“I feel like people are going to end up doing a lot more primary research being an indie hacker will be much more about carving off a specific niche of all the problems left in the world and actually going and running experiments to figure it out”

Indie hackers win on the experiments nobody else bothers to run

As AI commoditizes general knowledge, audience advantage comes from picking a specific niche and being the one running real experiments in it. Generic content gets ignored; experiment-backed niche content gets cited. Pick 1-2 narrow founder problems and publish raw experiment logs with numbers — the audience compounds around the person who runs the tests nobody else does.