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The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent Tech
Lucas and Luna explore the world of solo developers and indie hackers building SaaS side projects into sustainable businesses. Each episode examines a specific founder's journey — from the first line of code to first paying customer, through product-market fit and the grind of customer support alone. Lucas brings the numbers: revenue splits, churn rates, customer acquisition costs, and the real economics of a one-person tech company. Luna pushes on the human side: burnout, motivation, the…
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The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells Only on Product Hunt
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS tool for remote team standups and reached $10,000 in monthly recurring…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells Only Through Direct Mail
Episode 108 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into an unconventional growth strategy: selling a SaaS product exclusively via physical direct mail. Lucas and…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells Only Through LinkedIn DMs
Episode 107 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dissects the go-to-market strategy of a solo developer who built a niche SaaS tool for freelance recruiters and grew it…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells on Gumroad
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the story of a solo developer who built a simple SaaS tool for creators and hit $10k MRR selling it exclusively on…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells Through Ads on Facebook
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS tool for local businesses and reached…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells Only on Reddit
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the unconventional story of a solo developer who built a SaaS product generating $10,000…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Chrome Extension
Episode 103 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into the surprising economics of browser extensions. Lucas and Luna break down how a solo developer built a…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells Only Via API
Episode 102 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into a solo developer who built a SaaS product that has zero user interface. Instead, customers interact entirely…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR by Selling Integrations No One Else Wanted
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore an overlooked path to recurring revenue: building SaaS integrations that larger companies…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Ships Every Week
Episode 100 of The Indie Hacker Podcast: Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer reached $10k MRR by shipping a weekly newsletter-turned-SaaS called…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Charges Per Active User
In episode 99 of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down how one solo developer built a SaaS tool that charges per active user — not per seat, not…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS That Sells Only via Cold Email
Episode 98 of The Indie Hacker Podcast. Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who bootstrapped a SaaS product to 10K monthly recurring revenue…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product Relying Entirely on Referrals
Episode 97 of The Indie Hacker Podcast explores the story of a solo developer who grew a B2B SaaS to $10K monthly recurring revenue using a referral program as…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Pricing Page A-B Test
Most indie hackers obsess over features, but one solo developer doubled his revenue by running a simple pricing page A/B test. In this episode, Lucas and Luna…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Painful Refund Policy
Most founders dread refunds. But one solo developer built a SaaS product with a no-questions-asked, full-refund-at-any-time policy—and it became his secret…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR by Selling a macOS Menu Bar App
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down how a solo developer named Sarah Chen built 'MenuMetrics' — a tiny macOS menu bar app…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Referral Program
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who grew a SaaS tool from zero to $10,000 monthly recurring…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Recurring Revenue Calculator
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer built a simple web-based calculator for subscription businesses to…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Physical Product
Episode 91 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into an unconventional path to $10K MRR: selling a physical product alongside a SaaS. Lucas and Luna examine the…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Desktop App That Replaces Spreadsheets
In episode 90 of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a desktop app that replaces spreadsheets for small…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product That Sells AI Prompts
This episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into the story of a solo developer who built a marketplace for AI prompts and hit $10,000 in monthly recurring…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Micro-SaaS That Scrapes Twitter
Episode 88 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into the story of Taylor, a solo developer who built a micro-SaaS called TweetGenie that scrapes Twitter data to…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a SaaS That Sells to Other SaaS Companies
In Episode 87 of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who reached $10,000 monthly recurring revenue by building a…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Product Hunt Launch and Nothing Else
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the story of a solo developer who reached $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue from a single Product Hunt launch —…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a CLI Tool and No UI
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a solo developer who built a command-line interface tool for developers, reaching $10,000 in monthly…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR by Selling to Universities
Episode 84 of The Indie Hacker Podcast dives into a fresh playbook: selling SaaS to universities as a solo developer. Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a solo…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Developer Tool and No Sales Team
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the story of a solo developer who built a SQL query optimization tool and hit $10,000 monthly recurring revenue…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a $0 Marketing Budget
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer bootstrapped a SaaS to $10,000 monthly recurring revenue without spending a single dollar on ads…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Free Tier That Actually Works
