Indie Worldwide is where indie hackers come to meet other indie hackers. Every week we interview a successful startup founder, indie maker, or bootstrapper and find out how they did it. Each episode is packed with actionable growth strategies and proven tactics for building your indie startup. Catch our recorded interviews here, or check out one of our multiple monthly live meetups: https://indieworldwide.co/ See you there πππ Hosted by Anthony Castrio
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Live consulting call with AI startup founder
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Try Outdone for AI-powered gift recommendations: https://www.outdone.io K-Means Clustering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering Other links mentioned: https://violet.io Socials https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio https://twitter.com/indie_worldwide Indie Worldwide - Startup founder community https://indieworldwide.com/β¦
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How to grow a newsletter to 25,000+ daily readers with Chevy Cassar from Web3 Daily
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With Chevy Cassar from Web3 Daily: https://twitter.com/chevycassar Web3Daily: https://www.web3daily.co/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio Join Indie Worldwide: https://indieworldwide.co/ Follow Indie Worldwide on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indie_worldwide 00:00-00:16 Intro 00:00:16-00:02:36 Our secret mastermind 00:02:β¦
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Elie Steinbock, Sharemint.xyz - Building a $5k/month SaaS for web3 referral programs
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https://sharemint.xyz/ https://twitter.com/elie2222 https://indieworldwide.com/ https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio In this conversation, Anthony Castrio, founder of the Indie Worldwide Community, interviews Elie Steinbock, founder of Sharemint.xyz, CryptoFighters, and FrontWork. Elie shares his journey from running a front-end development agency toβ¦
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Interview with Hua | Typogram
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https://typogram.co/ https://twitter.com/HuaTweets https://indieworldwide.com/ Anthony: Tell me more about Typogram! Hua: Typogram is a logo design tool for founders, entrepreneurs, and small business owners who do not have a professional design background. It aims to make logo design and branding easy for non-professionals. It is not a random logoβ¦
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Cheezus "The Vivino of Cheese"
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Cheezus: https://cheezus.co/ Find Ross on Twitter: https://twitter.com/randomshenans on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/realtalkbusiness1337 Indie Worldwide: https://indieworldwide.com/ Anthony: https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrioDoor Indie Worldwide
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Suzy Choi - GoodPeople.ai
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This is the second episode of our Featured Founder Friday series where we put the spotlight on Bootstrapped founders from the Indie Worldwide community and beyond. Our second feature is Suzy Choi, an Indie Worldwide member and founder of GoodPeople, a pre-launch startup that aims to drive cultural change by creating job descriptions that attract diβ¦
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Emma Fletcher - Evergreen Support, Learn to Solder Kits
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Join Indie Worldwide -> https://indieworldwide.com/ https://twitter.com/emmafletcher https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio https://learntosolderkits.com/ evergreensupport.coDoor Indie Worldwide
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Grow your Twitter audience from 0 to 10,000 followers
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Best CRM for indie hackers: https://zoho.to/INDIEWORLDWIDE Going over all the strategies I used to grow my Twitter audience to over 10,000 followers, how you can do the same, and common pitfalls.Door Indie Worldwide
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Interview with Outseta Co-founder Geoff Roberts
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Outseta gives founders the tools to monetize their website, SaaS product, or online community in minutes. https://www.outseta.com/Door Indie Worldwide
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Interview with the founder of Wishtender
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Dash is the founder of https://www.wishtender.com/ a service that allows fans to anonymously buy gifts for adult-creators. Mostly used by members of the findom community, Wishtender has quickly grown by providing security and safety to both sides of the transaction.Door Indie Worldwide
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In person interview with rival community builder - Wannabe Entrepeneur
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This is part 2 of an in person sit down with Tiago in his home in Lisbon Portugal. Tiago is the founder of the Wannabe Entrepreneur community and podcast and a sometimes-rival to the Indie Worldwide Community. Listen to part one: https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com/episodes/249/Door Indie Worldwide
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Dan Vassallo quit his $500,000 job at Amazon.
