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Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, a simple email tool he launched in 2017. Justin was last on the podcast 2 years ago when he’d hit $15k MRR and just left his role at Stripe to focus on Buttondown. I was struck by Justin’s well thought through approach to building. He makes calculated risks and shares a lot of his learnings on his blog, Applied Cartography (which is an essential read for any indie hackers).
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Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, a simple email tool he launched in 2017. Justin was last on the podcast 2 years ago when he’d hit $15k MRR and just left his role at Stripe to focus on Buttondown. I was struck by Justin’s well thought through approach to building. He makes calculated risks and shares a lot of his learnings on his blog, Applied Cartography (which is an essential read for any indie hackers).
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- 03:40 - How to build a company you don't hate
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- 13:45 - Building a business you enjoy
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1 Why you should build a sweaty startup instead of an indie SaaS - Flo Schirmer 16:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m talking with Flo Schirmer about "sweaty startups", a term for old-fashioned, low-risk businesses that are often service based and unsexy. I’m talking window cleaning, car washing, self-storage, house moving and more. We’re going to discuss if you can do this as a side hustle, if you should do this over a regular software business, and what you need to do to get started with some ideas along the way. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:38 What is a sweaty startup? 03:18 From window cleaning to home security 04:37 How to start a sweaty startup 06:41 Growth for a sweaty startup 07:26 Sweaty startup vs software - what is best for indie hackers? 08:45 Injecting a tech edge into old fashioned businesses 11:34 Examples of successful sweaty startup brands 13:58 Two free sweaty startup ideas 15:57 Recommendations Recommendations Book - $100m Leads Podcast - My First Million Indie Hacker - Alex Hormozi My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens 17:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMarie Martens is the co-founder of Tally , a form builder she started with her partner Filip, now used by half a million people and are over $150k MRR. Marie was on the pod 3 years ago when they’d scaled to 16,000 users and $8k MRR in 1 year. In that episode we discussed the origin story, getting their first 100 users and how they’d grown so quickly. Today, we’re going to be finding out how they’ve built such a robust business over the past 3 years and 15x’d their revenue. Listen to Marie's first episode: https://indiebites.com/43 Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:09 From small lifestyle business to larger sustainable business 04:50 Retaining the fun in the business 06:02 Struggles in hiring a remote team 07:32 Building an in-person team in Belgium vs remote 08:17 Running a startup as a parent 10:06 How Tally has grown to $150k MRR 13:07 The pros and cons of building in public 15:08 Growing the product while keeping it simple 15:49 The future of Tally 16:43 Recommendations Recommendations Book - First Round Capital Podcast - Lenny's Podcast Indie Hacker - Olly Meakings My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 Why the Marketoonist is the dream indie business - Tom Fishburne 16:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTom Fishburne is the founder of Marketoonist , a bootstrapped marketing cartoon business he started in 2010. He started drawing and sharing cartoons in 2002, and it took him 8 years to make the leap, despite having a successful career in marketing. 15 years later, Tom is still going strong, with the business making money from cartoon licensing, speaking gigs, brand deals, his book and more. Listen to the extended version of the show here: https://indiebites.com/membership/ Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:23 - Moving to Czech Republic out of college 02:16 - From Czech Republic to MBA 03:19 - Starting cartooning 04:03 - Tom's first client 04:37 - Imposter syndrome 05:20 - Pricing too low 06:01 - Making the leap to full time 07:08 - The terrifying moment of taking the leap 08:08 - How Tom executed on his plan as a full time cartoonist? 09:20 - Marketoonist revenue breakdown 10:45 - Why Tom still does client work 12:45 - Dealing with sh*tty clients 13:55- Dealing with AI and competition 15:55 - Recommendations Recommendations Book - Orbiting the Giant Hairball Podcast - Fly On The Wall Indie Hacker - David Hieatt My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 Why Jack Ellis acquired Fathom Analytics from his co-founder 14:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a simple, privacy focused analytics tool launched in 2019. I last spoke to Jack on the podcast in 2021, where he talked about the inception and growth of Fathom, taking on a massive incumbent and why Jack loves working with a co-founder. In December 2024, Jack acquired his co-founder’s share in the business, making him the sole owner (i think). Today, we’re going to talk about why he made this unique move and what’s next for Fathom. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:20 Jack finds out about EmailOctopus 02:34 Why Jack acquired Fathom 05:03 How can Jack afford this? 05:28 Why did they not get an external buyer? 