Indie Founder

#275 - My GPT-3 Powered Community

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can I give a real brain to my bots using GPT-3 API? I have started playing around with it and in this episode, I will talk about the first use cases. ...

#274 - I Am Finally Confronting My Co-Founder (Real Conversation)

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it time to kill the Indie Lottery project? I sat down with my co-founder João Amaro to reflect on the project and to finally make a decision about...

#272 - My Ultimate Indie Plan For 2023

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How will 2023 differ from 2022? In this episode, we will define together goals for the new year and reflect a little bit on 2022. I will also speak ab...

#271 - How My MRR Went From $40 to $700 in 2022

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How did my MRR grow in 2022? In this episode, I will go through some of my podcast episodes of 2022 and tell you how they affected my journey and what...

#270 - Building TallyForms: How Marie Martens Grew a Company While Raising a Newborn

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to balance raising a newborn with company building? In this inspiring episode, Marie Martens shares her journey of co-founding TallyFor...

#269 - Hiring My First Employee

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When should you make your first hire? For me was a combination of finding the right person for the job with filling in a very important role in the co...

#268 - My One Ultimate Advice For Indie Makers

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My ultimate indie hacking advice is... I guess you will have to hear this episode to find out ;) Besides that, I will also speak about other general p...

#267 - I Fired My First Client (WBE Drama)

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Did you ever have to fire a paying client? I recently went through that unpleasant experience in the wbe community and will tell you all about it. Bes...

#266 - Interviewing Matt Gale About Freelancing, Indie Making and Nomad Life

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the best path to financial independence? Matt and his wife decided to adopt a digital nomad lifestyle. They are both entrepreneurs and Matt is...

#265 - What can we learn from the Indie Astronauts?

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are they just lucky or do they actually know what they are doing? One of the members of a youtube channel I follow actually got a fully paid trip to s...

#264 - My Part-Time Freelancing Is Paying The Bills

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can you work part-time and still be an Indie Hacker? Well, yes! I have been focusing on finding short time projects that help me pay the bills while s...

#263 - Talking Anxieties With My Best Friend (No Filters)

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My good friend and I sat down and had an open-hearted conversation about our jobs, anxieties, and plans for the future. I am an Indie Hacker and he is...

#262 - Interviewing Simon Høiberg about Lessons from His Journey to $400K ARR

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How did Simon Høiberg reach $400K ARR? In this conversation, we will learn more about Simon's background (did you know that he started in sales??...

#261 - How I Am Implementing The Viral Loop

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I start the episode with a review of the Websummit 2022. After I speak about the launch of the Indie Lottery and what went well and what we have to im...

#260 - Building A Marketing Viral Loop With Tony Dinh

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interviewed Tony Dihn about how can Indie Makers build an integrated viral loop in their products. It's a short conversation wh...

#259 - Gigantic Speaker Almost Fell On My Head!!

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I attended the first day of the Web Submit and I will share with you my first thoughts. I will also speak about the process of building and laun...

#258 - Interviewing Mariana Trigo About Shifting From Biology To Tech

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At 22 Mariana was living a life that certainly was making her parents proud, however, she was urging for something more. That's when she decided t...

#257 - The Secret Price of a Product That No One Knows

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I had an eureka moment around the true price of products and I will tell you about it in this episode. I will also share how I was able to make money ...

#256 - I Just Reached 1600 Twitter Followers

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am speaking about the strategies I am applying to find a suitable job for me. At the same time, I will share some tips that I learn to great t...

#255 - Interviewing Julien Nahum About Bootstrapping NotionForms to 160K ARR

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julien Nahum is a successful bootstrapper that was able to grow his NoCode SaaS NotionForms to $160K MRR in just one year. Before that Julien has buil...

#254 - My First Ever Indie Hacker Talk

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I was invited to speak about indie hacking on a Future.Works conference and I will tell you all about how the talk went and what I have learned from t...

#253 - Paid Communities Are The Future Of Social Media

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I will give you an update on what I was able to achieve in the past week despite being on holiday. I speak about how the community is...

#252 - No More Full Time Indie Hacking

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are reaching the end of September which means that my deadline is up and I have to find some kind of job that will help me pay the bills.Support Th...

#251 - Interviewing Sveta Bay About Building A Successful Info Product

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sveta Bay is the co-founder of makerbox.club a product that was able to grow from 0 $11K in only 3 months. In this interview, you will learn about Sve...

