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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.

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15:29

Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of...

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2020/10/24

Wilhelm Klopp is the founder of Simple Poll, a super simple (but powerful) poll Slack app that has over 600k active users. Wil now works on Simple Poll full time having left his job at GitHub in September 2019 (1 year ago 🎉).What we discussed in this episode:Hows the year been after leaving GitHubWhat is Simple PollHow Wil came up with the ideaHow he grew the app to 600k usersWhat he did to start charging for a free appThe danger of building for another platform (Slack)How he transitioned

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15:10

Building a SaaS with just one hour every day -...

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2020/10/19

Mubashar 'Mubs' Iqbal is a prolific maker who has started over 90 projects. Currently Mubs is building Founderpath with Nathan Latka, and on One Hour SaaS where he spends one hour every day working on SaaS businesses.In this episode we talked about:How Mubs got into starting side-projectsHow he comes up with ideas and decides what to work onWhy some of his projects run on auto-pilotHow much it costs to run those that are on auto-pilotHow to sell side-projectsHow to build side-projects

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15:22

What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry,...

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2020/10/15

Rosie Sherry is a community builder, indie hacker and founder. She currently runs the Indie Hackers community and also a weekly newsletter where she talks about building communities. Previously, Rosie founded Ministry of Testing.In this episode we talked about:Rosie's background as an indie hackerGoing full time on Ministry of Testing, growing that into a £1m+ businessWhat it's like running the Indie Hackers communityWhat makes a good Indie Hackers postHow to make the most out of the

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15:26

Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a...

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2020/10/07

Corey Haines is the founder of Swipe Files, he also runs refactoring growth, mental models for marketing, hey marketers and he was previously the head of growth at Baremetrics. I've been a follower of Corey for a while and impressed by the level and consistency of everything he produces.In this episode we talked about:What projects Corey is currently working onWhy he left BaremetricsWhat it's like leaving a stable, full-time job to be an indie hackerHow he manages his time between

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15:00

How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years -...

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2020/09/24

Sabba Keynejad is the co-founder and CEO of VEED - an online video editing platform. VEED is a fully-fledged collaborative video editing product used by many influencers, coaches and businesses for adding subtitles, captions, text, merging videos, making meme videos, turning podcasts to videos and much more.What we covered in this episode:On VeedWhat is Veed?Where did you come up with the idea?What is your current revenue?Had you started and failed with anything before?What made Veed work

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15:05

What's important for indie hackers in 2020 -...

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2020/09/21

Courtland Allen founded Indie Hackers in 2016, grew the business $8k MRR with sponsors, and then sold to Stripe 9 months later. An inspirational story that doesn't end there. Courtland has now been working from within Stripe for the past 4 years, where he continues to build on the platform and produce the excellent Indie Hackers podcast. He's a fountain of knowledge and I think you'll love this episode.What we covered in this episode:On Indie Hackers:Why did Courtland start IH?What is an

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15:46

$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful...

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2020/09/18

Anne-Laure Le Cunff is the founder of Ness Labs, a learning platform dedicated to mindful productivity while also studying neuroscience part-time at King's College with her masters. Previously Anne-Laure worked at Google leaving that job in 2017. As part of Ness Labs, she creates some truly exceptional content that I've had shared with me time and time again, which is evidenced by her 19,000 strong email lists for her newsletter, Maker Mind.Here's what we covered in this episode:On Ness

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15:07

Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles

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2020/09/16

Helen Ryles is a prolific indie hacker, having launched over 40 projects in the last 10 years, selling a few of them along the way. Helen is a proponent of the no code movement, advocating for the tools that allow non-technical folks, like me, create amazing projects. To tie in with this, she also runs the community at Makerpad, the no-code education and community platform.Thanks to Weekend Club for sponsoring Indie Bites.‘I absolutely love being part of Weekend Club.’‘Huge fan of Weekend

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15:27

Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers...

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2020/09/10

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 with 30,000 subscribers and 50,000 Twitter followers. An incredible growth story from a smart marketer.In 2022, Harry also created Copywriting Examples, the site for anyone writing new copy. Here's what we covered in this episode:On

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13:37

Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward,...

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2020/09/07

In this episode we discuss:On Ramen Club (formerly Weekend Club)How would you describe Ramen Club?Where did you come up with the idea for Ramen Club & IndieBeers?What was your initial plan for making revenue with Ramen Club?What's your revenue now?What have you done specifically to grow those first few users?On Community BuildingYou've cultivated quite the community in London, why did you choose to build the community here?What does it take to build an active community? Is it as simple

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1:39

Indie Bites Trailer - what's it all about?

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2020/09/04

I'm your host James McKinven, I'm the founder of a podcasting company called Striqo and passionate indie hacker.Now I love long podcasts and what Courtland Allen has done with the Indie Hackers show, but this podcast will just supplement that. With less commuting, we now have less time to listen to podcasts and those long, albeit interesting, backstories. I'll aim to cut to the chase and find out what it really takes to build a sustainable, profitable business on the side.I'm James, I run a

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