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.
Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore
Sam Shore is the co-founder of Typeshare, a writing platform made to create and publish text across the internet. Typeshare has made over $1m in revenue since it was started in 2021, with over 80,000 user, currently $34k MRR I’m speaking to Sam to find out how he started Typeshare as the first of 12 startups he was planning to build, and what made this stick.
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:10 Sam's entrepreneurial background
- 02:03 Failed past projects
- 03:31 12 startups in 12 months
- 04:16 The idea for Typeshare
- 05:38 Getting traction with Typeshare
- 06:50 Getting to $15k MRR in 1 year with infuential partnerships
- 09:52 How is Sam making sure he has fun with the business
- 12:18 How to get better at writing online
- 14:09 Recommendations
Recommendations
- Book - Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- Podcast - Rework
- Indie Hacker - Dmytro Krasun
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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