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Courtland Allen interviews the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.
Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
A podcast by Flowout where we chat with successful entrepreneurs, freelancers, and other amazing professionals that are crushing it in their game!
This Indie Life follows the journey of two indie hackers, James McKinven and Dagobert Renouf, as we navigate the good, the bad and the ugly, attempting to turn our indie hacker dreams into reality.
Weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheets in real life business applications.
Indie Worldwide is where indie hackers come to meet other indie hackers. Every week we interview a successful startup founder, indie maker, or bootstrapper and find out how they did it. Each episode is packed with actionable growth strategies and proven tactics for building your indie startup. Catch our recorded interviews here, or check out one of our multiple monthly live meetups: https://indieworldwide.co/ See you there 🌎🌍🌏 Hosted by Anthony Castrio
A weekly podcast by two indie hackers, Marc and Matt. They share their ups and downs of building their bootstrapped online businesses. They prefer to show instead of teach, so you get to see the real story about what it's like to “startup to something” - raw and unpolished.
Every Monday, the You Inc. Podcast brings NO BS marketing & entrepreneurial insights from the most badass brand builders, indie hackers & content creators in the whole wide world. Our show has been ranked as India's No. 1 Marketing Podcast & among the Top 20 Business Podcasts by Apple Podcasts. Show us love! Our Website: theyouinc.co Our LinkedIn Page: https://linkedin.com/company/youincpodcast Share Feedback: https://link.theyouinc.co/feedback Join You Inc. Newsletter: https://signup.theyou ...
No More Mondays peels back the curtain to see what it takes to build an indie business. Following the journey of indie hackers Dan Rowden and James McKinven as they navigate building a micro-SaaS studio and a podcast respectively.
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Hackers – Software Engineering Daily
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Stories of people hacking on weird and interesting projects.
Trends and realistic business ideas for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and serial makers.
A few years ago I caught the "entrepreneurial itch." I've been ferociously reading books, listening to podcasts, reading blogs, and being active in online communities. But the wantrepreneur in me is real. The reality is that it's hard. This is the honest account of myself — in all my struggles and learnings — as I work to become a full-time entrepreneur the indie hacker way. I talk about everything that I learn, all the projects I launch, and everything in between. If you’re obsessed with le ...
In-depth conversations with bootstrapped entrepreneurs building profitable internet businesses. Including both members and friends of the Ramen Club community. Ramen Club is building the community, content and tools supporting founders to ramen profitable, and beyond.
Sharing resources, tools, practices, & conversations that inspire and ignite impactful creator-led innovation. Hosted by tech founder, multi-passionate indie hacker, and life + venture design enthusiast Jordan Divecha.
We sit down to chat with experts from all over the SaaS industry to explore their journey to where they are today. Their successes, their failures and everything in between. Produced by the very talented Alex Radford, and hosted by the much less talented Jon McGreevy, SaaSy as F**k aims to help anyone who wants to work in SaaS, or already does.
Business Time is a show about what it's like to start a business from the perspective of two software developers.
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SUP? Inside Stories About Building Our Profitable Businesses
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SUP? Inside Stories About Building Our Profitable Businesses
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Follow along with Louis and Mojca as we grow our profitable businesses. We give weekly updates on the stuff that's on our minds and the challenges we're facing.
Grant Trahant interviews early stage founders and product creators for insight on features and strategies they use to scale. Topics include no-code, sass, bootstrapping, content creation, solo entrepreneurship, freelancing, and tons more.
A podcast about what is really like to bootstrap a company! My name is Tiago and I quit my job to focus on building a startup. Join me as I make the mistakes that you can avoid and have conversations with other entrepreneurs from all backgrounds and countries. There are no ads in this podcast! Join our community
If you want to hear from folks behind companies like HubSpot, Help Scout, Indie Hackers, startups.com, Castos, Jilt, Delicious Brains and Beaver Builder, you've come to the right place. Welcome to the WPMRR WordPress Podcast, a weekly show completely dedicated to bringing you the very best from the intersection of WordPress and monthly recurring revenue. Whether you're new to the WordPress community or a wily open-source veteran, join the founder and CEO of WP Buffs and The WPMRR Virtual Con ...
