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Yaro Bagriy runs Newsletter Crew, a podcast, blog and community teaching others how to build paid newsletters, plus his own paid newsletter…
Li Jin, a venture capitalist behind the term 'passion economy,' talks about how platforms like Shopify, Etsy, Teachable, TikTok and…
Chris Sopher and Bruce Pinchbeck of WhereBy.Us built local media brands like The New Tropic and The Evergrey that hit $1.5M/year, then…
Evan Britton is the founder of Famous Birthdays, a website indexing digital celebrities that pulls in multiple billions of pageviews a…
Courtland shares three business ideas for indie hackers to run with in 2021 — two original and one inspired by an earlier episode with…
Jordan O'Connor, a solo founder carrying student loan debt, built Closet Tools — a SaaS that helps Poshmark resellers list and sell more —…
Tyler King (Less Annoying CRM, ~22k paying customers, ~$3M ARR) and Courtland unpack the current bundling/unbundling cycle: what bundling…
On an episode of Acquired, Courtland Allen tells his full founder origin story — from childhood/college through Fmail (Gmail-in-Facebook),…
Dan Pierson, after going from $10k/week at 23 to a five-year 'entrepreneurial desert,' eventually made $60k in a week selling…
Chris Oliver runs GoRails, a Ruby on Rails screencasting business, plus Jumpstart (pre-built Rails app features) and HatchBox (Rails…
Mubashar Iqbal — who has shipped close to 100 side projects — talks about opportunities for indie hackers in the podcasting space,…
David Hsu grew Retool, a low-code SaaS for building internal tools, to nearly $1M ARR with no hires, then chose to 'go big' and try to…
Tara Reed quit a VC-funded startup and bootstrapped her way to roughly $5M in annual revenue by teaching others to build apps without code…
James 'Traf' Gill, designer and serial indie hacker, made over $100,000 in a single week (about $280k in four weeks around the iOS 14…
Courtland and Rob Walling (TinySeed) discuss the state of SaaS in late 2020: which trends and niches are working, how to pick a niche in a…
On a Run With It bonus episode, host Courtland Allen brainstorms with Lindsay Gabbard and Alessandro Pepe, owners of a wine club, on how to…
Daniel Vassallo left a $500k/year job to become an indie hacker and within two years had built a suite of products including an eBook on…
Aleem Mawani of Streak, a CRM that lives inside Gmail, explains how he chose to grow Streak into a large profitable software business…
Sabba Keynejad co-founded Veed.io, a browser-based video editing tool that grew to roughly $1.7M ARR (over $100k/month) in under two years…
Przemek Chojecki built an 'A.I. journalist' that interviewed 1000 founders in under three months and runs AI-powered media products…
Aline Lerner, founder of Interviewing.io, recounts losing the company's main revenue when COVID-19 froze tech hiring and nearly going…
Dru Riley of Trends.vc talks about the difficulty of finding product-market-founder fit after quitting his job, the latest trends for indie…
Courtland interviews Alex Wilhelm, Senior Editor at TechCrunch and former builder of Mattermark and Crunchbase News (the latter crossed 1M…
Nathan Latka argues that the most scarce resource for founders is attention, not funding. After selling his SaaS in 2015 he pivoted to…
