Podcast · Ongoing series, most episodes 45 to 90 minutes

Indie Hackers Podcast

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen · Indie Hackers Free Beginner

This is the most honest, unvarnished archive of solo founders walking through exactly how they built and sold real software, including a lot of no-code and low-code journeys. Instead of a highlight reel, hosts push guests on the messy parts: where the product hit a wall, what broke as they scaled, and what they wish they had done differently. It is the closest thing to sitting across from someone who has already tried what you are about to try.

  • Solo founders repeatedly hit the same walls: billing edge cases, data model limits, and support load, not the initial build.
  • No-code gets you to paying customers fast, but distribution and audience-building are what actually decide whether it works.
  • Profitable one-person software businesses are real and common, not outliers, when the founder stays close to a specific problem.
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It answers 2 questions

  1. Referral or paid ads, which should a bootstrapped founder with almost no marketing budget lean on first?
  2. How do I turn a launch into an ongoing drip instead of one spike that flatlines two days later?

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