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Amateur Builders
by Roneil boodie
Two amateurs talking about what they are actively doing in Indie Hacking. We want to develop a media company starting with a podcast as a way to get our voices out and reach those with similarity.
Episodes
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I failed at Bingo in 2025 | AIA
I recapped what happened in 2025 for me. I had created a Bingo game for the full year to complete multiple goals in 2025. I failed at some and to me it was the most important ones. Watch as I recap what went right, what went wrong. Subscribe to the pod! 2026 Bingo: View the Bingo game here…
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🙅🏾 Porn is rotting your brain 🧠
PSA...STOP watching porn! It is destroying your brain...I have a story to tell It was a time when I did not masturbate for 1 whole year. While that was a challenge for me, a big challenge. I did it! So I thought that would end my pornography addiction but boy was I wrong...tune 🎧 in to hear my...
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PSA! Sleep is Important! S4:E3
On today's episode Ron goes into why sleep is important for you! He has experience the effects of not having proper sleep and how it can interfere with your life in a variety of ways. If your not monitoring your sleep then trust us when we say this...it will catch up to you! Sleep is something…
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Ron finally built his personal website! S4 E1
Happy New Years fellow builders! We are back in the new year 2025. Ron is still continuing his web development arch. In this episode he demonstrated his personal website that he coded with his bare 🧑🏽💻 hands ...let us give it a good roast while we can. In all seriousness though it was the…
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S3-Episode 20: End of the year wrap up!
Our Final Wrap of the year where we go into what we both learn personally and professionally for 2024. How have we both been mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. A general discussion from the hosts on the new motions we are putting in for 2025. Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing...
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S3:E19, The Top Tech Hoax of our Generation
Today on Amateur Builders, Ron discusses the top potential hoax in the Science and Technology Industry. We go down the rabbit hole of some of the most prominent technology that is slated to revolutionize the world. This includes AGI, Quantum Computing, and Nuclear Fusion. He goes through the...
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S3 E18: What Ron is Learning in Web Dev
In today's episode Ron briefly discusses what he is learning so far. the struggles he faces personally and technically in Web Dev. He also leaves you with what he believe the future of web development will be. Don't forget to like and share! (Outtake) Lessons learned: Web development is changing…
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S3E16, How I Built my Resume so Fast!
Skip to the 19 minute mark; Ron share’s his screen on how It was done. For those who are still seeking employment or a change in career, this episode will help with structuring your resume so the recruiter's eyes gravitate towards yours a bit more. Ron will walk you through how he built his…
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S3-Episode 15: Amateur Builders One Year Anniversary!
We made it to 1 year and had a conversation about the lessons learned so far in building the pod! It is a ‘slow’ progress but we kept ‘consistent’ and went into those 2 takeaways for the year. We appreciate those listeners who kept listening and stood with us as we built this into something...
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S3 E14, Automate the boring stuff, Amateur building
In this episode Ron shows a sample project he is currently working on in Make. Make is a automation platform where you can connect different apps together to automate processes/workflows. Ron took one of his friends bakery side hustle and tried to automate it using Make. In this episode he will...
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S3 E13, Tech Tools Review
Today’s episode is a visual one, as it will be on youtube later today as well so subscribe to us there for the latest in Vidcast. In this episode we give a breakdown on the tools we use and how we use them. We separate them into the ones we use for the pod and what we use in our personal…
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S3-Episode 12: Sacrifices
In this episode Ron discusses how ‘Sacrifice’ is important to an entrepreneur’s journey. The difficult choice they have to make is what makes or breaks someone trying to be successful. It was a bit of a diary to Ron himself as he needed to speak on his personal sacrifices and how it affects him....
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S3-Episode 11: Takeaways from The Right It by Alberto Savoia Part II(Validating your idea)
Alou finished Part II of the Right it by Alberto Savoia, dropped lots of useful tools and strategies to validate your idea. A must listen! Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Video 📹 Amateur Builders Youtube Amateur Builder Shorts Socials: Instagrams 📸 Amateur...
