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DisukaiThe War and Treaty’s Michael and Tanya Trotter grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, DC, respectively, but both have family roots in the South. They also grew up in the musical traditions of their churches – Tanya in the Black Baptist Church and Michael in the Seventh Day Adventist Church – where they learned the power of song to move people. After becoming a father at a very young age, Michael eventually joined the armed forces and served in Iraq and Germany, where he took up songwriting as a way of dealing with his experiences there. Meanwhile Tanya embarked on a singing and acting career after a breakthrough appearance in Sister Act 2 alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Lauryn Hill. Now, after a long and sometimes traumatic journey, Michael and Tanya are married, touring, winning all sorts of awards, and set to release their fifth album together, and their fourth as The War and Treaty. Sid talks to Michael and Tanya about the new record, Plus One , as well as their collaboration with Miranda Lambert, what it was like to record at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, and how they’re blending country, soul, gospel, and R&B. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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1 Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore 15:10
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiSam 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.…
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1 How Justin Duke is building Buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business 17:17
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJustin 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.…
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1 How to sell your indie business - Josh Peleg 15:10
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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.…
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1 Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business 16:44
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiArvid 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.…
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1 High Signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - Pete Codes 14:18
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiRecently 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.…
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1 How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira 15:39
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiTiago 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.…
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1 How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny 16:41
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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.…
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1 How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander 16:10
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiMarybeth 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.…
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1 Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof 14:51
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiKyle 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.…
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1 Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash 16:21
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiRamy 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.…
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1 From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas 17:19
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiTibo 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiAmar 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiMatt 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiManu 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiMax 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiMax 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiKieran 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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
14:23 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai14:23
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiGilbert 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiArvid 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
15:49 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai15:49
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiHarvey 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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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday 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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1 Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans 17:11
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday I’m joined by Tom Evans and Jonathan Bull from EmailOctopus, an email platform who have bootstrapped to over $3m ARR since they were founded in 2014. They’ve been battling in a crowded and competitive market, with some huge funded companies to contend with, but they’ve made it work in an indie way. In this episode we talk about how they lost 99% of their users overnight, why they’ve chosen to compete on price rather than in a niche and their reasoning behind staying bootstrapped for so long. Get the extended episode here: https://indiebites.com/membership 00:00 Intro 01:24 EmailOctopus Background 02:57 How long did EmailOctopus take to build? 03:09 Launching for free 05:45 Tom joining EmailOctopus 07:11 Growth 07:48 Building in a crowded market 08:55 Differentiating on price 11:30 Raising vs bootstrapping 12:58 Changing goals as a bootstrapper 15:07 Fulfilling the side project urge Recommendations Book: ReWork , Four Thousand Weeks Podcast: The Rest is Politics , Indie Bites Indie Hacker: Pieter Levels , Jeffrey Bunn Guest Links Jonathan's Twitter Tom's Twitter Blog post about their growth 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 financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson 15:48