#250 - I Think I Just Found a Co-Founder

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode starts with an unexpected adventure...I have been running around trying everything I can think of to boost my MRR. One of the projects ha...

#249 - Chatting with Anthony About Our Indie Communities [Part 1]

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony and I sat down together to speak about our journey in building our virtual communities for indie makers. We spoke about how it all started, ho...

#248 - A Cold Messaging Technique That Actually Works!

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I finally found a type of cold messaging that resulted in great engagement and I will share it with you in this episode.I will also address the post c...

#247 - Why Is It So Hard To Answer This Question?

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I try to answer the question: "If you could go back in time what would you change in your indie journey?". I will also give y...

#246 - I Got Punched in the Face

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How getting punched in the face made me analyze my approach to entrepreneurism. I also share the current results of my experience uploading all my pod...

#245 - I am trying a new Passive Marketing Strategy

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I want to adopt a more passive marketing strategy that does not require as much of my daily time as my current want does (Twitter and indiehackers). T...

#243 - I Always Feel Like I Have Not Worked Enough

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After a week of downwards spiraling, I want to tell you what triggered it and what I have learned from it. I will also share some tips on how to get r...

#242 - My Hybrid Hollidays Backfired

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I tried to split my time between holidays and work and that ended backfiring since I was not able to do either... I will also talk about the...

#241 - Interviewing Kirill About Building an Indie Business during Covid-19 and the Ukrainian Invasion

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kirill quit his job to follow an Indie career and for the past 3 years, he and his business went through the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukrainian invas...

#240 - I Sent 50 Cold Linkedin Messages

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I sent 50 LinkedIn cold messages to try to acquire new customers for my business and in this episode, you will learn what I was able to accomplish wit...

#239 - Interviewing Thomas Evans about building his successful indie business

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas is the co-founder of EmailOctopus, a SaaS makings millions in revenue. But his career path started at 16 when he moved to India for three month...

#238 - I Joined NomadList

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I joined NomadList, which is the biggest community out there for digital nomads and I will be giving you my honest review.I will also share about my p...

#237 - It's been one year. Where are they now?

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am catching up with two previous guests of the wannabe entrepreneur podcast. It's been one year since I last spoke with Kavya and Luca, ba...

#236 - I Found an Amazing Co-Working Space

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I have spent the past week exploring many new coffee places to work from and end up finding a great co-working space. I will also give you an update o...

#235 - Interview with The Sailing Frenchman [Re-Published]

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Re-PublishedI have been following Hugo's youtube channel from the beginning and it was a true pleasure to chat with him about his journey. Hugo wi...

#234 - My First Info Product Is Out

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I have spent the last week compiling all the information I gathered in all my interviews into an easy-to-follow guide. It will be my first info produc...

#233 - Interviewing Kilian About Building a Profitable NoMarketing Tool

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kilian Poulin is a young entrepreneur that together with his co-founder decided to follow the indie hacking route immediately after college. Since the...

#232 - Low Conversions and Bad Co-Working Spaces

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I finally went to claim my one-month co-working space prize but it turned out not to match my expectations at all. I will also tell you about my new e...

#231 - The Secret Patterns of Successful Entrepreneurs

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I analyze four past WBE interviews with successful indie makers and I will share with you three hidden patterns that are common across all these...

#230 - Dagobert Sat On My Couch

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I might have overestimated how important my presence is to keep the WBE Space quality, I have been collecting feedback from the current members and re...

#229 - Interview With Tibo [Re-Published]

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is a republished episodeToday I am chatting with Thibault (aka Tibo). He is a serial entrepreneur that has sold 2 startups and is currently build...

#228 - Back from holidays... Is my business still there?

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Back from the holidays and I want to let you know how the community performed without me being present.Relevant LinksJoin the WBE SpaceMerch StoreDM m...

#227 - Interview With Pieter Levels [Re-Published]

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is a republished episodeListen to Pieter Levels speak about his upbringing and what motivated him to become an entrepreneur. In this interview, w...

#226 - No Corporate World For Me Please

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After a conversation with an executive that worked in a big corporation for multiple years, I realized how backward this corporate world is, which mot...

#225 - Interviewing Nuno Simaria About His Journey Becoming a Top CTO

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nuno Simaria has an incredible tech journey, having worked in multiple startups and scaling HelloFresh from 5 to 650 tech employees. In this interview...

#224 - I Really Needed This Break

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I am sailing on the beautiful coast of Spain and this episode will be more focusing on the "Lifestyle of an Entrepreneur" section. Will reflec...

