Indie Hackers

After her co-founder left the company, Christine Spang (@spang) found herself in a difficult position: deciding what to do with a product that wasn't selling as much as she'd hoped, juggling several different projects competing for her team's time and attention, and rebuilding the team's morale to get the company moving again and foster a great culture. Learn how she overcame the odds to turn Nylas API into a profitable product with over 200 paying customers.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/070-christine-spang-of-nylas

When Ben Halpern (@bendhalpern) decided to start another business, he set a very unusual expectation: He gave himself 10 years to succeed. In this episode, we discuss how Ben's patient approach and obsession with understanding things from his users' point of view helped him grow as massive following on Twitter and parlay that into fast-growing online community for developers.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/069-ben-halpern-of-dev-to

Matilda Collin, CEO of Front, shares her journey from business school to founding a successful collaborative platform with 3600 customers. She discusses the challenges of sales in early startups, scaling the business, fundraising success, and valuable advice for first-time founders.

Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) has always been a product person. In a few short years, Ryan built an audience of tech enthusiasts from scratch and grew it into the massive and impactful community known as Product Hunt. Today, he's working to bring Product Hunt to profitability after selling the company to AngelList. We also talk a bit about the maker and entrepreneur communities in general, and the similarities and differences between Product Hunt and Indie Hackers.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/067-ryan-hoover-of-product-hunt

When Brian Jagger (@briansjagger) became a casting director, spending hours copying and pasting and editing file names, he knew there had to be a better way. Learn how Brian and his cofounders took advantage of years of learnings from past failures to build a successful business in the film industry and spread to new markets one city at a time.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/066-brian-jagger-of-casting-calls-america

Nat Eliason (@NatEliason) knows exactly what he's good at. He puts SEO-focused content marketing at the center of every business he builds. When friends started asking for help growing their own businesses through search-optimized content, it was just the validation he needed to start Growth Machine. In this episode, Nat talks about how he hit profitability immediately and grew revenue to $85,000/month in under a year.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://indiehackers.com/podcast/065-nat-eliason-of-growth-machine

Des Traynor, Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom, discusses the evolution and success of Intercom, touching on marketing, product development, hiring, sales, and developing an effective vision. He emphasizes the value of hard work, personalized communication, and building a successful marketing team. He also highlights the importance of focusing on product viability and customer satisfaction before diving into marketing efforts. Des shares his vision to revolutionize communication with internet businesses and adapt to industry shifts.

Katie Keith (@Barn2Media) sees small ideas as big opportunities. In this episode, she explains how she and her husband left their full-time jobs to go into business on their own, how they found an endless stream of client work, and how they transitioned into building WordPress plugins that generate a sustainable stream of income and allow them to live their lives more freely.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/063-katie-keith-of-barn2-media

Mike Taber (@SingleFounder) dives deep into the steps he took to develop a viable idea for a company, validate it with actual customers, secure thousands of dollars worth of sales before writing any code, build a product from scratch, and get it into the hands of his first customers.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/062-mike-taber-of-bluetick

JT Marino (@johnmarino) made the unusual journey from software engineer to mattress tycoon, and he did it without raising a dime from investors. In this episode, JT provides mountains of actionable advice about how to bootstrap a business through every stage, from pre-launch product validation up through hundreds of millions in revenue. Learn how Tuft & Needle convinced their first customers to buy mattresses from a brand they'd never heard of, hired top performers on a limited budget, navigated a risky relationship with Amazon, competed with the venture-funded clones they inspired, and much, much more.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/061-jt-marino-of-tuft-and-needle