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Journeys
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Mircea
From agency burnout to $4k MRR
The $5 Fax: How a Weekend Project Became a Micro-SaaS
Why I built the simplest possible fax service and let SEO do the selling
Raul
Software engineer turned curator and community builder
Building the Anti-Hustle Job Board: $5/year for Calm Companies
How getting fired for caring about culture led to a curated community of sustainable workplaces
Vlad
Backend engineer turned indie hacker
Building sisif.ai: an AI Video API
How I went from 0 customers to growing MRR by abandoning traditional marketing
Events
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Cowork Timisoara - The Office, Timisoara
Indie TM #2
We meet every two weeks to share what we're building, swap tactics, and roast each other's products.
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March 19, 2026
Cowork Timisoara - The Office, Timisoara
Indie TM #5: SEO Tactics That Actually Work
What we learned at our fifth meetup at Cowork Timisoara
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Raul Record videos with your face in the corner
Use Loom or similar tools to record product walkthroughs with your face visible in the corner. People trust faces. These videos work as blog post embeds, YouTube content, and social proof simultaneously. Pages with face-in-corner walkthroughs consistently convert better than text-only pages.
Raul Create infographics for blog posts and backlinks
Infographics get shared and linked to far more than plain text. Create one per major blog post. Use Canva or Figma to visualize your key data points, then offer an embed code below the image so other bloggers can easily reuse it. This is one of the most reliable passive backlink strategies.
Raul Get backlinks from Blogger, Wikipedia, and YouTube
Create profiles and content on high-authority platforms. Write a Blogger post linking to your product. Add your tool to relevant Wikipedia lists (following their guidelines). Create a YouTube video and include your link in the description. Each of these platforms passes significant domain authority through their backlinks.
Vlad Get listed on no-code platforms for free backlinks
Integrate with Zapier, Make.com, n8n, and other workflow tools. Each platform gives you a listing page with a backlink to your domain. The integration itself doesn't need to be complex: even a simple webhook trigger is enough to get listed. This is free, permanent, and builds domain authority over time.
Vlad Create localized landing pages at scale
Build pages targeting "[product/service] in [city/country]" and "[integration] in [city/country]" combinations. Automate the page structure but keep the content genuine. Each page should have real, location-specific information, not just a city name swapped in a template. This is how you capture long-tail local search traffic with almost no competition.
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