#182 – Selling Shovels During the Podcasting Gold Rush with Mubashar Iqbal

Synopsis

Mubashar Iqbal — who has shipped close to 100 side projects — talks about opportunities for indie hackers in the podcasting space, including Pod Hunt, Podcast Ping (uptime monitoring for podcasters), and Podcast Hosting Review. The episode also speculates on whether Spotify is becoming the 'Death Star' of podcasting.

Ideas in this episode

• Podcaster tooling micro-SaaS suite

  Mubashar Iqbal argues for shipping many small podcast-tooling sites (Pod Hunt, Podcast Ping, Podcast Hosting Review) and questions Spotify's dominance.

• Niche affiliate SEO site

  Mubashar Iqbal's Podcast Hosting Review is presented as a review and comparison resource in the podcasting niche, and he also runs Podcast Ping and Pod Hunt as adjacent tools for the same audience.

• Niche content site

  Mubashar Iqbal discusses podcasting-focused projects including Pod Hunt, Podcast Ping, and Podcast Hosting Review, operating content and tool sites aimed at podcasters as a niche audience.