Sam Shore is the co-founder of Typeshare, a writing platform made to create and publish text across the internet. Typeshare has made over $1m in revenue since it was started in 2021, with over 80,000 user, currently $34k MRR I’m speaking to Sam to find out how he started Typeshare as the first of 12 startups he was planning to build, and what made this stick.

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:10 Sam's entrepreneurial background
• 02:03 Failed past projects
• 03:31 12 startups in 12 months
• 04:16 The idea for Typeshare
• 05:38 Getting traction with Typeshare
• 06:50 Getting to $15k MRR in 1 year with infuential partnerships
• 09:52 How is Sam making sure he has fun with the business
• 12:18 How to get better at writing online
• 14:09 Recommendations

Recommendations

• Book - Poor Charlie’s Almanack
• Podcast - Rework
• Indie Hacker - Dmytro Krasun

My links

• Twitter
• Indie Bites Twitter
• Indie Bites YouTube
• Join the membership
• Personal Website
• 2 Hour Podcast Course
• PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
• This Indie Life Podcast

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