#010 – Growing Your Social Media Presence and Building an Audience with Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar

#006 – Launching Your Product and Finding Customers Immediately with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics: Josh Pigford went from having an idea to having paying customers in eight days. Less than six months later he was making $14,000/month. In this episode, you'll learn exactly how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

45 min listen

#007 – Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo with John O'Nolan of Ghost: John O'Nolan explains how he used his industry experience to come up with a simple idea, built a landing page that converted 30,000 email subscribers, and raised $300,000 on Kickstarter. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#013 – How to overcome the biggest challenges to your online business with patio11: Patrick McKenzie divulges his wisdom around how to develop promising business ideas, find your first customers, convince smart people to work with you, generate more revenue, and stay happy while doing it. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#001 – Building an Audience and Being Scrappy with Jason Grishkoff of SubmitHub: Jason Grishkoff, the founder of SubmitHub, proves that being scrappy and doing things that don't scale (like sending 1000 emails) can lead to explosive growth. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#002 – Fueling Growth with SEO and Content Marketing with Chris Chen of Instapainting: Learn how Instapainting founder Chris Chen used a combination of SEO and content marketing to grow his business to $32k/month in sales. Brought to you by ProductManagerHQ.com. by Indie Hackers

59 min listen

#009 – Breaking Into Bootstrapping Your Own SaaS Business with Clifford Oravec of Tamboo: Thinking about becoming an indie hacker? Learn how to start, what skills you need, and the biggest pitfalls to avoid in this discussion I had with Clifford Oravec, author of The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup. by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

#024 – From Side Projects to Serial Entrepreneur with Moritz Dausinger: Moritz Dausinger started off like so many of us, releasing and then abandoning project after project. But when he launched Mailparser, something changed. Listen to the story of how he built, grew, and sold a profitable business as a solo founder. by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

#018 – Finding Your First Paying Customers with Wade Foster of Zapier: How did a company that nobody'd ever heard of find hundreds of beta users, and even convince them to pay for access? Wade Foster tells the story behind user acquisition at Zapier. by Indie Hackers

52 min listen

#008 – Growing a $600,000/mo Business by Starting with Direct Sales with Nathan Barry of ConvertKit: Learn how Nathan Barry grew his business by teaching what he knew, taking advantage of big competitors, showing up every day for two years, and treating direct sales as the answer to everything. Brought to you by Vettery. by Indie Hackers

60 min listen

#033 – Finding Your Next Idea with Philippe Lehoux of MissiveApp.com: Ever since he launched a profitable website as a teenager, Philippe Lehoux has had an uncanny ability to find something bigger and better to work on. Learn how a lifetime of experience as an entrepreneur has given him the confidence to move on from a busi by Indie Hackers

59 min listen

#014 – Delivering More Value and Charging More Money with Brennan Dunn of DoubleYourFreelancing.com: Brennan Dunn has earned $20k/week as a freelancer, grown an agency to millions in revenue, started and sold a SaaS product, and makes over $100k/mo from his online courses. Learn how he thinks about business. by Indie Hackers

62 min listen

#003 – Bootstrapping a SaaS Business to $30,000,000/year with David Hauser of Grasshopper: David Hauser explains how prioritizing selling early on, talking to customers, and rigorously testing marketing channels helped him bootstrap to $30M/year. Brought to you by DixonAndMoe.com. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#039 – Success Ten Years in the Making with Amir Salihefendic of Doist: When he wrote the first lines of code in his dorm room for his personal to-do list app, Todoist, Amir had no idea that it would eventually become one of the most popular apps of all time. Learn about his winding path to building a successful company, and by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#005 – How the VC Business Model Co-Opts Entrepreneurs' Visions with Bryce Roberts of Indie.vc: Why is the VC narrative so dominant? Bryce Roberts, partner at Indie.vc, talks about why it's important to focus on generating revenue from the beginning. Brought to you by DixonAndMoe.com. by Indie Hackers

