Indie Hackers

#185 – How Courtland Allen Built Indie Hackers, with Ben and David from Acquired

Dec 17, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
NDhackers: The New Version of Standard Oil
01:37 • 3min
3
The Role of the Internet in Small Business Success
04:08 • 4min
4
The Importance of Computer Literacy
08:20 • 2min
5
The Importance of Early Maturity
10:35 • 4min
6
The Future of Web Productivity
14:57 • 2min
7
How to Apply to YC
17:03 • 2min
8
How I Found a Co-Founder at YC
19:00 • 3min
9
The Rise and Fall of Task Force
21:49 • 2min
10
How to Start an Email Startup That's Not Growing Fast
23:24 • 4min
11
The Importance of Incentives in Entrepreneurship
27:14 • 3min
12
How to Be an Andy Hacker
30:04 • 2min
13
The Importance of Startups
31:55 • 3min
14
How to Parallelize Indie Hacking
35:25 • 2min
15
How Eddie Hackers Made Money With Stripe's Chrome Extension
37:11 • 3min
16
How to Survive a Startup Failure
40:25 • 2min
17
The Origins of Indie Hackers
42:26 • 4min
18
The Importance of Problems First
46:04 • 2min
19
The Importance of Transparency in Entrepreneurship
47:50 • 4min
20
How to Be an Independent Programmer
51:41 • 2min
21
How to Eliminate Platform Risk
53:43 • 5min
22
How to Make Money as an Indie Hacker
58:22 • 5min
23
How to Sell the Things That Have Budgets
01:03:12 • 2min
24
How to Make Money With Stripe
01:05:05 • 2min
25
How to Win at Stripe
01:07:11 • 2min
26
The Tradeoffs Intentions for Andy Hacker's
01:09:38 • 5min
27
How to Negotiate an Acquisition
01:14:19 • 5min
28
How Stripe Structured an Acquisition
01:18:56 • 3min
29
Andy Hackers and Stripe
01:21:43 • 3min
30
How Stripe's Acquisition of Andy Hackers Made Sense
01:24:20 • 4min
31
How to Use Stripe to Grow Your Business
01:28:37 • 3min
32
The Rise of Niche Business Opportunities
01:31:31 • 4min
33
Stripe's Indy Hackers Acquisition: A Good Use of Capital and Resources for Stripe
01:35:37 • 5min