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Two indie SaaS founders—one just getting off the ground, and one with an established profitable business—invite you to join their weekly chats.
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Courtland Allen interviews the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
Behind-the-scenes look at two friends building a SaaS startup. Find out more about Arrows at https://arrows.to
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Learn to sell, find your first paying customers and grow a successful business. An interview series for (technical) founders who are fed up of building products nobody wants to buy... Your host, Louis Nicholls, interviews the best founders and salespeople out there. You'll learn how they found their first customers and grew successful businesses. With a focus on actionable insights from every area of sales.
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#254 – Getting Rich, Designing Your Life Afterwards, and Risk Management with Arvid Kahl and Daniel Vassallo
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Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) and Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl) have both already made it as indie hackers. They join Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen) to discuss making money as an indie hacker, designing your life after you reach financial freedom, avoiding risk, mitigating inflation, and whether or not college is worth it. Related epis…
Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters. Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade …
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#253 – Mother’s Day, Unscrupulous Cofounders, and Why You Should Never Retire
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Long-time listener, first-time guest — Courtland (@csallen) and Channing's (@ChanningAllen) mom, Eva, joins the pod to talk raising twins, buying gifts, selling computer parts, co-founder theft, an Indie Hackers quiz for moms, and why you should never retire.By Courtland Allen
Stripe's Technical Advisor to the CTO, Penelope Phippen stops by and Ben tries to get her to divulge company secrets.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Be a Champion with Zuzana Kunckova, Founder of Larabelles
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Follow Zuzana on Twitter. Zuzana's website. Check out Larabelles. Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters. Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Re…
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#252 – A New Co-Host and a New Direction for the Pod
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I'm making some changes to the Indie Hackers Podcast. Check out this episode for a sneak peek into what's ahead.By Courtland Allen
Ben and Derrick chat through a cool new feature Tuple is shaping up. They also discuss Tuple's ambitious marketing bets.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
Check out Colleen's new product, Refine: https://hammerstone.dev Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters. Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Rec…
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#251 – The Best Ways to Make Money in Tech with Julian Shapiro of Julian.capital
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Julian Shapiro is back on the show today. He's been my co-host for our podcast Brains, he's an investor at Julian.capital and a writer at Julian.com. Lately, he's been super into investing. He's managed to take an overly complex thing like investing and reverse-engineer it, breaking it down into its simplest frameworks. Follow Julian on Twitter: ht…
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Positioning for Maximum Impact with Zach Goldie
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Check out Zach's website: https://www.zachgoldie.comBy Michele Hansen & Colleen Schnettler
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#250 – Italy, COVID, Indie Creators, and our A.I. Future with Channing Allen of Indie Hackers
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My twin brother Channing (@ChanningAllen) joins the show for the first time, for a casual chat about our recent trip to Italy, the best and worst parts of getting COVID, the future of media companies and indie creators, and DALL-E 2 and the future of AI.By Courtland Allen
Ben and the Tuple team have hit a good shipping stride lately. Derrick and team are nearing completion on a few large SavvyCal initiatives. The guys reflect on MicroConf and the nature of dispensing advice.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Founding, Selling, and Starting Anew with Adam Pallozzi, Exited Founder of Junior Rockers and Co-Founder of SleepHQ
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Follow Adam: https://twitter.com/adampallozzi Check out Adam's new business, SleepHQ: https://sleephq.comBy Michele Hansen & Colleen Schnettler
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Throwback: Writing Code to Sell $200,000/Month of Cookies with Sam Eaton of Crave Cookie
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When Sam Eaton hears a new idea, it's all he can do to contain his excitement and dive right into the code. So when his sister told him she wanted to start a cookie delivery business, there was never any question that he'd apply his indie hacker skills to help out however he could. And to great effect — today they're selling hundreds of thousand of…
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Derrick and Ben share updates from the Castos recording booth at MicroConf Growth.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Sales for Founders with Ben Orenstein, Co-Founder of Tuple