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S3-Episode 10: We went to Austin Texas!!
We visited ATX to see some apartments and feel out the vibes there in the city. It was great exploring the city and seeing whats around here but the true question is if we can live here as New Yorkers. All cities or new environments take some time to adjust to and get to appreciate and 1 trip…
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S3-Episode 9: Productive Habit Building and Updates!
Do you want some hacks to help boost your productivity. Well we discuss two on this episode that can help put you focus through several ways. Ron discovered a youtube video that went into how you can have 1 day as a focus day that gives you the most optimal time to produce your great work. In…
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S3-Episode 8: Indie Hacker Hustle: EdTech, No-Code Apps
Alou and Ron came back for a status update on what they have been up to in their spare time. The projects they have been working on. Alou has a new EdTech product he plans to build a first version of. Ron built 3 web apps on bubble io platform, a no code platform. He is thinking of deploying it…
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S3-Episode 7: Ads 101 told by an Amateur (Strategies for Targeted reach)
In this episode Ron went a little into depth on how to think about Ads and building a brand. It is a cross-collab between you as a brand and where the ad will be placed. It is best to put it where the place (distribution) will be relevant to the target audience you are seeking. Some quick glance…
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S3-Episode 6: Takeaways from The Right It by Alberto Savoia Part I (Identify right ideas to build)
Alou gave his takeaways from The Right It By Alberto Savoia, this book is well written and is sort of like a guide book in identifying the right Ideas to build. It will be broken down into two parts, part one will be in identifying the idea and part two will be in how to test those ideas. Follow...
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S3-Episode 5: Discussion with an Entrepreneur who is set to speak at LEAP AI
An amazing discussion with Samuel Fagbamigbe. Ron interviewed an old friend and catched up with him on his recent ventures. Sam is an entrepreneur in the leadership space, he is an advocate for AI, Entrepreneurship, Web3, and a public speaker at world wide events in Tech. In our conversation we...
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S3-Episode 4: Dream interviews & tech trivia
🤔Who would we interview and why? That is today’s discussion and we had a great conversation on who we selected. It was intriguing to see Alou selection, I was not expecting that. We left off the show with a fun game. Tech Trivia! See how Alou did on these 10 questions I asked him. Trying to…
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S3: Episode 3: 🗺️Ron's Solo Ep, Takeaways from Google Maps Lead Generation side hustle
*Solo Ep* Ron did a solo episode on his google map side hustle opportunity. He went into depth on how he tackled the Google Maps side hustle opportunity and what lessons he learned. When you have an opportunity just do it as a challenge and see what the outcome can be. It can just provide you…
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S3-Episode 2: Products were building to make money online!
We spoke about the products we intend to build and currently working on. Alou is developing a product for digital nomads. Ron is developing a blog in Python/Django and discussed what his common hurdles are. We think that building these products will help us in different ways, one is with passive...
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S3-Episode 1: It's a new year & we have big plans!
🎉2024 guys! We in the new year and back with Amateur builders. We hope you had a great 2023 as we did. It’s crazy to think a whole year went by and it felt like a blur. In 2024 let’s make each moment count as we strive towards our goal of becoming better individuals whether you're striving for...
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S2-Episode 12: End of year wrap up & 2024 tech predictions
🥳2024 baby! We are ecstatic about what the new year will bring for us as we continue to grow Amateur Builders. What can we expect from the Tech Industry next year? Well we made some predictions that we saw from others and our own. Snippet of predictions: LLMs will perfect the ‘text-to-video’...
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S2-Episode 11: Side Hustles, Lessons and Specialization: Chasing online riches!
This ep. was a bit of a round table discussion of topics we came across throughout the week. We roasted some websites from a design and sales copy perspective. I hope they don’t get upset 😅. Have y'all ever felt stuck on what to actually specialize in when it comes to what you would like to…
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S2-Episode 10: Lessons from launching 15+ apps and failing!
