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Indie Bites

by James McKinven

Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those…

131 episodes

Episodes

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Ep. 130Oct 30, 202516 min
Andrew Gazdecki on the best way to sell your indie SaaS business

Andrew Gazdecki is the founder of Acquire, previously known as MicroAcquire, the largest startup acquisition marketplace. I’ve spoken to...

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Ep. 129Jun 2, 202516 min
Why you should build a sweaty startup instead of an indie SaaS - Flo Schirmer

Today I’m talking with Flo Schirmer about "sweaty startups", a term for old-fashioned, low-risk businesses that are often service based and...

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Ep. 128May 23, 202517 min
How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens

Marie Martens is the co-founder of Tally, a form builder she started with her partner Filip, now used by half a million people and are over...

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Ep. 127May 1, 202516 min
Why the Marketoonist is the dream indie business - Tom Fishburne

Tom Fishburne is the founder of Marketoonist, a bootstrapped marketing cartoon business he started in 2010. He started drawing and sharing...

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Ep. 126Apr 16, 202514 min
Why Jack Ellis acquired Fathom Analytics from his co-founder

Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a simple, privacy focused analytics tool launched in 2019. I last spoke to Jack on the...

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Ep. 125Mar 5, 202515 min
Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore

Sam Shore is the co-founder of Typeshare, a writing platform made to create and publish text across the internet. Typeshare has made over...

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Ep. 124Feb 7, 202517 min
How Justin Duke is building Buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business

Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, a simple email tool he launched in 2017. Justin was last on the podcast 2 years ago when he’d hit...

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Ep. 123Jan 22, 202515 min
How to sell your indie business - Josh Peleg

Today I’m not actually joined by an indie hacker, but by someone who can help a lot of indies out there. Josh Peleg is the Head of Biz Dev...

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Ep. 122Jan 15, 202516 min
Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business

Arvid Kahl is returning to the podcast for the third time. In 2019, he’d just sold Feedback Panda for a life changing amount of money and...

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Ep. 121Jan 8, 202514 min
High Signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - Pete Codes

Recently I’ve been reviewing my catalogue of previous guests and have been intrigued to see where they are now, so expect to see a few more...

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Ep. 120Sep 13, 202415 min
How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira

Tiago Ferreira is the co-founder of Podsqueeze, an AI podcast tool that helps automate your podcast content. The tool, that helps you...

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Ep. 119Aug 23, 202416 min
How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny

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...

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Ep. 118Aug 9, 202416 min
How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander

Marybeth Alexander is the founder and Chief Executive Owl of KnowledgeOwl, a bootstrapped knowledge base software founded in 2015. Started...

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Ep. 117Jun 14, 202414 min
Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof

Kyle Roof is the co-founder of High Voltage SEO, PageOptimizer Pro and Internet Marketing Gold. An agency, software and course business...

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Ep. 116May 31, 202416 min
Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash

Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Hovercode, a QR code generator he’s working on full time. Previously, Ramy founded Page Flows, a library of...

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Ep. 115May 16, 202417 min
From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas

Tibo Louis-Lucas is a serial founder, most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for...

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Ep. 114May 10, 202416 min
Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid

Amar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur,...

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Ep. 113Apr 25, 202416 min
Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute

Matt Medeiros is the founder of WP Minute, a weekly podcast highlighting WordPress news in less than 5 minutes. He’s a podcasting expert,...

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Ep. 112Apr 10, 202416 min
Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer

Manu Cinca is the founder of Stacked Marketer, a daily marketing newsletter he bootstrapped to $700k. In 2023, he acquired 2 newsletters to...

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Ep. 111Apr 3, 202415 min
Bootstrapping the 100DaysOfNoCode learning platform - Max Haining

Max Haining is the founder of 100DaysofNoCode and 100DaysofAI, which are bootcamps designed to help non-techies gain tech skills. Max...

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