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiIn this episode I have a returning guest, someone who is a keystone of the bootstrapping community, it’s Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor, MegaMaker and more. Today we have an unstructured but very useful chat about building a financial engine for your business. This is a topic that has come up countless times in my indie journey and I think it’s something that a lot of indie businesses don’t address as early and seriously as they should. There a ton of actionable tips in this conversation about how to manage your finances, building a solid, profitable business and what to do when things aren’t going well. Get the extended episode here: https://indiebites.com/membership Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:45 James shocked by tax 02:31 Profit first 06:51 Building a financial engine 09:40 Things falling apart with depression 11:00 Desperation affects creativity 11:49 How to build your financial engine Recommendations (from prev ep) Book: Life Profitability Podcast: Software Social Indie Hacker: Derek Sivers Follow Justin Twitter Blog 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 Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom 17:09
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiRob Walling is an absolute legend in the bootstrapping and indie scene. He’s a veteran entrepreneur with his most notable exit being Drip in 2016. Rob also founded MicroConf , started TinySeed and is the host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, which has over 680 episodes having started in 2010. It doesn’t stop there for Rob, he’s also written 4 books, Start Small Stay Small, Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding, The Entrepreneurs Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together and most recently, The SaaS Playbook . Get the hour long episode here: https://indiebites.com/membership Timestamps 00:00 Intro / Sponsor 02:03 Why Rob wouldn't do SaaS again 03:43 What would an alternative reality look like for Rob 05:46 Founder retreats 07:40 Building an audience first approach is dumb for SaaS 10:29 Building a network 12:38 Portfolio of projects 15:26 Recommendations Recommendations Book: Founding Sales , Deploy Empathy Podcast: Comic Lab Indie Hacker: Ruben Gamez Follow Rob Twitter Website 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 Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis 16:53
16:53 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai16:53
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiAaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com , a course teaching you how to make better screencasts. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:25 Aaron's Background 02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books 03:24 Audience Building 05:51 Benefits of each content medium 08:07 Making time for everything 09:27 Having a full time job 10:23 Leaving Hammerstone 12:36 Launching Screencasting.com 14:33 How has the launch gone? 15:25 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Any textbook in your field Podcast - No Plans to Merge Indie Hacker - Jordan O’Connor 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 $20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher 15:30
15:30 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai15:30
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday I’m joined by a returning guest, Andy Cloke, who runs Data Fetcher. Data Fetcher is an API plugin for Airtable that he’s grown to 20k MRR. In our previous episode Andy was only at around £3k MRR, so in this conversation we talk about what he’s done to grow so rapidly, including investing in new marketing channels such as YouTube. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:58 Growing to 20k MRR 04:51 Building a machine 06:01 YouTube Strategy 09:09 Launching another product 11:38 Hiring and reinvesting into the business 13:07 Future of Data Fetcher Recommendations Book: Psychology of Money Podcast: Acquired Indie Hacker: Curtis Herbert Follow Andy Twitter 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 Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey 14:48
14:48 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai14:48
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday I’m joined by Andrew Kamphey, who is the founder of Better Sheets , a platform of tools and tutorials to get better at using Google Sheets, that has done well over $200k in revenue since he launched in 2020. He started out working as a tech on cruise ships, before moving to LA to work in the film industry, which is where he gained all of his Google Sheets prowess. From here he’s had a meandering life journey, working while travelling South East Asia, starting and selling an influencer newsletter, writing a book about charging and even launching a SaaS. Andrew has had his finger in piece of the indie hacking pie and has now settled on being the Google Sheets guy. At least for now. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 02:08 - Failing to go full time 04:13 - Selling Influence Weekly 06:26 - Starting BetterSheets 09:32 - Turning Better Sheets into a full time income 11:53 - Reluctancy to become the "Google Sheets Guy" 13:37 - Recommendations Recommendations Book: Lying for Money Podcast: The Deep Life Indie Hacker: Jon Yongfook , Danny Postma , James & Danielle Follow Andrew Twitter 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 Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White 16:33
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJonny White is the founder of Ticket Tailor , a platform for selling tickets online doing over £6m ARR and growing. Jonny founded Ticket Tailor in 2011, grew it to £2k MRR and then sold it to a company called TimeOut a short while later. After a few stagnant years at TimeOut, Jonny then bought the company back to make the lifestyle business he’d always wanted. After hitting all his goals, Jonny made the decision to build out a team and bootstrap the company to profitability and beyond. Now with a team of 20+ people, Jonny has a whole new set of challenges he’s dealing with, which we dig into in this episode. Get the hour long episode here: https://indiebites.com/membership Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:51 - Jonny's background 02:48 - The idea for Ticket Tailor 04:39 - Getting those first few customers 05:14 - Reaching £2k MRR and considering fundraising 06:34 - Selling the company 08:00 - Buying back Ticket Tailor 09:17 - Post buy back 11:13 - Hiring a team / going beyond a lifestyle biz 12:12 - COVID 13:59 - Losing motivation post-covid 15:45 - Recommendations Recommendations Book: Donut Economics Podcast: Missing Cryptoqueen Indie Hacker: Pietro Saccamani Follow Jonny Twitter 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 Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces 15:32
15:32 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai15:32
