Indie Hackers
Hosted by Courtland Allen
Interviews with bootstrapped and indie founders, the antidote to venture-backed-only podcast diets.
- Level
- Beginner, no security background needed
- Status
- Slowing, last episode
- Last verified
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. No new episodes have been published since June 2023, and the site says the show is moving to a new home; the back catalog is the durable value. Pair with venture-stage shows for full-spectrum founder coverage.
Last hand-checked 2026-09-28, Last episode (#283) published 2023-06-15 per the Transistor feed; the old podcast page says the show is being moved to a new site.
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 new episodes; none have been published since June 2023
- 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. The most recent episode was published in June 2023.
Notable guests
- Pieter Levels
- Daniel Vassallo
- Justin Jackson
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