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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.
Categories / tags
BusinessEntrepreneurshipMarketingPodcastEnglish

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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.

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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. 90Jul 4, 202315 min
Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery

In this episode I’m joined by Colleen Schnettler, which a lot of you would have heard from through her Software Social podcast she co-hosts...

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Ep. 89Jun 14, 202316 min
Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion

Marc Louvion is an indie hacker with many many products. His tagline on his website is relatable for all “I was fired everywhere so I had...

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Ep. 88Jun 1, 202315 min
Is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise

In this episode I’m bringing back a previous guest, Dom Monn, who is the founder of MentorCruise, which he’s now working full time on with...

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Ep. 87May 27, 202315 min
How to find and validate your ideas - Bram Kanstein, Startup Stash / No Code MVP

Today I’m joined by Bram Kanstein, who you might know from Startup Stash, which is the most upvoted product ever on Product Hunt. Bram also...

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Ep. 86Apr 30, 202316 min
Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert

Matt Studdert is the founder of Frontend Mentor, which helps people level up their front-end coding skills by building projects. They have...

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Ep. 85Apr 19, 202317 min
Jordan O'Connor on running a $30k MRR SaaS and doing SEO consulting on the side

Jordan O’Connor is the founder of Closet Tools, a bootstrapped app that helps people sell more stuff on Poshmark which has been in and...

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Ep. 84Apr 12, 202316 min
Growing a $2m p/y indie business - Josh Ho, Referral Rock

Josh Ho is the founder and CEO of Referral Rock, a SaaS he founded in 2014 doing over $2m a year in revenue. Referral Rock helps businesses...

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Ep. 83Apr 5, 202316 min
Building a 6-figure creator business - Jay Clouse, Creator Science

Jay Clouse is the founder of Creator Science, which is a membership, community, newsletter and podcast helping you become build a creator...

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Ep. 82Apr 1, 202315 min
Building a $15k MRR side project while working at Stripe - Justin Duke, Buttondown

Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, a simple email newsletter tool without all the bloat. In December 2022 Buttondown was around $15k...

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Ep. 81Mar 25, 202316 min
Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic

Jack McDade is the creator of Statamic, a content management system for Laravel. What I love about Jack is how he approaches all of his...

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Ep. 80Mar 19, 202316 min
From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)

Elston Baretto was last on the pod in March 2021, when he’d just grown his tool, Tiiny.host, to $600 MRR and we recorded as part of my...

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Ep. 79Mar 15, 202315 min
Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner

Patrick Posner is the creator of a portfolio of Wordpress plugins which have been downloaded almost a million times collectively making him...

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Ep. 78Mar 10, 202316 min
From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)

Alex MacCaw is the founder of Reflect, a note taking app which he’s grown to $20k MRR with a team of 4. Previously, he was the co-founder...

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Ep. 77Mar 8, 202316 min
Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos

Craig Hewitt is the Founder and CEO of Castos, a bootstrapped podcast hosting and analytics platform with a services arm for podcast...

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Ep. 76Mar 3, 202316 min
Daniel Fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software

Today I’m joined by Dan Fayle, who is the co-founder of Chekkit, a company that’s he bootstrapped to almost $2.5m ARR and 20 employees....

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Ep. 75Mar 1, 202315 min
How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs

Tim Soulo is the CMO at Ahrefs, one of the biggest and best SEO tools on the internet. Ahrefs are one of the clear success stories as a...

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Ep. 74Jan 17, 202316 min
Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather

Today I’m joined by Jared Maddern, the founder of Beamhouse Leather, a leather supply business he’s grown to £45k in sales in the past 2...

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Ep. 73Nov 15, 202216 min
How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop

Louis Nicholls is the co-founder of SparkLoop, a product that helps newsletter operators grow through referral partnerships. Indie hackers...

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Ep. 72Nov 8, 202216 min
Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity

Kyle Gawley is the founder of Gravity, which he’s bootstrapped to over $25k p/m. In 2012, he scaled a vc-backed company, called Get...

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Ep. 71Nov 2, 202214 min
Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick

Sam King is the founder of Flick, a tool for managing and growing your social media, doing over $3.5m ARR fully bootstrapped. Sam has taken...

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