Matt Medeiros is the founder of WP Minute, a weekly podcast highlighting WordPress news in less than 5 minutes. He’s a podcasting expert, having previously worked as Director of Podcasting success at Castos and now hosts & produces Breakdown, a podcast by Gravity forms. This episode talks about how you can make a sustainable 5-figure side project, with a niche audience while working a full time job and increasing your opportunities as you do it.

Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:32 From the family car business to digital agency with his dad
• 03:35 Becoming a Wordpress Expert and Starting Matt Report
• 04:45 Using podcasting as a networking tool
• 05:56 From Matt Report to WP Minute
• 08:08 Monetizing WP Minute
• 09:36 Making money from a small audience
• 10:58 Having a profitable side project alongside a full time job
• 12:08 Does Matt want to sell WP Minute?
• 14:48 Recommendations

Recommendations

• Podcast about Books: Six Pixels of Separation
• Podcast: Podcasting 2.0
• Indie Hacker: Carl Hancock

My links

• Twitter
• 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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Manu Cinca is the founder of Stacked Marketer, a daily marketing newsletter he bootstrapped to $700k. In 2023, he acquired 2 newsletters to bring the subscriber count to 100k and raised a small 250k funding round to help boost growth.

Max Haining is the founder of 100DaysofNoCode and 100DaysofAI, which are bootcamps designed to help non-techies gain tech skills. Max wanted to be an entrepreneur from a young age and started 100DaysofNoCode as a challenge for himself to learn NoCode tools during covid, but as more people joined in, he realised he could bootstrap the challenge into a learning platform which he’s now working on full time.

Follow Max:

• Twitter

Timestamps

• 00:00 - Intro
• 01:28 - Max early life
• 03:31 - University student inspired by Zuck
• 04:59 - Discovering indie hacking
• 06:13 - Starting 100DaysofNoCode
• 09:45 - Turning 100DaysofNoCode from a challenge to a business
• 13:39 - What marketing tactics has Max used
• 15:09 - Recommendations

Recommendations

• Book - Get Together
• Podcast - My First Million
• Indie Hacker - Marc Louvion

My links

• Twitter
• 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

Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙

EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.