How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit

What's important for indie hackers in 2020 - Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers: Courtland Allen is the founder of Indie Hackers. He started the community that has inspired so many of us to start our bootstrapped businesses and changed our lives for the better. In this conversation, we speak about why Courtland started Indie Hackers, by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Building a SaaS with just one hour every day - Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs): Mubs is a prolific maker, having made over 90 side projects throughout his career. I was interested to find out what it takes to come up with ideas, validate them and then execute so quickly. Currently, Mubs is building Founderpath with Nathan Latka, and by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder: In this episode I speak with Arvid Kahl, who sold his SaaS, FeedbackPanda, for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the business and growing it to $55k a month. Arvid writes on TheBootstrappedFounder.com because bootstrapping by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows: What's it like making a full-time income in just a day, meaning you have the remaining four days to do whatever you want with? Well, that's exactly the situation Ramy Khuffash is in. It certainly has it's benefits, but there are some challenges you might by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!: Rob Hope is a South African designer, developer and founder of One Page Love; which you might have seen. Rob is an expert on Landing Pages so we talk a little about what makes one that stands out, but then we also talk about Rob's multiple products and h by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - Corey Haines, Swipe Files and more: As of the week we recorded this, Corey Haines became a full-time Indie Hacker, working on his profitable side projects he'd built alongside his role as Head of Growth at Baremetrics. Corey builds things quickly and makes the most of his time, with a varie by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Indie Bites Trailer - what's it all about?: Welcome to Indie Bites. This podcast will bring you short, bite-sized conversations (no more than 15 minutes) with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to val by Indie Bites

2 min listen

Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles: Helen Ryles knows what it takes to start and sell side-projects. Having started her entrepreneurial journey over 10 years ago, she has launched over 40 side projects in that time, selling a few of them along the way. Now leading the community at Makerpad, by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media: I’ve got a slightly different format today as I’m speaking with podcast expert, Mark Asquith, about the benefits of podcasting for Indie Hackers. Mark is no stranger to building businesses, running a portfolio of podcast-focused businesses here in the UK. by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo: Today we're joined by Dan Rowden, who is an entrepreneur and product builder currently based in Mauritius. Dan, like many other indie hackers runs a bunch of projects alongside a full-time job, which all compound to him making over $5k a month with these by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers - Harry Dry, Marketing Examples: Harry Dry is the founder of Marketing Examples, a fast-growing showcase of successful startup marketing stories. When I first spoke to Harry on the Marketing Mashup about a year ago, he was on 5,000 subscribers and £1k revenue. Now, he has 6x that amount by Indie Bites

15 min listen

What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry, Indie Hackers: Rosie Sherry is a community-building expert, so I wanted to find out what it takes to build one from the ground up. It's certainly not easy, but if you're prepared to put in the work, get to know your people, and keep them actively interested, you'll do w by Indie Bites

15 min listen

How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years - Sabba Keynejad, Veed.io: I first met Sabba at a pub in London when Veed was just an early beta product making $0. Fast forward a few years, Veed is now making over $100,000 a month and growing rapidly. It's well-executed product in a growing market, but that hasn't stopped Sabba by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of all time - Wilhelm Klopp, Simple Poll: Wilhelm Klopp has had an interesting journey as an indie hacker, leaving his comfortable job as a software engineer at GitHub, to creating one of the most popular Slack apps of all time, Simple Poll. The app has been installed on over 600,000 workspaces a by Indie Bites

15 min listen

4 years of failed projects to full-time indie hacker - Kenneth Cassel, Pointer.gg: I speak with Kenneth Cassel, founder of Pointer.gg about his indie hacking journey. by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Weekend Club: Charlie is the founder of Weekend Club, an online community of indie hackers, all working with each other to reach their side project goals and stay accountable. Weekend Club was born out of the London indie hacker meetup Charlie also founded called Indie by Indie Bites

14 min listen

Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve: Paying down any amount of debt is difficult, let alone $250,000 of it. That's exactly what Nick Fogle did as he faced that number on Christmas day in 2016. Nick made it his sole focus to pay down his debt, while working full time and co-running Wavve, an by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad: In this episode I talk to Philip Kiely, Head of Marketing at Gumroad, about how he made 20k in his first week selling an info product, why the creator economy is booming, and how you can launch your own product. by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Building a $15m GMV side-project at 15 years old - Che Sampat, SuperPay: I speak with Che Sampat, the 18 year old founder of SuperPay, a no-code Stripe checkout app. by Indie Bites

16 min listen

$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs: Anne-Laure inspired me with this conversation covering how she grew Ness Labs to over 600 paying members ($3k MRR), how to be mindfully productive (backed by her research as a Neuroscience masters student), and what we can do as a community to be more inc by Indie Bites

16 min listen

How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story: In this episode, Pat Walls, founder of Starter Story is sharing how he made 20k in pre-sales on his new SEO course in just 2 weeks. by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show: Danny Miranda runs the Danny Miranda Show, a podcast he's rapidly grown to 50k downloads in just 6 months. He's relentless, focused and consistent, publishing 3 episodes a week with some of his favorite authors and entrepreneurs. In this episode we discus by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects: Ben Stokes is the indie hacker behind Tiny Projects, where he shares the ups and downs of starting small indie businesses. He's created a ice cream business and a cookie dough business amongst other things and his most recent project, Mailoji, made $10k i by Indie Bites

17 min listen

$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host: In this episode we have Elston Baretto, who is the founder of Tiiny Host and is probabably in a similar position to most indie hackers - working on his side-project that earns a few hundred dollars MRR, alongside a full time job. We talk about how Elston by Indie Bites

16 min listen

From $500k to $1m in 6 months with a podcast agency - Harry Morton, Lowerstreet: Today I'm joined by my friend Harry Morton, who runs Lower Street Media, a podcast production agency behind some of the highest-quality podcasts I listen to. Over the past 6 months, Harry has doubled his agency revenue from $500k to $1m, but this certainl by Indie Bites

17 min listen

Growing an online card tool to $23k a month - Valentin Hinov, Thankbox: A chat with Thankbox founder, Val Hinov, who grew the tool to $23k with his one-time purchase online card tool. by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Building a portfolio of projects to $6k in one month - Pete Codes, No CS Degree: Pete Codes is my favourite kind of indie hacker. He thought "what have I got to lose, and went all in with his side-project". 2 years later, he's running a profitable business that sustains him, and allows Pete to work in a way he wants to. In this episod by Indie Bites

16 min listen

How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit: Natalie Nagele is the co-founder of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk, People-First Jobs and more. Wildbit has just turned 20 years old, so Natalie knows exactly what it takes to grow and scale successful bootstrapped businesses. In this epi by Indie Bites

16 min listen

Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery: Marie started the Notion Mastery course back in Nov 2019, growing that to a mid 6-figure business in under a year. Her whole business has been built on taking a leap of faith an niching down and putting her sole focus on this notion course. In this episod by Indie Bites

15 min listen

Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia: I'm joined by bootstrapping legend Spencer Fry and we talk about how beer can turn into VC funding. Other things were discussed, such as predictions for the creator economy, opportunities that exist within that market and if you should get a co-founder. by Indie Bites

15 min listen

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