#223 - Interviewing Fed About How to Be a Relaxed Bootstrapper

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After giving a shot in the startup world Fed decided to give a shot in the indie making world and he has been loving the experience. In today's in...

#222 - How I got 300 Upvotes On My ProductHunt Launch

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My WBE Space ProductHunt launch was successful, having reached the 5th product of the day with more than 300 upvotes. In today's episode, I will t...

#221 - Interviewing Shawn about Bootstrapping the Farms of the Future

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shawn Fisher worked as an electric engineer for more than 10 years but one day, together with his wife Amy, decided that they could change the way peo...

#220 - I am Launching on ProductHunt

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I will speak about how being an entrepreneur can feel like living outside society's norms. I will also celebrate two impor...

#219 - Interviewing Camille About Bootstrapping Her Own Notion Job

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Camille is an ambassador of the NoCode tool Notion and has created the Notion French and Portuguese Community.Camille grew up traveling around France ...

#218 - What I Have Learn from Tony's Success Journey

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's been ONE year since I started this podcast. Can you believe it? Today I will speak about how I felt reaching this milestone and what are some...

#217 - Interviewing Tony Dinh about becoming a Full-Time Indie Hacker

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Dinh is a developer turned indie maker that in a year was able to reach 7K MRR. Tony was born in Vietnam and always had a passion for coding, aft...

#216 - My Product's Price Was Too Low

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After being encouraged by my wbe members I finally decided to be courageous and increase the WBE Space monthly price and I will tell you about this pr...

#215 - Interviewing Luca Micheli about Building Successful Products

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luca left college to start his entrepreneurial career and has never looked back. Started building apps back when they entered the market and was able ...

#214 - I Was Being a Little Bit Arrogant...

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I am not proud, but, some recent thoughts about this podcast made me realize that I might have some arrogant traces in myself and I will share this wi...

#213 - Interviewing James About Hosting the Indie Bites Podcast

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James McKinven started his full-time indie hacking career in 2021, since then he was able to grow his podcast, Indie Bites, to a must-listen show in t...

#212 - Took me 8 months to reach $200 MRR!!

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I crossed the $200 MRR after 10 months of bootstrapping! In this episode, I will speak about reaching this milestone, the success I had after a week o...

#211 - Interviewing Rosie Sherry about How to Build a Community

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rosie Sherry is an expert community builder with several years of experience. She bootstrapped Ministry of Testing to 7 figures and also worked on Ind...

#210 - I Need to Become a Salesman...

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As April continues to deliver terrible results for me I see myself desperate to try new things and an eye-opening conversation with the CEO of a digit...

New WBE Merch Store

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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#209 - Interviewing Lydia about becoming a Virtual Assistant for Entrepreneurs

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lydia Melvin was unhappy with her job as a project manager in a big agency. She decided to leave her job to take some time off and figure out what she...

#208 - A Therapeutical Phone Call With Dagobert

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After a not-so-good week, I called the Twitter legend, Dagobert for some bootstrapper advice and to get an update on his projects. We spoke about many...

#207 - Interviewing Hillary Black about Communities, Social Media and Chat Bots

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hillary Black started her career as a social media manager, having worked in multiple companies including Vine. After that Hillary started her entrepr...

#206 - My Little Therapy Session

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I dig deep into how sometimes it might be hard for the people in your life to fully understand what it is like to be a starting entrepreneur. In the p...

#205 - Interviewing Ana who Had a $4M business but Burned Out

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ana Bibikova was born in Russia but spent her teenage years in India where she started to explore her first entrepreneurial projects. After that, toge...

#204 - I Am Back To Burning My Savings

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the last month of my unemployment money and from now on I am living entirely from my savings. I will also give you an update on my projects an...

#203 - Interviewing Clo about UX Researching & Digital Wellness

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2016, Clo quit her job and built her freelancing career in a new field: UX Research! She will tell us about the process of learning something new a...

#202 - I am finally speaking about NFTs

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I will tell you what I have learned recently about NFTs and how they might be a good alternative to ads monetization. I will a...

#201 - Interviewing Jakob about His Academic Approach to Bootstrapping

19 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jakob Greenfeld is a full-time bootstrapper that after finishing his PhD and working in academia for a couple of years decided to change things around...

#200 - I Got Kicked Out Of My Own Podcast

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Being a solopreneur doesn't mean you are alone. There are people who learn from you, admire you, give you advice and follow your example.In this s...

