“we certainly don't have a financial mode or have access to massive funding sources or even options Indie hackers tend to not have much funding... it's not the product at all it's the founder distribution”

Founder distribution is the only moat indie hackers have

Stop trying to defend against clones with product features. As an indie hacker you have no funding moat, no PR moat, no patent moat — features get copied in a weekend. The one moat copycats cannot clone is you in the room: a recognized founder presence in the target community. That's what makes the business defensible, not the code.