# Argus for indie hackers

Build-in-public only works if people actually see it. As an indie hacker you grow by shipping and showing up in replies, and the second half is where most people quietly stall. Argus is a free Chrome extension that tells you where 20 minutes of replies converts, and drafts it in your voice.

## The problem

You ship the feature, post the honest update, and it gets 300 impressions and 2 likes. Do that for three months and the graph is flat, so you blame the product or the writing. Usually the leak is reach: at a few hundred followers your posts barely leave your own circle.

## What Argus does for an indie hacker

It reads your real funnel so you know whether build-in-public posts convert to follows. It ranks live posts by reply opportunity so you reply to rising indie and SaaS accounts while the thread is still climbing. It drafts in your voice. And it never automates: everything is draft-and-insert.

## Replies compound faster than posts at your size

Under roughly 10k followers, the growth engine is the next reply into a rising conversation, not the next post. That is the [reply-first playbook](https://argushq.cc/guides/grow-on-x-with-replies), and it is how the [first 1000 followers](https://argushq.cc/guides/first-1000-followers-on-x) usually arrive.

See also [Argus for founders](https://argushq.cc/for/founders), [Argus for developers](https://argushq.cc/for/developers), or [compare Argus](https://argushq.cc/compare).