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiRyan Gilbert is the creator of the Workspaces newsletter, which showcases the best workspaces in tech and beyond. He grew it to 6,000 subscribers and $2k per month with sponsors + affiliates, before being acquired by Loops (Founder Chris Frantz was on episode 61 ) and going on to be their first employee. In this episode we talk about how simplicity has been so important for growth of the newsletter, how he makes it appealing for guests to share and his reasoning for selling at such an early stage. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:26 Life before Workspaces 03:37 Did you have any side projects before workspaces? 04:47 Growth of the Workspaces newsletter 06:40 How long did each edition take? 07:45 The best workspaces 08:25 Monetizing the newsletter 10:22 Selling the newsletter 13:08 Imposter syndrome 13:57 Recommendations Recommendations Book - The Creative Act by Rick Rubin Podcast - Creator Science Indie Hacker - Brett Williams 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 Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY 16:19
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiTim Leland is the founder of T.LY , a link shortener with almost half a million users that he recently quit his job to pursue full time. Tim started out building chrome extensions, including a weather extension that grew to 200k users at it’s peak. He then capitalised on Google closing down their link URL shortener and tried to build his own competitor, which is where T.LY was born. Tim has gone for the high volume, low price option for his product, which often isn’t recommended as a good route for Indie Hackers, but Tim has made it work. 00:00 Intro 05:15 Building a portfolio of extensions 07:45 Starting T.LY 10:06 Being the low price option 11:49 Getting users for T.LY 12:51 Quitting his job 15:13 Reccos Recommendations Book - Atomic Habits Podcast - My First Million Indie Hacker - Rob Walling 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 Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery 15:38
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiIn this episode I’m joined by Colleen Schnettler, which a lot of you would have heard from through her Software Social podcast she co-hosts with Michele Hansen. Colleen has been on quite the journey over the past few years, going from years of contracting to launching her first product, Simple File Upload , then getting a large contracting gig with Hammerstone, landing a separate full-time job to then quit 3 weeks later to rejoin that Hammerstone as a co-founder. Now Colleen is working on a product called HelloQuery , a reporting tool for SQL queries which has been accepted into a recent TinySeed batch. What we covered: 00:00 Intro 02:03 Why start the Software Social podcast? 02:59 Why start building products 04:04 Colleen's first product: Simple File Upload 05:07 Why they stopped the podcast 06:37 Joining Hammerstone 08:50 Being a solo founder 10:16 Hello Query 11:47 Closing down a successful product 13:50 Reccos Reccomendations Book: The Mom Test Podcast: Boostrapped Web Indie Hacker: Corey Haines Follow Colleen Twitter 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 Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion 16:09
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiMarc Louvion is an indie hacker with many many products. His tagline on his website is relatable for all “ I was fired everywhere so I had to work for myself (even Tai Lopez fired me...)”. If you go to Marc’s Indie Page you can see all his projects, including Habits Garden, Gamify List, Visualise Habit, Make Landing & more. Marc is living in Bali and on his way to $5k MRR across his projects. You might have seen Marc on Twitter with his hilarious launch videos and candid build in public updates. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:32 Marc's indie hacker journey 03:07 Moving to Bali 03:39 Starting a glove business 05:52 Gamification 07:41 Challenges with gamification 08:29 Knowing when to quit a product 10:32 Portfolio of projects vs single focus 11:46 Marc's day to day 12:53 Building an AI product 14:00 Creative launch videos 15:14 Reccos Recommendations Book: Why We Sleep Podcast: Indie Hackers Indie Hacker: Danny Postma Follow Marc Twitter Explore Marc's products 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 Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise 15:47
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiIn this episode I’m bringing back a previous guest, Dom Monn, who is the founder of MentorCruise, which he’s now working full time on with a small team. I brought Dom back on to discuss something that has been on my mind, and has come up in twitter conversations recently which Dom has been involved in. Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? Is the indie label and mentality limiting success and holding many founders back? I think it could be and so we discuss why this might be happening and what we can do about it. Jason's tweet which inspired this conversation Mike's response Dom's response Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:56 Indie hacker identity crisis 03:42 How indie hacking has changed 06:32 Why the indie label can be a limiter 08:20 Accepting slow growth instead of fixing it 10:33 Should we set bigger goals? 12:10 We still love the indie hacker community 13:50 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Sprint Podcast - This Indie Life Indie Hacker - Ramen Club Follow Dom Twitter Hire him as a mentor Personal site 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 find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP 15:58
15:58 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai15:58
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiToday I’m joined by Bram Kanstein, who you might know from Startup Stash, which is the most upvoted product ever on Product Hunt. Bram also started the No Code MVP a course, which shows you how to launch an MVP without code. In this episode we focus a lot on how indie hackers can find ideas and launch them the right way. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:18 Startup Stash 05:56 No Code MVP 09:47 Finding ideas 12:22 Idea validation 15:00 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Untethered Soul by Michael Singer Podcast(s) - Joe Rogan , HIBT , MFM Indie Hacker - Danny Postma Follow Bram Twitter 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 Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert 16:02
