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Indie Bites

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.

business entrepreneurship

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16:15

Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey

Indie Bites ·

2021/09/15

Baird is a 4x SaaS founder based in Charleston, SC. His background is in sales, marketing, and support. He bootstrapped and grew two SaaS companies to over $1M in ARR. When he isn't working on Churnkey's sales and marketing, he is on the water with his wife and daughter.What we covered in this episode:The big challenges faced when bootstrappingDid Baird always want to bootstrapWhy leave a job to start a companyDid he ever get funding from utalkHow did Waave come about?How to avoid quitting

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15:26

Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai

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2021/09/10

Blake Emal is the CMO at Copy.ai, but it's not been a traditional route into that role. 8 years ago Blake was living in the South of France and when he moved back to the US, he had no idea what he wanted to do. As he spoke French, he landed a gig in the French team of an SEO firm. This was his first foray into marketing and he didn't intend to stay in marketing.Fast forward 7 years of working for agencies, freelancing and in-house, he stumbled across a little tool called Copy.ai. He was

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19:44

Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health...

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2021/08/05

Listen to the full conversation here on Stefan's podcast.This is about 17 minutes of a recording with my friend Stefan on his Founder Hot Seat podcast, which is a show that explores the real challenges that founders have in their business and how to overcome them.I've had a ton of messages from people after listening to my previous bonus episode where I explained some of the challenges I've had with mental health over the past few months, and this episode was super helpful for me to

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16:28

Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts -...

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2021/07/25

Justin Jackson is the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a successful bootstrapped podcast hosting company. The journey building Transistor were documented on the Build Your SaaS podcast, which is a must listen. Justin is the founder of the MegaMaker community which he started in 2013, so if you're part of the maker sphere - you'll probably have heard of him.In this episode we cover:What is Transistor and why did they start itWhy work in podcast hosting? Was it not already a solved problem?How

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16:49

Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email...

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2021/06/14

Ben Stokes a full stack developer and entrepreneur based in Bristol in the UK, who's started an ice cream business and cookie dough business amongst other things. Ben, like many indie hackers, has a bunch of small side project ideas, but not enough time to do them. So he started Tiny Projects. Tiny Projects documents his progress with these small ideas, launching 6 projects since May last year, including One Item Store, which he sold, and his most recent, Mailoji, which has just crossed

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15:02

Struggling with my own mental health

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2021/05/15

I've never really understood mental health, or those who have had these challenges in the past. So when I've had my own challenges, I've struggled to comprehend what has been happening to me. This episode is hopefully an interesting insight into how I've been feeling over the past few months to hopefully help others who might be going through a similar thing.Here's some things I talk about:Where I've beenOverworkingWhat went wrongWhy I didn't notice a problemWhy family and friends are so

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15:25

Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months -...

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2021/04/07

Today I'm joined by Danny Miranda, who is the host of The Danny Miranda podcast, which has rapidly grown to over 50,000 downloads in less than 6 months. He publishes 3x a week and has had some awesome guests including Harry Dry, Gary Vee and David Perell. Danny is a walking case study of shooting your shot, making your own luck and having laser focus on one single thing.But this episode isn't going to be about podcasting specifically, we're going to talk about how consistency, compounding

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15:51

Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick...

Indie Bites ·

2021/03/24

Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a new approach to calendar scheduling and has grown to multiple thousands MRR since he launched it earlier in 2020. Derrick also co-founded Drip with Rob Walling in 2012, which was acquired by Leadpages in 2016. You might have heard Derrick on the Art of Product podcast with Tuple co-founder Ben Orenstein where they document their journey building their products.Get ad-free and extended conversations of the podcast with Indie Feast membership, for

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15:37

How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie...

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2021/03/20

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. What makes Natalie so interesting to me is that she’s in the group of seriously successful indie hackers (over 100k customers, around for 20 years, pretty large team etc.) and they’re still indie very much living by their own rules.What we covered in

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15:34

$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and...

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2021/03/17

Elston Baretto is the founder of Tiiny.host and is in a similar position to most indie hackers - working on his side-project alongside a full time job, but has had a career packed with learnings that we're going to talk through in this episode. Elston started out his career at JP Morgan, having reluctantly accepted a graduate job he planned to stay at for 6 months. 4 years later, he was still at the conglomerate bank, but he wasn't satisfied staying there for the rest of his career.While at

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15:28

Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a...

