Indie Bites
By James McKinven
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Episodes: 114
Description
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.
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Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Building a financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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How to find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP
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May 27, 2023 |
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Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Building a 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Building a $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Daniel Fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops
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May 28, 2022 |
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Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot
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May 14, 2022 |
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r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink
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May 07, 2022 |
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Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy
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May 03, 2022 |
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Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Why your product needs marketing - Dagobert Renouf, Logology
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping a portfolio of SaaS products to $3k MRR - Jim Raptis, BrandBird
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Candle dealer builds $5k MRR software to solve own problem - Dianna Allen & Jeremy Blalock, Inventora
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Gumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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A solo $130k MRR productized design service - Brett Williams, Designjoy
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Growing an online card tool to $23k a month - Valentin Hinov, Thankbox
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Building a $15m GMV side-project at 15 years old - Che Sampat, SuperPay
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Mental health as a founder and the importance of community - Tom Ross, Design Cuts
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Growing to $8.5k MRR in 1 year - Marie Martens, Tally.so
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Growing to $4m+ despite Apple cloning their product - Matt Ronge, Astropad
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping a SaaS to millions in revenue - Ben Orenstein, Tuple
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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4 years of failed projects to full-time indie hacker - Kenneth Cassel, Pointer.gg
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Nailing your marketing as a founder - Peter Suhm, Reform
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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From lifelong bootstrapper to raising calm funding - Brian Casel, ZipMessage
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Leaving a $500k job to build a portfolio of small bets - Daniel Vassallo
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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From $500k to $1m in 6 months with a podcast agency - Harry Morton, Lowerstreet
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Taking on Google with Fathom Analytics and growing a course to $150k - Jack Ellis, Fathom
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Building a portfolio of projects to $6k in one month - Pete Codes, No CS Degree
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Growing Upvoty to $17k MRR - Mike Slaats, Upvoty
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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$250 to $3k MRR in 4 months with a Notion website builder - Noah Bragg, Potion
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Bootstrapping two $3k MRR projects, selling one for $55k - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health challenges [Bonus]
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Struggling with my own mental health
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May 15, 2021 |
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Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of all time - Wilhelm Klopp, Simple Poll
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Building a SaaS with just one hour every day - Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry, Indie Hackers
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - Corey Haines, Swipe Files and more
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years - Sabba Keynejad, Veed.io
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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What's important for indie hackers in 2020 - Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers - Harry Dry, Marketing Examples
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club (prev. Weekend Club)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Indie Bites Trailer - what's it all about?
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Sep 04, 2020 |