07:17 Back to being a solo founder 08:19 Innovating the the crowded analytics space 11:09 Fathom's marketing and growth in 2025 12:34 How is Jack having fun? 13:14 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Dopamine Nation Podcast - Huberman Lab Indie Hacker - Ruben Gamez My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore 15:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSam Shore is the co-founder of Typeshare , a writing platform made to create and publish text across the internet. Typeshare has made over $1m in revenue since it was started in 2021, with over 80,000 user, currently $34k MRR I’m speaking to Sam to find out how he started Typeshare as the first of 12 startups he was planning to build, and what made this stick. 00:00 Intro 01:10 Sam's entrepreneurial background 02:03 Failed past projects 03:31 12 startups in 12 months 04:16 The idea for Typeshare 05:38 Getting traction with Typeshare 06:50 Getting to $15k MRR in 1 year with infuential partnerships 09:52 How is Sam making sure he has fun with the business 12:18 How to get better at writing online 14:09 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Poor Charlie’s Almanack Podcast - Rework Indie Hacker - Dmytro Krasun My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 How Justin Duke is building Buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business 17:17
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJustin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, a simple email tool he launched in 2017. Justin was last on the podcast 2 years ago when he’d hit $15k MRR and just left his role at Stripe to focus on Buttondown. I was struck by Justin’s well thought through approach to building. He makes calculated risks and shares a lot of his learnings on his blog, Applied Cartography (which is an essential read for any indie hackers). This episode I catch up with Justin to hear how he’s grown the team to 8 people and his approach to building a company he loves. This is a cut down version of an hour long catch up I had with Justin available on the Indie Bites membership which is available at indiebites.com/membership , where we discuss his personal blog, how he structures his time as a new parent and we go deeper into hiring high agency unicorns. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:58 - Buttondown growth 03:40 - How to build a company you don't hate 07:16 - Marketing and positioning Buttondown 11:17 - Buttondown's unique home page approach 13:45 - Building a business you enjoy 15:32 - Recommendations My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 How to sell your indie business - Josh Peleg 15:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m not actually joined by an indie hacker, but by someone who can help a lot of indies out there. Josh Peleg is the Head of Biz Dev and Mergers and Acquisitions at BlueThrone. Essentially, he knows all about how to sell a business from the buyer's side. In this episode we’re going to learn from Josh exactly what you need to know about selling your indie product. How you find an acquirer, what does the process look like and how you can get a deal over the line. I’ve spoken to some indie hackers who have gone through exits, such as Rob Walling, Ramy Khuffash, Tibo Louis Lucas and more, but not so much from the other side. Let’s find out what it takes. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:56 What is BlueThrone 02:13 How to find a potential acquirer 04:41 How to set up your business to be sold 06:33 Acquirer red flags 08:31 Acquirer green flags 10:04 The type of exits and what to choose 13:48 Recommendations Reccos Book - The Master and The Margarita Podcast - 20VC My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business 16:44
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedArvid Kahl is returning to the podcast for the third time. In 2019, he’d just sold Feedback Panda for a life changing amount of money and then wrote the book Zero to Sold. In 2023, he was in full-on creator mode with The Bootstrapped Founder and had just released The Embedded Entrepreneur. Now, he’s still producing the content but is also spending time on his SaaS Podscan, which is an extremely ambitious tool that transcribes every podcast and let’s you track mentions of your brand. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:27 Arvid's life as a SaaS founder 02:48 Are people still building in public 03:54 No longer being a solo founder 05:24 Raising from Calm Fund 09:17 Keeping The Bootstrapped Founder running 12:10 Wins for 2024 13:36 Parting advice 15:08 Recommendations Recommendations Book - A Court of Thorns and Roses Podcast - The Economics of Everyday Things Indie Hacker - Tyler Tringas My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 High Signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - Pete Codes 14:18
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedRecently I’ve been reviewing my catalogue of previous guests and have been intrigued to see where they are now, so expect to see a few more returning guests over the next few weeks. Today is a chap who was last on the podcast 3 years ago, and is still ever present in the indie community. Pete Codes is writes the High Signal newsletter, sharing all the best indie hacking news every week. He’s making his main living through Ghostwriting for Twitter , Bluesky and LinkedIn , but he’s still launching new projects and keeping his previous projects live. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:25 How Pete stays up to date with indie hacking news 03:21 Twitter, Bluesky or LinkedIn 04:36 Is building in public dead? 07:30 Who is still building in public 09:40 Big news stories of 2024 / who has been successful 12:06 Pete's plan for his newsletter, High Signal 12:48 Recommendations My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira 15:39
