EP03: The Path to 6 Million Downloads with Courtland Allen of the Indie Hackers Podcast
Looking at the influence of Courtland Allen's thriving 18,000 member Indie Hackers community and wildly popular podcast, you might think success was inevitable.
However, back when Courtland founded Indie Hackers, the concept of building a "lifestyle" business in tech carried a stigma.
As a graduate of MIT and Y Combinator, Courtland spent 6 years trying to build the stereotypical high growth Silicon Valley startup before he realized something...
He just wanted to build something that he could put online, charge money for, and make enough money to pay his bills.
Courtland had a hunch that there were other tech misfits like himself, who could use a space to share their stories and learn from one another.
It was out of that shift in perspective that Indie Hackers was born.
Today, the podcast he started for other Silicon Valley outcasts has reached 6 million downloads, proving that Courtland wasn't the only one opting out of the startup grind.
Courtland joined Podcast Ally to talk about The Indie Hackers Podcast, which grew out the written interviews he was already creating for IndieHackers.com.
In this podcast episode, Courtland shares:
Please check out The Indie Hackers Podcast.
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