#199 - The Myth of Passive Income

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is true passive income really achievable and what does it mean to build passive first? Those are the topics I will be speaking about in today's &#...

#198 - Interviewing Tim Stoddart about beating addiction and building SoberNation

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up, Tim was never a big fan of school and always felt a bit of social anxiety. Eventually, he ends up developing a problem with addiction but ...

#197 - Steady Growth VS Viral Growth 🚀

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I have been researching viral growth because I believe that it might be the key to faster initial growth for my business. I will share with you what I...

#196 - Interviewing Michelle about Building VC funded Startups in Public

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Marcelline is one of the few entrepreneurs out there that is building a VC-founded company in public. Today she will tell the story of how sh...

#195 - Finding my Product's Value Proposition

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I am A/B Testing my landing pages with the sole purpose of increasing their conversion and in this episode, I will share with you how I used SplitBee ...

#194 - Interviewing Marc LG about PowerImporter and his Recipe for Success

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marc (aka @JudoHacker) started his bootstrapping journey 11 years ago and since then he has built many projects. He ends up finding success with Power...

#193 - The Three Part Bootstrapper's Guide

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I will speak about the three important areas that an entrepreneur has to focus on to build her/his company: Marketing, Product, and Business. I ...

#192 - Interviewing Kevon about becoming a build in public expert

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kevon speaks about how he learned to build in public and grow his Twitter audience. He has now a successful course and many happy students. We will al...

#191 - Do I Need to Start Looking for a Job?

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As an extrovert myself it is been a challenge to be a solopreneur and I am starting to miss having a team to share the challenges and victories. In to...

#190 - Interviewing Giordano about History and Youtube

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Giordano Nanni, the founder of The Juice Media speaks about his interest in history and the journey of building the successful youtube channel that ha...

#189 - What Happens when a Solo Founder Gets Covid-19

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I tested positive for COVID-19 which means that I will have to rest and can not work for a few days. How will this affect my business? Can I afford to...

#188 - Interviewing Olu about Investment Banking and Bootstrapping

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After 15 years working in investment banking, Olu decided to quit his job and pursue an entrepreneurial career by bootstrapping his own companies. In ...

#187 - Can Communities Build Products?

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our community of bootstrappers is joining forces to build a product together in one month. I will tell you how we are organizing a totally remote team...

#186 - Interviewing Luca about Automating Twitter DMs

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luca is a software developer that has already sold one side project to a bigger company and is now building Hivoe, which is a tool that automates your...

#185 - How to prepare for a Pieter Levels Interview

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to how I prepared for my interview with Pieter Levels, what happened off the record, and some of my thoughts on what we talked about. I will al...

#184 - Interviewing Pieter Levels about his Success and Indie Lifestyle

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Pieter Levels speak about his upbringing and what motivated him to become an entrepreneur. In this interview, we also try to pin down certai...

#183 - Getting Pieter Levels on the Show

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pieter Levels agreed to join me for a WBE interview. In this episode, I will tell you the story of how I was able to get him on board and how I am pre...

#182 - Interviewing Xavier Coiffard about Building Six Products in Six Months

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Xavier Coiffard is a French indie hacker that built six products in six consecutive months. In today's interview, Xavier will tell us how he built...

#181 - The Ugliest Entrepreneurial Emotion

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I will speak about feeling jealous of other entrepreneurs and how the survival bias can make you feel that everyone is succeed...

#180 - Interviewing Olivia about Mental Health for Entrepreneurs

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode hear from the performance and confidence coach, Olivia James about how entrepreneurs and bootstrappers can keep a healthy mind.We spok...

#179 - Unplug Your Brain!

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I will chat about what kind of activities help me disconnect from my business. I will also reflect on the year 2021 and speak ...

#178 - Interviewing Anthony Castrio who founded Indie Worldwide

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Anthony Castrio about the journey of building the Indie Worldwide community and his personal entrepreneurial background and nomad lifes...

#177 - Indie Hackers Top Page!

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I will give you an update on how my experience with free trials periods worked out and why I had to stop it. We will also speak about...

#176 - Interviewing Alex Friedman about Burnout and FounderGigs

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Alex Friedman's interview where she openly speaks about entrepreneurial anxiety and burnout and teaches some tips on how to avoid it. Al...

#175 - Trial Periods... Are they really worth it?

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I implemented a trial period to access the WBE space and want to share with you what I have learned from it. I will also speak about why networking is...