The First Three or Four Years for You Were Hard

Chris Oliver (@excid3) is a solo founder who recently passed $1M in revenue from his suite of projects targeted at Rails developers. He's had a wild journey, from being so broke he had to get a job, to getting to the point where he was literally living the 4-hour workweek while making a full-time salary. In this episode, Chris and I discuss the tradeoffs of different indie hacker business models, the right path for building and selling to an audience, and how to use combinations to come up with unique ideas.

• GoRails, Chris' Ruby on Rails screencasting business: https://gorails.com
• Jumpstart, Chris' pre-built features for Rails apps: https://jumpstartrails.com
• HatchBox, Chris' SaaS to build, deploy, and manage Rails apps: https://www.hatchbox.io
• Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/excid3