Indie Hackers
Courtland and Channing Allen interview the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 290
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2023
#050 – Creating a New Product Category with Katelyn Gleason of Eligible
Katelyn Gleason (@katgleason) has been never satisfied with working for somebody else, and she's never been afraid to break into a new field and aim straight for the top. Today, she's the founder and…
#049 – Everything You Need to Know About Business with Josh Kaufman of The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman (@joshkaufman) has read a lot of business books. He also happens to be the author of The Personal MBA, easily one of the best business book in existence. In it, he lays out the fundament…
#048 – Publishing Wildly Successful Content Online with David Smooke of Hacker Noon
David Smooke (@DavidSmooke) has been working with content since he got a job as a teenager at the local newspaper. In this episode we discuss the progression of his career from employee to contractor…
#047 – The Value of Being Interesting and Persistent with Joel Runyon of Impossible
Joel Runyon (@joelrunyon) didn't start out with a whole lot. He couldn't get a job. He had no business skills. He didn't know how to code. In fact, all he had was long list of things he thought he co…
#046 – Building a Life-Changing Business with Austen Allred of Lambda School
Austen Allred (@austenallred) was in debt after watching his company implode. Learn how he used his entrepreneurial experience to turn things around, and then went on to create Lambda School — a succ…
#045 – Turning a Vision Into a Massively Profitable Business with Max Lytvyn of Grammarly
Isn't having a vision just fluff? Doesn't every business need to start with the practical realities first? Max Lytvyn doesn't think so. In this episode he tells the story behind how he and his cofoun…
#044 – From Fledgling Founder to 7-Figure Deals with Stephanie Hurlburt of Binomial
Stephanie Hurlburt (@sehurlburt) shares the story of how she went from being an employee to being half of a 2-person startup that sells software to gaming companies, and all the steps in between. Lea…
#043 – Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap with Pieter Levels of Nomad List
Starting an online business is scary. You're putting yourself out there and risking failure in front of thousands or even millions of people. Learn how Pieter Levels has not only faced his fears, but…
#042 – Bootstrapping in a Crowded Market with Gareth and Jonathan Bull
There's some stiff competition in the email marketing space, but that didn't stop brothers Gareth and Jonathan Bull. Learn how they overcame some significant business and interpersonal challenges to …
#041 – An Optimistic Nihilist's Take on Building a $2M Business with Vincent Woo
Even as a programmer, Vincent Woo never loved school or working at big companies. But he was enthusiastic in growing his side project, CoderPad, into a $2M business. Get his take on startups, luck, a…
#040 – Learning How to Be a Successful Founder with Spenser Skates
Spenser Skates, the CEO of Amplitude, took a very deliberate approach to becoming a founder and left as little to chance as possible. Learn about the steps he took to prepare himself, and how he went…
#039 – Success Ten Years in the Making with Amir Salihefendic of Doist
When he wrote the first lines of code in his dorm room for his personal to-do list app, Todoist, Amir had no idea that it would eventually become one of the most popular apps of all time. Learn about…
#038 – When Your Side Project Blows Up with Dawson Whitfield of Logojoy
What would you do if your side project made $30,000 in its first month? This is the exact situation that Dawson Whitfield found himself in after a long history of launching projects that didn't make …
#037 – The Story of WorkFlowy: From $0 to $800,000 a Year with Jesse Patel
Jesse Patel and his cofounder Mike built a product good enough to attract 20k users a month with no marketing. But it's not all roses. Co-founder disputes, competitors and clones, money problems, and…
#036 – From Two Failed Startups to $10,000,000 in Revenue with David Darmanin
When he started Hotjar two and a half years ago, David Darmanin never expected it to grow so quickly. In this episode, we explore how David's past failures, learnings, and jobs as a marketer contribu…
#035 – "Definitely Not Trying to Fit In" with Tobias van Schneider
How do you get people to notice what you're doing and sign up in droves? If Tobias van Schneider is any indication, the last thing you should do is try to fit in. Learn how his history of counterintu…
#034 – Making $125,000 a Month as a Solo Founder with Mike Carson of Park.io
After a lifetime of hacking, Mike Carson hit on a very big opportunity selling .io domain names. Learn about the forces that made his massive success possible, the threats that almost killed his busi…
#033 – Finding Your Next Idea with Philippe Lehoux of MissiveApp.com
Ever since he launched a profitable website as a teenager, Philippe Lehoux has had an uncanny ability to find something bigger and better to work on. Learn how a lifetime of experience as an entrepre…
#032 – Before and After Product-Market Fit with Peter and Calvin from Segment
Why is it so difficult to recognize product-market fit before you find it? And how do you find it, anyway? Learn about the struggles the team behind Segment faced, and how everything changed after th…
#031 – How Kevin McArdle Quit His Job and Bought 28 Businesses in Two Years
Most aspiring entepreneurs assume they have to start from scratch. But when Kevin McArdle left his job at 38 with a wife, a mortgage, and 4 kids, he wanted to get a head start. Learn how Kevin and hi…