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 try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes. How do they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions both in their personal lives and at their companies?

And what exactly makes their businesses stick?

And the goal here, as 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'm sitting down with the one and only Corey Zoot.

Corey, how's it going?

Yeah, it's good. I had no idea you had

that whole thing memorized. I assumed you would always read it off. I'm sure probably 140 times by now.

Nice. So we are at an Airbnb in Cape Town, South Africa, where you live. Yes. And I think you grew up

in the United States. That's right. Yeah, I grew up in Boston in the suburbs of Boston.

And how long have you been in South Africa now?

So going on my fifth year now.

Your fifth year in South Africa.

And your last three years as an indie hacker.

So your background is pretty interesting.

You were working as the CTO of a high growth startup that had hundreds of people. And you went on a sabbatical and decided that you didn't want to come back and that you actually wanted to be an Andy hacker.

So for the last three years, you've been working on a variety of side projects.

So you sort of choose breadth over depth.

In total, your side projects are bringing in about $26,000 annual profit.

And your goal is, I think, to reach the point where you never have to work again by 2023.

That's right.

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