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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. 30Sep 15, 202116 min
Bootstrapping to over $250k MRR - Baird Hall, Churnkey

Baird is a 4x SaaS founder based in Charleston, SC. His background is in sales, marketing, and support. He bootstrapped and grew two SaaS...

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Ep. 29Sep 10, 202115 min
Building Copy.ai in Public - Blake Emal (CMO), Copy.ai

Blake Emal is the CMO at Copy.ai, but it's not been a traditional route into that role. 8 years ago Blake was living in the South of France...

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Ep. 28Aug 5, 202119 min
Founder Hot Seat - Overcoming mental health challenges [Bonus]

Listen to the full conversation here on Stefan's podcast.This is about 17 minutes of a recording with my friend Stefan on his Founder Hot...

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Ep. 27Jul 25, 202116 min
Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm

Justin Jackson is the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a successful bootstrapped podcast hosting company. The journey building Transistor were...

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Ep. 26Jun 14, 202116 min
Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - Ben Stokes, Tiny Projects

Ben Stokes a full stack developer and entrepreneur based in Bristol in the UK, who's started an ice cream business and cookie dough...

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Ep. 25May 15, 202115 min
Struggling with my own mental health

I've never really understood mental health, or those who have had these challenges in the past. So when I've had my own challenges, I've...

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Ep. 24Apr 7, 202115 min
Growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - Danny Miranda, The Danny Miranda Show

Today I'm joined by Danny Miranda, who is the host of The Danny Miranda podcast, which has rapidly grown to over 50,000 downloads in less...

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Ep. 23Mar 24, 202115 min
Build in a competitive market, or go niche? - Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal

Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a new approach to calendar scheduling and has grown to multiple thousands MRR since he launched...

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Ep. 22Mar 20, 202115 min
How to build a business you actually enjoy - Natalie Nagele, Wildbit

Natalie Nagele is the co-founder of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk, People-First Jobs and more. Wildbit has just turned 20...

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Ep. 21Mar 17, 202115 min
$600 MRR and 150 new users per day with SEO and marketing - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host

Elston Baretto is the founder of Tiiny.host and is in a similar position to most indie hackers - working on his side-project alongside a...

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Ep. 20Mar 4, 202115 min
Building a mid 6-figure Notion course in under a year, solo - Marie Poulin, Notion Mastery

Marie Poulin is the host of Notion Office Hours, creator of Notion Mastery, Run Your Learning Launch, Digital Strategy School, Think Like a...

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Ep. 19Feb 23, 202115 min
Lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m SaaS - Arvid Kahl, TheBootstrappedFounder

Arvid Kahl is a software engineer turned entrepreneur. He co-founded and FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with...

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Ep. 18Jan 23, 202115 min
Making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on Gumroad - Philip Kiely, Gumroad

Today we're joined by Philip Kiely, who is currently Head of Marketing at Gumroad. Philip also launched "Writing for Software Developers"...

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Ep. 17Jan 15, 202115 min
Making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - Dan Rowden, ilo

Dan, like many other indie hackers, runs a bunch of projects alongside a full-time job which all compound to him making over $5k a month....

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Ep. 16Jan 11, 202115 min
Turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles DTC - Dianna Allen, TERRA

Dianna Allen is the founder of TERRA, a DTC candle brand, where she designs and hand pours a variety of candles. In October 2020, Dianna...

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Ep. 15Dec 16, 202015 min
How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story

Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around...

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Ep. 14Dec 8, 202015 min
Choosing freedom over money - Rob Hope, One Page Love + Yo!

Today I’m joined by Rob Hope, who is a South African designer, developer and the host of one of my favorite podcasts out there for...

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Ep. 13Dec 1, 202015 min
Why indie hackers should be podcasting - Mark Asquith, Rebel Base Media

Mark Asquith (aka That British Podcast Guy) is the CEO of Rebel Base Media, the U.K. podcast tech company that makes Captivate.fm and so...

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Ep. 12Nov 18, 202015 min
Making a full-time income working just one day per week - Ramy Khuffash, Page Flows

Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers. Ramy started Page Flows after building a...

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Ep. 11Oct 31, 202015 min
Paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m ARR - Nick Fogle, Wavve

Nick Fogle is the co-founder of Wavve and ChurnKey, but there is a lot more to Nick than just that. Wavve is an audio to video platform...

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