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2021/03/04

Marie Poulin is the host of Notion Office Hours, creator of Notion Mastery, Run Your Learning Launch, Digital Strategy School, Think Like a Digital Strategist, and co-founded Oki Doki with her husband, where they help folks create, launch, and market online courses and training programs.What we covered in this episode:What is Notion Mastery and why did Marie start it?The impact YouTube had on growthHow the course earned $10k in the first weekWhy Marie doubled down on the course as her main

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15:45

Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m...

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2021/02/23

Arvid Kahl is a software engineer turned entrepreneur. He co-founded and FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the business. Arvid writes on TheBootstrappedFounder.com because bootstrapping is a desirable, value- and wealth-generating way of running a company. In over a decade of working in startup businesses of all sizes, Arvid has learned a

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15:30

Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad -...

Indie Bites ·

2021/01/23

Today we're joined by Philip Kiely, who is currently Head of Marketing at Gumroad. Philip also launched "Writing for Software Developers" last May, making $20,000 in sales in its first week without any pre-existing audience. Since then, Philip has been on a mission to help as many software developers as possible realize that they possess the skills they need to become great writers. What we covered in this episode:Why Philip wrote 'Writing for Software Developers'How Philip made $20k in 24

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15:36

Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side...

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2021/01/15

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. In 2012 he started Magpile, a free online resource about magazines, which was followed by Subsail, a platform to help indie publishers sell magazine subscriptions.Earlier this year Dan started using the publishing platform Ghost, which he then started to build a suite of products around, now including:Gloat; a productised service for hosting and self

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15:25

Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles...

Indie Bites ·

2021/01/11

Dianna Allen is the founder of TERRA, a DTC candle brand, where she designs and hand pours a variety of candles. In October 2020, Dianna left her life as a freelancer behind to put her efforts into TERRA full-time, which as we all know, is a huge leap to make.What we covered:Should more indie hackers work on physical products?What happened with Budget Meal Planner?Should more indie hackers kill projects more often?Does turning a passion into a business take the enjoyment away?What was the

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15:32

How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO...

Indie Bites ·

2020/12/16

Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started their business and how they grew it, including revenue figures for every business they interview.But in this episode, we’re going to be discussing the new SEO course that Pat launched this week, making over $20k in pre-sales.What we covered20k in 2 weeks, how did you do it?How and why Pat started Starter Story?How he

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15:39

Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love...

Indie Bites ·

2020/12/08

Today I’m joined by Rob Hope, who is a South African designer, developer and the host of one of my favorite podcasts out there for entrepreneurs Yo!. He's also the founder of One Page Love, Email Love, and has recently released an ebook with a hundred landing page tips. It's safe to say Rob knows his stuff. When it comes to building landing pages, having started One Page Love back in 2008.What we discussed in this episode:Have we lost the joy of simplicity?How to cut through the noiseWhat

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15:28

Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark...

Indie Bites ·

2020/12/01

Mark Asquith (aka That British Podcast Guy) is the CEO of Rebel Base Media, the U.K. podcast tech company that makes Captivate.fm and so much more. What we discussed in this episode:What makes podcasting such a good mediumIs the amount of investment in podcasting (from the likes of Spotify) a good thing?Is podcasting oversaturated?What does it take to grow a podcast?How to stay consistent with producing your showHow Mark started out with his businessesBootstrapping the next

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15:23

Making a full-time income working just one day per...

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2020/11/18

Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers. Ramy started Page Flows after building a UI newsletter to thousands of subscribers, trying to improve his own skills as a developer who cares about design. Ramy is now a full-time indie hacker, with Page Flows making enough revenue to sustain him, alongside a few other side projects.What we discussed in this episode:Is the full-time indie hacker dream all it's made out to beWhy Ramy tried six

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15:46

Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making...

Indie Bites ·

2020/10/31

Nick Fogle is the co-founder of Wavve and ChurnKey, but there is a lot more to Nick than just that. Wavve is an audio to video platform which has now hit $1.5m in ARR, but Nick has only left his full time job 3 years after starting the company and 9 months after it had eclipsed his salary. Why? Well, Nick had $250,000 student loans to pay off.What we covered in this episode:How Nick got into $250,000 of debtHow he felt in Christmas 2016 when he was looking at the massive numberWhat steps he

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