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTiago Ferreira is the co-founder of Podsqueeze , an AI podcast tool that helps automate your podcast content. The tool, that helps you create show notes, newsletters, social posts and more, is currently doing $16k MRR and growing. You might also know Tiago from his podcast Wannabe Entrepreneur , where he’s interviewed impressive founders including Pieter Levels. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 120 - Tiago Ferreira 01:06 - Tiago's background 02:25 - Lessons from failures 03:40 - Starting Podsqueeze - solving your own problem 05:53 - How Podsqueeze had a successful launch 06:40 - How to have a successful launch 08:10 - Growth tactics for Podsqueeze - SEO 13:03 - Future plans and exit 14:28 - Recommendations Recommendations Book: SaaS Playbook by Rob Walling Podcast: Startups for the Rest of Us Indie Hacker: Elston Baretto My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny 16:41
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m joined by Jijo Sunny , who is the co-founder of Buy Me A Coffee , one of the most popular donation and membership platforms on the internet. They’ve processed 10’s of millions for creators and have built a 26 strong team. Since founding Buy Me A Coffee, Jijo has dabbled in all sorts of projects, including a stint in YC with a podcasting app. Now though, Jijo is back building a new product, Voicenotes , a voice driven AI note taking app. 👉 Listen to the full 1 hour conversation with Jijo here: indiebites.com/membership Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:48 Background 02:27 Buy Me a Coffee Origin Story 03:37 How did Buy Me A Coffee grow 05:35 Jijo on multiple products 06:35 Making products cheap to run 09:21 Starting voicenotes.com 14:02 Parting advice 15:56 Recommendations Recommendations Book: Friendly Ambitious Nerd Podcast: Dithering Indie Hacker: Danny Postma My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander 16:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMarybeth Alexander is the founder and Chief Executive Owl of KnowledgeOwl, a bootstrapped knowledge base software founded in 2015. Started as an idea within SurveyGizmo, where Marybeth was working at the time, the company has since flourished into a small, profitable, sustainable business ultimately being built to improve the lives of the founders, employees and customers. In this episode we talk about how Marybeth bought the company from her previous employers, how they grew through reviews and why more indie hackers should put customer happiness front and centre. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:26 Founding story of KnowledgeOwl (prev Help Gizmo) 06:54 Marketing and Growth 08:58 How to have happy customers 10:54 KnowledgeOwl's appraoch to product development 13:35 How important is the KnowledgeOwl brand 15:07 Recommendations Recommendations Book: Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell Podcast: Startup to Last Indie Hacker/Entrepreneur: Ari Weinzweig - The Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to Being a Better Leader My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof 14:51
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKyle Roof is the co-founder of High Voltage SEO, PageOptimizer Pro and Internet Marketing Gold. An agency, software and course business respectively which all focus on mastering SEO. I’ve spoken at length on the podcast before about how SEO can be such an effective tool for indie hackers to use, so Kyle is the perfect guest to talk to today. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:58 How Kyle learned SEO 04:31 Being Scientific with SEO 05:47 Why you should try paid ads 07:17 Ranking top of Google with Lorem Ipsum 10:15 Where do people start with SEO 12:13 Encouraging word of mouth growth 13:56 Recommendations My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash 16:21
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedRamy Khuffash is the founder of Hovercode , a QR code generator he’s working on full time. Previously, Ramy founded Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers that he sold last November. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:56 Email Octopus Sponsor 02:30 Page Flows Acquisition 05:03 What did Ramy buy after he sold his company 05:56 Starting Hovercode 08:05 Finding new business ideas 09:32 Growth for Hovercode 11:22 Working with a horizontal product 12:20 The perfect indie business 14:48 Ramy's future Recommendations Book: The Mom Test Podcast: Hidden Brain Indie Hacker: Laura Roeder , Amar Ghose My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
1 From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas 17:19