✅Another episode where we delve into creators building in the public. We spoke again about Ron’s side hustle on using Google Maps to find leads for his digital marketing services. We posted on Tiktok his first call and it went awful 😭. There was this user on reddit who documented his 15+ apps…
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S2-Episode 9: What if AI could understand culture?
📢We had a great discussion in this ep on the recent tech news from last week and a interesting side hustle business Alou saw on Indie Hustle. We thought it would be ideal to share with you guys. Ron shared a similar side hustle business he plans to try out and see where he can get with that…
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S2-Episode 8: Stop Just Learning - Start Implementing Today
We developed another conceptual product but this time for the EdTech space. Alou thought it would be ideal to have a personalized version of digital courses catered towards a skill you would like to develop more. So he went about designing out a prototype. We have it linked in the show notes for...
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S2-Episode 7: NYC Parking solved!
🤟Welcome back y'all. We were working on some scheduling changes as Ron’s weekend free’d up so we can now focus a bit more on the podcast’s episode submissions. We are thinking about Mondays to publish now as it gives us time to iterate on the next episode before publishing. So we started to seek...
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S2-Episode 6: Two of our Favorite marketing Tactics
We did a quick episode on post launch marketing strategies we found exciting to implement. We wouldn’t implement it by copying it directly but taking cues from the creative element of how it was done. I think these strategies were fun. You can say one was an Ad and the other a strategy that...
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S2-Episode 5: Lift Off! Launching Your Product in Stages for Max Impact
➿We are keeping along the central idea of your idea being validated but now you’ll ‘Go to Market’ with a potential product or marketing strategy to get users. ⏳If your product has launched already then listen up to how Alou would go about building a product roadmap to iteratively launch your new...
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S2-Episode 4: How to Validate Your Billion Dollar Business Ideas
We began speaking about the ways in which we ‘Validate’ our burning 🔥 ideas. Ideas that we think have merits in our mind but need some real life proof that people would want this. Most entrepreneurs would go through similar stages that we spoke on in this episode but obviously experiences vary...
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S2-Episode3: Lessons from Inspirational Figures on Growth, Ownership & Being Yourself
Wrapping up 🎁the mindset series with figures who inspired us or had said something inspiring. We thought it would be best to share it here on Amateur builders. Why do we think what they had to say about mindset was impactful to us and could be for our listeners. We also had 5 take-aways we want…
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S2-Episode 2: How to brainstorm ideas and unlocking your creativity!
Another episode for the new season down the hatch. We continue with our mindset series on how to best establish your mindset going into entrepreneurship. You have to be stable mentally to prepare for this journey so this series takes you into our mental journey. Our discussion on mindset in this...
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S2-Episode 1: For Aspiring Entrepreneurs and Builders
Get ready for more engaging content 😏more output from me and Alou. We are keeping the concept of ‘building’ and ‘taking action’. We want this season to be where we have a reset to give you our process with deliverables from each episode that y'all can interact with. Please give us feedback on…
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Episode 18: Ron went missing!
In today’s episode Ron went missing, lol not really. He just took this week off and wanted to reset himself. So Bob came to the rescue! Bob had some interesting topics he wanted to discuss, so we just chopped it up… Product website: InterviewMaster Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at…
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Episode 17: introducing our new segment!
We had the biggest technical difficulty, we we're only able to capture 8 mins of our conversation👎🏾, but this is going to be a snippet so look forward to when we rerecord this episode. Product website: InterviewMaster Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Socials...
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Episode 16: The OG Drops Knowledge! 🧠 Bob Ponce's Old School Insights on Amateur Builders
🤔We were having a discussion about where we can take Amateur builders before we started this episode and have some interesting ways in which it can get engaging. It’ll definitely change the audience's interactivity. Stay tuned as we crank that out! In other words though, Bob Ponce, our guest for...
