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Indie Bites — 131 episodes

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Andrew Gazdecki on the best way to sell your indie SaaS business

2

Why you should build a sweaty startup instead of an indie SaaS - Flo Schirmer

3

How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens

4

Why the Marketoonist is the dream indie business - Tom Fishburne

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Why Jack Ellis acquired Fathom Analytics from his co-founder

6

Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore

7

How Justin Duke is building Buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business

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How to sell your indie business - Josh Peleg

9

Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business

10

High Signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - Pete Codes

11

How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira

12

How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny

13

How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander

14

Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof

15

Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash

16

From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas

17

Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid

18

Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute

19

Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer

20

Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining

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Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer

22

Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson

23

Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife

24

B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic

25

How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020)

26

Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom

27

Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful

28

The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides

29

Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder

30

Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform

31

How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club

32

Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans

33

Building a financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson

34

Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom

35

Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis

36

$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher

37

Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey

38

Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White

39

Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces

40

Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY

41

Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery

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Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion

43

Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise

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How to find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP

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Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert

46

Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side

47

Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock

48

Building a 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science

49

Building a $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown

50

Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic

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From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)

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Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner

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From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)

54

Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos

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Daniel Fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software

56

How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs

57

Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather

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How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop

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Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity

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Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick

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A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy

62

Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io

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Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World

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Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit

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Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs

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Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta

67

Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow

68

How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab

69

How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life

70

Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops

71

Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot

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r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink

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Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy

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Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends

75

Bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate

76

Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee

77

Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial

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Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise

79

Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia

80

Why your product needs marketing - Dagobert Renouf, Logology

81

Bootstrapping a portfolio of SaaS products to $3k MRR - Jim Raptis, BrandBird

82

Candle dealer builds $5k MRR software to solve own problem - Dianna Allen & Jeremy Blalock, Inventora

83

Gumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad

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A solo $130k MRR productized design service - Brett Williams, Designjoy

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Growing an online card tool to $23k a month - Valentin Hinov, Thankbox

86

Building a $15m GMV side-project at 15 years old - Che Sampat, SuperPay

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Mental health as a founder and the importance of community - Tom Ross, Design Cuts

88

Growing to $8.5k MRR in 1 year - Marie Martens, Tally.so

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Growing to $4m+ despite Apple cloning their product - Matt Ronge, Astropad

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Bootstrapping a SaaS to millions in revenue - Ben Orenstein, Tuple

91

4 years of failed projects to full-time indie hacker - Kenneth Cassel, Pointer.gg

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Nailing your marketing as a founder - Peter Suhm, Reform

93

From lifelong bootstrapper to raising calm funding - Brian Casel, ZipMessage

94

Leaving a $500k job to build a portfolio of small bets - Daniel Vassallo

95

From $500k to $1m in 6 months with a podcast agency - Harry Morton, Lowerstreet

96

Taking on Google with Fathom Analytics and growing a course to $150k - Jack Ellis, Fathom

97

Building a portfolio of projects to $6k in one month - Pete Codes, No CS Degree

98

Growing Upvoty to $17k MRR - Mike Slaats, Upvoty

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$250 to $3k MRR in 4 months with a Notion website builder - Noah Bragg, Potion

100

Bootstrapping two $3k MRR projects, selling one for $55k - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher

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Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey

102

Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai

103

Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health challenges [Bonus]

104

Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm

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Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects

106

Struggling with my own mental health

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Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show

108

Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal

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How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit

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$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host

111

Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery

112

Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder

113

Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad

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Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo

115

Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA

116

How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story

117

Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!

118

Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media

119

Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows

120

Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve

121

Building the one of the most popular Slack apps of all time - Wilhelm Klopp, Simple Poll

122

Building a SaaS with just one hour every day - Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)

123

What it takes to build a community - Rosie Sherry, Indie Hackers

124

Leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - Corey Haines, Swipe Files and more

125

How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years - Sabba Keynejad, Veed.io

126

What's important for indie hackers in 2020 - Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers

127

$3k MRR with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs

128

Starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - Helen Ryles

129

Building Marketing Examples to 30k email subscribers - Harry Dry, Marketing Examples

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Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club (prev. Weekend Club)

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