This week Dan moves closer to finishing his Twitter course and gets geared up for a big Product Hunt launch while I battle with another tough week of low motivation and no money.

What we covered in this episode:

• Is ilo a bad name?
• How do you title podcast episodes?
• Sponsor - Paddle
• Dan moves towards launching his course
• Should he do a PH launch for the course?
• Dan get’s prepped for launching ilo Thread Analytics
• Dan builds a little utility product, AdapterPay
• Should more indie hackers build small products?
• Building to solve your own problem
• James had a pretty rubbish week
• How to deal with picking yourself up after a tough week
• How to get more clients, quickly
• Tweets
  • Dan
  • James

Links:

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About Dan
Dan is the founder of a micro-SaaS studio called Monday, where he runs a portfolio of SaaS products currently doing $7k a month. This included ilo (Analytics for Twitter), a collection of products and themes for Ghost and Dan’s new referral product, Refermo, which he’ll be launching during this show. Last year, Dan left his job to pursue indie hacking full-time.

→ Dan's Twitter
→ ilo.so - Twitter analytics
→ Gloat - Ghost host
→ Cove - Commenting for Ghost
→ Super Themes Co. - Ghost themes
→ Refermo - Referrals/affiliates for Paddle-powered SaaS

About James

I’m at a slightly earlier stage than Dan, but also left my full-time job in 2021. I get most of my income producing podcasts for clients but it’s my aim to turn my own podcast into a profitable, sustainable business. I run the Indie Bites show, which is 15 minute conversations with indie founders, currently doing about $700 a month in revenue. I also have a podcast course called 2HourPodcast and a handmade leather wallet business, both of which I’d like to grow over the year.

→ James' Twitter
→ Indie Bites - Indie founder chats
→ 2 Hour Podcast - Podcasting course
→ Whitstable Craft Co - Handmade leather wallets
→ PodPanda - Podcast editing

This week Dan finally launches his marketing site and gets the itch to start another new product, while I have a bit of a battle to find clients and someone said my website was rubbish.

What we covered in this episode:

• James loses his Twitter streak
• Sponsor - Paddle
• Paddle Documentary
• Dan launches his new marketing site
• New Product Hunt pages
• Should Dan rebrand ilo?
• Should Dan build ANOTHER product?
• Dan’s progress on Twitter for Developers Course
• A new Ghost theme for courses?
• James has a bad week
• Someone tells me the PodPanda website is 💩
• Matt Evans offers to build a new one
• Permissionless apprentice - Jack Butcher
• My sister’s Notion avatar
• How can my sister make money?
• Indie Bites episode recording with Marie Ng

Links:

Follow the show on Twitter and get involved
→ @nomoremondaysfm
→ Sponsor the show

Today's sponsor - Paddle

In this market it’s harder to grow. And when you do, there are more operational distractions slowing your momentum. Like building and maintaining a global payments and billing system. Or reconciling revenue data.

Paddle and ProfitWell are coming together to take the load off your finance and engineering teams.

We make subscription billing, payments, tax, and growth products that “do it for you.” In turn, you focus on what really matters - your team, customers, and products.

Find out more at Paddle.com

About Dan
Dan is the founder of a micro-SaaS studio called Monday, where he runs a portfolio of SaaS products currently doing $7k a month. This included ilo (Analytics for Twitter), a collection of products and themes for Ghost and Dan’s new referral product, Refermo, which he’ll be launching during this show. Last year, Dan left his job to pursue indie hacking full-time.

→ Dan's Twitter
→ ilo.so - Twitter analytics
→ Gloat - Ghost host
→ Cove - Commenting for Ghost
→ Super Themes Co. - Ghost themes
→ Refermo - Referrals/affiliates for Paddle-powered SaaS

About James

I’m at a slightly earlier stage than Dan, but also left my full-time job in 2021. I get most of my income producing podcasts for clients but it’s my aim to turn my own podcast into a profitable, sustainable business. I run the Indie Bites show, which is 15 minute conversations with indie founders, currently doing about $700 a month in revenue. I also have a podcast course called 2HourPodcast and a handmade leather wallet business, both of which I’d like to grow over the year.