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Episode 15: Apple Genius Turned Entrepreneur Hans Marshalleck Spills on WeWork, Nvidia, Netflix! 🍎
The one and only Hans Marshalleck aka ‘ideam0n’ have appeared on our podcast offering that great Energy, Enthusiasm, and Informative insight into Entrepreneurship, Business, and his own insight on recent news happening in Tech. Tune in to hear more about Hans but a quick snapshot: Founder of…
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Episode 14: We Pitched Our AI Startup to Brooklyn Judges! 🏙️ | Making the Cut as Top 5 Finalists 🙌
The Pitch! 🗣️ So me and Alou went to this Pitch Competition in Brooklyn called Make it in Brooklyn where the theme was “AI for Good”. We got to pitch InterviewMaster to a panel of judges that works within the Tech Industry. Although it was bit nerve wracking in the beginning we still pushed...
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Episode 13: We're in an Apocalypse and need to scavenge to find resources!
We're in an apocalypse and need to figure out what we're going to build to survive. What would you you build ?. 📜Our updates until further notice: Editing Pitch Deck for our Pitch Contest on Aug. 2nd, stay tune for that with the videos and photos We will be mitigating our updates to once a month...
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Episode 12 : We're stranded on a Island!
🏝️We were stuck on an island with a laptop and 3 days left before the connection runs out, what did we build? Subscribe to the latest episode to find out! Well we hope that don't ever happen to y'all but if it did…like what really would you y'all build 🤔. This is a one time opportunity to get...
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Episode 11 The first industry: Job market part 10( Quick updates!)
🌆We came back from an event in Brooklyn to do this podcast at Alou’s office. Dedication Dedication Dedication💪! We’ll try to keep showing up even if it’s for 15 - 20 minutes. As we stated before, sometimes a product might take a bit longer to build out than usual or we’ll get preliminary…
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Episode 10 The first industry: Job market part 9(Recap for milestone!)
Milestone episode accomplished ✅. Some don’t make it this far surprisingly. We kept Consistently keep putting episodes out even though we were ‘tired’🤣. It’s funny because were actually recording this and Ron’s phone died so we lost that video 🥹 but we got the audio at least. It has been…
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Episode 9 The first industry: Job market part 8 (first investor feedback)
✅Another episode down and we are reaching our first milestone, episode 10! Stay tune for that as we will be doing a recap of the progress so far. We received great feedback on the product and will talk more about it and other topics. In this episode we gave updates about our goals and if it was...
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Episode 8 The first industry: Job market part 7 (Quick updates!)
Ron is back baby! Ready to build more than ever and Surprise surprise, he got a job in his field so go congratulate him 🤣via linkedin. We went into one more competitor that was found from Ron’s keyword analysis. Ron went a bit over some basic SEO principles but kept it simple. Alou will be...
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Episode 7 The first industry: Job market part 6 (The feedback we got from stakeholder meetings)
Ron is still on vacation, he need to get back already... lol we got work to do! But Alou had to hold it down this week and attend all the meeting by himself. Great feedback from stakeholder meetings, we talked more about it on the pod! A product to help you build: Framer Competitor we found…
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Episode 6 The first industry: Job Market part 5 ( We have stakeholder meetings coming up!)
In this episode Ron is on vacation and I'm on my break from work, but we still made it to the pod! We discussed what we learned over the week per usual, and then went on to give updates on the pod and we also have three stakeholder meetings coming up from CUNY Schools! Some product that we found...
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Episode 5 The first industry: Job Market part 4 ( We finally did the demo!)
In this episode we finally did the demo! But before that we covered what we learned over the week and how it relates back to product we're building. Some market news relevant to the product: Careyaya (possible business model) Mentor collective (Study white paper) Web App Extensions, inspired by...
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Episode 4 The first industry: Job Market part 3 ( We took a pivot! )
This episode was supposed to be the demo, but an expected event happened which made it not happen. It did lead to a new pivot in terms of what we're going to build, So we decided to go back to the drawing board and brainstorm a lil bit more before we come back to the podcast to talk about it in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two amateurs talking about what they are actively doing in Indie Hacking. We want to develop a media company starting with a podcast as a way to get our voices out and reach those with similarity.
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Roneil boodie
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