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Courtland Allen

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Courtland Allen

@csallen

Founder of @IndieHackers

USA

indiehackers.com/csallen

Born March 22

Joined June 2008

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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Apr 18, 2019
Starting a business, but don't know what your mission is? How about: making your life better. Working on the things you enjoy, at the pace you set, from wherever you want, with the people you love, so you can be happy… these are perfectly fine reasons to start something.
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Aug 7, 2025
I was wrong. Welcome back, Claude Code 🙏
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Aug 7, 2025
RIP Claude Code, 2025-2025 ⚰️
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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Aug 7, 2021
Unpopular opinions: We're living in the greatest time ever for the most people ever, things are getting better and have been for a long time, the technology we're addicted to is mostly awesome, and the challenges that face us are solvable.
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Oct 8, 2019
I pay $30/week for someone to teach me chess for 60 minutes. He never wants to stop, so we usually go for 90. I have no particular goals with this. I might drop it in another few months. But it's great to "hang out" with an expert who's passionate and pushes me past my limits.
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Apr 1, 2021
Unpopular take: college was 100% worth it for me. - 20+ close friends for the rest of my life - met smart ppl who inspired me - MIT degree makes ppl think I'm smart before I prove it - changed my self-image from lazy to hard working …I wanted to drop out the whole time though.
Nat Eliason
@nateliason
Apr 1, 2021
I’m decently exposed to smart successful people and not a single one of them wants their kids to go to college.
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Nov 17, 2021
One of my favorite pieces about the internet, written in Newsweek in 1995, got almost everything wrong. You've could've made a fortune betting on everything this guy bet against.
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Apr 5, 2023
Big news: Indie Hackers is indie again! Six years ago, @stripe acquired @IndieHackers to help us grow and inspire millions of people building online businesses. From today on, @ChanningAllen and I will be joining their ranks as founders ourselves! Step #1 — generate revenue 😅
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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Jul 4, 2025
Someone help me understand the appeal of Claude Code, compared to Cursor: - Doesn't have a real textbox, so it's hard to select/manipulate/copy text in your prompts as you write them - Doesn't stream back AI responses, so you have to wait for them to finish before reading them -
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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Mar 11, 2025
It's not that coders are being replaced. It's not even that coders are switching to using AI for everything. (Although vibe coding is fun.) It's that hundreds of millions of NON-coders are starting to generate massive amounts of AI-written code that will quickly dwarf the
Haider.
@haider1
Mar 11, 2025
Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei in the next 3 to 6 months, AI is writing 90% of the code, and in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI
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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Mar 16, 2025
It works! ✨ I've been vibe coding with Cursor to build myself an analytics app… But instead of dashboards, I want a 2D map where the pages on my website are buildings.. The blue dots you see are live traffic to Indie Hackers! It's the start of my own little "app city" 🗺
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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Dec 2, 2020
If it's worth making, make it great. If you can't make it great, make it smaller and simpler until you *can* make it great.
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Jun 21, 2019
"We hadn't told a single person, and we had $40,000 in sales." I interviewed @adamwathan about his journey from college dropout to solo founder, and he had me saying "wow" more than any other guest on the podcast. 😅 Great story, A+ tips, give it a spin!
indiehackers.com
How to Make $2.5MM as a Solo Founder by Teaching What You Love with Adam Wathan
Although Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) dropped out of college (twice!), he's one of the most voracious learners to ever appear on the podcast, and he's buil...
Courtland Allen
@csallen
Apr 1, 2025
I wrote this to remind myself how to be a better prompter:
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Courtland Allen
@csallen
Jan 25, 2019
The dopamine hit from encountering novel advice fools us into thinking it's better than it really is. Most of what we should be doing are things we've heard a million times already.