Indie Bites Podcast
1) Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts - Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm
Justin Jackson is the co-founder of Transitor.fm which has grown to over 13k podcasts in just a few years. Justin is well known in the bootstrapper community from his excellent writing on his blog and...Show More
2) Why you should build a sweaty startup instead of an indie SaaS - Flo Schirmer
Today I’m talking with Flo Schirmer about "sweaty startups", a term for old-fashioned, low-risk businesses that are often service based and unsexy. I’m talking window cleaning, car washing, self-stora...Show More
3) How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens
Marie Martens is the co-founder of Tally, a form builder she started with her partner Filip, now used by half a million people and are over $150k MRR. Marie was on the pod 3 years ago when they’d scal...Show More
4) Why the Marketoonist is the dream indie business - Tom Fishburne
Tom Fishburne is the founder of Marketoonist, a bootstrapped marketing cartoon business he started in 2010. He started drawing and sharing cartoons in 2002, and it took him 8 years to make the leap, d...Show More
5) Why Jack Ellis acquired Fathom Analytics from his co-founder
Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a simple, privacy focused analytics tool launched in 2019. I last spoke to Jack on the podcast in 2021, where he talked about the inception and growth...Show More
6) Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore
Sam Shore is the co-founder of Typeshare, a writing platform made to create and publish text across the internet. Typeshare has made over $1m in revenue since it was started in 2021, with over 80,000 ...Show More
7) How Justin Duke is building Buttondown into the perfect bootstrapped business
Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, a simple email tool he launched in 2017. Justin was last on the podcast 2 years ago when he’d hit $15k MRR and just left his role at Stripe to focus on Button...Show More
8) How to sell your indie business - Josh Peleg
Today I’m not actually joined by an indie hacker, but by someone who can help a lot of indies out there. Josh Peleg is the Head of Biz Dev for Mergers and Acquisitions at BlueThrone. Essentially, he k...Show More
9) Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business
Arvid Kahl is returning to the podcast for the third time. In 2019, he’d just sold Feedback Panda for a life changing amount of money and then wrote the book Zero to Sold. In 2023, he was in full-on c...Show More
10) High Signal founder on the state of indie hacking and building in public in 2025 - Pete Codes
Recently I’ve been reviewing my catalogue of previous guests and have been intrigued to see where they are now, so expect to see a few more returning guests over the next few weeks.Today is a chap who...Show More