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiMatt Studdert is the founder of Frontend Mentor , which helps people level up their front-end coding skills by building projects. They have over 500,000 users and are hovering around $30k MRR. Matt didn’t start out wanting to run a SaaS, starting out playing poker, then became a personal trainer, before changing his career and learning to code when he was 28. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:16 Playing Poker full time 02:58 Becoming a personal trainer 04:24 Learning to code with General Assembly 06:33 Front End Mentor 08:33 Building a scrappy MVP 11:29 Growth for Front End Mentor 15:03 Reccos Recommendations Book - badass make users awesome Podcast - Acquired Indie Hacker - Arvid Kahl , Valentin Wallyn Follow Matt Twitter 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 Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side 17:03
17:03 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai17:03
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJordan O’Connor is the founder of Closet Tools, a bootstrapped app that helps people sell more stuff on Poshmark which has been in and around the $30-40k MRR mark. He’s found a lot of his growth through SEO, like many successful entrepreneurs, and now helps other founders do the same through his Rank to Sell power half hours. Listen to the full 90 minute chat with Jordan here -> Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:29 Jordan being awful with money 04:30 Jordan's indie hacking journey 06:10 Launching and failing with different products 07:06 Choosing SaaS 08:31 Starting closet tools 11:38 Pricing for Closet Tools 12:35 Reverse stair stepping with Rank to Sell (consulting) 16:08 Reccos Recommendations Book - Deep Work Podcast - Deep Questions by Cal Newport Indie Hacker - Pat Walls Follow Jordan Twitter Personal website 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 Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock 16:30
16:30 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai16:30
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJosh Ho is the founder and CEO of Referral Rock , a SaaS he founded in 2014 doing over $2m a year in revenue. Referral Rock helps businesses to design, launch and manage a customer referral program. Josh has had decades of experience as a founder, pouring his early entrepreneurship energy into a notes app that he ultimately couldn’t monetize. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:24 - Josh's background 02:11 - Lessons from a failed startup 04:16 - Failed startup to new long term bet 05:41 - The idea for Referral Rock 06:59 - Pricing a B2C product 08:33 - Marketing advice for indie hackers 12:24 - Challenges along the way 14:01 - Raising 15:41 - Recommendations Recommendations Book - Extreme Entrepreneurship Podcast - Don't Say Content Indie Hacker - Monica Lent Follow Josh Twitter Josh's Substack 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 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science 16:31
16:31 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai16:31
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJay Clouse is the founder of Creator Science , which is a membership, community, newsletter and podcast helping you become build a creator business, which he bootstrapped to over $40k a month towards the end of last year. His podcast is one of the best produced shows out there and it’s on my very short list of shows that I can listen to every episode and know it’s going to be killer. I think the creator business angle is interesting for indie hackers who haven’t quite found a product yet and want to build something. Creating content and speaking to people in your niche, can help you find pain points and problems, while also building extra income for yourself. Timestamps 01:55 The Creative Elements podcast (now Creator Science) 04:45 How to have a point of differentiation 06:11 Building a creator business 08:23 Making $40k in one month 11:03 Multiple projects and revenue streams 13:10 How Jay spends his time 14:02 How to start out as a creator 15:19 Recommendations Recommendations Book - How to Win Friends and Influence People Podcast - Bandsplain Indie hacker / entrepreneur - Justin Moore Follow Jay Twitter 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 $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown 15:12
15:12 Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka Disukai15:12
Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJustin Duke is the founder of Buttondown , a simple email newsletter tool without all the bloat. In December 2022 Buttondown was around $15k MRR. He also runs Spoonbill , which is a way to stay updated on what people change on their social profiles. At the time of recording this Justin was an engineering manager at Stripe so you’ll hear references to that, but he’s since left to go all in on being a founder. 👉 Join the Indie Bites membership here . Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:57 Origins of Buttondown 03:25 Buttondown launch 05:37 Keeping Buttondown as a side project 07:47 A pricing conundrum 09:26 Having a free plan 10:20 Finding balance 12:31 Are Stripe side-project friendly 13:56 Recommendations Recommendations Book - The Great Beanie Baby Bubble Podcast - Metamuse Indie Hacker - Amy Hoy Newsletter - Matt Levine Money Stuff Follow Justin Twitter Personal site 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 - Ahrefs Thank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth. If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques. To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools…
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1 Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic 16:25
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Main Kemudian Main Kemudian Senarai Suka DisukaiJack McDade is the creator of Statamic , a content management system for Laravel. What I love about Jack is how he approaches all of his projects, including Statamic, to just be different. There is so much cookie cutter content out there and everything just ends up looking the same - but not if Jack has anything to do with it. Just take a look at his personal website , his Radical Design course and Icons and you’ll see what I mean. I love it. 👉 Join the Indie Bites membership here . Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:27 Why Jack started Statamic 02:58 Taking 6 years before going full time 04:20 What would Jack have done differently? 05:14 How to be different 07:40 The unfair indie hacker advantage 08:26 Radical Design Course 12:45 Learning with Jack 15:07 Recommendations Recommendations Book: Steal Like an Artist & Extreme Ownership Podcast: Friendship Onion & Darknet Diarys Indie Hacker: Adam Wathan Follow Jack Twitter 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 - Ahrefs Thank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth. If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques. To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools…
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