Indie Bites
Indie Bites
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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.

Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs

September 13, 2022 0:16:18 15.67 MB Downloads: 0

Joe Masilotti is the founder of RailsDevs a reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers, which is over $4k MRR and on for $100k revenue. Joe also runs the monthly Hotwire Dev newsletter, which has over 2,000 subs. And then late last year, Joe sold his side-project Mugshot Bot, which he took from idea to sale in just 14 months.

What we covered on this episode:

  • How and why Joe sold Mugshot Bot at $200 MRR
  • When to stop working on projects
  • How RailsDevs started with a spreadsheet
  • Solving a problem with a simple solution
  • Why a reverse jobs board works
  • A unique approach to a marketplace business
  • Growing RailsDevs (from both sides)
  • Being an embedded entrepreneur
  • Why RailsDevs has a hiring fee and subscription
  • Dealing with high churn
  • Growing a newsletter to 2,300 subs

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