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Reuben Pressman of Presence, a marketplace connecting families with in-home care providers, describes building a mission-driven company.…
Mubashar 'Mubs' Iqbal, Product Hunt's 2016 Maker of the Year, discusses what allows him to ship more products than most founders, including…
Moritz Dausinger of Mailparser tells how he went from launching and abandoning many side projects to building and eventually selling…
Nir Eyal, author of 'Hooked', explains the Hook Model — trigger, action, variable reward, investment — that he says any product can use to…
Dave DeSandro of Metafizzy describes how he makes a living building and designing small JavaScript widgets (Isotope, Flickity, etc.) used…
Rachel Carpenter of fintech data marketplace Intrinio recounts how her early team pushed through a tough start by staying scrappy and…
Scott Keyes explains how he grew Scott's Cheap Flights (now Going) from a 300-subscriber newsletter to about 600,000 subscribers and…
Todd Garland of BuySellAds describes going from a blogger placing ads on his own site to building one of the web's larger advertising…
Wade Foster, co-founder of Zapier, recounts how the company found its first paying customers when nobody had heard of the product, turning…
Growth consultant Julian Shapiro talks about what makes a business's numbers grow, covering frameworks and stories drawn from his work…
Mike Perham, creator of the open-source Sidekiq background-job library for Ruby, turned his side project into a solo business that grew to…
Alex MacCaw, founder of Clearbit (a data API for enriching leads and contacts), explains how he started the company solo and grew it to…
Brennan Dunn, founder of DoubleYourFreelancing, discusses how he hit about $20k/week freelancing, scaled an agency to millions, built and…
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) shares wisdom on generating promising business ideas, finding first customers, working with smart people,…
Tyler Tringas, founder of Storemapper (a store-locator widget for Shopify stores), discusses how to tell good ideas from bad, launch…
Ryan Bednar explains how he moved from SEO consulting to launching a productized SEO tool (the Ridiculously Reliable SEO Toolset) that grew…
Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar (a social-media scheduling tool), explains how she bootstrapped the company to about $4M/year and shares…
Clifford Oravec, author of The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup, discusses how aspiring indie hackers should pick ideas, what…
Nathan Barry, founder of ConvertKit (email marketing for creators), explains how he grew the company to roughly $600,000/month by teaching…
John O'Nolan, founder of Ghost (an open-source publishing platform), describes how he used his industry background to design a simple…
Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics (subscription analytics for Stripe), recounts how he went from idea to paying customers in eight days…
Bryce Roberts, partner at Indie.vc, argues for revenue-first bootstrapping over the prevailing VC narrative and explains why founders…
Garrett Dimon, creator of Sifter (a bug-tracking and customer-feedback tool for small software teams), explains how he carved out a niche…
David Hauser, founder of Grasshopper (a virtual phone system for small businesses), walks through how he bootstrapped the company to…