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Dan has made a name for himself for quitting his job at Amazon where he made $500k+ per year to become an Indie Hacker and build a portfolio of small bets. Now he works part-time for Gumroad, builds a SaaS called Userbase, has 100k+ Twitter followers, and runs the Tiny Bets Community.Door Indie Worldwide
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Q&A with Andrew Gazdecki, MicroAcquire CEO
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This is Part 1 of the 100 users 100 days demo day where we had a live Q&A session with Andrew Gazdecki the founder of MicroAcquire. Part 2 will be uploaded to the Indie Worldwide YouTube Channel.Door Indie Worldwide
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Building a $5,000MRR business out of a virtual stage-timer
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β’ Husband and wife indie hacker team. β’ 2k MRR + another 2k non-recurring on average per month β’ Ramen profitable but still freelancing β’ Going nomadic soon for a year β’ Other ventures like a notebook company and a fun online candy shopping experienceDoor Indie Worldwide
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Million dollar retail entrepreneur turned indie hacker
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Ana Bibikova founded a retail chain introducing Asian foods to the Russian market. After burning out she sold her business and pivoted into indie hacking. Now Ana teaches introverted entrepreneurs how to use their natural inclinations to become better marketers.Door Indie Worldwide
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Use Notion as a blog - How Bhanu built Feather.so to $500 MRR in 5 weeks.
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Bhanu is a 24 year old Indie Hacker quickly approaching $1,000 MRR just a couple months after launching his blog-on-top-of-Notion platform Feather. In this interview we discuss how Bhanu quit his job, became a startup founder, tried, failed, and pivoted his way to his current product which is now growing like crazy.β¦
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Cold calling airports for $7,000 | Zach Burau
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Zach Burau runs a dev shop, he develops software to run airport time bulletin boards, he bought a website off the founder of Kayak, and now he's building a niche-gaming empire.Door Indie Worldwide
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Clothing made to measure, an interview with the CEO of Balodana
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Dana is the founder and CEO of Balodana, a curated marketplace of bespoke tailors. When you sign up for Balodana they take your measurements so that you can shop for clothes that fit you perfectly, every time. Their collection is curated from around the world and they work directly with the makers of your clothing to get each piece tailored to fit β¦
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$48,000 a year side-hustle helping founders become ramen profitable
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Charlie Ward is an Indie Hacker and a founder of Ramen Club. He got his start organizing local meetups for the London Indie-hacker scene, but when COVID struck he had to make a hard pivot. In this episode we discuss community building, indie hacking, and how Charlie made the most of what could have been a sticky situation.β¦
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Trevor Longino Q&A with Indie Worldwide
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Trevor Longino is the founder of CrowdTamers, a former thespian, and a master marketer. He's helped over a dozen startup scale their marketing efforts to multiple millions in ARR.Door Indie Worldwide
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How to scale your startup to $2M ARR - Trevor Longino
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Trevor Longino is the founder of CrowdTamers, a former thespian, and a master marketer. He's helped over a dozen startup scale their marketing efforts to multiple millions in ARR.Door Indie Worldwide
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Q&A with Amar Ghose - founder of ZenMaid.com
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An interview with a founder who grew his business from less than $1000 to over $2 million a year selling software to maidsDoor Indie Worldwide
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Bootstrapped AI Startup from New Zealand making $250,000 ARR | CK Lee
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Hailing from New Zealand, CK Lee is the founder of two AI startups, TagGun and TagTeam. Learn how he grew his side-hustle to over a quarter of a million USD in revenue and what he's doing next.Door Indie Worldwide
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30,000 resumes per month | Founder Spotlight - Fernando Pessagno
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Our spotlight today is on Fernando Pessagno. His beautiful resume building website gets over 30,000 submissions per month and currently generates around $2,000 per month. We spoke about his plans for pivoting the business model to better capture the value of his business and how heβs getting so many hits every month.β¦
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Interview with Fed from Gummy Search - Fractional CTO, Digital Nomad, Programmatic SEO
