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.
Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com, a course teaching you how to make better screencasts.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:25 Aaron's Background
- 02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books
- 03:24 Audience Building
- 05:51 Benefits of each content medium
- 08:07 Making time for everything
- 09:27 Having a full time job
- 10:23 Leaving Hammerstone
- 12:36 Launching Screencasting.com
- 14:33 How has the launch gone?
- 15:25 Recommendations
Recommendations
- Book - Any textbook in your field
- Podcast - No Plans to Merge
- Indie Hacker - Jordan O’Connor
My links
- Indie Bites Twitter
- Indie Bites YouTube
- Join the membership
- Personal Website
- 2 Hour Podcast Course
- PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
- This Indie Life Podcast
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