→ James' Twitter
→ Indie Bites - Indie founder chats
→ 2 Hour Podcast - Podcasting course
→ Whitstable Craft Co - Handmade leather wallets
→ PodPanda - Podcast editing

This week Dan goes hard on the marketing site for ilo and is busy with the new Ghost v5 launch, while I go viral taking down a certain microphone but had a tough mental health week.

What we covered this week:

• ilo marketing site, paid trials
• Dan goes Climate Positive
• Ghost v5 launch
• Dan thinks about Cove again
• Skipped Indie Bites - bad week
• dontbuyayeti.com goes viral
  • Viral tweet
• Went to The Podcast Show in London

Links:

Follow the show on Twitter and get involved
→ @nomoremondaysfm
→ Sponsor the show

Today's sponsor - Paddle

In this market it’s harder to grow. And when you do, there are more operational distractions slowing your momentum. Like building and maintaining a global payments and billing system. Or reconciling revenue data.

Paddle and ProfitWell are coming together to take the load off your finance and engineering teams.

We make subscription billing, payments, tax, and growth products that “do it for you.” In turn, you focus on what really matters - your team, customers, and products.

Find out more at Paddle.com

About Dan
Dan is the founder of a micro-SaaS studio called Monday, where he runs a portfolio of SaaS products currently doing $7k a month. This included ilo (Analytics for Twitter), a collection of products and themes for Ghost and Dan’s new referral product, Refermo, which he’ll be launching during this show. Last year, Dan left his job to pursue indie hacking full-time.

→ Dan's Twitter
→ ilo.so - Twitter analytics
→ Gloat - Ghost host
→ Cove - Commenting for Ghost
→ Super Themes Co. - Ghost themes
→ Refermo - Referrals/affiliates for Paddle-powered SaaS

About James

I’m at a slightly earlier stage than Dan, but also left my full-time job in 2021. I get most of my income producing podcasts for clients but it’s my aim to turn my own podcast into a profitable, sustainable business. I run the Indie Bites show, which is 15 minute conversations with indie founders, currently doing about $700 a month in revenue. I also have a podcast course called 2HourPodcast and a handmade leather wallet business, both of which I’d like to grow over the year.

→ James' Twitter
→ Indie Bites - Indie founder chats
→ 2 Hour Podcast - Podcasting course
→ Whitstable Craft Co - Handmade leather wallets
→ PodPanda - Podcast editing

This week, the multiple projects vs single focus debate comes up again, Dan and I discuss our TikTok challenge progress and we have a fancy new jingle at the end of the episode.

What we covered in this episode:

• Updates on our TikTok challenge
• After a few years, is $4k MRR any good?
  • Dan's tweet
• Justin Jackson False positives article
• Multiple projects vs single focus, which is best?
  • James' tweet
• New Transistor theme out for out website
• James releases 2 Indie Bites episodes
• Our new jingle
• Tweets
  • Dan
  • James

Links:

Follow the show on Twitter and get involved
→ @nomoremondaysfm
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About Dan
Dan is the founder of a micro-SaaS studio called Monday, where he runs a portfolio of SaaS products currently doing $7k a month. This included ilo (Analytics for Twitter), a collection of products and themes for Ghost and Dan’s new referral product, Refermo, which he’ll be launching during this show. Last year, Dan left his job to pursue indie hacking full-time.

→ Dan's Twitter
→ ilo.so - Twitter analytics
→ Gloat - Ghost host
→ Cove - Commenting for Ghost
→ Super Themes Co. - Ghost themes
→ Refermo - Referrals/affiliates for Paddle-powered SaaS

About James

I’m at a slightly earlier stage than Dan, but also left my full-time job in 2021. I get most of my income producing podcasts for clients but it’s my aim to turn my own podcast into a profitable, sustainable business. I run the Indie Bites show, which is 15 minute conversations with indie founders, currently doing about $700 a month in revenue. I also have a podcast course called 2HourPodcast and a handmade leather wallet business, both of which I’d like to grow over the year.

→ James' Twitter
→ Indie Bites - Indie founder chats
→ 2 Hour Podcast - Podcasting course
→ Whitstable Craft Co - Handmade leather wallets
→ PodPanda - Podcast editing

This week we kick off our TikTok challenge, Dan made $1,200 launching his new course and my cat Alfie finally gets the recognition he deserves.

