers too - which is kind of where I ended up!

Hi :) I'm a female software developer. There is at least one in the world. I've met two others in my life. So. I can say that there are three of us.

@rosiesherry started an Indie Women slack!

I think IT is generally a male-dominated field. Like, I'm the only woman on our team, I worked in teams mainly made up of guys.

I've heard a great quote once from an art director doing a talk at the conference: "We guys get out of our offices to talk stuff here while the women are busy carefully doing their job to bring in the best results". There are women in the startup, indie world. They just need to get more encouragement to become outspoken.

I know it's anxiety-inducing to share our opinions, thoughts, and knowledge. We tend to think we are not good enough. Need to push those thoughts away :)

I'd love to find out more about why there's a gender gap in tech. For indiehacking I could see the risk element being a gentic factor but barely compared to any other industry. I would say it stems more to the industry trend of tech which I still don't know why it's male dominated. Some industries like medicine have gone from very male dominated to almost 50/50 now. Nursing is changing. Teaching is changing. Things can change when there isn't a legitimate reason it just takes time. But would love to know what the causes could be to account for them in my own unconscious biases I might have.

There are quite a lot of female indie hackers now and the number is growing, Twitter is a good place if you're seeking to connect with some :)

Hi there, I would like to add you in my Twitter List of indie hackers. Are you interested?

There are lot of men as compared to women in indie hacking, I think! Hope so many women will come or get limelight.

Hi! I was wondering the same, but now with your post, it seems that we are here 🎈

I am creating a Playground (playful productivity) www.enterplayground.com and although it's for solopreneurs I think it is a bit more for us girls and feel a bit shy when I post about it here 😊

There are many women and I am also one of them. It would be wrong if you say they are less encouraged. But in actuality, they are much busy with their projects. Cheers!

I joined today hi!! Great first thread to read. Yup, we are a rare breed us women in tech/entrepreneur, keep the encouragement coming, I could use it coz sometimes everyone else trying to tell me how they would do it better can get exhausting! I just started to #buildinpublic over on twitter at https://twitter.com/JacqueeTsuma

Totally agree, @webinsider, we have to change the world a lot both, men and women, to make sure women have the space and benchmarks to make it happen :)

@ozgeyilmaz here you are

!!! This is such an cool thread. Been wondering the same lately, and looking for my fellow female founders and indie hackers!

Would absolutely love to connect and share the highs and lows 💜 If anyone has Twitter, don't be a stranger and let's be friends there tooo :) Would love to see what you're working on!

Hey all! Indiehacker woman here, I haven't posted a ton here but am trying to change that. (But I am pretty active on Twitter these days, come find me there @skulegirl.)

I didn't become and indiehacker until I was in my mid 30s! I can't speak for all women, but for me, I think even just taking a job in tech seemed like I was "breaking down barriers", the idea of going out on my own never even occurred to me. And when it did, it was mostly by fluke. If I'd been reading the hacker news posts at the time, it sure wouldn't have helped - imposter syndrome was a huge issue for me for many years as an indiehacker.

But honestly, as much as lurking shouldn't be demonized, because many of us struggle with not feeling like we have valuable things to add to the conversation, every time a woman posts here or on Twitter about her indiehacking journey, it helps to normalize it and make it seem like it's not out of reach for the rest of us.

While it seems men have often been born with the ability to just start building stuff, in my opinion it's cultivated through a society where they constantly see others doing it, and have learned to say "if they can do it, why can't I?". So many of the stories we see of "successful women" in the media are the Sheryl Sandburg types, where a woman managed to get to top-level success with huge support from family and paid staff to keep their home lives running, but we don't see and celebrate the stories of women who managed to build a business while being the primary caregiver to their young kids, or who built businesses that sustained them and their families without becoming front page Hacker News stories.

I think if we start sharing those stories more, and our own struggles, we can begin to normalize indiehacking for women. I actually started my business while on my maternity leave, and here in Canada where we have a year or more of it, I think more women should use it as an opportunity to branch out and build a side project, since you're not allowed to make any money working anyway. (it was well after two maternity leaves before I actually paid myself from my business!)

To that end, I promise to lurk here less and post more!

Hey I'm a female indie-hacker. I honestly have no clue why other women aren't pursuing it. I've never found the community to be uninviting. My one guess:

Indiehacking attracts creative people.

Creative women are encouraged into pure artistic careers, while men are discouraged from artistic careers. Leaving creative men to go into things like indiehacking.

I was encouraged to pursue fashion design. My male cousin, also a fashion lover, was encouraged to pursue engineering. Both are creative pursuits. And both of us liked both subjects.

I think the leeway for women to pursue challenging artistic professions is due to the sub/conscious belief by society that we can marry someone who will support us if we don't succeed monetarily. Men aren't seen to have that option. (Though this is not necessarily true, and I'd proudly support my spouse!)

Indiehacking is very creative, but seen as somewhat less of a monetary risk than becoming a fine artist, for example.

So I believe more than WOMEN are discouraged from INDIEHACKING, MEN are discouraged from ARTISTIC PURSUITS. But I'm sure there's many facets to this!

Hi @webinsider, hope I'm not too late to this post. We have a slack group for Indie Women and here is a twitter list of us https://twitter.com/i/lists/1319540412583903232?s=20

There aren't many of us especially black and brown women. I have to credit @rosiesherry for peaking my interests in IH. I haven't been active but this post excited me and encouraged me to comment. So great to read all these comments! I'm a startup founder and my superpower is connecting social impact to tech. Happy to offer support in any way I can.

I’m here!! I did come across this problem very often that not many girls brave enough to choose the other they want.
However, a lot of my female friends started the journey as a digital nomad under the influence of me which it’s super excited. I think there will be more indie hackers in this platform and wide industry:)

Hi webinsider , I just joined Indie hackers and a woman who loves to explore new things in the leisure time. Just searching, reading few articles how to engage in some activities. Due to the paendamic situation as everyone in their home I found this is the best plateform to share our thoughts.

"I know the topic isn't clear cut, but I wonder if it's harder for women to go indie."

You might not like what I'm about to say, but as I see it, the whole part of the "Indie" means you are Independent. It doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl, don't expect to have "support", the more independent you are, the stronger you go.

With that said, support from all kinds and aspects (psychological, meeting other indies, technical help etc...) is VERY MUCH BLESSED.

Over the 10 years as an indie male I didn't use much of the community's help (Ok, Stackoverflow doesn't count right :),
with that said, I don't mind your gender at all, and I love to find like-minded people and connect with them, and will help anyone equally,
unless of course they used to listen to the Backstreet Boys. in that case it's a big no no.