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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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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

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Ep. 70Oct 26, 202216 min
A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy

Michele Hansen is the co-founder of Geocodio, a SaaS business that provides geocoding and data matching for addresses, co-host of the...

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Ep. 69Oct 4, 202216 min
Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io

Macgill Davis and Will Goto are the founders of Rize, a time-tracking platform that helps you increase your productivity, started in August...

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Ep. 68Sep 27, 202216 min
Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World

Milly Tamati is not your usual founder. She lives on an remote island off Scotland with a population of just 170 people, previously...

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Ep. 67Sep 26, 202215 min
Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit

Today I’m joined by Dominik Sobe, the founder of Helpkit, a product he started last year that turns Notion pages into a professional help...

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Ep. 66Sep 13, 202216 min
Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs

Joe Masilotti is the founder of RailsDevs a reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers, which is over $4k MRR and on for $100k revenue....

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Ep. 65Sep 6, 202216 min
Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta

Geoff Roberts is the co-founder of Outseta, a bootstrapped all-in-one platform to help manage and grow your recurring revenue business....

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Ep. 64Aug 30, 202215 min
Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow

David Kofoed Wind is the co-founder and CEO of Eduflow an education platform started in 2015 as Peergrade, which was a peer to peer...

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Ep. 63Aug 22, 202216 min
How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab

If you’re wanting to learn about building in public, Kevon Cheung is your guy. After not getting the fulfilment he desired from the VC...

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Ep. 62Aug 8, 202215 min
How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life

Marie Ng is the founder of Llama Life, a to-do-list app that helps you focus. As someone who struggles with focus myself, Marie’s app...

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Ep. 61May 28, 202215 min
Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops

Chris Frantz is the co-founder of Loops, YC backed email tool for startups. Chris is one of those people who just knows how to run a SaaS...

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Ep. 60May 14, 202216 min
Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot

Grey Baker is the co-founder of Dependabot, which is a bot that makes it easy for developers to keep the third party dependencies up to...

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Ep. 59May 7, 202214 min
r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink

Ch Daniel is the co-founder of Legit Check, an app that authenticates luxury items, that grew to $6k MRR in just a few weeks. He’s also...

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Ep. 58May 3, 202216 min
Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy

JR Farr is the co-founder of Make Lemonade, a product studio behind Lemon Squeezy (a platform to sell digital products), Dunked (to...

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Ep. 57Apr 29, 202214 min
Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends

Dru Riley is the founder of Trends.vc which at its core helps people discover new ideas and markets through expertly researched reports....

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Ep. 56Apr 26, 202215 min
Bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate

Monica Lent is a founder running 3 profitable indie businesses after leaving her full time job 2 years ago. She runs Affilimate, a SaaS...

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Ep. 55Apr 22, 202214 min
Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee

Pierre De Wulf is the co-founder of ScrapingBee a web scraping API that grew to $1M ARR in 2 years. Before starting ScrapingBee, Pierre and...

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Ep. 54Apr 19, 202215 min
Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial

Damon Chen, who is the founder of Testimonial, a product that collects video testimonials that he launched back in December 2020, and has...

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Ep. 53Apr 15, 202215 min
Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise

Dominic Monn is the founder of MentorCruise, a marketplace that connect mentors and mentees in Tech, which is currently doing $15k in...

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Ep. 52Apr 12, 202215 min
Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia

Today I’m joined by Spencer Fry, founder of Podia, a platform helping creators make a living online through selling courses, digital...

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Ep. 51Apr 8, 202215 min
Why your product needs marketing - Dagobert Renouf, Logology

Dagobert Renouf is the founder of Logoloy, a logo and brand design service that he started with his wife, doing around $3k in monthly...

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