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Indie Bites — 131 episodes
Andrew Gazdecki on the best way to sell your indie SaaS business
Why you should build a sweaty startup instead of an indie SaaS - Flo Schirmer
How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens
Why the Marketoonist is the dream indie business - Tom Fishburne
Why Jack Ellis acquired Fathom Analytics from his co-founder
Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore
How Justin Duke is building Buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business
How to sell your indie business - Josh Peleg
Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business
High Signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - Pete Codes
How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira
How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny
How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander
Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof
Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash
From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas
Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid
Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute
Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer
Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining
Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer
Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson
Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife
B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic
How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020)
Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom
Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful
The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides
Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder
Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform
How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club
Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans
Building a financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson
Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom
Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey
Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White
Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces
Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY
Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery
Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion
Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
How to find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP
Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert
Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side
Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock
Building a 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science
Building a $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown
Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic
From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)
Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner
From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)
Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos
Daniel Fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software
How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs
Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather
How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop
Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity
Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy
Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io
Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World
Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit
Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs
Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta
Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow
How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab
How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life
Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops
Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot
r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink
Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy
Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends
Bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate
Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee
Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial
Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia
Why your product needs marketing - Dagobert Renouf, Logology
Bootstrapping a portfolio of SaaS products to $3k MRR - Jim Raptis, BrandBird
Candle dealer builds $5k MRR software to solve own problem - Dianna Allen & Jeremy Blalock, Inventora
Gumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad
A solo $130k MRR productized design service - Brett Williams, Designjoy
Growing an online card tool to $23k a month - Valentin Hinov, Thankbox
Building a $15m GMV side-project at 15 years old - Che Sampat, SuperPay
Mental health as a founder and the importance of community - Tom Ross, Design Cuts
Growing to $8.5k MRR in 1 year - Marie Martens, Tally.so
Growing to $4m+ despite Apple cloning their product - Matt Ronge, Astropad
Bootstrapping a SaaS to millions in revenue - Ben Orenstein, Tuple
4 years of failed projects to full-time indie hacker - Kenneth Cassel, Pointer.gg
Nailing your marketing as a founder - Peter Suhm, Reform
From lifelong bootstrapper to raising calm funding - Brian Casel, ZipMessage
Leaving a $500k job to build a portfolio of small bets - Daniel Vassallo
From $500k to $1m in 6 months with a podcast agency - Harry Morton, Lowerstreet
Taking on Google with Fathom Analytics and growing a course to $150k - Jack Ellis, Fathom
Building a portfolio of projects to $6k in one month - Pete Codes, No CS Degree
Growing Upvoty to $17k MRR - Mike Slaats, Upvoty
$250 to $3k MRR in 4 months with a Notion website builder - Noah Bragg, Potion
Bootstrapping two $3k MRR projects, selling one for $55k - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey
Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai
Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health challenges [Bonus]
Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm
Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects
Struggling with my own mental health
Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show
Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal
How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit
$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host
Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery
Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder
Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad
Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo
Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA
How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story
Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!
Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media
Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows
Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve
Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of all time - Wilhelm Klopp, Simple Poll
Building a SaaS with just one hour every day - Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)
What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry, Indie Hackers
Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - Corey Haines, Swipe Files and more
How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years - Sabba Keynejad, Veed.io
What's important for indie hackers in 2020 - Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers
$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs
Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles
Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers - Harry Dry, Marketing Examples
Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club (prev. Weekend Club)
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