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Indie Hackers

#148 – Quick Chat with Nathan Rosidi of Strata Scratch

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 12 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Rosidi has bootstrapped his side project, Strata Scratch, to 2500 users and over $1,500 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode we discuss the lessons he's learned from past failures, how to prioritize what to work on when you're getting ideas from so many different people, and why it's both a blessing and a curse to be able to take things slowly as an indie hacker.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/148-quick-chat-with-nathan-rosidi

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody?

0:08.3

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

0:13.1

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

0:18.8

How do they get to where they are today?

0:20.2

How do they make decisions, both of their companies and in their personal lives, and what exactly makes their businesses tick? 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 am talking to Nathan Rossidi, the founder of Stratis Scratch. Nathan, how's it going? Good. How are you doing? I'm doing

0:37.8

excellent. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So tell us a little bit about

0:41.6

stratuscratch. What is it exactly? Why did you start it? So Stratuscatch is a platform to help you

0:47.0

improve your analytical skills by building a strong technical foundation for your career. So what I

0:53.2

mean by that is it really just helps you prep for your technical interviews.

0:57.7

It's aimed for data scientists, marketing scientists, anybody getting started in analytics in general.

1:06.7

That's essentially what the platform does.

1:08.8

It helps you prepare for your SQL and Python technical interviews.

1:14.4

And so I got started mainly because I'm an adjunct professor at a local university in SF.

1:22.2

And I teach a lot of non-technical students.

1:27.1

And I wanted a platform to help them just kind of

1:30.7

get better, ramp up faster, and also try out real questions out there in the world.

1:39.1

There are no other platforms that really allowed that to happen.

1:42.4

And so being somewhat technical and also having a

1:46.4

career in analytics and data science, I thought I would just create one to see if people would be

1:53.6

interested, but also really to create one to help me run my class a lot more efficiently.

1:59.8

What I really wanted to do was just save time,

2:03.0

myself time, and then save the student some headache. That's pretty cool when you can combine

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