Indie Bites
117 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsShort, 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
April 25, 2024 14:09 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBMatt 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 ...
Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer
April 10, 2024 14:01 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBManu 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.
Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining
April 03, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBMax 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...
Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer
March 27, 2024 08:34 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBMax 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. Ti...
Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson
January 24, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBToday 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...
Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife
January 11, 2024 15:45 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBKieran 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...
B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic
January 03, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBToday 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 ...
How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020)
December 27, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBToday 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 Sequoia. 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 spe...
Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom
December 20, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBGilbert 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, ...
Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful
December 13, 2023 07:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBToday 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:...
The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides
December 06, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBToday 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...
Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder
November 29, 2023 07:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBArvid 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 scratchi...
Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform
November 22, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBHarvey 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 ...
How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club
November 15, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBToday 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 Clu...
Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans
November 08, 2023 08:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBToday 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 bootstrapp...
Building a financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson
November 01, 2023 14:44 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBIn 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 th...
Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom
October 13, 2023 15:38 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBRob 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 m...
Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
October 05, 2023 09:52 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBAaron 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 t...
$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
September 28, 2023 16:53 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBToday 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 a...
Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey
September 21, 2023 14:19 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBToday 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 inf...
Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White
September 04, 2023 13:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBJonny 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 beyon...
Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces
August 03, 2023 12:59 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBRyan 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 a...
Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY
July 21, 2023 12:07 - 16 minutes - 15 MBTim 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...
Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery
July 04, 2023 16:42 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBIn 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 worki...
Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion
June 14, 2023 11:41 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBMarc 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 pub...
Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
June 01, 2023 18:50 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBIn 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 ...
How to find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP
May 27, 2023 12:14 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MBToday 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 - Untethe...
Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert
April 30, 2023 01:34 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBMatt 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 Gener...
Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side
April 19, 2023 23:42 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBJordan 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:...
Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock
April 12, 2023 13:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBJosh 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 - T...
Building a 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science
April 05, 2023 13:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBJay 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...
Building a $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown
April 01, 2023 18:33 - 15 minutes - 14 MBJustin 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 Orig...
Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic
March 25, 2023 15:44 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBJack 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. ...
From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)
March 19, 2023 16:47 - 16 minutes - 13.2 MBElston 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, Whitstable Craft Co. Topics covered: Hitting $10k MRR Why PDF hosting has been pivotal for growth Build what people search for Why SEO...
Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner
March 15, 2023 19:31 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBPatrick Posner is the creator of a portfolio of Wordpress plugins which have been downloaded almost a million times 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 hackers who are creating the dream life for themselves. What we covered in this episode: Building Wordpress plugins on the side of a da...
From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)
March 10, 2023 14:26 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBAlex 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 gets him excited every day. 👉 My side project, Whitstable Craft Co. What we covered in this episode: Why Alex dropped out of school Codi...
Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos
March 08, 2023 10:10 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBCraig 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, but he also writes a weekly newsletter called Founder Insights. What we covered in this episode: Craig's background in sales Launchi...
Daniel Fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software
March 03, 2023 09:19 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBToday 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, door to door sales and finally he’s not changed the price of the product since it’s launch 6 years ago. What we covered in this episod...
How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs
March 01, 2023 12:14 - 15 minutes - 12.8 MBTim 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 experimenting with different marketing channel to bring Ahrefs to its current size. In this episode Tim brings a mini SEO masterclass for SaaS found...
Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather
January 17, 2023 16:39 - 16 minutes - 13.7 MBToday I’m joined by Jared Maddern, the founder of Beamhouse Leather, a leather supply business he’s grown to £45k in sales in the past 2 years. Some of you might know I run a handmade leather wallet business on the side, called Whitstable Craft Co, and so this is a little look into the other part of my life. Although Jared doesn’t run an indie SaaS, I wanted to bring slightly different perspective of being an indie entreprenuer. We discuss how building a business in a growing marke...
How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop
November 15, 2022 23:44 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBLouis Nicholls is the co-founder of SparkLoop, a product that helps newsletter operators grow through referral partnerships. Indie hackers might know Louis from his Sales for Founders course which he ran a few years ago, as well as his many other projects. What we covered in this episode: How Sparkloop Started How Louis met his cofounder Manuel Going Niche vs Broad Pursuing a growing market What is your unique competitive advantage? Avoiding shiny object syndrome Speaking to...
Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity
November 08, 2022 06:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MBKyle Gawley is the founder of Gravity, which he’s bootstrapped to over $25k p/m. In 2012, he scaled a vc-backed company, called Get Invited, to $5m in sales, before a near-death experience made him rethink how he lived his life. Now, Kyle is travelling the world building his bootstrapped SaaS. Let’s find out how he did it. Join the Indie Bites membership 👈 What we covered in this episode Starting out on the VC path What Kyle loved about working in VC Having a near death experie...
Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
November 02, 2022 13:23 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBSam King is the founder of Flick, a tool for managing and growing your social media, doing over $3.5m ARR fully bootstrapped. Sam has taken a unique path into bootstrapping, first being a YouTuber, then running an agency before flipping it into a SaaS with Flick. There is an hour long extended version of this show available on the Indie Bites membership, head to indiebites.com/membership to sub. What we covered in this episode: Starting out as a YouTuber Pivoting from YouTuber to...
A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy
October 26, 2022 07:15 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBMichele Hansen is the co-founder of Geocodio, a SaaS business that provides geocoding and data matching for addresses, co-host of the fantastic podcast Software Social and author of the book Deploy Empathy, which is all about how to do great customer interviews. We cover a lot of ground in this short episode, including how to write a book, building in public and mental health as a founder. Along with some concrete tips on how exactly you can do customer research. What we covered in...
Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io
October 04, 2022 20:21 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBMacgill Davis and Will Goto are the founders of Rize, a time-tracking platform that helps you increase your productivity, started in August 2020. Will and Macgill met at a company called Peer, which then got acquired by Twitter, they then left Twitter and founded a company called Humble Dot, which they raised for but unfortunately had to shut down. Join the membership for extended conversations 👈 What we covered in this episode: Working on a side project while at Twitter Raising...
Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World
September 27, 2022 06:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MBMilly Tamati is not your usual founder. She lives on an remote island off Scotland with a population of just 170 people, previously co-owned a hostel in Thailand, co-founded a wine-tour in Australia and founded an illustration-agency in the UK. Now she’s working on a community called generalist.world, where’s she’s helping generalists like us indie hackers, find like minded individuals and jobs that fit us well. What we covered in this episode: Living on a remote island with 170 p...
Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit
September 26, 2022 10:28 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBToday I’m joined by Dominik Sobe, the founder of Helpkit, a product he started last year that turns Notion pages into a professional help center, doing $4.5k MRR. In this episode we talk about Dom’s many failed projects, how he finally found something that worked with Helpkit and how he went from wanting to be a management consultant to being an indie hacker. What we covered in this episode: Dom’s previous projects Wanting to become a management consultant Management consultant ...
Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs
September 13, 2022 16:26 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBJoe Masilotti is the founder of RailsDevs a reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers, which is over $4k MRR and on for $100k revenue. Joe also runs the monthly Hotwire Dev newsletter, which has over 2,000 subs. And then late last year, Joe sold his side-project Mugshot Bot, which he took from idea to sale in just 14 months. What we covered on this episode: How and why Joe sold Mugshot Bot at $200 MRR When to stop working on projects How RailsDevs started with a spreadsheet...
Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta
September 06, 2022 17:33 - 16 minutes - 15 MBGeoff Roberts is the co-founder of Outseta, a bootstrapped all-in-one platform to help manage and grow your recurring revenue business. Before Outseta, Geoff was Head of Marketing for Buildium, a product that went through the phases of bootstrapping, raising and exiting, that was started by current co-founder Dimitris. What we covered in this episode: Taking a big 15 year bet on your business Going into an established, durable market Why not raise for the company? Single focus ...
Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow
August 30, 2022 22:22 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBDavid Kofoed Wind is the co-founder and CEO of Eduflow an education platform started in 2015 as Peergrade, which was a peer to peer feedback tool. David is the definition of technical, having studied for a degree in applied math and computer science, then a Ph.D in machine learning. This is where the idea for Peergrade was born, as he started teach a course in data science and solved his own problem. 👉 Extended version of this episode. What we covered in this episode: How Peergra...