Jim Raptis, an indie hacker from Greece who is working full-time on his portfolio of projects, including BrandBird and Magic Pattern, which are both doing $1,500 MRR. If you’ve seen those cool screenshots on Twitter with the nice drop shadow and gradient background, those are made with Brand Bird.

What we covered in this episode

Quitting running a funded startup for indie hacking
Earning that first dollar
Learning design as an engineer
Launching a product with less than 300 followers
Choosing to do a portfolio of small bets
Splitting time between multiple projects
How Jim went grew from 300 to 9k Twitter followers
What do to do when things aren’t going so well

Recommendations

Book: Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
Podcast: Flow State
Indie Hacker: Peter Levels

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Bootstrapping a portfolio of SaaS products to $3k MRR - Jim Raptis, BrandBird