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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!

Entrepreneurship Business Tech Technology
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
58 minutes
Episodes
290
Years Active
2017 - 2023
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#227 – Constraints, Longevity, and Avoiding Competition with John O'Nolan from Ghost

#227 – Constraints, Longevity, and Avoiding Competition with John O'Nolan from Ghost

In this episode I'm talking to John O'Nolan (@JohnONolan), the founder of Ghost. For the last year, he's been living on a sailboat and growing his company remotely. I want to ask him about what decis…

00:54:43  |   Wed 22 Sep 2021
#226 – How to Be Your Own VC with James Layfield of Clearfind

#226 – How to Be Your Own VC with James Layfield of Clearfind

Today I'm talking to James Layfield (@layfield) a founder who put $3M of his own money into his company Clearfind. I want to find out how he pulled that off and how he's outsmarting the what he calls…

00:57:35  |   Wed 15 Sep 2021
#225 – Growth Tactics, Audience Building, and Brains with Julian Shapiro of Demand Curve

#225 – Growth Tactics, Audience Building, and Brains with Julian Shapiro of Demand Curve

In this episode I talk to my buddy Julian Shapiro about proven growth tactics for a SaaS he's seen within Demand Curve. I also want to find out what he did to grow his own Twitter audience to over 20…

00:46:53  |   Wed 08 Sep 2021
#224 – Deploying Empathy to Build Better Businesses with Michele Hansen of Geocod.io

#224 – Deploying Empathy to Build Better Businesses with Michele Hansen of Geocod.io

My guest today is Michele Hansen (@mjwhansen) and she is here to challenge the stereotype that developers fear talking to customers and are naturally bad at it. We'll also get into specific principle…

00:47:45  |   Wed 01 Sep 2021
#223 – How to Master Passive Growth with Rob Fitzpatrick of Write Useful Books

#223 – How to Master Passive Growth with Rob Fitzpatrick of Write Useful Books

In this episode I catch up with Rob Fitzpatrick (@robfitz) about his new book, Write Useful Books. We'll talk about how he approaches book-writing like product development and why the sales graphs fo…

00:52:44  |   Wed 25 Aug 2021
#222 – A Model with Built-in Virality with Valentin Hinov of Thankbox

#222 – A Model with Built-in Virality with Valentin Hinov of Thankbox

In this episode I talk to Indie Hacker Valentin Hinov (@ValCanBuild). He is someone caught the pandemic wave in the best way possible. He came up with an idea that not only helps teams feel more conn…

00:51:05  |   Wed 18 Aug 2021
#221 – How an Indie Hacker is Competing with Buffer with Samy Dindane of Hypefury

#221 – How an Indie Hacker is Competing with Buffer with Samy Dindane of Hypefury

In this episode I catch up with Samy Dindane (@SamyDindane), the creator of Twitter growth tool Hypefury. I'll ask him how he found his co-founder from an Indie Hackers post, how he grew Hypefury pas…

00:30:46  |   Wed 11 Aug 2021
#220 – Be Brave, Not Cool, with Michael Seibel of Y Combinator

#220 – Be Brave, Not Cool, with Michael Seibel of Y Combinator

Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) and I discuss the secret sauce of what goes on inside Y Combinator and how indie hackers can create it for themselves. And because Michael sees nearly 2,000 startups a year…

00:51:19  |   Wed 04 Aug 2021
#219 – How to Make Your Business Model a Win-Win-Win - with Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez of Every

#219 – How to Make Your Business Model a Win-Win-Win - with Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez of Every

My guests today have a really exciting business model and strategy that I want to dig into. Dan Shipper (@danshipper) and Nathan Baschez (@nbashaw) are the founders of Every, a bundle of business foc…

01:02:01  |   Wed 28 Jul 2021
#218 – Making Money and Being Happy with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri of My First Million

#218 – Making Money and Being Happy with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri of My First Million

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) have both sold their businesses and are currently hosting one of the best business podcasts out there. In this episode, we talk about what it's like t…

