In this episode, I talk to Courtland Allen, the founder, and chief-indie hacker of the Indie Hacker community. After many years of trial and error, Courtland launched the widely successful indie hacker community and the indie hacker podcast.

We talk about:

- how he managed to build a lively community from the scratch

- his tips for first-time founders

- why he wanted to code as little as possible, and still coded as much as possible

- his four-phase success plan for kick-starting a profitable community-based business.