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTibo Louis-Lucas is a serial founder, most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for 8 figures. Since then, Tibo has gone on to acquire an AI video creation tool, Typeframes, which he spun Revid.ai recently. He actually announced after recording this that he has left Tweethunter and is back to focusing on his early stage products, which we touch on in this episode. He’s also started a newsletter with over 50k subscribers and has over 115k Twitter followers. Tibo is a bit of a legend in the indie maker sphere right now. Tibo and I covered so much ground in this episode I couldn’t fit it all in, so the the full 40 minute conversation available on the Indie Bites membership for $60 a year. Head to indiebites.com/membership to get access. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:46 - Why failing is important for indie hackers 03:30 - 1 product every 2 weeks 05:16 - From $3 to $20k MRR with influencer partnership 06:41 - Selling Tweet Hunter to Lempire 08:40 - What did Tibo buy with his money 10:34 - Acquiring Typeframe 16:16 - Recommendations Recommendations Book: It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work Podcast: Acquired Indie Hacker: Marc Louvion ; Damon Chen My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid 16:50
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAmar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur, having started ZenMaid back in 2013. Amar’s story shows the power of sticking with something through the hard times, and having an unsexy niche (aka not selling to other indie hackers) can lead to a phenomenal indie business. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:53 Scaling in the first 2 years 04:38 Growing an indie business in a price sensitive niche 06:54 Travelling while indie hacking 08:12 Losing 40% of revenue in 6 months 13:23 Hustle Porn - Should indie hackers work harder? 15:38 Recommendations Reccos Book: The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen Podcast: exitfive by Dave Gerhardt Indie Hacker: Jesse Hanley My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute 16:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMatt Medeiros is the founder of WP Minute , a weekly podcast highlighting WordPress news in less than 5 minutes. He’s a podcasting expert, having previously worked as Director of Podcasting success at Castos and now hosts & produces Breakdown, a podcast by Gravity forms. This episode talks about how you can make a sustainable 5-figure side project, with a niche audience while working a full time job and increasing your opportunities as you do it. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:32 From the family car business to digital agency with his dad 03:35 Becoming a Wordpress Expert and Starting Matt Report 04:45 Using podcasting as a networking tool 05:56 From Matt Report to WP Minute 08:08 Monetizing WP Minute 09:36 Making money from a small audience 10:58 Having a profitable side project alongside a full time job 12:08 Does Matt want to sell WP Minute? 14:48 Recommendations Recommendations Podcast about Books: Six Pixels of Separation Podcast: Podcasting 2.0 Indie Hacker: Carl Hancock My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer 16:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedManu Cinca is the founder of Stacked Marketer, a daily marketing newsletter he bootstrapped to $700k. In 2023, he acquired 2 newsletters to bring the subscriber count to 100k and raised a small 250k funding round to help boost growth.
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1 Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining 15:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMax Haining is the founder of 100DaysofNoCode and 100DaysofAI , which are bootcamps designed to help non-techies gain tech skills. Max wanted to be an entrepreneur from a young age and started 100DaysofNoCode as a challenge for himself to learn NoCode tools during covid, but as more people joined in, he realised he could bootstrap the challenge into a learning platform which he’s now working on full time. Follow Max: Twitter Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - Max early life 03:31 - University student inspired by Zuck 04:59 - Discovering indie hacking 06:13 - Starting 100DaysofNoCode 09:45 - Turning 100DaysofNoCode from a challenge to a business 13:39 - What marketing tactics has Max used 15:09 - Recommendations Recommendations Book - Get Together Podcast - My First Million Indie Hacker - Marc Louvion My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer 15:37
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMax Serrano is the founder of IGotAnOffer , a bootstrapped coaching platform focused on helping people get jobs and progress their career. Initially starting out in consulting, Max started IGotAnOffer on the side, creating digital products to help people land consulting jobs, but pivoted to coaching after they lost 70% of their revenue in the tech hiring freeze, having to lay off the majority of his staff. Now, with a profit first mentality, they are on a growth trajectory again. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 03:16 - What indie hackers can learn from management consulting 04:42 - The idea for IGotAnOffer 06:23 - Slicing pie method of splitting equity 07:39 - From side project to full time 08:29 - Fixing a revenue plateau 10:49 - Losing 70% of revenue 12:46 - Getting back to profitiability 13:49 - Pay yourself 14:46 - Recommendations Recommendations Book - Profit First Podcast - Startups for the Rest of Us Indie Hacker - Pete Codes My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson 16:58
