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How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny
Episode 119
Friday, August 23, 2024 • Duration 16:41
Today I’m joined by Jijo Sunny, who is the co-founder of Buy Me A Coffee, one of the most popular donation and membership platforms on the internet. They’ve processed 10’s of millions for creators and have built a 26 strong team. Since founding Buy Me A Coffee, Jijo has dabbled in all sorts of projects, including a stint in YC with a podcasting app. Now though, Jijo is back building a new product, Voicenotes, a voice driven AI note taking app.
EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.
How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander
Episode 118
Friday, August 9, 2024 • Duration 16:10
Marybeth Alexander is the founder and Chief Executive Owl of KnowledgeOwl, a bootstrapped knowledge base software founded in 2015. Started as an idea within SurveyGizmo, where Marybeth was working at the time, the company has since flourished into a small, profitable, sustainable business ultimately being built to improve the lives of the founders, employees and customers. In this episode we talk about how Marybeth bought the company from her previous employers, how they grew through reviews and why more indie hackers should put customer happiness front and centre.
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:26 Founding story of KnowledgeOwl (prev Help Gizmo)
06:54 Marketing and Growth
08:58 How to have happy customers
10:54 KnowledgeOwl's appraoch to product development
Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson
Episode 109
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 • Duration 16:58
Today I’m joined by Randall Kanna Franson. Randall is a senior software engineer who has written 3 books, including one published by O’Reilly and a self published one which made over $70k. She also created a course called Hack the Tech interview which made $20k in the first 24 hours and $50k in the first month. All of this has been through Randall’s efforts to share her learnings from almost a decade being a software engineer and growing her twitter audience to over 50,000 followers. She’s also dabbled in SaaS products, notably launching and growing CodeTutor which she sold after the birth of her first child.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:43 Randall's background
03:33 Coding bootcamp to senior software engineer
05:05 Getting a book published with O'Reilly
06:37 Going hard on side projects in 2020
08:01 Audience building and writing another book
10:04 Randall's course
11:42 Randalls advice to early stage entreprenuers
13:13 Why Randall hasn't started a successful SaaS
Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder
Episode 19
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 • Duration 15:45
Arvid Kahl is a software engineer turned entrepreneur. He co-founded and FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the business. Arvid writes on TheBootstrappedFounder.com because bootstrapping is a desirable, value- and wealth-generating way of running a company. In over a decade of working in startup businesses of all sizes, Arvid has learned a thing or two about what works, what doesn't, and how to increase the chances of building a successful business.
Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad
Episode 18
Saturday, January 23, 2021 • Duration 15:30
Today we're joined by Philip Kiely, who is currently Head of Marketing at Gumroad. Philip also launched "Writing for Software Developers" last May, making $20,000 in sales in its first week without any pre-existing audience. Since then, Philip has been on a mission to help as many software developers as possible realize that they possess the skills they need to become great writers.
What we covered in this episode:
Why Philip wrote 'Writing for Software Developers'
How Philip made $20k in 24 hours with no pre-existing audience
Should you do pre-sales if you're selling an info product?
Thanks to Weekend Club for sponsoring Indie Bites, which is launching in the US this week!
‘I absolutely love being part of Weekend Club.’
Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo
Episode 17
Friday, January 15, 2021 • Duration 15:36
Dan, like many other indie hackers, runs a bunch of projects alongside a full-time job which all compound to him making over $5k a month. In 2012 he started Magpile, a free online resource about magazines, which was followed by Subsail, a platform to help indie publishers sell magazine subscriptions.
Earlier this year Dan started using the publishing platform Ghost, which he then started to build a suite of products around, now including:
Gloat; a productised service for hosting and self hosting
Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA
Episode 16
Monday, January 11, 2021 • Duration 15:25
Dianna Allen is the founder of TERRA, a DTC candle brand, where she designs and hand pours a variety of candles. In October 2020, Dianna left her life as a freelancer behind to put her efforts into TERRA full-time, which as we all know, is a huge leap to make.
What we covered:
Should more indie hackers work on physical products?
What happened with Budget Meal Planner?
Should more indie hackers kill projects more often?
Does turning a passion into a business take the enjoyment away?
What was the breakthrough moment with Terra
Making the leap going full-time with your business
Why Dianna went straight into
How do the economics of a physical product business work?
How Terra was started with just $100
Using Instagram for 99% of growth
The hardest part of running a physical product business
How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story
Episode 15
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 • Duration 15:32
Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started their business and how they grew it, including revenue figures for every business they interview.
But in this episode, we’re going to be discussing the new SEO course that Pat launched this week, making over $20k in pre-sales.
What we covered
20k in 2 weeks, how did you do it?
