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andrew gazdecki on the best way to sell your indie saas business

why you should build a sweaty startup instead of an indie saas - flo schirmer

how tally grew to $150k mrr in 5 years - marie martens

why the marketoonist is the dream indie business - tom fishburne

why jack ellis acquired fathom analytics from his co-founder

typeshare's $34k mrr bootstrapped journey - sam shore

how justin duke is building buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business

how to sell your indie business - josh peleg

arvid kahl on building a profitable saas (podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business

high signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - pete codes

how podsqueeze grew to $16k mrr in 18 months - tiago ferreira

how buy me a coffee grew to millions of users - jijo sunny

how focusing on customer happiness led to success for knowledgeowl - marybeth alexander

ranking #1 in google with lorem ipsum and making a career out of scientific seo - kyle roof

finding success with a qr code app after selling his previous indie business - ramy khuffash

from tweet hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - tibo louis-lucas

building a $200k mrr bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - amar ghose, zenmaid

building wp minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - matt medeiros, wp minute

building a $700k arr newsletter - manu cinca, stacked marketer

bootstrapping the 100daysofnocode learning platform - max haining

bouncing back from losing 70% revenue - max serrano, igotanoffer

building and monetizing an audience as a software engineer - randall kanna franson

can you really scale a no code saas? - kieran ball, nocodelife

b2c vs b2b saas as an indie hacker - val sopi, blogstatic

how veed bootstrapped to $7m arr - sabba keynejad, veed.io (2020)

lemon squeezy cto on why he still makes side projects - gilbert pellegrom

scaling and exiting a $65k mrr with meal planning app - jeffrey bunn, mealime & clearful

the slow and steady path to growth - michael christofides

arvid kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder

quitting his job and taking a £20k loan to go full time indie - harvey carpenter, growform

how to get to ramen profitability - charlie ward, ramen club

bootstrapping emailoctopus to $3m+ arr - jonathan bull & tom evans

building a financial engine for your indie business - justin jackson

rob walling on multiple projects, why building an audience is dumb and other saas wisdom

growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - aaron francis

$20k mrr with airtable app using youtube and seo for growth - andy cloke, data fetcher

making $200k a year teaching google sheets - andrew kamphey

bootstrapping ticket tailor to £6m arr, selling and repurchasing the company, losing motivation and more - jonny white

carving a new life path with a newsletter about workspaces - ryan gilbert, workspaces

taking on bit.ly bootstrapped - tim leland, t.ly

working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - colleen schnettler, helloquery

gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - marc louvion

is indie hacking having an identity crisis? - dominic monn, mentorcruise

how to find and validate your ideas - bram kanstein, startup stash / no code mvp

growing frontend mentor to 500k users and $30k mrr - matt studdert

jordan o'connor on running a $30k mrr saas and doing seo consulting on the side

growing a $2m p/y indie business - josh ho, referral rock

building a 6-figure creator business - jay clouse, creator science

building a $15k mrr side project while working at stripe - justin duke, buttondown

breaking convention: the radical thinking of jack mcdade and statamic

from $0 to $10k mrr in 2 years - elston baretto, tiiny host (revisited)

making $12k p/m with wordpress plugins - patrick posner

from $50m vc-backed to $20k mrr notes app - alex maccaw, reflect (prev. clearbit)

stair stepping to millions in saas revenue - craig hewitt, castos

daniel fayle: from commercial banker to making millions in software

how ahrefs built a best-in-class seo strategy - tim soulo, ahrefs

bootstrapping a leather supply business to $50k in sales - jared maddern, beamhouse leather

how to build a newsletter business - louis nicholls, sparkloop

near death vc experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - kyle gawley, gravity

bootstrapping to $3.5m arr from youtuber to founder - sam king, flick

a masterclass in customer research as a founder - michele hansen, deploy empathy

bootstrapping, appsumo deals and productivity tools - macgill davis / will goto, rize.io

building a community of generalists on a remote island - milly tamati, generalist world

bootstrapping helpkit to $4.5k mrr - dominik sobe, helpkit

solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - joe masilotti, railsdevs

focusing on one product in a strong market (for 15 years) - geoff roberts, outseta

ending the vc dream and pivoting to an indie company - david kofoed wind, eduflow

how to build in public - kevon cheung, public lab

how to build a brand for your indie product - marie ng, llama life

why you need a single focus (and ditch your portfolio of projects) - chris frantz, loops

