Indie Bites
Indie Bites

Indie Bites

James McKinven

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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.

Recent Episodes

How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira
SEP 13, 2024
How Podsqueeze grew to $16k MRR in 18 months - Tiago Ferreira

Tiago Ferreira is the co-founder of Podsqueeze, an AI podcast tool that helps automate your podcast content. The tool, that helps you create show notes, newsletters, social posts and more, is currently doing $16k MRR and growing. You might also know Tiago from his podcast Wannabe Entrepreneur, where he’s interviewed impressive founders including Pieter Levels.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 120 - Tiago Ferreira
  • 01:06 - Tiago's background
  • 02:25 - Lessons from failures
  • 03:40 - Starting Podsqueeze - solving your own problem
  • 05:53 - How Podsqueeze had a successful launch
  • 06:40 - How to have a successful launch
  • 08:10 - Growth tactics for Podsqueeze - SEO
  • 13:03 - Future plans and exit
  • 14:28 - Recommendations

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Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙

EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.

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15 MIN
How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny
AUG 23, 2024
How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny

Today I’m joined by Jijo Sunny, who is the co-founder of Buy Me A Coffee, one of the most popular donation and membership platforms on the internet. They’ve processed 10’s of millions for creators and have built a 26 strong team. Since founding Buy Me A Coffee, Jijo has dabbled in all sorts of projects, including a stint in YC with a podcasting app. Now though, Jijo is back building a new product, Voicenotes, a voice driven AI note taking app.

👉 Listen to the full 1 hour conversation with Jijo here: indiebites.com/membership

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:48 Background
  • 02:27 Buy Me a Coffee Origin Story
  • 03:37 How did Buy Me A Coffee grow
  • 05:35 Jijo on multiple products
  • 06:35 Making products cheap to run
  • 09:21 Starting voicenotes.com
  • 14:02 Parting advice
  • 15:56 Recommendations

Recommendations

My links

Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙

EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.

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16 MIN
How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander
AUG 9, 2024
How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander

Marybeth Alexander is the founder and Chief Executive Owl of KnowledgeOwl, a bootstrapped knowledge base software founded in 2015. Started as an idea within SurveyGizmo, where Marybeth was working at the time, the company has since flourished into a small, profitable, sustainable business ultimately being built to improve the lives of the founders, employees and customers. In this episode we talk about how Marybeth bought the company from her previous employers, how they grew through reviews and why more indie hackers should put customer happiness front and centre.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 01:26 Founding story of KnowledgeOwl (prev Help Gizmo)
  • 06:54 Marketing and Growth
  • 08:58 How to have happy customers
  • 10:54 KnowledgeOwl's appraoch to product development
  • 13:35 How important is the KnowledgeOwl brand
  • 15:07 Recommendations

Recommendations

My links

Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙

EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.

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16 MIN
Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof
JUN 14, 2024
Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof

Kyle Roof is the co-founder of High Voltage SEO, PageOptimizer Pro and Internet Marketing Gold. An agency, software and course business respectively which all focus on mastering SEO. I’ve spoken at length on the podcast before about how SEO can be such an effective tool for indie hackers to use, so Kyle is the perfect guest to talk to today.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 02:58 How Kyle learned SEO
  • 04:31 Being Scientific with SEO
  • 05:47 Why you should try paid ads
  • 07:17 Ranking top of Google with Lorem Ipsum
  • 10:15 Where do people start with SEO
  • 12:13 Encouraging word of mouth growth
  • 13:56 Recommendations

My links

Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙

EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.

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14 MIN
Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash
MAY 31, 2024
Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash

Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Hovercode, a QR code generator he’s working on full time. Previously, Ramy founded Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers that he sold last November.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 00:56 Email Octopus Sponsor
  • 02:30 Page Flows Acquisition
  • 05:03 What did Ramy buy after he sold his company
  • 05:56 Starting Hovercode
  • 08:05 Finding new business ideas
  • 09:32 Growth for Hovercode
  • 11:22 Working with a horizontal product
  • 12:20 The perfect indie business
  • 14:48 Ramy's future

Recommendations

My links

Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙

EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.

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16 MIN