Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche

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Indie Bites

James McKinven

131 episodes

5 days ago

Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.

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Entrepreneurship

Business,

Marketing

Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid

Indie Bites

16 minutes

1 year ago

Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid

Amar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur, having started ZenMaid back in 2013. Amar’s story shows the power of sticking with something through the hard times, and having an unsexy niche (aka not selling to other indie hackers) can lead to a phenomenal indie business.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
02:53 Scaling in the first 2 years
04:38 Growing an indie business in a price sensitive niche
06:54 Travelling while indie hacking
08:12 Losing 40% of revenue in 6 months
13:23 Hustle Porn - Should indie hackers work harder?
15:38 Recommendations

Reccos

Book: The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen
Podcast: exitfive by Dave Gerhardt
Indie Hacker: Jesse Hanley

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