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m joined by Randall Kanna Franson. Randall is a senior software engineer who has written 3 books, including one published by O’Reilly and a self published one which made over $70k. She also created a course called Hack the Tech interview which made $20k in the first 24 hours and $50k in the first month. All of this has been through Randall’s efforts to share her learnings from almost a decade being a software engineer and growing her twitter audience to over 50,000 followers. She’s also dabbled in SaaS products, notably launching and growing CodeTutor which she sold after the birth of her first child. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:43 Randall's background 03:33 Coding bootcamp to senior software engineer 05:05 Getting a book published with O'Reilly 06:37 Going hard on side projects in 2020 08:01 Audience building and writing another book 10:04 Randall's course 11:42 Randalls advice to early stage entreprenuers 13:13 Why Randall hasn't started a successful SaaS 15:47 Recommendations Recommendations Book - The Dip Podcast - Software Social Indie Hacker - Kyle Gawley My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife 16:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKieran Ball is the founder of NoCodeLife, a selection of case studies of those making successful businesses using NoCode. Kieran also has courses on how to become a NoCode SaaS founder, specifically using the Bubble platform. I wanted to get Kieran on the pod to discuss and challenge the NoCode movement and if you can actually create a scalable product using the tools available, or if NoCode serves a different purpose. Timestamps 00:00 108 - Kieran Ball 02:07 Failing to learn how to code 03:05 How Kieran discovered no code 04:28 Are no code apps hacky? 05:52 Who has been successful building no code tools? 06:57 No code for MVPs or for actual startups 09:28 Keiran's own blog, No Code Life 10:19 Improving your marketing skillset 12:49 Kieran's future with no code 15:48 Recommendations Recommendations Book - The SaaS playbook Podcast - The Bootstrapped Founder Indie Hacker - Hazel Lim @byhazelim My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic 17:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m joined by Val Sopi, the founder of Blogstatic, a lightweight blogging platform built to take on the likes of Ghost. Currently Val is sitting around $1k a month, but with a low-priced annual plans approach, he’s relying on new sign ups and plan upgrades instead of recurring subscriptions. So he’s at a crossroads of needing to pour fuel on the fire to grow his low-cost blogging platform, or attempt to build a B2B SaaS, which he believes is a much more sustainable option for an indie founder. Val has been hardened by business successes and failures, so I love his pragmatic approach to the decisions he’s making. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:39 Val's background - web design shop to failed SaaS 04:10 Learning to code and starting Claritask 04:53 Selling Claritask 05:52 Launching Blogstatic 06:42 Taking a loan to bet on himself 07:40 The crossroads of stagnating growth 08:39 Being a low cost alternative in a competitive market 12:30 Why Val won't take VC 14:06 Why Val is trying B2B instead of B2C 15:45 Recommendations Recommendations Book: The Inner Game of Tennis Podcast: Startups for the Rest of Us Indie Hacker: Joe Ashville My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020) 14:23
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I'm revisiting one of my favourite episodes, from 2020, with Sabba Keynejad, co-founder and CEO of VEED.io , an online video editing platform. When I interviewed Sabba, VEED were at around $2m ARR, fully bootstrapped. Since this interview, they’ve gone on to bootstrap to about $7m ARR before raising a whopping $35m series A from Sequoi a. And when I first met Sabba, years before this interview, VEED was just a small product that wasn't generating any revenue. This episode is special to me because I’ve followed VEED’s journey from the start and it’s been inspiring to see. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:46 VEED origins 03:24 Differentiation 03:58 Picking a market 04:48 Hiring and learning new skills 06:16 Inflection points in growth 07:07 Quitting your job 07:45 Why you should find a cofounder 08:41 Getting the first users 09:47 Free vs paid 11:16 Growth tactics 12:04 Advice to other founders 13:01 Recommendations Recommendations Favourite indie hacker is Josh Pigford Best book for indie hackers; Traction Favourite podcast; How I Built This My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom 16:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedGilbert Pellegrom, is co-founder and CTO of Lemon Squeezy , a platform for selling software and digital products online. Previously Gilbert created the Nivo Slider all in 2010, which grew to millions of users before selling it. He then went on to work with Orman Clark at ThemeZilla and Dunked, who he’s teamed up with again to build Lemon Squeezy. What’s interesting about Gilbert is that despite being the CTO of a rapidly scaling startup, he’s still making and shipping side projects, which we’ll talk about more on this episode. If you want to hear more about Lemon Squeezy, I actually co-host their podcast called Make Lemonade , where I speak with their CEO JR Farr about the behind the scenes of building a bootstrapped company making millions. Sign up to the Indie Bites membership for $60 a year to access the full conversation with Gilbert. