Monica Lent is a founder running 3 profitable indie businesses after leaving her full time job 2 years ago. She runs Affilimate, a SaaS product which allows you to manage and track affiliate commissions, the Blogging for Devs newsletter and paid community for developers looking to grow an audience and finally, Not a Nomad, a travel blog that accounted for almost 50% of Monica’s revenue last year, as she grew her portfolio of projects from $30k to over $100k.

What we covered in this episode:

• How Monica splits time between her projects
• Is it detrimental having split attention?
• Delegating and outsourcing as an indie hacker
• How content and SEO ties her projects together
• Benefits of a VA
• Starting a blog that makes thousands
• Having a travel blog during covid
• Starting a community for developers
• How to start your own successful blog
• The downsides of sharing revenue numbers
• Is Monica having fun?

Recommendations

• Book: Founding Sales
• Podcast: Tropical MBA
• Indie Hacker: Josh Ho

Follow Monica

• Twitter
• 2021 Retro on personal site
• SEO Course

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