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A San Diego woman builds a custom-blend tea business where customers can design their own tea mixes. The episode covers how she brewed the…

Two former journalists, laid off when their newsrooms closed, design and sell original t-shirts and report moving roughly 8,000 units in a…

Two college grads who were early Facebook users spotted how big social media would become and built a social-media agency around that wave,…

An architect who loved sewing as a child returns to it later in life and builds a fashionable online shop around her handmade apparel. The…

Jason Cohen (WP Engine / Smart Bear) distills four bootstrapped companies past $1M ARR into advice for reaching your first $10k/month, the…

The anonymous solo maker AJ (who built Carrd, now at roughly $30,000/mo in revenue) talks through how a single developer-designer launches…

A bored graphic designer, jealous of other artists' work, channels her love of artwork into an online art blog that becomes popular. The…

A Seattle illustrator whose first idea—making chocolate—proved too difficult pivots to hand-drawn tarot-style packaging for other products.…

A self-taught maker turns a hobby of rustic wall hangings into a full-time woodworking home-decor business. The episode tracks her…

After noticing that thousands of women struggle to pee while wearing post-surgery shapewear, a side hustler and her product-designer…

An expat couple designs and sells cocktail-themed enamel pins, leaning on punny names that capture the spirit of their favorite drinks. The…

A New Zealand photojournalist turns historic fighter-jet imagery into jewelry as a creative outlet and a nostalgia-driven income stream.…

A Colorado artist uses Instagram and wholesale relationships to grow a design-driven brand around his artwork. After a failed first attempt…

A consultant for overwhelmed clients noticed they all shared the same pain point: too little time and too much hassle. She turned that…

Lynne Tye drops out of grad school, moves into tech, ends up managing 150 people at a startup, then quits and teaches herself to code…

A Chicago food reporter turns her pizza knowledge into a weekly paid pizza tour business, taking visitors beyond deep-dish to other local…

A corporate recruiter starts a side business editing romance novels on the side. It's a freelance editorial service packaged for…

A stay-at-home homeschool mom begins making and selling rosary beads and grows it into a full-time income. The product is handcrafted…

A math major uses card counting to win hundreds of thousands of dollars at the casino as a Christian-themed blackjack player. The episode…

A German video marketer who moved to Toronto launches 'Ask Deep Questions,' a deck of conversation-starter cards designed to help people…

Peldi Guilizzoni bootstrapped Balsamiq Mockups, a low-fidelity wireframing tool, to $6M+/yr with dozens of employees over more than a…

A full-time financial analyst with a childhood love of plants runs a part-time organic plant shop as a side hustle. It's a retail/ecommerce…

An unconventional attorney creates an alternative adult education school that grows past 900 courses, framed around thinking like a lawyer.…

A New York woman redesigns functional tote bags for commuters and travelers, growing the brand past $100,000 in revenue. The product focus…