Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and his brother Channing Allen built Indie Hackers into the go-to community for entrepreneurs who want to build profitable businesses without raising venture capital. The podcast is the audio arm of that community, featuring interviews with founders who have turned side projects and small ideas into sustainable income streams, often while working solo or with tiny teams. The show occupies a specific and important niche in the entrepreneurship podcast world. While most business podcasts celebrate massive funding rounds and billion-dollar exits, Indie Hackers focuses on the founder who built a $30K/month SaaS product, or the developer who turned a weekend project into a six-figure business. These stories are arguably more relevant and replicable for the average listener than yet another unicorn founder interview. Courtland's own journey mirrors the community he built. He's a former Y Combinator founder and MIT alum who created indiehackers.com, which was acquired by Stripe. In a full-circle moment, Indie Hackers has since spun out from Stripe, and the Allen brothers are now indie hackers themselves, building the company from $0 as an independent operation. The conversations tend to be detailed and technical. Courtland asks about revenue numbers, growth strategies, tech stacks, and the specific decisions that moved the needle. There's a transparency in these interviews that you rarely find elsewhere -- guests share their actual numbers because the Indie Hackers community has established that as the norm. For developers, designers, and creators who want to build something profitable on their own terms, this podcast provides both the tactical playbook and the proof that it's possible.