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Ask HN: Are you a digital maker, indie "hacker", indie developer?

9 points by feriforgacs ↗ HN
Hi,

I'd like to learn more about the maker, indie hacker community so I created a survey.

If you are a maker yourself, could you please, help me with your answers?

It takes about 15 minutes. Most of the questions have predefined answers, so you only need to select one of them.

https://themakerreport.com/

It'd make me extra happy if you'd share what other questions would you ask from fellow makers, indie hackers.

Thank you.

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malux85
wow what a terrible survey. This is just geared to building a web product.

What about cyber security, gaming, embedded. It keeps talking about revenue (I'm not interested in generating revenue) and finding customers (I'm not interested in finding customers)

I clicked "other" on almost every answer, and then got fed up by page 9 and quit

feriforgacs
I'm sorry about that. You almost made it to the end though :) So thank you for the effort.

Could you help me with what other options to add this question to cover the topics you mentioned? "What kind of products are you making?"

About the revenue. You are right, I have to add an option for those who are not focusing on making any revenue.

srimech
Not just revenue, but 'products'. Maker, to me, means someone who makes projects, not necessarily things for other people to consume.
feriforgacs
In this case, I probably choose a bad name for the report. What name would better describe the community of people who are creating tools/products and also trying to make a living from it? I call those people makers as well, but I agree that this could be misleading.
srimech
I'd say maybe indie developers.

'Maker', to me, means the culture that started with O'Reilly's Make magazine, Maker Faires, and the subsequent culture that grew around it, which concentrated mainly on making physical things, rather than software.

yonilevy
I'd say all the terms are wrong: you've covered maker, hacker also has nothing to do with this, as well as indie, which means being alternative, outside the mainstream. I believe you're looking for "Independent Developer"
feriforgacs
I changed the title of my post to try to make it a bit more clear who the target audience is.

I agree that the real meaning of the word "hacker" has almost nothing to do with independent software or digital product development, but my experience is that many people started to use it to identify those who are using their knowledge to "hack" together digital stuff. Not to mention hackathons where everyone is a "hacker".

Probably there should be more series like Mr. Robot so people would get a better picture of what real hackers are doing :D

feriforgacs
I'll update the landing page to clarify who the target audience of this survey is. Thank you for your help.

Probably I'm in a bubble where "maker" has a slightly different meaning :/

And what about those who are making tutorials, graphics and digital art, or music? Now I'm starting to worry that there is another name for this group of people as well :D