Indie Bites
Episodes
Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Baird is a 4x SaaS founder based in Charleston, SC. His background is in sales, marketing, and support. He bootstrapped and grew two SaaS companies to...
Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Blake Emal is the CMO at Copy.ai, but it's not been a traditional route into that role. 8 years ago Blake was living in the South of France and when h...
Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health challenges [Bonus]
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the full conversation here on Stefan's podcast.This is about 17 minutes of a recording with my friend Stefan on his Founder Hot Seat podcast...
Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Jackson is the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a successful bootstrapped podcast hosting company. The journey building Transistor were documented ...
Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Stokes a full stack developer and entrepreneur based in Bristol in the UK, who's started an ice cream business and cookie dough business amongst o...
Struggling with my own mental health
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I've never really understood mental health, or those who have had these challenges in the past. So when I've had my own challenges, I've struggled to ...
Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm joined by Danny Miranda, who is the host of The Danny Miranda podcast, which has rapidly grown to over 50,000 downloads in less than 6 month...
Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a new approach to calendar scheduling and has grown to multiple thousands MRR since he launched it earlier ...
How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Nagele is the co-founder of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk, People-First Jobs and more. Wildbit has just turned 20 years old,...
$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elston Baretto is the founder of Tiiny.host and is in a similar position to most indie hackers - working on his side-project alongside a full time job...
Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Poulin is the host of Notion Office Hours, creator of Notion Mastery, Run Your Learning Launch, Digital Strategy School, Think Like a Digital St...
Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arvid Kahl is a software engineer turned entrepreneur. He co-founded and FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with his partner ...
Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by Philip Kiely, who is currently Head of Marketing at Gumroad. Philip also launched "Writing for Software Developers" last May, ma...
Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, like many other indie hackers, runs a bunch of projects alongside a full-time job which all compound to him making over $5k a month. In 2012 he s...
Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dianna Allen is the founder of TERRA, a DTC candle brand, where she designs and hand pours a variety of candles. In October 2020, Dianna left her life...
How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around the world ...
Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m joined by Rob Hope, who is a South African designer, developer and the host of one of my favorite podcasts out there for entrepreneurs Yo!...
Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Asquith (aka That British Podcast Guy) is the CEO of Rebel Base Media, the U.K. podcast tech company that makes Captivate.fm and so much more. Wh...
Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers. Ramy started Page Flows after building a UI newslet...
Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Fogle is the co-founder of Wavve and ChurnKey, but there is a lot more to Nick than just that. Wavve is an audio to video platform which has now ...
Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of all time - Wilhelm Klopp, Simple Poll
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wilhelm Klopp is the founder of Simple Poll, a super simple (but powerful) poll Slack app that has over 600k active users. Wil now works on Simple Pol...
Building a SaaS with just one hour every day - Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mubashar 'Mubs' Iqbal is a prolific maker who has started over 90 projects. Currently Mubs is building Founderpath with Nathan Latka, and on One Hour ...
What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry, Indie Hackers
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie Sherry is a community builder, indie hacker and founder. She currently runs the Indie Hackers community and also a weekly newsletter where she t...
Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - Corey Haines, Swipe Files and more
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Haines is the founder of Swipe Files, he also runs refactoring growth, mental models for marketing, hey marketers and he was previously the head...
How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years - Sabba Keynejad, Veed.io
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sabba Keynejad is the co-founder and CEO of VEED - an online video editing platform. VEED is a fully-fledged collaborative video editing product used ...
What's important for indie hackers in 2020 - Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Courtland Allen founded Indie Hackers in 2016, grew the business $8k MRR with sponsors, and then sold to Stripe 9 months later. An inspirational story...
$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is the founder of Ness Labs, a learning platform dedicated to mindful productivity while also studying neuroscience part-time at K...
Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Ryles is a prolific indie hacker, having launched over 40 projects in the last 10 years, selling a few of them along the way. Helen is a propone...
Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers - Harry Dry, Marketing Examples
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Dry is the founder of Marketing Examples, a fast-growing showcase of successful startup marketing stories. When I first spoke to Harry on the Ma...
Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club (prev. Weekend Club)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss:On Ramen Club (formerly Weekend Club)How would you describe Ramen Club?Where did you come up with the idea for Ramen Club &...
Indie Bites Trailer - what's it all about?
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm your host James McKinven, I'm the founder of a podcasting company called Striqo and passionate indie hacker.Now I love long podcasts and what Cour...