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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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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.
Show more...
Entrepreneurship
Business,
Marketing
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How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens
Indie Bites
17 minutes
5 months ago
How Tally grew to $150k MRR in 5 years - Marie Martens

Marie Martens is the co-founder of Tally, a form builder she started with her partner Filip, now used by half a million people and are over $150k MRR. Marie was on the pod 3 years ago when they’d scaled to 16,000 users and $8k MRR in 1 year. In that episode we discussed the origin story, getting their first 100 users and how they’d grown so quickly. Today, we’re going to be finding out how they’ve built such a robust business over the past 3 years and 15x’d their revenue.

Listen to Marie's first episode:
https://indiebites.com/43

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 02:09 From small lifestyle business to larger sustainable business
  • 04:50 Retaining the fun in the business
  • 06:02 Struggles in hiring a remote team
  • 07:32 Building an in-person team in Belgium vs remote
  • 08:17 Running a startup as a parent
  • 10:06 How Tally has grown to $150k MRR
  • 13:07 The pros and cons of building in public
  • 15:08 Growing the product while keeping it simple
  • 15:49 The future of Tally
  • 16:43 Recommendations

Recommendations

  • Book - First Round Capital
  • Podcast - Lenny's Podcast
  • Indie Hacker - Olly Meakings

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Indie Bites
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.