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X hooks that work for Indie hackers.
Every hook seen in Indie hackers on X this month, ranked by how far its posts usually go past their author's own normal. With real posts for each.
01A story start
6.9× their normal · 39 posts
- teki@teki_builds · 586 followers366×
Hi builders! 👋 I’m Teki. Former fintech PM, now an MBA student. AI made me wonder: why limit myself to one job title? So I became an indie hacker! 😎 Looking to connect with more builders & indie hackers!
204.8K views Write my version - Vishal Tejwani@ivishaltejwani · 7.3K followers105×
Sooo a Hinge match from a while back called last night welled up because her laptop died suddenly and had very urgent exam and all her files were in it Andd wanted me to fix it I would have said no but her belief in me in thinking I could fix it, I didn’t even know I could made me give it a try Andd guess what?
137.3K views Write my version
02A how-to promise
5.5× their normal · 28 posts
- Surendra Pandar@surendra_pandar · 1.1K followers588×
Introducing Datafast 🎉 (But for free) Yes, if you don't want to pay even $1 doaller for any web analytics software again It's open-source, so you can deploy in 2 minutes (at $0 cost) Here is the link: github.com/surendrapandar… Enjoy ✌️
101.2K views Write my version - Francois de Fitte@francoisdefitte · 1.7K followers507×
made a map of Bay Area cafes where you’ve got the best shot at meeting VCs (and maybe raising your next round) check it out: meetvc.cafe
214.6K views Write my version
03A number or result
3.7× their normal · 44 posts
- Macbeth@ShantMele · 548 followers422×
Getting closer to 500 and next milestone is 1,000 followers 🚀 468 / 1,000 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Let's connect if you're a: 🚀 Solo founder 🛠️ Indie hacker 💻 Vibe coder 🔥 Startup enthusiast 🌍 Building in public 🤖 Using AI agents Drop a 👋 and tell me what you're building Let's grow together 🤝
62.9K views Write my version - Vishal Tejwani@ivishaltejwani · 7.3K followers85×
Hacked and reverse engineered @atomberg_tech fan to run using Siri / Apple home With matter over wifi Going to write full blog and tear down tomorrow But wtf! Took me like 4 hours
111.5K views Write my version
04A question
3.6× their normal · 42 posts
- Chris@manxlab · 3.3K followers228×
What comes after AI?
532.5K views Write my version - camryn (COMMS OPEN)@camrymel · 9.1K followers143×
"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" this singular drawing
9.2M views Write my version
05A confession
3.6× their normal · 11 posts
- Paul Jasper@powlymoli · 738 followers64×
Let's connect 🫵 I'm a dad, quit SWE job and try to make it as a founder now If you're a: - solo founder - indie hacker - dadgineer - claude wizard say hello.
6.1K views Write my version - Leo Mercer@leo_mercerr · 1.5K followers24×
Build in public – Day 19 0 users 0 paying users $0 MRR 1,142 followers on X (+34 today 🥳) No more breaks. I’m back at 100%. A lot of people under my last post said it was weird that my products are still at $0. But this is exactly the problem. X is full of posts about startups making $10K in a month, and real builders start thinking they’ve failed after 2 weeks with no revenue. I’ll keep posting the real numbers even on Day 365 even if they’re still $0. We haven’t even launched yet. Be patient. Be kind. Success doesn’t happen on Day 2. Work and consistency. That’s it. Building AI, SaaS, or cool tech? Let’s #connect and keep each other motivated.
11.9K views Write my version
06A bold claim
3.0× their normal · 21 posts
- Ahmed Gagan@ahmedgagan11 · 5.3K followers240×
Introducing DataBull 🎉 I was paying $39/mo for DataFast just to see which posts made me money. That's $468 a year. Forever. And it goes up as your traffic grows. So I built my own. Same idea: revenue by traffic source. $29 lifetime. Unlimited sites. Unlimited events. Lifetime updates. >
553.6K views Write my version - Neha Kathare@Nehakathare · 782 followers39×
I’m 21 Solo founder, builder, Marketer, researcher, business developer . Always open to connect with builders, founder, indie hackers. Let’s connect and discuss what’s ur building drop below link, whichever the product l find most interesting, l’l share that to my bunch of networking groups.
