Dev thanks 'shitty' GitHub Actions as his side project rakes in Stripe payments
aniketmaurya · x · 2026-10-29
Developer @aniketmaurya shared an inbox full of Stripe payment notifications ($2 to $100) and joked "Thank you GitHub Actions for being so shit" — implying the tool he built out of CI frustration is now generating real paid users, a classic indie hacker monetization story.
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