#020 – Building a Million Dollar Mailing List with Scott of Scott's Cheap Flights
Learn how Scott Keyes grew his mailing list from 300 to 600,000 subscribers and $4M in revenue in two years.
Jun 28, 2017•57 min
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!
Episodes
#019 – Solving Your Own Problem with Todd Garland of BuySellAds
Todd Garland went from being a blogger who published ads on his website to creating one of the leading advertising platforms on the web. Here's his story.
Jun 21, 2017•52 min
#018 – Finding Your First Paying Customers with Wade Foster of Zapier
How did a company that nobody'd ever heard of find hundreds of beta users, and even convince them to pay for access? Wade Foster tells the story behind user acquisition at Zapier.
Jun 14, 2017•52 min
#017 – How to Grow Your Business with Julian Shapiro of Bell Curve
Growth consultant Julian Shapiro joins me for an extra long episode in which he shares a wealth of knowledge and stories about making numbers go up and to the right.
Jun 08, 2017•2 hr 37 min
#016 – Building a $1 Million Business Solo with Mike Perham of Sidekiq
Learn how Mike Perham turned his open-source side project into a business, quit his job, and grew revenue to $80,000/mo without making a single hire.
May 31, 2017•53 min
#015 – Data-Driven Marketing and Sales with Alex MacCaw of Clearbit
Alex MacCaw started Clearbit.com as a solo founder, and he's since grown it to millions of dollars in annual profit. Learn the marketing and sales techniques he's used to reach over 1000 customers.
May 24, 2017•56 min
#014 – Delivering More Value and Charging More Money with Brennan Dunn of DoubleYourFreelancing.com
Brennan Dunn has earned $20k/week as a freelancer, grown an agency to millions in revenue, started and sold a SaaS product, and makes over $100k/mo from his online courses. Learn how he thinks about business.
May 17, 2017•1 hr 2 min
#013 – How to overcome the biggest challenges to your online business with patio11
Patrick McKenzie divulges his wisdom around how to develop promising business ideas, find your first customers, convince smart people to work with you, generate more revenue, and stay happy while doing it.
May 10, 2017•1 hr 4 min
#012 – Traveling, Learning to Code, and Bootstrapping to $25k/mo with Tyler Tringas of Storemapper
Tyler Tringas talks about the difference between good and bad ideas, launching new products in days not months, finding your first customers one at a time, hiring effectively, and more.
May 03, 2017•54 min
#011 – How Ryan Bednar Went from SEO Consulting to Building an SEO Product That Makes $80,000/mo
Turning your skillset into a product that solves customers' problems is one of the best ways to start a business. Learn how Ryan Bedndar came up with an idea, iterated on his product, and found his first customers.
Apr 26, 2017•53 min
#010 – Growing Your Social Media Presence and Building an Audience with Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar
The point of marketing is to draw new people in to your business every day, but how exactly do you go about doing that? Laura Roeder, who bootstrapped her business to $4M/year, explains how to build an audience.
Apr 12, 2017•1 hr 4 min
#009 – Breaking Into Bootstrapping Your Own SaaS Business with Clifford Oravec of Tamboo
Thinking about becoming an indie hacker? Learn how to start, what skills you need, and the biggest pitfalls to avoid in this discussion I had with Clifford Oravec, author of The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup.
Apr 05, 2017•54 min
#008 – Growing a $600,000/mo Business by Starting with Direct Sales with Nathan Barry of ConvertKit
Learn how Nathan Barry grew his business by teaching what he knew, taking advantage of big competitors, showing up every day for two years, and treating direct sales as the answer to everything. Brought to you by Vettery .
Mar 22, 2017•1 hr
#007 – Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo with John O'Nolan of Ghost
John O'Nolan explains how he used his industry experience to come up with a simple idea, built a landing page that converted 30,000 email subscribers, and raised $300,000 on Kickstarter. Brought to you by SparkPost .
Mar 16, 2017•58 min
#006 – Launching Your Product and Finding Customers Immediately with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics
Josh Pigford went from having an idea to having paying customers in eight days. Less than six months later he was making $14,000/month. In this episode, you'll learn exactly how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost .
Mar 08, 2017•45 min
#005 – How the VC Business Model Co-Opts Entrepreneurs' Visions with Bryce Roberts of Indie.vc
Why is the VC narrative so dominant? Bryce Roberts, partner at Indie.vc, talks about why it's important to focus on generating revenue from the beginning. Brought to you by DixonAndMoe.com .
Feb 28, 2017•49 min
#004 – Succeeding in a Crowded Market by Building a Niche Business with Garrett Dimon of Sifter
How do you cut through the noise and stand out among the competition so you can start landing your first customers? Garrett Dimon, the creator of Sifter, explains how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost .
Feb 22, 2017•58 min
#003 – Bootstrapping a SaaS Business to $30,000,000/year with David Hauser of Grasshopper
David Hauser explains how prioritizing selling early on, talking to customers, and rigorously testing marketing channels helped him bootstrap to $30M/year. Brought to you by DixonAndMoe.com .
Feb 13, 2017•53 min
#002 – Fueling Growth with SEO and Content Marketing with Chris Chen of Instapainting
Learn how Instapainting founder Chris Chen used a combination of SEO and content marketing to grow his business to $32k/month in sales. Brought to you by ProductManagerHQ.com .
Feb 10, 2017•59 min
#001 – Building an Audience and Being Scrappy with Jason Grishkoff of SubmitHub
Jason Grishkoff, the founder of SubmitHub, proves that being scrappy and doing things that don't scale (like sending 1000 emails) can lead to explosive growth. Brought to you by SparkPost .
Feb 09, 2017•1 hr 4 min