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Indie Hackers

Hosted by Courtland Allen

Interviews with bootstrapped and indie founders, the antidote to venture-backed-only podcast diets.

Interview Irregular 30–60 min· ~290 episodes· Started 2017
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Editorial take

If your podcast diet is dominated by venture-backed founder shows, Indie Hackers is the corrective. Courtland Allen's interviews skew toward small-team and solo founders running profitable independent businesses, the failure modes, the unit economics, and the lifestyle tradeoffs that VC-stage shows don't cover. Production has been more sporadic in 2024-2025; the back catalog is the durable value. Pair with venture-stage shows for full-spectrum founder coverage.

Last hand-checked 2026-05-15, Episode cadence has been irregular since 2023; back catalog remains the primary value.

Listen if you …

  • you're a bootstrapped or indie founder and want peers on the mic, not VCs
  • you want unit-economics conversations from people who've actually run the spreadsheet
  • you're considering whether to raise venture money and want the alternative case made

Skip if you …

  • you want frequent new episodes, cadence has been irregular recently
  • you only care about scaled venture-backed companies

About the show

Indie Hackers is Courtland Allen's interview show, the audio extension of the indiehackers.com community. Episodes feature founders running independent, often bootstrapped, software businesses, with a focus on the day-to-day operating reality.

The back catalog is the most comprehensive set of bootstrapped-founder interviews available in podcast form; recent cadence has been irregular.

Notable guests

  • Pieter Levels
  • Daniel Vassallo
  • Justin Jackson

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