Issue #23 - A Year In Review
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Happy Monday, everyone!
We made it to the 23rd issue! Thank you to everyone who read last week’s issue ❤️
📆 Today’s issue is the last issue of 2020 🥳 Being the last issue of the year, it seemed appropriate to do a review of this year and all of the indie dev’s that have so graciously answered my questions!
Going into this year, I had very little knowledge of the indie dev community. I knew of some indie devs but I wasn’t specifically paying attention to anything. I ended up discovering Charlie Chapman and his Launched podcast. Charlie has a very inspirational story himself but also interviews other indie developers about their app launches and stories. I binge listened to a bunch of Launched episodes in one day and it snowballed into an indie dev addiction 🙂
On July 21st, I announced my launch of Indie Dev Monday. You can read it (again) here. One of my goals with Indie Dev Monday was a little bit selfish 😇 I wanted to connect with and learn more about other indie developers. I wanted to learn their stories, what drives them, and where their inspirations comes from. I’m happy to say I succeed at this goal 😉 But I didn’t want to keep all of this to myself. The result was weekly newsletters with spotlights on one or two indie developers.
The final numbers for this year were 39 indie developers across 19 different countries!
You can read all of their stories here.
Below is a map and index of all of the indie devs 👇
This map will also always be available at indiedevmonday.com/map and will be updated after every new issue 💪
Indie Dev | Location | Issue # |
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Aaron Pearce | Rotorua, New Zealand | 33 |
Alexandre Colucci | Munich, Germany | 11 |
Anders Borum | Copenhagen, Denmark | 12 |
Andrew Rodebaugh | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | 13 |
Antoine van der Lee | Spanbroek, Netherlands | 14 |
Arnaud Joubay | Limoges, France | 27 |
Becky Hansmeyer | Nebraska, USA | 17 |
Ben Noland | Meridian, Idsaho, USA | 12 |
Ben Patterson | Arlington, Texas | 25 |
Cesar Palma | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | 17 |
Charlie Chapman | St. Louis, MO, USA | 36 |
Chris Hannah | Hertfordshire, UK | 34 |
Chris Vasselli | Putney, VT, USA | 4 |
Christian Selig | Halifax, Nova Scotia | 2 |
Damir Stuhec | Jeruzalem, Slovenia | 15 |
Daniel Alm | Munich, Germany | 8 |
Daniel Gauthier | Ottawa, Canada | 7 |
Devin Davies | Christchurch, New Zealand | 31 |
Eliz Kılıç | Ankara, Turkey | 2 |
Emmanuel Crouvisier | Miami, FL, US | 5 |
Enid Hadaj | Tirana, Albania | 7 |
Frederik Riedel | Berlin, Germany | 18 |
Greg Pierce | Fort Worth, TX, USA | 26 |
Hasan Kassem | Southern Lebanon | 8 |
Heidi Helen Pilypas | Adelaide, South Australia | 16 |
James Thomson | Glasgow, Scotland | 19 |
Jonathan Ruiz | Los Angeles, CA, US | 5 |
Josh Holtz | Chicago, IL, USA | 19 |
Kane Cheshire | Hertfordshire, UK | 1 |
Kushagra Agarwal | Bengaluru, India | 16 |
Makwan Barzan | Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq | 28 |
Malin Sundberg | Vancouver, BC, Canada | 6 |
Matthias Gansrigler | Vienna, Austria | 14 |
Michael Temper | Vienna, Austria | 20 |
Michael Tigas | Melbourne, Australia | 13 |
Mustafa Yusuf | Mumbai, India | 3 |
Nghia Tran | Saigon, Vietnam | 4 |
Nick Nikeforou | Essex, United Kingdom | 38 |
Oskar Groth | Stockholm, Sweden | 15 |
Paweł Madej | Kielce, Poland | 6 |
Prasanna Gopalakrishnan | Melbourne, Australia | 18 |
Renato Gonçalves | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 24 |
Rodrigo Araujo | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 11 |
Sawyer Blatz | San Francisco, CA, USA | 29 |
Shihab Mehboob | Leicester, UK | 35 |
Simon Grimm | Münster, Germany | 9 |
Simon Nickel | Berlin, Germany | 1 |
Tanmay Sonawane | Mumbai, India | 9 |
Travis Stanifer | Lake Forest, CA, USA | 19 |
Tyler Hillsman | Kansas City, MO, USA | 21 |
Victoria Park | Irvine, California, USA | 28 |
Wessley Roche | Jávea, Spain | 32 |
Xiaogang Zhang | Zhengzhou, China | 3 |
Yilei Yang | San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA | 22 |
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Indie Dev Monday is looking for sponsors for this year! Do you or your company want to sponsor? Send an email or a DM on Twitter
Indie Dev Monday is now also self-sponsoring issues from previously spotlighted indie devs.
RocketSim - Create a recording from the iOS simulator and export it as GIF or MP4. Directly drag it into Slack, GitHub Pull Request, or posts on Twitter. Soon you can compare Figma and Sketch designs right in the simulator 😉! Read Issue 14 for more info on RocketSim 👀