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Indie Hackers

#052 – Creating a Popular Product and Selling It to Governments with Tiffany and Danny of Remix

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 16 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When the founders of Remix released a side project that unexpectedly went viral, they put their heads together and decided to turn it into a startup. Co-founders Tiffany Chu and Danny Whalen share how they were able to build instantly popular software, the mistakes they made and lessons they learned selling it to the governments who needed it, and how they grew from 4 founders and no customers to a 55-person team serving 275 cities and transit agencies across the world.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/052-tiffany-and-danny-of-remix

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody?

0:08.6

This is Cortland from EndieHackers.com, and you're listening to the EndieHackers podcast.

0:13.0

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses,

0:15.7

and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be and their shoes and how they got to where they are today.

0:20.0

Today, I am talking to the founders of Remix.

0:22.6

Tiffany Chu and Danny Whalen, welcome to the show. How's it going?

0:25.6

Hey, hey, Carlin.

0:26.6

Hi, Corland. Thanks for having us.

0:28.6

Thanks for coming on the show.

0:29.6

So Remix is a transit route planning startup.

0:33.6

What exactly does that mean?

0:35.6

Good question.

0:36.6

So we work with local governments, cities,

0:39.6

counties, municipalities, and we help them take their planning ideas from vision through

0:44.1

implementation. And we started in transit and we're recently expanding to other forms of transportation

0:50.3

as well to help cities plan streets and infrastructure. Yeah, the users, typical users of

0:56.7

our software work in a municipal transit agency and the timeline that they're thinking in is either sort of

1:05.4

short range in the next six months or one to five years out, trying to sort of plan the future of transit in

1:13.1

their city. And how long have you guys been doing this so far? So we started the company back in

1:19.3

2014, and we were all fellows at Code for America, the nonprofit, at the time. And we've been

1:27.1

going for about three and a half, almost four years.

1:30.7

So there are four of you all together, including the two of you here. It's pretty rare that I

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