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Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert

Apr 30, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How I Learned to Code

2min

How I Made Up Enough Savings to Go Full Time at General Assembly

2min

The Origins of Front and Mental

2min

How to Monetize a Free Side Project

3min

How Front and Mentor Has Grown Over Time

2min

How to Start a Company of One

3min

Matt Studdert is the founder of Frontend Mentor, which helps people level up their front-end coding skills by building projects. They have over 500,000 users and are hovering around $30k MRR. Matt didn’t start out wanting to run a SaaS, starting out playing poker, then became a personal trainer, before changing his career and learning to code when he was 28.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:16 Playing Poker full time
02:58 Becoming a personal trainer
04:24 Learning to code with General Assembly
06:33 Front End Mentor
08:33 Building a scrappy MVP
11:29 Growth for Front End Mentor
15:03 Reccos

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