I spoke to Lukas Hermann from StageTimer about how he's making over $10k a month from his timer app.

We talked about how he's growing and monetizing StageTimer along with a lots of other fun topics like making really ambitious goals, business ideas to avoid, doing business in Germany vs going overseas and loads more.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:24 What is StageTimer?
01:19 What led you to create StageTImer?
02:36 Is it a simple or complicated app?
05:16 Setting ambitious goals and Lukas's pinned tweet
09:08 What if you fail?
10:32 How much revenue StageTimer makes
10:57 Getting laid off
16:24 Viral moments for StageTimer
19:39 Did you ever explore VC?
22:12 Busineses to avoid making e.g. courses/boilerplates
26:11 Doing business in Germany vs overseas
32:07 What are your future plans?
35:50 Freemium pricing
38:08 Marketing experiments
40:47 Conclusion

Links

StageTimer: https://stagetimer.io/
Lukas personal site: https://lukashermann.dev/
Pinned tweet: https://x.com/_lhermann/status/1506665241458921476
Doing business in Germany: https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/

I also send the High Signal newsletter out every Wednesday and Friday. It's packed full of indie founder stories to keep you inspired and up to date with whats happening. If you sign up I'll send you a free list of 20 bootstrapped companies and what they sold for.

https://www.highsignal.io/newsletter/

Pete's personal site: https://www.petecodes.io/

I interviewed Alex West from CyberLeads on building a $300k business from selling leads, B2B vs B2C, his attitude to lifestyle design, stoicism and more.

00:00 - Intro
00:48 - Boring businesses vs cool businesses
03:39 - Offering a cold email service
09:14 - Going into B2B vs B2C
11:35 - Dealing with copycats and the Cyber Leads affiliate program
13:22 - 99% will quit
17:53 - Where do you get traffic from?
21:02 - Have one product and one distribution channel
22:42 - Being an artist vs being an athlete
24:56 - One project vs multiple projects
27:47 - Where do you work from?
31:26 - Stoicism

highsignal.io
https://www.getcyberleads.com
https://www.alexwest.co

An interview and AMA with Julian from Embarque, who has scaled his content agency to over $500,000 ARR in less than 2 years! After some initial questions from Pete, Julian took questions on SEO from the High Signal community. (the community is now closed)

https://embarque.spp.io/r/G7J2Y7 (affiliate)
https://highsignal.io/
https://twitter.com/JIC94
https://twitter.com/petecodes
https://twitter.com/highsignalio

I interviewed Kyle Gawley, who went from VC route and hospitalisation from stress to becoming a successful indie hacker making $25,000 a month on his own terms. Then members of the High Signal community asked him questions. We do an AMA once a month and the rest of the time we help each other in the Telegram community and on weekly Zoom calls.

https://twitter.com/kylegawley
https://highsignal.io/#community
https://twitter.com/petecodes
https://usegravity.app/?ref=petecodes (affiliate)

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Members of the High Signal community ask Tom questions about growing EmailOctopus to a 7 figure business.

00:00 Intro from Pete about Tom and EmailOctopus
00:41 Pete: Should indie hackers compete on price?
06:05 Pete: How would you grow EmailOctopus if you were starting today?
11:18 Val: Why is pricing based on users and not usage?
15:48 Tom: What is the next big feature email marketing companies will add?
19:49 Andrew: What's something you've struggled to overcome / not overcome?
26:34 Karim: What's the secret to the longevity of EmailOctopus?
30:26 Pete: Do you have advice for SaaS companies on how to work with influencers?
34:44 Tom talks about free mentoring he does with founders
37:26 Outro

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Forthcoming AMAs are with Alex West of CyberLeads and Kyle Gawley of Gravity. Past guests included Arvid Kahl and Alex from Veed.