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I interviewed Fed from The Hive Index and Gummy search about his journey launching two SaaS businesses while criss-crossing the continent with his wife and cat in tow.Door Indie Worldwide
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How to get banned from Mailchimp | Michael Greenberg
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Want to avoid getting banned from your email marketing tools? We invited Michael Greenberg (@gentoftech) to run an introductory workshop for any founders who send emails. Michael has built three different 6-figure ARR productized services, and sold one of those. Currently he's writing & podcasting about digital operations, entrepreneurial strategy,β¦
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We interviewed Thomas Jacquesson, one half of Pony Express Studio, about how their breakout product Tweet Hunter has found traction on Twitter.Door Indie Worldwide
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BudgetSheet is an add-on for Google Sheets that lets you import your bank transactions directly into a spreadsheet. Vance Lucas built his micro-startup on the side while also holding down a full time job, in large part just by choosing the right market to play in. Heβs a solo-founder.Door Indie Worldwide
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Greg Fragin is building LoopHQ, and all in one platform to manage your messages and relationships across the internet.Door Indie Worldwide
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The easiest way to grow Shopify stores with Kaus Manjita
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This is an interview with the co-founder of https://getmason.io/, Kaus Manjita. The easiest way to grow Shopify stores. Get discounts, offers, bundles & product listings live in your store in minutes. Automate your storefront updates to drive 20% better conversions. https://getmason.io/Door Indie Worldwide
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Using profitable paid ads to build a $10,000 MRR business
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Jamie Tam is a Shopify merchant turned app maker. He previously ran a profitable drop-shipping business but realized there was no great ways to track his profitability within Shopify, so he built Profit Calc. His app is now making more than $10,000 per month with no employees and 80% margins.Door Indie Worldwide
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How Shar grew Billflow to $20,000 in MRR
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Shar is the Founder & CEO of Billflow. Focusing on SaaS pricing, billing, and no-code.Door Indie Worldwide
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$150,000,000 in the next 2 years w/ Ganesh from AI Hello
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Ganesh participated in the 100 in 100 challenge and finished at the top of the leaderboard. Now they're well past 100 customers and have already hit $15,000 in MRR with the audacious goal of growing to $10 Million in ARR in the next two years and hitting a $150 Million evaluation (based on a 15x multiple). Not outrageous at all if you consider theiβ¦
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Franco Gobbo: What is AB Testing?
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We interviewed the COO of ABTesting.ai to figure out: how a small startup landed Toyota as a customer, how they're growing so far, and what the future of AI-generated content looks like. See how Franco Gobbo is making it happen.Door Indie Worldwide
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Charlie Ward: Grow a community by empowering your members
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Charlie Ward is the founder of Weekend Club, a remote co-working club for bootstrapped founders. Over the last few years he's grown the club to ramen-profitability and scaled to host multiple events every single week (weekdays too!). In this interview we discuss how to start your community, how to scale it, and how to empower your members to becomeβ¦
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Judo Hacker: How he's built and grown PowerImporter
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Indie hacker since 2011, full-stack web developer since 1997, Marc LG aka The Judo Hacker is the founder of PowerImporter β the easiest nocode tool for updating your Webflow CMS.Door Indie Worldwide
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Noah Bragg: Building Potion.so in public on Twitter
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Noah is the solo-founder of Potion.so, a tool to create custom websites in minutes using Notion and host of the Product Journey Podcast. Noah has built Potion.so to more than 2k MRR in public on Twitter. https://twitter.com/noahwbraggDoor Indie Worldwide
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Building a startup in public on Twitch.tv
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Dan is the founder of TwitchToTIkTok and is currently building a new startup live from Thailand on Twitch.Door Indie Worldwide
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Paulina Masson: Growing a 7-figure business with SEO
