Indie Bites

By James McKinven

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Episodes: 121

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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.

Episode Date
How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira
Sep 13, 2024
How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny
Aug 23, 2024
How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander
Aug 09, 2024
Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof
Jun 14, 2024
Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash
May 31, 2024
From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas
May 16, 2024
Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid
May 10, 2024
Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute
Apr 25, 2024
Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer
Apr 10, 2024
Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining
Apr 03, 2024
Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer
Mar 27, 2024
Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson
Jan 24, 2024
Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife
Jan 11, 2024
B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic
Jan 03, 2024
How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020)
Dec 27, 2023
Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom
Dec 20, 2023
Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful
Dec 13, 2023
The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides
Dec 06, 2023
Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder
Nov 29, 2023
Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform
Nov 22, 2023
How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club
Nov 15, 2023
Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans
Nov 08, 2023
Building a financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson
Nov 01, 2023
Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom
Oct 13, 2023
Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
Oct 05, 2023
$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
Sep 28, 2023
Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey
Sep 21, 2023
Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White
Sep 04, 2023
Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces
Aug 03, 2023
Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY
Jul 21, 2023
Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery
Jul 04, 2023
Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion
Jun 14, 2023
Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
Jun 01, 2023
How to find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP
May 27, 2023
Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert
Apr 30, 2023
Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side
Apr 19, 2023
Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock
Apr 12, 2023
Building a 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science
Apr 05, 2023
Building a $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown
Apr 01, 2023
Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic
Mar 25, 2023
From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)
Mar 19, 2023
Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner
Mar 15, 2023
From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)
Mar 10, 2023
Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos
Mar 08, 2023
Daniel Fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software
Mar 03, 2023
How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs
Mar 01, 2023
Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather
Jan 17, 2023
How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop
Nov 15, 2022
Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity
Nov 08, 2022
Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
Nov 02, 2022
A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy
Oct 26, 2022
Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io
Oct 04, 2022
Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World
Sep 27, 2022
Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit
Sep 26, 2022
Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs
Sep 13, 2022
Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta
Sep 06, 2022
Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow
Aug 30, 2022
How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab
Aug 22, 2022
How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life
Aug 08, 2022
Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops
May 28, 2022
Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot
May 14, 2022
r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink
May 07, 2022
Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy
May 03, 2022
Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends
Apr 29, 2022
Bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate
Apr 26, 2022
Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee
Apr 22, 2022
Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial
Apr 19, 2022
Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
Apr 15, 2022
Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia
Apr 12, 2022
Why your product needs marketing - Dagobert Renouf, Logology
Apr 08, 2022
Bootstrapping a portfolio of SaaS products to $3k MRR - Jim Raptis, BrandBird
Apr 04, 2022
Candle dealer builds $5k MRR software to solve own problem - Dianna Allen & Jeremy Blalock, Inventora
Mar 27, 2022
Gumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad
Mar 16, 2022
A solo $130k MRR productized design service - Brett Williams, Designjoy
Mar 14, 2022
Growing an online card tool to $23k a month - Valentin Hinov, Thankbox
Mar 07, 2022
Building a $15m GMV side-project at 15 years old - Che Sampat, SuperPay
Feb 25, 2022
Mental health as a founder and the importance of community - Tom Ross, Design Cuts
Feb 08, 2022
Growing to $8.5k MRR in 1 year - Marie Martens, Tally.so
Feb 03, 2022
Growing to $4m+ despite Apple cloning their product - Matt Ronge, Astropad
Jan 29, 2022
Bootstrapping a SaaS to millions in revenue - Ben Orenstein, Tuple
Jan 24, 2022
4 years of failed projects to full-time indie hacker - Kenneth Cassel, Pointer.gg
Jan 15, 2022
Nailing your marketing as a founder - Peter Suhm, Reform
Nov 18, 2021
From lifelong bootstrapper to raising calm funding - Brian Casel, ZipMessage
Nov 13, 2021
Leaving a $500k job to build a portfolio of small bets - Daniel Vassallo
Nov 08, 2021
From $500k to $1m in 6 months with a podcast agency - Harry Morton, Lowerstreet
Oct 31, 2021
Taking on Google with Fathom Analytics and growing a course to $150k - Jack Ellis, Fathom
Oct 28, 2021
Building a portfolio of projects to $6k in one month - Pete Codes, No CS Degree
Oct 20, 2021
Growing Upvoty to $17k MRR - Mike Slaats, Upvoty
Oct 13, 2021
$250 to $3k MRR in 4 months with a Notion website builder - Noah Bragg, Potion
Sep 29, 2021
Bootstrapping two $3k MRR projects, selling one for $55k - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
Sep 22, 2021
Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey
Sep 15, 2021
Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai
Sep 10, 2021
Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health challenges [Bonus]
Aug 05, 2021
Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm
Jul 25, 2021
Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects
Jun 14, 2021
Struggling with my own mental health
May 15, 2021
Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show
Apr 07, 2021
Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal
Mar 24, 2021
How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit
Mar 20, 2021
$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host
Mar 17, 2021
Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery
Mar 04, 2021
Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder
Feb 23, 2021
Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad
Jan 23, 2021
Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo
Jan 15, 2021
Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA
Jan 11, 2021
How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story
Dec 16, 2020
Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!
Dec 08, 2020
Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media
Dec 01, 2020
Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows
Nov 18, 2020
Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve
Oct 31, 2020
Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of all time - Wilhelm Klopp, Simple Poll
Oct 24, 2020
Building a SaaS with just one hour every day - Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)
Oct 19, 2020
What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry, Indie Hackers
Oct 15, 2020
Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - Corey Haines, Swipe Files and more
Oct 07, 2020
How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years - Sabba Keynejad, Veed.io
Sep 24, 2020
What's important for indie hackers in 2020 - Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers
Sep 21, 2020
$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs
Sep 18, 2020
Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles
Sep 16, 2020
Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers - Harry Dry, Marketing Examples
Sep 10, 2020
Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club (prev. Weekend Club)
Sep 07, 2020
Indie Bites Trailer - what's it all about?
Sep 04, 2020