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Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Apr 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Matt 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 General Assembly
06:33 Front End Mentor
08:33 Building a scrappy MVP
11:29 Growth for Front End Mentor
15:03 Reccos
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00:00 Intro
02:16 Playing Poker full time
02:58 Becoming a personal trainer
04:24 Learning to code with General Assembly
06:33 Front End Mentor
08:33 Building a scrappy MVP
11:29 Growth for Front End Mentor
15:03 Reccos
Recommendations
Book - badass make users awesome
Podcast - Acquired
Indie Hacker - Arvid Kahl, Valentin Wallyn
Follow MattTwitterMy links
Indie Bites Twitter
Indie Bites YouTube
Join the membership
Personal Website
2 Hour Podcast Course
PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
This Indie Life Podcast
Sponsor - EmailOctopus ?EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.
Released:
Apr 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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