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290 episodes
Dan Cederholm of Dribbble reflects on his reluctant path from designer to founder of a design-community SaaS, covering how creators can…
Chris Bakke describes how he intentionally picked a small niche (interviewing / one-way video screening), built Interviewed into $2M ARR,…
Molly Wolchansky of The Agent Nest explains how seven years running a real-estate marketing agency led her to productize the workflow into…
Arvid Kahl, who sold FeedbackPanda, discusses his book The Embedded Entrepreneur and how involuntary reciprocity (helping people for free…
Courtland interviews OnlyFans creators Savannah Solo and Aella, each earning five figures monthly, about the stigma of adult content,…
Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal walks through his strategy of launching challengers to large incumbents by drafting on their tailwinds,…
John Doherty of Credo explains the pivot his agency marketplace took after customers said his original product was ugly, leading to Credo's…
Jon Yongfook, founder of Bannerbear, discusses crossing $10K MRR with a developer-focused API that generates social-media images, Open…
Rob Walling of Tinyseed and Startups For The Rest of Us surveys current SaaS trends indie hackers should watch: opportunities in podcasting…
Nathan Barry of ConvertKit discusses growing the creator-economy email tool from $7M to $27M ARR over three years, including their first…
Courtland hosts Chris Justin and Eathan Janney from the Run With It podcast for a brainstorm of 2021 business ideas: VTOL flying cars,…
Courtland interviews Collin Waldoch, founder of Water Cooler Trivia, a remote-friendly team trivia game played via web. Waldoch grew the…
Courtland interviews prolific indie hacker Mubashar Iqbal about BitClout, a crypto social platform where users buy and sell "creator…
Austin Rief started Morning Brew, a daily business newsletter, while still in college and grew it into a media brand. He covers how…
Ben Orenstein, founder of Tuple (a remote pair-programming app for macOS), catches up on hitting millions in ARR and 3x growth. He talks…
Andrew Barry, Marie Poulin and Ali Abdaal talk about why every indie hacker has an online course inside them. The episode covers getting…
Darrell Silver (Thinkful) and Quincy Larson (freeCodeCamp) discuss the economics of online education and how indie hackers can start…
Nadav Keyson, co-founder of Riverside.fm, talks about how a podcast-recording tool landed headline enterprise customers like Hillary…
Ben Tossell grew Makerpad, a no-code education community, to over 10,000 users and roughly $400k ARR in two years, then sold it to Zapier…
David Perell, who was told he was a bad writer, built Write of Passage, an online course teaching people how to write online. The…
Sabba Keynejad bootstrapped VEED, an online video-editing tool, to roughly $3.3M/year using YouTube tutorials, side-project marketing,…
Kevin Lee, previously behind a top product-manager community, is now building immi, a brand of healthier instant ramen. The episode is…
Jay Clouse built Unreal Collective, a community for online creators, then sold it to Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income after scaling it. He…
Dave Geddes quit a lucrative software job to build Mastery Games, a studio making games that teach coding, including Flexbox Zombies and…
