IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
While going from a blog-to-acquisition in less than a year is an impressive feat, there have been suspicious circumstances around IndieHackers submissions to Hacker News including clickbait titles that are frequently fixed by HN mods, and in one case, explicit voting manipulation with an attempt to bypass the voting ring detector via linking to /newest: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/08pAFOw.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/08pAFOw.jpg</a><p>This acquisition sends a disappointing message that growth hacking <i>works</i>.