Startup to Something

Jan 25 2024 110 ep. 52 mins 42
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A weekly podcast by two indie hackers, Marc and Matt. They share their ups and downs of building their bootstrapped online businesses. They prefer to show instead of teach, so you get to see the real story about what it's like to “startup to something” - raw and unpolished.

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110: Free and untethered

Jan 25 2024 63 mins  
Marc's post-acquisition support of PowerImporter is over, and he's running wild and free. Matt is setting out to submit Email Wonderful this week to the monday.com marketplace. The guys discuss pricing and how to keep it simple, and technical issues around CSS in emails.Mentions:dashdashHARDemailwonderful.comJudoHacker.comMarc's TwitterMatt's Twitter

109: The right kind of rest

Jan 11 2024 54 mins  
The guys are back!Matt is fighting with the HTML editor he's using for Email Wonderful, and is coming up with a go to market strategy. Marc is doing support according to his PowerImporter acquisition terms and they are coming to an end. Marc gives Matt his opinions on getting his app into the hands of his customers.Topics:Mentions:dashdashHARDemailwonderful.comJudoHacker.comMarc's

108: Sometimes garbage is actually garbage

Dec 14 2023 48 mins  
Marc's AI-powered domain buying bot is drawing to a close. Matt is gaining momentum with his product EmailWonderful and is onboarding beta users!The guys talk through Matt's go-to-market plan and tips and tricks for getting potential clients on the phone.Mentions:dashdashHARDemailwonderful.comJudoHacker.comMarc's TwitterMatt's Twitter

107: Finding early traction

Nov 30 2023 55 mins  
Matt has found early traction in the monday.com ecosystem and is building a quick MVP for a niche problem to solve. Marc is building an AI bot to buy expired domain names to feed his addiction. Topics:Finding business problems to solve on UpworkHow to win Upwork jobs with a brand new account... with this one trick Using LLMs and GPT as an intelligent filterThe benefits of expired d

106: A purely creative act

Nov 16 2023 59 mins  
Marc is hacking on new technology, but building in public is killing his creativity. Matt is having a lot of fun playing in the monday.com marketplace and learning about Zapier and make.com.The guys discuss creativity and how to just enjoy hacking and how to think through problems we see in the world.Mentions:dashdashHARDJudoHacker.comMarc's TwitterMatt's Twitter

105: Where commerce happens

Nov 09 2023 34 mins  
Matt has hit a wall with his render blog and talks it out with Marc. What is the next bet he should make?Mentions:MemberRowdashdashHARDMarc's TwitterMatt's Twitter

104: PowerImporter ACQUIRED

Nov 02 2023 46 mins  
It's all about Marc this week because he has sold PowerImporter! This is the story and some highlightsMentions:(One more backlink!) PowerImporterMemberRowdashdashHARDMarc's TwitterMatt's Twitter

103: Matt gets users, Marc goes serverless

Oct 19 2023 65 mins  
Matt's momentum journey continues- he has published his free tool and has users! Matt has goal related questions for Marc about how to get stuff done outside of work.Marc is doing a deep dive into serverless and he and Matt have a long conversation about it.Mentions:PowerImporterMemberRowdashdashHARDMarc's TwitterMatt's Twitter

102: Rebuilding the right muscles

Oct 06 2023 56 mins  
Marc is having a tough time with his shipping muscles after being disappointed with his performance with a recent hackathon. Matt is making good headway on his render blog.The guys discuss dealing with discomfort, and working the right muscles to ship in public and how do decide where experiments should take us when deciding to invest time into themMentions:PowerImporterMemberRowda

101: Keeping momentum and keeping books

Sep 21 2023 58 mins  
Matt has lots of momentum on his new blog about render.com and is publishing articles with a goal of shipping a free product.Marc has taken control of the financials of his company and is doing his own books, and is finding it fun.The guys talk about financial operations when doing business, difficulties with it and an idea Matt has around bookkeeping.Mentions:PowerImporterMemberRo