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Indie Hackers
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#271 – Gamification, Digital Nomading, and Growing Sales to $41k/mo with Stas Kulesh of Karma
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Stas Kulesh (@stas_kulesh) talks about building internal tools as a great hack, why it takes 10 years to understand a new country, the challenging secret of enterprise sales, and slowly growing a SaaS business to $40k/month with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).By Courtland Allen and Channing Allen
Hi there! We are talking about how to create custom named functions in Google Sheets (works in Excel too). There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇 Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you …
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Indie Bites
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From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)
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Elston Baretto was last on the pod in March 2021, when he’d just grown his tool, Tiiny.host, to $600 MRR and we recorded as part of my mission to share stories of unknown indie hackers with potential. Fast forward 2 years and Tiiny Host has grown to $10k MRR and Elston has just quit his job to become a full time indie hacker. 👉 My side project, Whi…
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I Want To Hack
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Reduce Errors with Data Validation and Conditional Formatting
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Hi there! We are talking about how to reduce errors with data validation and conditional formatting in spreadsheets this week. There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇 Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the…
Looking to build a successful SaaS business? Don't just focus on product-market fit. In this video, learn about the Solution-Workflow Fit, a crucial element to consider for success. Discover why the medium in which your solution is implemented and the workflow of your customers matter just as much as the technical side of your solution. See real-li…
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#284 - The Rollercoaster Ride of Building a SaaS Product
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How can you build a successful SaaS product? As the founder of PodSqueeze, a SaaS product for podcasters, I am facing many challenges. One key lesson I've learned is the importance of solving a problem that people are facing. Getting feedback from users and targeting the right audience are also crucial. In this episode, I'll also discuss the impact…
In this episode, Dago is coming to terms with working less and making the most of it. I’m not talking sipping mamosas, I’m talking optimizing his Twitter time. I share more details about my long term indie bites partnership, although there might be a stumbling block in the way in my quest for being debt-free. Watch us on YouTube 📹 Dago's course 🐦 B…
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Flowcast
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Flowout E18: Being a tech prodigy with Bereket Semagn
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In this week's episode, Flo chatted with Bereket Semagn, a 14-year-old full-stack developer and tech world prodigy from Ontario, Canada Bereket Semagn: https://twitter.com/heybereket https://github.com/heybereket Flowcast: https://www.flowout.com/flowcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078090 Hosts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gal-lamovsek https://twi…
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The Indie Worldwide Podcast
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Emma Fletcher - Evergreen Support, Learn to Solder Kits
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Indie Bites
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Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner
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Patrick Posner is the creator of a portfolio of Wordpress plugins which have been downloaded almost a million tinmes collectively making him $12k p/m. Patrick went full time indie in 2020 and since then has both grown quickly and scaled back operations to build the best sort of life for him. I love these types of stories of relatively unknown indie…
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The Bootstrapped Founder
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198: Rob Fitzpatrick — Tinkerers, Thinkers, and Teachers
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Rob Fitzpatrick is a serial entrepreneur, a writer, a community leader, and a very curious human being. I talk to Rob about building an incredibly complicated business, the world of self-publishing, what AI tools can and will do for humanity, and how to build communities that can run by themselves. 00:00:00 Rob Fitzpatrick 00:03:38 The challenges o…
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Indie Bites
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From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)
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Alex MacCaw is the founder of Reflect, a note taking app which he’s grown to $20k MRR with a team of 4. Previously, he was the co-founder of Clearbit, a VC-backed company that scaled to $50m in revenue. After stepping down as CEO of Clearbit, he decided to focus on doing the stuff he enjoys. So he’s sailing around the world building an app that get…
How to secure your product, the business, and an eventual exit, including using established frameworks, outsourcing to secure third-party vendors, and having clear and complete account separation. The blog post: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/securing-your-saas/ The podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6c645953 The video: https://www.…
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#283 - Can PodSqueeze be my Indie Unicorn?
