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#185 – How Courtland Allen Built Indie Hackers, with Ben and David from Acquired

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How to Eliminate Platform Risk

I think everything in business is basically a trade off. And what you really want to do is just be like aware of the trade offs that you're making. Every one of them I thought would give me either very limited distribution or completely destroy my ability to have any sort of branding. So it wasn't worth it for me to use any of these platforms, even though they would help with distribution, if I could instead just like do my own. It's kind of fun. In some ways you maybe ran the Airbnb playbook of expletry Craigslist did for this segment of Hacker News.

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