49 min listen

#016 – Building a $1 Million Business Solo with Mike Perham of Sidekiq: Learn how Mike Perham turned his open-source side project into a business, quit his job, and grew revenue to $80,000/mo without making a single hire. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#019 – Solving Your Own Problem with Todd Garland of BuySellAds: Todd Garland went from being a blogger who published ads on his website to creating one of the leading advertising platforms on the web. Here's his story. by Indie Hackers

52 min listen

#012 – Traveling, Learning to Code, and Bootstrapping to $25k/mo with Tyler Tringas of Storemapper: Tyler Tringas talks about the difference between good and bad ideas, launching new products in days not months, finding your first customers one at a time, hiring effectively, and more. by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

#029 – How to Win by Refusing to Quit with Tracy Osborn of Hello Web Design: Tracy Osborn once asked herself, "Should I learn how to code, or quit my startup?" You can guess which answer she chose, time and time again. Learn how relentless perseverance over time can help build a successful business. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#021 – Starting a Mission-Driven Company with Rachel Carpenter of Intrinio: The early team behind Intrinio got off to a very challenging start. In this episode, Rachel explains how being dedicated to their mission helped them stay scrappy and persevere through the hard times. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#025 – Becoming the Internet's Most Prolific Maker with Mubashar Iqbal: In 2016, Mubashar Iqbal was named as Product Hunt's Maker of the Year for launching more products and better products than anyone else. In this episodes, Mubs shares his thoughts on what allows him to be uniquely prolific. by Indie Hackers

57 min listen

#004 – Succeeding in a Crowded Market by Building a Niche Business with Garrett Dimon of Sifter: How do you cut through the noise and stand out among the competition so you can start landing your first customers? Garrett Dimon, the creator of Sifter, explains how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#037 – The Story of WorkFlowy: From $0 to $800,000 a Year with Jesse Patel: Jesse Patel and his cofounder Mike built a product good enough to attract 20k users a month with no marketing. But it's not all roses. Co-founder disputes, competitors and clones, money problems, and real-life responsibilities have kept them on their toes by Indie Hackers

63 min listen

#010 – Growing Your Social Media Presence and Building an Audience with Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar: The point of marketing is to draw new people in to your business every day, but how exactly do you go about doing that? Laura Roeder, who bootstrapped her business to $4M/year, explains how to build an audience. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#042 – Bootstrapping in a Crowded Market with Gareth and Jonathan Bull: There's some stiff competition in the email marketing space, but that didn't stop brothers Gareth and Jonathan Bull. Learn how they overcame some significant business and interpersonal challenges to build EmailOctopus into a profitable, bootstrapped busin by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#020 – Building a Million Dollar Mailing List with Scott of Scott's Cheap Flights: Learn how Scott Keyes grew his mailing list from 300 to 600,000 subscribers and $4M in revenue in two years. by Indie Hackers

57 min listen

#022 – Going Full-Time on Your Side Project with Dave DeSandro of Metafizzy: Not everybody gets to work for the internet, floating from project to project and doing creative work that they love, but Dave DeSandro does just that. Learn how he's made a career for himself by building and designing widgets that tens of thousands of ot by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#036 – From Two Failed Startups to $10,000,000 in Revenue with David Darmanin: When he started Hotjar two and a half years ago, David Darmanin never expected it to grow so quickly. In this episode, we explore how David's past failures, learnings, and jobs as a marketer contributed to the incredible success of his business today. by Indie Hackers

56 min listen

#015 – Data-Driven Marketing and Sales with Alex MacCaw of Clearbit: Alex MacCaw started Clearbit.com as a solo founder, and he's since grown it to millions of dollars in annual profit. Learn the marketing and sales techniques he's used to reach over 1000 customers. by Indie Hackers

56 min listen

#011 – How Ryan Bednar Went from SEO Consulting to Building an SEO Product That Makes $80,000/mo: Turning your skillset into a product that solves customers' problems is one of the best ways to start a business. Learn how Ryan Bedndar came up with an idea, iterated on his product, and found his first customers. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#035 – "Definitely Not Trying to Fit In" with Tobias van Schneider: How do you get people to notice what you're doing and sign up in droves? If Tobias van Schneider is any indication, the last thing you should do is try to fit in. Learn how his history of counterintuitive decisions, going against the grain, and having zer by Indie Hackers

93 min listen

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