On: IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

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Congrats to the involved parties, great job, etc.

IH is/was, unfortunately, full of unsubstantiated stories and made up numbers, presented by owners trying to upsell their business, without any verification or "hard questions" by the site owner.

As we see, this worked.

I'm not sure what's the lesson here. Fact-checking is for losers maybe?

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> full of unsubstantiated stories and made up numbers

Possibly, but how would you know?

And what would some good hard questions be?

Edit: Okay maybe because of this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591182