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.
$20k MRR with Airtable app using YouTube and SEO for growth - Andy Cloke, Data Fetcher
Today I’m joined by a returning guest, Andy Cloke, who runs Data Fetcher. Data Fetcher is an API plugin for Airtable that he’s grown to 20k MRR. In our previous episode Andy was only at around £3k MRR, so in this conversation we talk about what he’s done to grow so rapidly, including investing in new marketing channels such as YouTube.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:58 Growing to 20k MRR
- 04:51 Building a machine
- 06:01 YouTube Strategy
- 09:09 Launching another product
- 11:38 Hiring and reinvesting into the business
- 13:07 Future of Data Fetcher
Recommendations
- Book: Psychology of Money
- Podcast: Acquired
- Indie Hacker: Curtis Herbert
Follow Andy
My links
- Indie Bites Twitter
- Indie Bites YouTube
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- Personal Website
- 2 Hour Podcast Course
- PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
- This Indie Life Podcast
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