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Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic
Jack McDade is the creator of Statamic, a content management system for Laravel. What I love about Jack is how he approaches all of his projects, including Statamic, t...
From $0 to $10k MRR in 2 years - Elston Baretto, Tiiny Host (Revisited)
Elston Baretto was last on the pod in March 2021, when he’d just grown his tool, Tiiny.host, to $600 MRR and we recorded as part of my mission to share stories of unkn...
Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner
Patrick Posner is the creator of a portfolio of Wordpress plugins which have been downloaded almost a million times collectively making him $12k p/m. Patrick went full...
From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)
Alex MacCaw is the founder of Reflect, a note taking app which he’s grown to $20k MRR with a team of 4. Previously, he was the co-founder of Clearbit, a VC-backed comp...
Stair stepping to millions in SaaS revenue - Craig Hewitt, Castos
Craig Hewitt is the Founder and CEO of Castos, a bootstrapped podcast hosting and analytics platform with a services arm for podcast production. He’s been in podcastin...
$2.5m ARR bootstrapped from first time founder - Dan Fayle, Chekkit
Today I’m joined by Dan Fayle, who is the co-founder of Chekkit, a company that’s he bootstrapped to almost $2.5m ARR and 20 employees. There’s a few interesting thing...
How Ahrefs Built A Best-In-Class SEO Strategy - Tim Soulo, Ahrefs
Tim Soulo is the CMO at Ahrefs, one of the biggest and best SEO tools on the internet. Ahrefs are one of the clear success stories as a bootstrapped company, growing t...
Bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - Jared Maddern, Beamhouse Leather
The crossover you never asked for but didn't know you wanted, it's James and his leather man. They talk about what it takes to build a leather supply business from scr...
How to build a newsletter business - Louis Nicholls, SparkLoop
Louis Nicholls has dived deep into the world of newsletter referral programs, and he's learnt a thing or too along the way. This chat is packed with advice about speak...
Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity
Kyle Gawley is living his life in Thailand and making $25k p/m through his product Gravity, although it did take a near-death traumatic experience with a VC-company fo...
Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
Sam is the founder of Flick, a bootstrapped social media tool doing $3.5m ARR.
A masterclass in customer research as a founder - Michele Hansen, Deploy Empathy
The dreaded (and sometimes neglected) customer research. I know I've avoided it. Michele has convinced me that it's something I should be doing and how to do it in an ...
Bootstrapping, AppSumo deals and productivity tools - Macgill Davis / Will Goto, Rize.io
Macgill Davis and Will Goto are two technical co-founders figuring out how to make you more productive with their product, Rize. They've bootstrapped the right way- wi...
Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Milly Tamati, Generalist World
Milly is truly embracing remote work, living on an island off the coast of Scotland with 170 people. From there, she's building a community of people that just haven't...
Bootstrapping Helpkit to $4.5k MRR - Dominik Sobe, Helpkit
Dominik Sobe packed in his dreams of working as a management consultant, earning cushy money and travelling the world for free, to become a stressed-out, risk-taking i...
Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs
Joe Masilotti is an all round top bloke. He's now just a top bloke who's making that juicy bootstrapped cash helping Rails developers get jobs. All while sneakily avoi...
Focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - Geoff Roberts, Outseta
Geoff Roberts his co-founders at Outseta do things differently. They run a flat organisation, have ignored SEO, and have committed to 10-15 years to make the company w...
Ending the VC dream and pivoting to an indie company - David Kofoed Wind, Eduflow
David wanted his startup, Peergrade, to be the next big thing in education. He went about it by raising VC funding. But as indies we know this story rarely ends well. ...
How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab
If you've wanted to build in public but feel you have nothing interesting to share, start here. Kevon gives a masterclass on how and why to build in public.
How to build a brand for your indie product - Marie Ng, Llama Life
If you can build all the features in the world, why would you need a brand? My guest today, Marie Ng of Llama Life, tells you exactly how and why you should consider c...
Why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - Chris Frantz, Loops
Chris Frantz is your agony aunt for your multiple projects. You've probably got multiple projects and it's just not working out. Chris is here to cut through your excu...
Growing Dependabot to $14k MRR before selling to Github - Grey Baker, Dependabot
I don't know how Grey fit everything in. Consulting firm > VC backed startup > cycling around the world > bootstrapped company > sold to one of the biggest companies i...
r/SaaS moderator making $6k MRR with his own SaaS - CH Daniel, Simple.ink
Bootstrapped mogul CH Daniel shares his experience starting, building and acquiring multiple small businesses. He loves talking too, so does so on his pod; The Usual S...
Multiple successful exits to making lemonade - JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy
I speak with JR Farr, co-founder of Make Lemonade about his recipe for bootstrapped success (and how we can make MRR with our own lemonade stand).
Behind the success of Trends.vc - Dru Riley, Trends
I speak with framework based research extraordinaire, Dru Riley, about his route to success with Trends.vc.
Bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - Monica Lent, Affilimate
I speak with literal octopus Monica Lent about how she juggles a SaaS, community and travel blog that all make cold hard cash.
Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee
I speak with Pierre De Wulf of ScrapingBee about making $1m a year with ScrapingBee, after pivoting a failed business.
Bootstrapping Testimonial to $13k MRR after many failed products - Damon Chen, Testimonial
I speak with Damon Chen about repeatedly failing to make any money, then hitting big when he quit his job and started Testimonial.
Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise
I speak with Dom Monn (the other "Dom"), founder of MentorCruise, about persistence and working full-time on his business.
Bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - Spencer Fry, Podia
I'm joined by bootstrapping legend Spencer Fry and we talk about how beer can turn into VC funding. Other things were discussed, such as predictions for the creator ec...