How and why Pat started Starter Story?
How he grew it to 500,000 monthly visitors
Why Reddit can be a goldmine, but why Pat stopped using it
Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!
Episode 14
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 • Duration 15:39
Today I’m joined by Rob Hope, who is a South African designer, developer and the host of one of my favorite podcasts out there for entrepreneurs Yo!. He's also the founder of One Page Love, Email Love, and has recently released an ebook with a hundred landing page tips. It's safe to say Rob knows his stuff. When it comes to building landing pages, having started One Page Love back in 2008.
EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.
EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.
Today we have Embarque.io supporting the show! Embarque is run by a fellow indie hacker and has just crossed 6 figures in revenue. Embarque is an agency that offers productised SEO content that converts.
It blew my mind when Julian told me about the growth their client MentorCruise had from the SEO content, resulting in 107% increase in MRR, 100% increase in monthly trials and a 114% increase SEO traffic. My word, wouldn't you want those kind of results for your indie business.
Go and check out what Embarque are offering at Embarque.io and get $100 off your first package with the code 'INDIEBITES'.
‘Huge fan of Weekend Club and I love being part of it.’
‘Absolutely love this community.’
These are real testimonials for Weekend Club - the internet’s most helpful community for bootstrappers. If you’ve ever struggled meeting other solo founders and staying accountable, then this is for you.
We offer weekly Saturday deep working sessions with up to 30 bootstrappers, such as the founders of Simple Poll and VEED, an active Slack community and over 100 software discounts.
Go to weekendclub.co and enter a very limited promo code ‘Indie Bites’ for 50% off your first month.
Thanks to Weekend Club for sponsoring Indie Bites, which is launching in the US this week!
‘I absolutely love being part of Weekend Club.’
‘Huge fan of Weekend Club and I love being part of it.’
‘Absolutely love this community.’
These are real testimonials for Weekend Club - the internet’s most helpful community for bootstrappers. If you’ve ever struggled meeting other solo founders and staying accountable, then this is for you.
We offer weekly Saturday deep working sessions with up to 30 bootstrappers, such as the founders of Simple Poll and VEED, an active Slack community and over 100 software discounts.
Go to weekendclub.co and enter a very limited promo code ‘Indie Bites’ for 50% off your first month.
Thanks to Weekend Club for sponsoring Indie Bites, which is launching in the US this week!
‘I absolutely love being part of Weekend Club.’
‘Huge fan of Weekend Club and I love being part of it.’
‘Absolutely love this community.’
These are real testimonials for Weekend Club - the internet’s most helpful community for bootstrappers. If you’ve ever struggled meeting other solo founders and staying accountable, then this is for you.
We offer weekly Saturday deep working sessions with up to 30 bootstrappers, such as the founders of Simple Poll and VEED, an active Slack community and over 100 software discounts.
Go to weekendclub.co and enter a very limited promo code ‘Indie Bites’ for 50% off your first month.
Thanks to Weekend Club for sponsoring Indie Bites.
‘I absolutely love being part of Weekend Club.’
‘Huge fan of Weekend Club and I love being part of it.’
‘Absolutely love this community.’
These are real testimonials for Weekend Club - the internet’s most helpful community for bootstrappers. If you’ve ever struggled meeting other solo founders and staying accountable, then this is for you.
We offer weekly Saturday deep working sessions with up to 30 bootstrappers, such as the founders of Simple Poll and VEED, an active Slack community and over 100 software discounts.
Go to weekendclub.co and enter a very limited promo code ‘Indie Bites’ for 50% off your first month.
Thanks to Weekend Club for sponsoring Indie Bites.
‘I absolutely love being part of Weekend Club.’
‘Huge fan of Weekend Club and I love being part of it.’
‘Absolutely love this community.’
These are real testimonials for Weekend Club - the internet’s most helpful community for bootstrappers. If you’ve ever struggled meeting other solo founders and staying accountable, then this is for you.
We offer weekly Saturday deep working sessions with up to 30 bootstrappers, such as the founders of Simple Poll and VEED, an active Slack community and over 100 software discounts.
Go to weekendclub.co and enter a very limited promo code ‘Indie Bites’ for 50% off your first month.
‘Huge fan of Weekend Club and I love being part of it.’
‘Absolutely love this community.’
These are real testimonials for Weekend Club - the internet’s most helpful community for bootstrappers. If you’ve ever struggled meeting other solo founders and staying accountable, then this is for you.
We offer weekly Saturday deep working sessions with up to 30 bootstrappers, such as the founders of Simple Poll and VEED, an active Slack community and over 100 software discounts.
Go to weekendclub.co and enter promo code ‘Indie Bites’ for a 30 day free trial.
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