Courtland Allen is the creator of Indie Hackers, the largest online community of startup founders. He created the site in August 2016 and it was acquired by Stripe in April 2017.

He is an MIT graduate, Y Combinator alum, full-stack web developer, and professional designer.

Today, Courtland continues to run the Indie Hackers team at Stripe and hosts the Indie Hackers podcast.

In this episode we talk about how Courtland learned web design, why he doesn’t recommend quitting your job, selling Indie Hackers to Stripe, trends he’s seeing in indie hacking, and why he’s Optimistic about the future of online business.

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