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:57 Working with Orman Clark at Themezilla and Dunked 06:11 Delicious Brains 06:40 Starting Lemon Squeezy 07:52 Why Gilbert makes side projects 10:36 Should you charge money for your side projects 12:58 Selling side projects 14:59 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Atomic Habits Podcast - Yo! Indie Hacker - Marcel Pociot My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful 17:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m joined by Jeffrey Bunn , who is the co-founder of Clearful , a digital journal app he built with his wife, Maria. Previously they co-founded Mealime, a meal planning app which grew to a whopping $65k MRR before they exited in 2018. In this episode we cover the story of founding both apps, how they utilised the app stores for growth and why they started a B2C app in a crowded market. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:30 Starting Mealime 07:07 Pivot to mobile and reducing prices 08:36 Mealime Growth 09:46 Private Equity Exit 10:38 Life post-exit and learning to code 12:24 Starting Clearful 13:31 Clearful growth through the app store 14:50 Runway and future Recommendations Book - Range by David Epstein Podcast - Conversations with Tyler Indie Hacker - Maria Golikova , Sebastian Röhl My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides 16:55
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday I’m joined by Michael Christofides, who is the founder of PgMustard, a product which helps people speed up Postgres queries. Michael started out working for a Devtools company as a product manager and went on to run customer success at London based unicorn, GoCardless. Now, Michael might not be as well known and successful as other popular indie hackers, but he works on his own terms and has been committed to his project for years. In this episode I want to unpack why Michael stays committed to his product despite slow growth, his unique approach to the indie lifestyle and where he wants to go in future. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 02:18 - Michael's early career 03:09 - The PGMustard idea 04:28 - Building for a market rather than scratching your own itch 06:23 - Launching PGMustard 08:15 - Going full time on PGMustard 09:47 - Leaving well paid jobs at $0 MRR 11:28 - Intentional slow growth 15:43 - Recommendations Recommendations Book - Small Giants Podcast - Panic Podcast Indie Hacker - Michael Koper My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder 17:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedArvid Kahl runs The Bootstrapped Founder , a podcast, newsletter and educational resource to help founders grow successful bootstrapped businesses. He’s also written two books, Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entreprenuer . Arvid is a returning guest, having previously been on the show almost 3 years ago, to talk about his exit from FeedbackPanda, which he grew to $55k MRR with his partner, Danielle. In this episode we talk about life as a creator and solopreneur, how Arvid is scratching his SaaS itch and how people can leave their jobs to work on their side projects. 👉 Get the full 55 minute conversation here. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:45 Turning hobbies into business 02:51 Structuring how you spend your time 05:14 Revenue for The Bootstrapped Founder 07:13 Why do consulting when you have runway 08:30 Scratching the coding itch 12:07 How to make a side project a main project 15:52 Recommendations Recommendations (Prev. the mom test, IH pod and Sergio Mattei) Book: The SaaS Playbook Podcast: The Greatest Generation Indie Hacker: Tony Dihn My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform 15:49
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHarvey Carpenter is the founder of Growform , a form builder which is now around 7K MRR. It's a mixture of enterprise and some other clients, and he's tackling a product in a market that is extremely competitive and crowded, but he's trying to carve out his own little slice of that market. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:21 Harvey's life before Growform 01:35 Side projects as a 17 yr old 04:10 Getting a law degree 05:04 The idea for Growform 06:42 Benefits of picking a niche 09:12 Growth tactics 10:06 Quitting his job and taking a loan 13:16 Future goals 13:48 Taking recreation seriously Recommendations Book: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together Podcast: Diary of a CEO Indie Hacker: Jack Bridger My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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1 How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club 15:49
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedToday is a special episode, because it marks 100 episodes of Indie Bites. And to mark the occasion, I’m bringing back my guest from episode 1 , Charlie Ward, founder of Ramen Club to talk about how he’s grown to community into the core of the London indie scene while scaling to £7k MRR in the process. Charlie has also been a long time supporter of the show, having sponsored well over 30 episodes and taking a bet on me early on. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - The impact Ramen Club has on other founders 03:08 - Rebranding to Ramen Club 04:56 - Advice for community building 06:27 - Advice to founders on ideas and growth 11:10 - Why you should be doing user research 14:35 - Recommendations Recommendations Book: $100m Offers Podcast: Lex Fridman Indie Hacker: Elston Baretto Other links Get Together book Continuous Discovery Habits book Rosieland Charlie's Twitter Ramen Club Podcast My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today , with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.…
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