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Are you ready to dive into the world of indie hacking? In this episode, we'll explore the ups and downs of this exciting entrepreneurial journey. Join me as I share my personal experiences and insights, including my current project, PodSqueeze. Drawing inspiration from my casino days, I'll reveal how I use "easy bets" to keep myself afloat while pu…
Matt is struggling with next steps and bets to make in the ecommerce space. Marc is seeing his hosting bill going up as a result of an acquisition. The guys talk through what Matt should do next and the idea of barriers to entry in different markets.By Marc LG and Matt Gale
Troy Hunt (of HaveIBeenPwned fame) is a cybersecurity expert who has been around long enough to be able to give actionable and pragmatic security advice without complicating things. In our conversation, we chat about best practices for securing your SaaS business, how to get your family to be more secure, what it means to vet your vendors, if you s…
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Indie Bites
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Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos
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Craig Hewitt is the Founder and CEO of Castos, a bootstrapped podcast hosting and analytics platform with a services arm for podcast production. He’s been in podcasting almost a decade, having started his own show, Rogue Startups and his production service Podcast Motor (which he folded into Castos). Craig not only shares his ponderings on his show…
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15: Staying positive and one-year deal for Indie Bites
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In this episode, Dago is still sick so records from bed and tries to find out his customer’s deepest darkest fears. Meanwhile, I’ve had a positive week having discussions about selling indie bites, or maybe finding an alternative solution to my short term money problems, but I do have to tackle a little bit of rejection along the way. Watch us on Y…
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You Inc.
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Brewing an Automation Revolution out of India ft. Pabbly
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Most SMB & MSME founders around the world feel that business process automation is meant exclusively for large enterprises & MNCs, and that can’t be further from the truth. Enter Pabbly, an Indian startup that offers automation and integration solutions to small & medium businesses (SMEs), solopreneurs & freelancers around the world. Founded in 201…
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195: Don't Fall for the Follower Count Trap
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Goodhart's law is powerful and important to remember for every creator: when a measure becomes a target, people tend to optimize their behavior to meet that target, which can lead to unintended consequences. You'll see examples of this law in action, including in education and social media, and learn the negative consequences of over-optimizing for…
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$2.5m ARR bootstrapped from first time founder - Dan Fayle, Chekkit
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Today I’m joined by Dan Fayle, who is the co-founder of Chekkit, a company that’s he bootstrapped to almost $2.5m ARR and 20 employees. There’s a few interesting things about Dan’s story I know you’re going to like. This is his first company and he quit his job to go all-in with 3 co-founders, he got his early customers through, and I’m not kidding…
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#270 – Exiting for Millions in Under a Year with Shaan Puri and Ben Levy of The Milk Road
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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Ben Levy (@benmlevy) talk making it big as a content creator, choosing the right business idea, creative ways to monetize, big boy vs small boy stuff, making friends as an adult, growing a newsletter brand, and exiting for millions in under a year with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).…
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The Bootstrapped Founder
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194: Matt Wensing — Publish Your Juicy Thoughts
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Today, I’m talking to Matt Wensing — the founder behind Summit and tweeter of many often controversial things. We talk about bootstrapping a financial SaaS, how to deal with integrations, and when to take funding. Here’s Matt. 00:00:00 An exchange of stories 00:04:54 What’s your strategy? 00:09:31 Writing long-form 00:15:05 Bridging the gap between…
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Flowcast E17: Helping startups grow with Carlos Iborra
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In this week's episode, we talked with Carlos Iborra, International Trading Executive oriented toward innovation. We will get to know Carlos who is going to share all his thoughts on leadership, lean philosophy, sales, and more. Carlos Iborra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iborracarlos https://twitter.com/carigar3 Flowcast: https://www.flowout.com/fl…