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Paulina Masson is a SaaS founder, serial entrepreneur. Paulina sold her previous startup Shopkeeper for 7-figures and is currently working on growing her new startup, CreatorBooks using a strategy of affiliate marketing and SEO.Door Indie Worldwide
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Andrew Gazdecki: How to Sell Your Startup
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Andrew Gazdecki is the founder of MicroAcquire.com. Former CEO of Bizness Apps & Altcoin (both acquired), and entrepreneur in residence at 500 Startups At this meetup we talked about what it takes to sell a startup of any size and how to command a high multiple.Door Indie Worldwide
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Rosie Sherry: Q&A on Community Building
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Rosie Sherry talks community building at the Community x Audience Indie Worldwide event.Door Indie Worldwide
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How to design a community - Preet Singh, DesignX
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Preet Singh is a community founder and online event organizer. He runs the DesignX community and has founded multiple conferences both online and offline.Door Indie Worldwide
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This Indie Hacker Built a Charity - Nakkeeran Raveendran, We Care Social
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This conversation may be one of the rare occasions where a founder's venture is fundamentally changed by the end of the conversation. Nakkeeran Raveendran is the founder of We Care Social, https://wecaresocial.co/, a charity founded on the principles of indie-hacking. Nak makes it really really easy for indie hackers and large business alike to givβ¦
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70+ projects launched in 20 years, interview w/ Mubs, FounderPath
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Mubashar Iqbal, better known as Mubs, has been making and shipping projects on the internet for over 20 years, now he's at over 70 (probably closer to 100), and he's done it all while working a full time job. At this interview we dig into his process, his philosophy on indie hacking, and practical advice for makers of all experience levels. One thiβ¦
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30,000 active users and 100% monthly growth w/ Taylor Nieman of Toucan
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Toucan is a language learning Chrome Extension that teaches you in context by replacing words on the websites you normally visit with words in your target language. It acts like an invisible app layer on top of your normal internet browsing behavior, ie it's dead simple to use. In just a few short months Toucan has grown to over 30,000 users and isβ¦
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Podcasting as a growth channel w/ Michaela Greiler of Software Engineering Unlocked
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Today we interviewed Michaela Greiler of Software Engineering Unlocked. Michaela has built up her podcast and code-review consulting business to a point where she now makes more money on her own terms than she did as a researcher at Microsoft. We talked about how she's built up her business, her podcast, and her business philosophy which has alloweβ¦
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$10,000 in two days with π·ππΊπ from Simple Ops
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Today we interviewed Hari Kirshna, better known as π·ππΊπ from Simple Ops, about Visa List, Simple Ops, and several of his other ventures. Hari's companies span the consumer, B2B, blockchain, and Android ecosystems.Door Indie Worldwide
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Acquired by Tencent at 18 years old for $2 million dollars w/ Richard Kong of Gravity Tales
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Richard Kong started GravityTales in high-school, reached over $10,000 in monthly revenue before his freshman year of college, dropped out of school and then sold to Tencent for more than $2 million dollars, and that's just the beginning of his story. At this live Q&A we talked about his early success, accidentally getting a full time job at Scale β¦
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Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee - The weird and wonderful world of web scrapers.
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Pierre De Wulf and his business partner quit their jobs with the goal of building a sustainable indie business in one year. Nine months later their first product had yet to hit $1,000 in monthly revenue and they realized they were running out of time. With just three months left to go, they sold their previous product, built a web scraping api, andβ¦
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Philip Thomas, Moonlight - The power of humans vs automation and freedom vs the status quo.
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Philip is the founder of Moonlight, a unique community of freelancers and forward thinking companies which is redefining what it means to work together. Before exiting the company in an acquisition by Pull Request, Philip and his co-founder Emma had reached more than $50,000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this Q&A we dug deep into the origins of β¦
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