01:06:15  |   Wed 21 Jul 2021
#217 – How a Near-Death Experience Turned a VC-Backed Founder into a Bootstrapper with Kyle Gawley of Gravity

#217 – How a Near-Death Experience Turned a VC-Backed Founder into a Bootstrapper with Kyle Gawley of Gravity

Kyle Gawley (@kylegawley) was running a high-growth, venture-backed company when he ended up in the hospital partially due to all the pressure he was under. That experience led to some introspection,…

00:35:02  |   Wed 14 Jul 2021
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#216 – The "Hardcore Year" Approach to $10k/Month in Revenue with Andrey Azimov of Sheet2Site

In this episode I talk to Andrey Azimov (@andreyazimov) about moving to Bali with a $3K runway and launching his "Hardcore Year." I'll ask him about the projects he launched to reach $10K MRR.

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00:56:42  |   Wed 07 Jul 2021
#215 – Why You Don't Have To Be

#215 – Why You Don't Have To Be "A Business Person" To Succeed - with Dan Cederholm of Dribbble

Today I'm talking to Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) about his somewhat reluctant journey into growing Dribbble. He's a self-described "accidental entrepreneur. So, in this interview, we'll talk about ho…

00:30:36  |   Wed 30 Jun 2021
#214 – Getting A Big Exit By Being A Small Player In A Small Pond with Chris Bakke of Interviewed

#214 – Getting A Big Exit By Being A Small Player In A Small Pond with Chris Bakke of Interviewed

Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) came on my radar when he posted an AMA on Indie Hackers after selling his $2M ARR SaaS for $50,000,000. Like a lot of people in the Indie Hackers community, I have a lot of…

01:04:13  |   Wed 23 Jun 2021
#213 – An Indie Hacker's Process to Reach $10K MRR

#213 – An Indie Hacker's Process to Reach $10K MRR

Molly Wolchansky is the founder of The Agent Nest (@theagentnest), an application that manages social media posts and marketing materials for real estate agents. In this episode, we'll find out why s…

00:41:50  |   Fri 18 Jun 2021
#212 – Actionable Steps for Building the Right Business with Arvid Kahl

#212 – Actionable Steps for Building the Right Business with Arvid Kahl

Today's guest recently sold his company, FeedbackPanda, but instead of disappearing to an island, I've seen him all over Twitter, all over his blog, all over Indie Hackers helping people. In this epi…

00:57:12  |   Tue 15 Jun 2021
#211 – Making 5-figures a Month as an OnlyFans Creator with Aella and Savannah Solo

#211 – Making 5-figures a Month as an OnlyFans Creator with Aella and Savannah Solo

Today I'm talking to two of the top creators on OnlyFans: Savannah Solo and Aella. Each of them is earning 5-figures a month on the platform, which sits at the intersection of the creator economy and…

00:56:21  |   Thu 10 Jun 2021
#210 – How to Take On Huge Incumbents as a Solo Founder with Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal

#210 – How to Take On Huge Incumbents as a Solo Founder with Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal

Derrick Reimer has been following a playbook that involves taking on big players in a market by drafting on their tailwind. It's gotten him to six-figure revenue with SavvyCal but it wasn't a strateg…

00:57:28  |   Wed 02 Jun 2021
#209 – Business Books, Coaches, and

#209 – Business Books, Coaches, and "Getting Rich" with John Doherty of Credo

Since John Doherty (@dohertyjf) was on the podcast three years ago, he's completely changed the business model of his company. In this interview, we'll talk about the moment his customers told him "h…

00:38:46  |   Fri 28 May 2021
#208 – How this Indie Hacker Blew Past $10K MRR with Jon Yongfook of Bannerbear

#208 – How this Indie Hacker Blew Past $10K MRR with Jon Yongfook of Bannerbear

Joining me is an indie hacker whose broetry post about how he hit $10K MRR went viral. I invited him here to walk me through how he got to that milestone and what his new challenges are as he grows h…

00:45:11  |   Tue 25 May 2021
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