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Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/r00k Check out Tuple: https://tuple.app Did your latest AWS bill give you a heart attack? CloudForecast sends you daily transparent reports that help you understand your AWS costs, find any overspends, and promote opportunities to save costs. CloudForecast takes complicated data and produces accurate, presentable rep…
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Throwback: Building a Business Meant to Last with Peldi Guilizzoni of Balsamiq
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Twenty pages into reading his first business book, Peldi Guilizzonni (@peldi) closed it for good and told himself, "This is not for me. I'm never going to start a business. It's insane." Not long after that, he rolled up his sleeves and got started building Balsamiq Mockups, which would go on to employee dozens of people, serve thousands of custome…
Our favorite Canadian drops by to talk mobility, fancy A/V setups, what's next for Tailwind UI, and how we'll never find peace of mind.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
Follow Marie: https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee Check out Llama Life: https://twitter.com/llamalifeco Check out Marie's learn to code YouTube recommendations: JavaScript 30 by Wes Bos Dev Ed Traversy Media This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol. You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol…
Ben and Derrick riff on a variety of topics, including coffee brewing, retreats, MicroConf, design, finding business ideas, and interesting subreddits. Links: Sweet Maria's MicroConf Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea The Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping fatFIRE OneBag - The Art of Minimalist Travel…
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#249 – The Keys to Making $1M/Year as a Solo Founder with Brett Williams of DesignJoy
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Today I'm talking to Indie Hacker Brett Williams (@brettfromdj) who has built a $1M ARR "agency of one." In this episode we talk about how he manages 50 clients as a solo designer and has 10x'd his prices in the process. Check out DesignJoy: DesignJoy.co Follow Brett on Twitter: twitter.com/brettfromdj…
The Tuple team has recently grown by three team members! Ben is looking forward to getting the Linux client out the door in the next month. Derrick is staying busy moving SavvyCal forward and bringing his new developer into the app.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
Things have been busy here at Arrows HQ, but we made time to get the team together for the first time. Most of us had never met each other before. On this episode, we have Kim and Matt on discuss the experience of organizing and attending our team retreat.By Arrows Podcast Network
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Raising a Business and Family with Anna Maste
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Follow Anna: https://twitter.com/skulegirl This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol. You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol. Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style developer experie…
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#248 – Crypto Literacy, Daily Habits, and New Business Ideas with Dru Riley and Greg Isenberg
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Today I'm talking to Greg Isenburg of Late Checkout and Dru Riley of Trends.vc. In this episode, we cover a bunch of topics around media and community. I'll ask them where they get their content ideas, how they create product stickiness, how they stay productive and what new business ideas are sitting in their notes app. Follow Greg on Twitter: htt…
Ben talks to Brian Lovin, a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Finding Your Career Niche with Nate Berkopec
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Nate's website: speedshop.co This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol. You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol. Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style developer experience natively t…
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#247 – Scaling Up a 1-to-1 Service with Ravi Mehta and Victoria Young of Scale Higher
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Today I'm talking to Victoria Young (@victoriahyoung) and Ravi Mehta (@ravi_mehta) about their coaching platform Scale Higher. In this episode we talk about the type of person who could benefit from a coach and how they've been inspired by platforms like Noom and TalkSpace to change the way people are able to level up their professional lives. Foll…
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201: Getting Things Done with Stephen Dolan
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Ben and Derrick chat with Tuple's Chief of Staff and GTD expert, Stephen Dolan. They discuss Stephen's path from programming to sales to his current role and nerd out over methods for staying productive.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Special episode: Two additional ways you can help Ukraine
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List of Ukrainian indie businesses/OSS contributors/creators to support: https://ukrainianweb.biz/ Donate to World Central Kitchen: https://donate.wck.org/ and let Michele know your donation is part of her matching campaign (michele@deployempathy.com) This is intended as *additional* help in addition to the many other places to donate to help Ukrai…
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#246 – Doing Content Right with Steph Smith of Trends.co
