#185 – How Courtland Allen Built Indie Hackers, with Ben and David from Acquired

Synopsis

On an episode of Acquired, Courtland Allen tells his full founder origin story — from childhood/college through Fmail (Gmail-in-Facebook), Syphir (advanced Gmail filters), and Taskforce (YC-backed email-to-task tool), to launching Indie Hackers in 2016 and the Stripe acquisition. It is largely a personal retrospective rather than a tactical breakdown.