meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Indie Hackers

#012 – Traveling, Learning to Code, and Bootstrapping to $25k/mo with Tyler Tringas of Storemapper

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 β€’ 606 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tyler Tringas talks about the difference between good and bad ideas, launching new products in days not months, finding your first customers one at a time, hiring effectively, and more.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

What's up, everyone? This is Cortland from EndyHackers.com.

0:10.7

And today I'm excited to be sitting down with my buddy Tyler Tringis of Stormapper.

0:14.8

How's it going, Tyler?

0:15.9

Hey, Cortland, doing well. Thanks for having me.

0:18.6

No problem. So we already did a text interview back in August. You're one of the first

0:22.8

people to come on indie hackers after the launch. And then we met at MicroConf a couple of weeks

0:28.0

ago in person. And I told you, I think then that your Stormapper interview is probably

0:33.3

the one that I referenced the most often when telling people about educational interviews

0:38.5

and how to get started as an indie hacker, so to speak. And the reason for that is because

0:42.8

your story is full of lessons that are important for anyone wanting to start an internet business

0:46.6

or a project that makes money online. So for example, and I think this is a good place to start,

0:51.7

a lot of people starting a business struggle for months with getting their product out the door, but you sat down and built Stormapper and had paying

0:58.8

customers in something like 36 hours. So what's the story behind that? Well, first of all, I think

1:04.8

it's very high praise that you're often citing Stormapper considering the sort of caliber of other entrepreneurs that you've interviewed on Indiacers.

1:13.6

So that's awesome to hear again.

1:16.6

In terms of kind of, you know, building Stormapper really quickly, there's sort of two components of that.

1:23.6

I mean, the first part is that it wasn't that quick in the sense of, you know,

1:29.9

you're not counting the sort of many other products and almost products that I kind of built

1:35.6

and launched that just totally failed before Stormapper. So the process from starting that

1:41.8

to launching a product was actually a little bit longer. But

1:44.9

StoreMapper itself, yeah, it was basically conceived and built and launched in about 36 hours.

1:53.1

Essentially, you know, StoreMapper is a store locator as a service. So you've probably

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Courtland Allen and Channing Allen, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Courtland Allen and Channing Allen and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright Β© Tapesearch 2025.