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SEO for an 8 figure SaaS tool - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs
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Tim Soulo is the CMO at Ahrefs, one of the biggest and best SEO tools on the internet. Ahrefs are one of the clear success stories as a bootstrapped company, growing to be a an 8 figure brand over the past decade. Things really took off when Tim took over marketing for the company back in 2015, first focusing on growing the blog, before experimenti…
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Flowcast E16: Tech journalism with Derick David
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In the 16th episode of Flowcast, we chatted with Derrick David - 21st-century learner, multidisciplinary designer, and technology writer. Derrick David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derickdavid/ https://www.derickdavid.world/ https://twitter.com/bigdrckenergy Flowcast: https://www.flowout.com/flowcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2078090 Hosts: https:…
In what bubble are you living? We all live in a bubble and it's hard for us to imagine other lifestyles. In Berlin people are more used to that. Today I will be exploring that topic. I will also share why we still did not give up on PodSqueeze. About The Podcast Join The WBE Community Sponsor the podcast But WBE Merch Buy The Bootstrapper's Guide D…
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You Inc.
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Growing 7X in 7 Months with AI ft. Writesonic Growth Lead
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Artificial Intelligence is no longer a fringe technology in India, or around the world. The rising tide has led to a massive surge in AI-led startups globally. Founded in 2021 by Samanyou Garg, Writesonic is a SaaS startup that primarily offers AI-powered content generation services. Writesonic’s products include ChatSonic and Photosonic, which are…
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14: Uncovering fears and getting rejected
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In this episode, Dago is still sick so records from bed and tries to find out his customer’s deepest darkest fears. Meanwhile, I’ve had a positive week having discussions about selling indie bites, or maybe finding an alternative solution to my short term money problems, but I do have to tackle a little bit of rejection along the way. Watch us on Y…
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The Bootstrapped Founder
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193: Stair-Stepping with Plugins: Platforms to Build On
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Stair-stepping into software entrepreneurship is a great way for developers to start their own businesses without taking on massive risks. Building a plugin on an established platform allows developers to leverage existing user bases and traffic to grow their business quickly, while also being aware of the risks associated with platform dependency,…
Hi there! We are discussing nesting functions in Google Sheets this week! There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇 Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consid…
Marc is back from vacation, feeling rejuvenated and ready to conquer. Matt has been digging in further into the ecommerce world and found a cool topic around product photography. The guys talk through Matt's ecommerce findings, further planning and his one-off plans to make pocket money. Mentions: PowerImporter MemberRow Related subreddits finder G…
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Wannabe Entrepreneur
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#281 - Never Launch A SaaS During Your Hollidays!
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I am visiting friends in Germany and at the same time releasing podsqueeze. I want to be present with my friends and partner but at the same time I don't want to disappoint my new clients. About The Podcast Join The WBE Community Sponsor the podcast But WBE Merch Buy The Bootstrapper's Guide DM me on Twitter Background Music Music: https://www.chos…
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The Bootstrapped Founder
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192: Colleen Schnettler — Stair-Stepping into SaaS
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Today, I’m talking to Colleen Schnettler, co-founder of Hammerstone and build-in-public podcaster. We talk about getting bootstrapper-compatible funding, juggling way too many projects, and selling a business when you know it’s time to move on. Here’s Colleen. 00:00:00 A lot of podcasts 00:06:01 Building on Heroku 00:12:25 Building on Marketplaces …
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Indie Hackers
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#269 – Bouncing Back from Failure to Bootstrap Past $2M/Year with Josh Ho of Referral Rock
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Josh Ho (@jlogic) talks raising kids, automating word-of-mouth growth, bouncing back from a previous failed business, and bootstrapping beyond $2M in annual revenue with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).By Courtland Allen and Channing Allen