Most indie hackers are terrified of free tiers. They assume free users just burn server costs and never convert. But in this episode, Lucas and Luna break down…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR by Selling Templates on Gumroad
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down how a solo developer reached $10K in monthly recurring revenue by selling Notion…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Simple API Integration
Episode 79 of The Indie Hacker Podcast explores how solo developer Mia Chen built a SaaS product that reached $10,000 monthly recurring revenue by creating a…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With an API-First Product
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the story of a solo developer who built a simple API for converting PDFs to text and scaled it to $10,000 monthly…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Chrome Extension That Blocks Distractions
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Sarah Chen, a solo developer who built 'FocusFlow,' a Chrome extension that…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Newsletter
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS tool for newsletter creators and reached $10,000 monthly recurring…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Bootstrapped to 10K MRR With Zero Social Media
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna talk to Sarah Chen, the solo developer behind FormScout, a SaaS that validates form submissions for…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With No-Code Tools
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how solo developer Sarah Jenkins built a SaaS product called FormFlow to $10,000 monthly…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Podcast Sponsorship to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a solo developer who grew his SaaS from $2K to $10K MRR in just four months by…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Waitlist Strategy
In this episode, we dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS product around AI-powered resume screening and hit $10,000 monthly recurring…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Referral Program
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down how a solo developer named Mia Chen built a $10K MRR SaaS by engineering a referral program right into her product…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS With No Landing Page
Most indie hackers obsess over their landing page—but what if you skipped it entirely? In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack the…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a CLI Tool to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer built a SaaS product entirely around a command-line interface — no…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Golf Handicap App to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer named Mike Chen built a SaaS product for tracking golf handicaps that reached $10,000 monthly…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Reached 10K MRR With a $7 Browser Extension
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a simple browser extension — a tab manager — and grew it to $10,000 in…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS on a No-Layoff Promise
Episode 66 of The Indie Hacker Podcast explores how solo developer Jenna Kwan grew her HR analytics tool, StaffGrid, to $18,000 MRR by making a radical…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used Product Hunt to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dissect a specific case: how a solo developer used a well-executed Product Hunt launch to power a SaaS from zero to $10,000…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechA Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR by Flipping B2B SaaS Assets
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a solo developer who generated over 10K in monthly recurring revenue not by…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Launch Week to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down the exact playbook one solo developer used to reach 10K monthly recurring…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS That Automates Boring Work
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS tool that automates repetitive spreadsheet…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used Twitter DMs to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer named Sarah Chen grew her SaaS product, FormBlazer, to $10,000 MRR in…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechA Solo Dev Made 10K MRR With a $100 App
In episode 60 of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a solo developer built a SaaS app that reached $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue with…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS in Public on TikTok
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how solo developer Mia Chen grew her SaaS, SnapReply — a tool for repurposing video content…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Freemium Model to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the freemium strategy of a solo developer who built a SaaS tool called 'TimeTrim'—a time-tracking app designed for…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Pricing Page Test to Double Revenue
In Episode 57 of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down how a solo developer doubled his SaaS revenue by running a simple pricing page A/B test…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used an API to Hit 10K MRR in 90 Days
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS product that connects to a major API and…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS by Selling to Mid-Market Companies
In Episode 55 of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle for solo SaaS founders: selling to mid-market companies. They examine the story…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Slack Bot to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of James Chen, a solo developer who built a Slack-native productivity bot…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Built a SaaS Using a $5 Per Month Pricing Model
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the strategy behind a solo developer who built a SaaS product priced at just $5 per…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Used a Simple Newsletter to Hit 10K MRR
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS product specifically for newsletter…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Uses No-Code Tools to Prototype in Days
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the growing trend of solo developers using no-code and low-code tools to rapidly prototype and launch SaaS products…
The Indie Hacker Podcast with Fexingo: Solo Developers, SaaS Side Projects, and Independent TechHow a Solo Dev Bootstrapped a SaaS to 10K MRR in Six Months
In this episode of The Indie Hacker Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a solo developer who built a SaaS product from scratch and hit $10,000 in…