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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

Podcast overview

About this podcast

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 first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.

Episodes131total
Frequencyabout 2.1 episodes per monthCalculated from 131 episodes published between Sep 2020 and Oct 2025.
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You can listen to Indie Bites on Apple Podcasts and directly on this site.

How often does Indie Bites release episodes?

Indie Bites publishes about 2.1 episodes per month, based on episode dates available in the RSS feed.

Where can I find old episodes of Indie Bites?

All older episodes of Indie Bites are available on this page, sorted from newest to oldest.

How many episodes of Indie Bites are available?

131 episodes of Indie Bites are listed on this page.

Episodes

Latest first
Ep. 110Mar 27, 202415 min
Bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - Max Serrano, IGotAnOffer

Max Serrano is the founder of IGotAnOffer, a bootstrapped coaching platform focused on helping people get jobs and progress their career....

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Ep. 109Jan 24, 202416 min
Building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - Randall Kanna Franson

Today I’m joined by Randall Kanna Franson. Randall is a senior software engineer who has written 3 books, including one published by...

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Ep. 108Jan 11, 202416 min
Can you really scale a No Code SaaS? - Kieran Ball, NoCodeLife

Kieran Ball is the founder of NoCodeLife, a selection of case studies of those making successful businesses using NoCode. Kieran also has...

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Ep. 107Jan 3, 202417 min
B2C vs B2B SaaS as an indie hacker - Val Sopi, Blogstatic

Today I’m joined by Val Sopi, the founder of Blogstatic, a lightweight blogging platform built to take on the likes of Ghost. Currently Val...

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Ep. 106Dec 27, 202314 min
How VEED bootstrapped to $7m ARR - Sabba Keynejad, VEED.io (2020)

Today I'm revisiting one of my favourite episodes, from 2020, with Sabba Keynejad, co-founder and CEO of VEED.io, an online video editing...

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Ep. 105Dec 20, 202316 min
Lemon Squeezy CTO on why he still makes side projects - Gilbert Pellegrom

Gilbert Pellegrom, is co-founder and CTO of Lemon Squeezy, a platform for selling software and digital products online. Previously Gilbert...

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Ep. 104Dec 13, 202317 min
Scaling and exiting a $65k MRR with meal planning app - Jeffrey Bunn, Mealime & Clearful

Today I’m joined by Jeffrey Bunn, who is the co-founder of Clearful, a digital journal app he built with his wife, Maria. Previously they...

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Ep. 103Dec 6, 202316 min
The slow and steady path to growth - Michael Christofides

Today I’m joined by Michael Christofides, who is the founder of PgMustard, a product which helps people speed up Postgres queries. Michael...

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Ep. 102Nov 29, 202317 min
Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder

Arvid Kahl runs The Bootstrapped Founder, a podcast, newsletter and educational resource to help founders grow successful bootstrapped...

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Ep. 101Nov 22, 202315 min
Quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - Harvey Carpenter, Growform

Harvey Carpenter is the founder of Growform, a form builder which is now around 7K MRR. It's a mixture of enterprise and some other...

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Ep. 100Nov 15, 202315 min
How to get to ramen profitability - Charlie Ward, Ramen Club

Today is a special episode, because it marks 100 episodes of Indie Bites. And to mark the occasion, I’m bringing back my guest from episode...

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Ep. 99Nov 8, 202317 min
Bootstrapping EmailOctopus to $3m+ ARR - Jonathan Bull & Tom Evans

Today I’m joined by Tom Evans and Jonathan Bull from EmailOctopus, an email platform who have bootstrapped to over $3m ARR since they were...

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Ep. 98Nov 1, 202315 min
Building a financial engine for your indie business - Justin Jackson

In this episode I have a returning guest, someone who is a keystone of the bootstrapping community, it’s Justin Jackson, co-founder of...

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Ep. 97Oct 13, 202317 min
Rob Walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other SaaS wisdom

Rob Walling is an absolute legend in the bootstrapping and indie scene. He’s a veteran entrepreneur with his most notable exit being Drip...

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Ep. 96Oct 5, 202316 min
Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis

Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos,...

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Ep. 95Sep 28, 202315 min
$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher

Today I’m joined by a returning guest, Andy Cloke, who runs Data Fetcher. Data Fetcher is an API plugin for Airtable that he’s grown to 20k...

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Ep. 94Sep 21, 202314 min
Making $200k a year teaching Google Sheets - Andrew Kamphey

Today I’m joined by Andrew Kamphey, who is the founder of Better Sheets, a platform of tools and tutorials to get better at using Google...

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Ep. 93Sep 4, 202316 min
Bootstrapping Ticket Tailor to £6m ARR, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - Jonny White

Jonny White is the founder of Ticket Tailor, a platform for selling tickets online doing over £6m ARR and growing. Jonny founded Ticket...

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Ep. 92Aug 3, 202315 min
Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces

Ryan Gilbert is the creator of the Workspaces newsletter, which showcases the best workspaces in tech and beyond. He grew it to 6,000...

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Ep. 91Jul 21, 202316 min
Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY

Tim Leland is the founder of T.LY, a link shortener with almost half a million users that he recently quit his job to pursue full time. Tim...

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