What we covered in this episode:

• Our TikTok progress
• Dan’s planning week
• Working on a new theme, Orbit
• Dan’s new Twitter course
• A surprising Twitter stat
• James’ viral tweets
• James’ cat is more famous than him
• Virality is scary
• James’ sticks to his Indie Bites schedule
• 8k downloads in one month
• A easy peasy Lemon Squeezy chat
• Should we get a jingle?
• Tweets
  • Dan
  • James

Links:

Follow the show on Twitter and get involved
→ @nomoremondaysfm
→ Sponsor the show

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About Dan
Dan is the founder of a micro-SaaS studio called Monday, where he runs a portfolio of SaaS products currently doing $7k a month. This included ilo (Analytics for Twitter), a collection of products and themes for Ghost and Dan’s new referral product, Refermo, which he’ll be launching during this show. Last year, Dan left his job to pursue indie hacking full-time.

→ Dan's Twitter
→ ilo.so - Twitter analytics
→ Gloat - Ghost host
→ Cove - Commenting for Ghost
→ Super Themes Co. - Ghost themes
→ Refermo - Referrals/affiliates for Paddle-powered SaaS

About James

I’m at a slightly earlier stage than Dan, but also left my full-time job in 2021. I get most of my income producing podcasts for clients but it’s my aim to turn my own podcast into a profitable, sustainable business. I run the Indie Bites show, which is 15 minute conversations with indie founders, currently doing about $700 a month in revenue. I also have a podcast course called 2HourPodcast and a handmade leather wallet business, both of which I’d like to grow over the year.

→ James' Twitter
→ Indie Bites - Indie founder chats
→ 2 Hour Podcast - Podcasting course
→ Whitstable Craft Co - Handmade leather wallets
→ PodPanda - Podcast editing

This week James overhauls his entire website and doesn’t tell anyone, Dan gets featured in TechCrunch and we discuss our plan to become TikTok stars.

What we covered in this episode

• James is back in his podcast booth
• James writes an article about microphones
• Sponsor - 4DayWeek
• Where Dan should go with ilo?
  • Features, marketing and churn
• Getting feedback from users
• Should Dan make a Twitter course?
• The impact of a TechCrunch mention
• Our TikTok challenge! Follow us:
  • Dan (Twitter Tips)
  • James (Whitstable Craft Co)
• James overhauls his entire website (classic indie hacker)
• James’ Indie Bites updates
• Why do we buy courses we never do?

Links:

Follow the show on Twitter and get involved
→ @nomoremondaysfm
→ Sponsor the show

Sponsor - 4dayweek.io

As indie hackers we’re always trying to squeeze extra hours in our day to work on our side projects. What about if you had a whole extra day to work on your projects, while still getting a full-time salary?

4dayweek.io is the place to get a Software Job with a better work-life balance. All jobs have a 4 day work week contract and most are only 32 hours per week. Find the best remote tech jobs from companies with a great work-life balance at 4dayweek.io or hit the link in the show notes.

👉 Try it here.

About Dan
Dan is the founder of a micro-SaaS studio called Monday, where he runs a portfolio of SaaS products currently doing $7k a month. This included ilo (Analytics for Twitter), a collection of products and themes for Ghost and Dan’s new referral product, Refermo, which he’ll be launching during this show. Last year, Dan left his job to pursue indie hacking full-time.

→ Dan's Twitter
→ ilo.so - Twitter analytics
→ Gloat - Ghost host
→ Cove - Commenting for Ghost
→ Super Themes Co. - Ghost themes
→ Refermo - Referrals/affiliates for Paddle-powered SaaS

About James

I’m at a slightly earlier stage than Dan, but also left my full-time job in 2021. I get most of my income producing podcasts for clients but it’s my aim to turn my own podcast into a profitable, sustainable business. I run the Indie Bites show, which is 15 minute conversations with indie founders, currently doing about $700 a month in revenue. I also have a podcast course called 2HourPodcast and a handmade leather wallet business, both of which I’d like to grow over the year.

→ James' Twitter
→ Indie Bites - Indie founder chats
→ 2 Hour Podcast - Podcasting course
→ Whitstable Craft Co - Handmade leather wallets
→ PodPanda - Podcast editing