What's up, everybody?

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

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I'll try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How did they get to where they are today?

How did they make decisions, both of their companies and in their personal lives, and what exactly makes your businesses tick? And the goal here is always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own profitable internet businesses. Today, I am talking to Zach Resnick. Zach, welcome to the show. Thank you. Happy to be here. You are the founder and CEO of Easy Point Concierge.

I have a ton of friends who are involved in travel hacking and you run a travel hacking business.

So I figured before we get started talking about your business and how it all works,

why don't you give us an overview from Zach Resnick's perspective on what exactly travel hacking is.

Yeah, I look at travel hacking as any ways to improve the experience when traveling or in any

ways to save money. So often in my world, they overlap, but not necessarily.

Cool. So any way to save money, any way to improve the experience, I'm terrible at this.

I basically am just like the dope who gets on a plane and fly somewhere and pays full ticket price.

I don't collect points.

I don't sign up for frequent flyer programs.

What sort of area of travel hacking do you specialize in with EasyPoint?

Miles and points.

And I've kind of specialized in that my entire travel hacking career in personal life.

Cool. So we're going to get into the story of how you started your business. And I think it's a pretty interesting story because the story of Easy Point is basically that it's a side project. It's something that you've always done on the side. It wasn't something that you ever intended to become a fully

fledged business with employees at the beginning. And yet today, you've got a fully pledged

business. How many people work at EasyPoint today? We have about 10 people of which five are

full time right now. And how much revenue are you doing with EasyPoint? We've done over 600K year to

date with a 15% month over month growth all organic right now. Cool. So we're going to go through the winding path of how you got to this point because as I said, it was a side project and you're always doing different things. What do you think the beginning of your story is? What did you first get into travel hacking and start to acquire the knowledge that you would need to build something like EasyPoint? Yeah, my story has a pretty clear beginning. I was lucky enough to have

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