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Alexandria Procter, a former student in South Africa, taught herself to code and built DigsConnect, a student-housing marketplace that has…
Jane Portman, after a decade of design consulting and four published books, started Userlist, a SaaS for email automation and lifecycle…
Vlad Magdalin, founder of Webflow (no-code website builder that has reached millions in revenue and 155 employees), talks about principled…
Pete Codes runs No CS Degree, an online business helping aspiring software engineers without traditional credentials. Coming from…
Dmitry Dragilev bootstrapped JustReachOut.io, a PR tool for indie hackers, from $0 to $30,000/month while working only ~25 hours a week and…
Cesar Kuriyama bootstrapped the '1 Second Everyday' video app from a personal dream through a TED talk, a Kickstarter, and perseverance to…
Arvid Kahl and partner Danielle Simpson built FeedbackPanda (a tool for teachers) from zero to $55k/month and sold it in two years with no…
John O'Nolan, founder of Ghost (the publishing platform), chose to work on the 'obvious' problem — modern publishing — instead of chasing…
Robert James Gabriel, dyslexic self-taught developer, bootstrapped Helperbird (an accessibility/reading helper for Chrome) to a six-figure…
Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel, explains how 'build for myself' led to Laravel and then paid products like Forge, Envoy, Spark, and…
Dave Sims runs Floify, a bootstrapped SaaS for mortgage lenders, alongside another company with his co-CEO wife. He explains how he spotted…
Stefan Endress runs a design agency serving big clients (e.g. FKA Twigs) while building a side product. He covers finding early customers…
Host Courtland Allen moderates a debate between Ben Tossell (Makerpad, no-code) and Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad, code-first). They discuss…
Anne-Laure Le Cunff discusses how she builds free products at the intersection of neuroscience and entrepreneurship while monetising…
Ryan Born, founder of Cloud Campaign (a social-media agency tool), shares how he found product-market fit by interviewing hundreds of…
Tyler Tringas, founder of Earnest Capital, joins to discuss funding models for bootstrappers. He previously ran a SaaS business, sold it,…
Zach Resnick began travel hacking as a broke student and turned it into EasyPoint Concierge, a points-and-miles concierge service doing…
Dominic Monn of MentorCruise built a marketplace connecting mentors with mentees into a positive-revenue side business while working a…
Tyler King bootstrapped Less Annoying CRM to 22,000 paying customers and over $2.6M ARR in a crowded CRM market dominated by well-funded…
Ghyslain Gaillard of Indie London started a meetup for indie hackers in Europe and discusses the value of in-person community, asking for…
Ketan Anjaria, founder of HireClub (a hiring and job-board community), recounts his dot-com-era setbacks and credits persistent optimism.…
Danielle Johnson of Leave Me Alone, an inbox-unsubscribe service, talks about going from idea to MVP in two weeks with 50 beta testers and…
Sarah Hum, founder of Canny (a feature-request and feedback board for SaaS companies), bootstrapped her business while traveling instead of…
Louis Nicholls of Sales for Founders built an email list and sold a course teaching sales to founders, generating over $40,000 across three…