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Today I'm talking to Steph Smith (@stephsmithio). She runs Trends.co and recently got my attention when she posted on IH how she grew her podcast from 0 to 15k downloads/month. She took a really unique approach to launching her show, The Sh*t You Don't Learn in School, and I want to find out how she did it. Follow Steph on Twitter: https://twitter.…
Ben recently had a Tuple team retreat. He is still in hiring mode. The Tuple product team is progressing on their Linux integration. Derrick ran a product-market fit survey for SavvyCal, and the results are... tune in to find out. He's pondering how to approach a freemium play.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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How to Use Twitter Effectively (feat. Arvid Kahl)
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Follow Arvid: https://twitter.com/arvidkahl Arvid's Twitter course: https://www.findyourfollowing.com/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need…
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#245 – Hiring a Team You Actually Like with Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Today I'm talking to Ben Orenstein of Tuple and Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal. I recently joined them on their podcast The Art of Product and we talked about things like long-term goal setting and hiring a team of people you actually enjoy being around. Follow Derrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/derrickreimer Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter…
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Workshopping Pay-As-You-Go Failed Payments
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#244 – Building Gradually to Grow Suddenly with Shahed Khan of Hyper
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Today I'm talking to Shahed Khan, the co-founder of Loom and investor at Hyper. In this episode we talk about his first business failure at 16 and the many iterations Loom went through before catching on fire. Follow Shahed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_shahedk Check out Hyper: https://blog.hyper.com/…
Ben & Derrick chat with Courtland Allen from Indie Hackers. They discuss the challenges of building a community and finding fulfillment in work, among a variety of other topics. Resources: Indie Hackers SavvyCal TupleBy Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Selling a Business and Scaling Another Amidst Tragedy
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Read the post Jesse mentions about his daughter Leia: https://jessehanley.com/blog/2021 Follow Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessethanley Check out Bento: https://bentonow.com/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translatio…
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#243 – Mental Health and Bootstrapping in 2022 with Rob Walling of TinySeed
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In this episode I'm chat with Rob Walling about a wide range of topics including metal health, how to find a business idea and the relevance of bootstrapping today. Follow Rob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robwalling Apply to TinySeed: https://tinyseed.com/apply Listen to Startups for the Rest of Us: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/…
Follow Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessethanley Check out Bento: https://bentonow.com/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of s…
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#242 – Money, Happiness, and Productivity as a Solo Founder with Pieter Levels (Part 2 of 2)
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Today I'm continuing my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio). In this episode we dig into what habits make Pieter so prolific as well as his thoughts on investing, crypto, and money in general.By Courtland Allen
Derrick and Ben catch-up about what's going on at Tuple and SavvyCal. Derrick had a fun customer experience on Twitter last week. Ben is still in hiring mode.By Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
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Redefining Success with Chris Spagnuolo of Jetboost
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Follow Chris: https://twitter.com/c_spags Check out JetBoost: https://www.jetboost.io/ Listen to Default Alive: https://www.defaultalive.fm/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language …
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#241 – Money, Happiness, and Productivity as a Solo Founder with Pieter Levels (Part 1 of 2)
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Today I'm catching up with Pieter Levels after 4 years. The world has changed dramatically since we last spoke. Attitudes toward remote work and global travel are all completely different now. We'll talk about what headwinds and tailwinds these changes have meant for his projects. Follow Pieter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/levelsio/ Move to Port…
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Arrows is launching its second podcast today, called Happy Customers. So we have Stuart Balcombe on the show, the host of Happy Customers and the head of product marketing at Arrows. We talk about why we're launching a podcast, what the goal of the podcast is, and some tips he learned after creating multiple podcasts now.Please subscribe to Happy C…
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#240 – Capturing a Valuable Market from the Bottom Up with Amjad Masad of Replit
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Today I'm talking to Amjad Masad (@amasad), the founder of Replit. I'm captivated by his strategy and how Replit is eating the market from the bottom up. We'll talk about that and how he's learned to love being a founder even though it didn't start out that way. Follow Amjad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amasad Check out Replit: https://replit.co…