3.9K views Write my version
07Unpopular opinion
2.8× their normal · 22 posts
- Vishal Tejwani@ivishaltejwani · 7.3K followers17×
this a solved tech, like quite literally Pay scientists millions youll have the tech in a year only hard part is prevention of dendrites, solving it gives you a battery
21.8K views Write my version - vivi@xbtvivi · 234 followers16×
i genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 22 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain. you give Grok Bot one folder on its own cloud computer, feed it your emails, links and photos from your phone, and it reads them, links them and files them into a living wiki of everything you know. it compounds like interest, the more you feed it the sharper it gets. doesn't matter if you're a developer, a trader or a student, you need this the full setup: > create a bot in Grok Bot, name it Brain and add Gmail and Google Calendar in Connect apps. it runs on its own cloud computer, so it keeps working while your laptop is shut > paste the prompt from chapter 07 of the article below into its chat. one message builds the folder, the routines and the rules > it reads 20 emails you already sent and writes voice.md, 10 rules of how you write, each with a real line of yours. no more "hope this finds you well" drafts > label any email Brain and every night at 11 PM it saves the original into raw/ and files it on the page of that person or project > at 7:30 AM you get one page with what came in, what it drafted and what waits for your yes, ranked by the 5 projects you actually work on > correct it once and the fix goes into rules.md, which it rereads before every task. every Sunday it tells you what you decided and forgot keep it to a few runs a day. one hourly routine can eat a week of your plan. five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again. the terminal in the clip is my own visual concept and the market data in it is simulated. same engine, louder feed: one agent ingesting all day on a computer that is not my laptop. every prompt is in the 7-step course below. or paste the whole article into Brain's chat and it builds the brain for you.
18.8K views Write my version
08A costly mistake
Still learning · 2 posts
- Evgeny@PlotnikovDev · 568 followers2.0×
PHP2Shell: what happened to PHP, and should you panic? Explaining it in simple words. What happened On October 21, PHP shipped emergency updates. Two critical holes were found (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). They're in PHP itself, not in WordPress or Laravel. In theory, an attacker can send a specially crafted request to your server and run their own code on it. No login needed, and in some setups it happens before your site's code even starts. Why all the noise - the vulnerable code is over 10 years old; everything from PHP 5.4 to the latest releases is affected - PHP runs on millions of servers - details leaked before the patch was out, so the release was pushed a day early Why you shouldn't panic In practice, this isn't "one request and the server is theirs." An attacker needs to know your exact PHP build and server config, hit the right process, and often find a separate hole in the app itself. According to researchers, the public exploits don't work against a standard install. Bots are already scanning the internet, so don't sit on it, but experts aren't expecting a Log4Shell-style mass wave. And most importantly: this is normal Your project isn't just your code. It's the OS, the Linux kernel, OpenSSL, nginx, your framework, hundreds of composer and npm packages, your payment SDK, third-party APIs and integrations. Vulnerabilities get found in every one of those layers. Literally every week. Most of them just don't come with an all-caps subject line. Security isn't "I have no holes." It's "I patch fast when they're found." What to do today 1. php -v: check your version 2. Update to 8.5.12 / 8.4.27 / 8.3.36 / 8.2.35 (package manager or a fresh Docker image) 3. Restart php-fpm or Apache. Without a restart, old processes stay vulnerable 4. Can't update right now? Temporarily set session.upload_progress.enabled = 0 in php.ini. It's a partial fix, not a replacement for updating 5. Still on PHP 7.x or 8.1? There are no official updates for those, only distro backports. Great excuse to finally upgrade Updated? Breathe out. Just another Thursday in a developer's life.
361 views Write my version
Formats that work
- Let's connect6.9× · 95 posts
- Story4.2× · 41 posts
- Lesson learned4.1× · 14 posts
- Data reveal3.9× · 11 posts
- Launch note3.7× · 35 posts
- How-to list3.1× · 11 posts
- Question2.7× · 22 posts
- Contrarian take2.1× · 10 posts
From 270 measured posts about Indie hackers, last 30 days. A guide, not a promise.
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