Intro
Rosie Sherry is a community builder, indie hacker and founder. She currently runs the Indie Hackers community and also a weekly newsletter where she talks about building communities. Previously, Rosie founded Ministry of Testing.
Questions
Background
- Talk me through how you got into indie hacking
- How did Ministry of Testing start?
On indie hacking
- What's it been like going deep into the indie hacker community?
- How should indie hackers make the most of the platform?
- How can they be more helpful, interesting etc
- Tell me some more about your newsletter
- Why'd you start it?
- Is it making revenue for you?
- You have 5 kids, run the IH community and write your newsletter, how do you make time for it all?
On community building
- How do you build a community, in a nutshell?
- Should every business look to build some sort of community?
- Do you have some examples of who is doing a great job?
- Monica Lent
- Makerpad
- What advice would you give to aspiring community builders?
- Ask questions, get to know your members
- How do you make money from a community?
Quick fire
- Best book for IH
- Dereck Sivers
- Favourite podcast
- Indie Hackers
- Best female IH to follow / who are you inspired by
- Monica Lent - blogging for devs
- Christina P - community
- Charlie Ward
- What are you most excited for in the future?