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
Run With It: Courtland Allen Shares 3 Ideas for Indie Hackers to Build a Profitable Business
I hopped on the Run With It podcast with Chris and Eathan to share 3 business ideas for indie hackers to run with in 2021. Two are brand new, and one was inspired by my recent episode on bundling wit…
#187 – Building a $38k/Month SaaS Business as a Solo Founder with Jordan O'Connor of Closet Tools
Jordan O'Connor (@jdnoc) is one of the more impressive solo founders I've had on the podcast. Saddled with student loan debt and eager to take care of his growing family, Jordan embarked on a years-l…
#186 – Indie Hacker Ideas for Bundling (and Unbundling!) with Tyler King of Less Annoying CRM
Tyler King (@TylerMKing) and I discuss how indie hackers can take advantage of the current cycle of bundling and unbundling. What is bundling, anyway? Why does it present an opportunity for new busin…
#185 – How Courtland Allen Built Indie Hackers, with Ben and David from Acquired
I've been procrastinating sharing my own story on the Indie Hackers podcast for years now. But when Ben and David (the co-hosts of the Acquired podcast) asked if they could interview me, it was impos…
#184 – $60k in a Week, Plus Ideas for Building the Future of Work with Dan Pierson
Dan Pierson's (@DanPierson) first entrepreneurial experience was a walk in the park — he was making $10k/week as a 23-year-old college grad, thinking life was easy. But when his business came to a ha…
#183 – How a Solo Founder Got to $1M in Revenue with Chris Oliver of GoRails
Chris Oliver (@excid3) is a solo founder who recently passed $1M in revenue from his suite of projects targeted at Rails developers. He's had a wild journey, from being so broke he had to get a job, …
#182 – Selling Shovels During the Podcasting Gold Rush with Mubashar Iqbal
Mubashar Iqbal (@mubashariqbal) is the most prolific indie hacker I know. He's got nearly 100 side projects under his belt, and more than a few of them are serving the burgeoning podcast space. In th…
#181 – Deciding to Go Big with David Hsu of Retool
David Hsu (@dvdhsu) was able to grow Retool to almost a million dollars a year in revenue before making a single hire. Rather than stopping there and resting on their accomplishments, Retool set an e…
#180 – From $0 to $5M Without Writing Any Code with Tara Reed of Apps Without Code
At some point, Tara Reed (@TaraReed_) decided that she didn't want to build a funded, scale-at-all-costs, move-fast-and-break-things type of business. The trouble was, by the time she realized this, …
#179 – Making $280k in Four Weeks with Traf
Traf (@traf) is a designer and a serial indie hacker. Just over a month ago, he made over $100,000 in a week. No, not by selling a course or a book to some email list he spent months growing. He did …
#178 – Trends and Opportunities for Building a SaaS in 2020 with Rob Walling of TinySeed
Rob Walling (@robwalling) and I discuss the state of SaaS in October 2020. What are the newest trends? Who's getting ahead right now, what kinds of companies are they starting, and what channels are …
Run With It: Inside the Business with Lindsay Gabbard and Alessandro Pepe
BONUS EPISODE from the Run With It podcast: Restaurants have been hit hard during COVID-19. Listen to us brainstorm ways Lindsay and Alessandro can leverage their wine club and community to support t…
#177 – Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach to Indie Hacking with Daniel Vassallo
When Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) quit his job to become an indie hacker, he was making over $500,000 per year. It could have been a disastrous choice. Instead, less than two years later, he's built …
#176 – The Journey to Build a Large, Profitable Business with Aleem Mawani of Streak
After raising money from VCs, Aleem Mawani (@aloo) chose a path that most VCs would consider a failure: to turn his company, Streak, into a large, profitable, and lasting software business. To do so,…
Indie Bites: How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years with Sabba Keynejad of Veed.io
BONUS EPISODE from the Indie Bites podcast: "I first met Sabba at a pub in London when Veed was just an early beta product making $0. Fast forward a few years, Veed is now making over $100,000 a mont…
#175 – Using A.I. to Become a Superpowered Indie Hacker with Przemek Chojecki of Contentyze
When Przemek Chojecki (@prz_chojecki) had had enough of startup failure, he decided to interview successful founders to see what he could learn from them. But instead of doing it by hand, he built hi…
#174 – From Millions in Revenue to Staring Bankruptcy in the Face with Aline Lerner of Interviewing.io
What if you spent years growing your business to millions in revenue, then lost it all overnight? It's every founder's worst nightmare, but for Aline Lerner (@alinelernerLLC) it was reality. When COV…
#173 – Persisting Through Failures to Find a Winning Trend with Dru Riley of Trends.vc
When Dru Riley (@DruRly) quit his job, he was more than ready for his mini retirement. Little did he know that it would take him over three years to make his first dollar as an indie hacker. In this …
#172 – How to Build a Media Company with Alex Wilhelm of TechCrunch
"Build an audience first" might be the most common advice given to indie hackers. But how do you build an audience at the highest levels? In other words, how do you build an actual media company? To …
#171 – Winning People's Attention with Nathan Latka of Founderpath
Nathan Latka (@NathanLatka) believes we've entered a new world where the most scarce thing any founder can compete for is not funding, but people's attention. So after selling his first business in 2…