growing dependabot to $14k mrr before selling to github - grey baker, dependabot

r/saas moderator making $6k mrr with his own saas - ch daniel, simple.ink

multiple successful exits to making lemonade - jr farr, lemon squeezy

behind the success of trends.vc - dru riley, trends

bootstrapped founder running 3 profitable businesses - monica lent, affilimate

growing scrapingbee to $1m arr - pierre de wulf, scrapingbee

bootstrapping testimonial to $13k mrr after many failed products - damon chen, testimonial

building a mentorship platform to $1m gmv - dominic monn, mentorcruise

bootstrapping vs venture capital & lessons from a veteran - spencer fry, podia

why your product needs marketing - dagobert renouf, logology

bootstrapping a portfolio of saas products to $3k mrr - jim raptis, brandbird

candle dealer builds $5k mrr software to solve own problem - dianna allen & jeremy blalock, inventora

gumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - sahil lavingia, gumroad

a solo $130k mrr productized design service - brett williams, designjoy

growing an online card tool to $23k a month - valentin hinov, thankbox

building a $15m gmv side-project at 15 years old - che sampat, superpay

mental health as a founder and the importance of community - tom ross, design cuts

growing to $8.5k mrr in 1 year - marie martens, tally.so

growing to $4m+ despite apple cloning their product - matt ronge, astropad

bootstrapping a saas to millions in revenue - ben orenstein, tuple

4 years of failed projects to full-time indie hacker - kenneth cassel, pointer.gg

nailing your marketing as a founder - peter suhm, reform

from lifelong bootstrapper to raising calm funding - brian casel, zipmessage

leaving a $500k job to build a portfolio of small bets - daniel vassallo

from $500k to $1m in 6 months with a podcast agency - harry morton, lowerstreet

taking on google with fathom analytics and growing a course to $150k - jack ellis, fathom

building a portfolio of projects to $6k in one month - pete codes, no cs degree

growing upvoty to $17k mrr - mike slaats, upvoty

$250 to $3k mrr in 4 months with a notion website builder - noah bragg, potion

bootstrapping two $3k mrr projects, selling one for $55k - andy cloke, data fetcher

bootstrapping to over $250k mrr - baird hall, churnkey

building copy.ai in public - blake emal (cmo), copy.ai

founder hot seat - overcoming mental health challenges [bonus]

bootstrapping transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - justin jackson, transistor.fm

making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses - ben stokes, tiny projects

struggling with my own mental health

growing a podcast to 50k downloads in 6 months - danny miranda, the danny miranda show

build in a competitive market, or go niche? - derrick reimer, savvycal

how to build a business you actually enjoy - natalie nagele, wildbit

$600 mrr and 150 new users per day with seo and marketing - elston baretto, tiiny host

building a mid 6-figure notion course in under a year, solo - marie poulin, notion mastery

lessons learned bootstrapping and selling a $55k p/m saas - arvid kahl, thebootstrappedfounder

making $15k in 24 hours selling a book on gumroad - philip kiely, gumroad

making over $5k/month from a portfolio of side projects - dan rowden, ilo

turning $100 into $52,000 selling handmade candles dtc - dianna allen, terra

how pat walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his seo course - pat walls, starter story

choosing freedom over money - rob hope, one page love + yo!

why indie hackers should be podcasting - mark asquith, rebel base media

making a full-time income working just one day per week - ramy khuffash, page flows

paying off $250k in debt by starting a company making $1.5m arr - nick fogle, wavve

building the one of the most popular slack apps of all time - wilhelm klopp, simple poll

building a saas with just one hour every day - mubashar iqbal (mubs)

what it takes to build a community - rosie sherry, indie hackers

leaving a full-time head of growth role to be a full-time indie hacker - corey haines, swipe files and more

how veed grew to $1.7m arr in less than 2 years - sabba keynejad, veed.io

what's important for indie hackers in 2020 - courtland allen, indie hackers

$3k mrr with 600 paying members writing about mindful productivity - anne-laure le cunff, ness labs

starting over 40 side-projects in 10 years - helen ryles

building marketing examples to 30k email subscribers - harry dry, marketing examples

growing a paid community to $800 mrr - charlie ward, ramen club (prev. weekend club)

indie bites trailer - what's it all about?