Ideally, VCs would pay attention and fund indie's thinking and strategy. But they are usually busy chasing self-proclaimed "soon-to-be unicorns", and only giving chances to founders with pre-existing connections, ivy-league education, etc.
The indie hacking community is ripe with incredible projecta being built in public. But VCs don't go out looking, they only wait for founders to come to them.
I agree that VCs should pay attention to the Indie philosophy. But I disagree that they should reach out to Indie hackers because most of my friends who are bona fide Indie hackers have chosen to explicitly avoid VCs. If a Indie hacker has the traction + revenue and a vision to build a VC backed startup, most VCs would take that call on a heartbeat. (I definitely would!)
Ideally, VCs would pay attention and fund indie's thinking and strategy. But they are usually busy chasing self-proclaimed "soon-to-be unicorns", and only giving chances to founders with pre-existing connections, ivy-league education, etc.
The indie hacking community is ripe with incredible projecta being built in public. But VCs don't go out looking, they only wait for founders to come to them.
I agree that VCs should pay attention to the Indie philosophy. But I disagree that they should reach out to Indie hackers because most of my friends who are bona fide Indie hackers have chosen to explicitly avoid VCs. If a Indie hacker has the traction + revenue and a vision to build a VC backed startup, most VCs would take that call on a heartbeat. (I definitely would!)