Products as content: monetize builds with no commercial value
kylegawley · x · 2026-09-29
Indie hacker Kyle Gawley shares a monetization angle: some products he'd love to hand-code purely for the fun of it, with no real commercial value — but he's found a way to monetize building them by turning the product-building process itself into content.
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