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Indie Hackers

#149 – Generating Passive Income by Teaching What You Know with Greg Rog of LearnUX

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 19 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Greg Rog (@greg_rog) is one of the few indie hackers I know who's actually managed to build a passive income business. His website, LearnUX.io, makes over $10k per month, yet he spends less than a day each month updating the content and answering questions. His secret? A combination of hard work over a sustained period of time, obsessive focus on making a 10x better product, and embracing no-code tools to support automation despite knowing how to code himself. In this episode, Greg walks me through his story, his successes, and his failures, and we discuss why teaching what you know is an underrated path that anyone can embrace.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/149-greg-rog-of-learnux

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? This is Cortland from Andy Hackers.com, and you're listening to the

0:11.7

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

0:16.4

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

0:20.8

How did they make decisions, both of their companies and other 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 Greg, Rogg, the founder of a website called LearnUX. Greg, welcome to the show.

0:38.2

Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me.

0:39.8

So we got coffee when you were in San Francisco a few months back.

0:43.1

And I believe at the time, you told me that LearnUX was averaging over $10,000 a month

0:48.7

in revenue and you're only working on it basically one day a month. Is that true?

0:54.4

Yeah, that's partly true.

0:56.0

It's nice to talk about this and think about this this way.

0:59.8

And this is how it works right now.

1:02.4

I basically spent one day improving Learned UX,

1:06.8

so recording new tutorials, basically updating the content that I have on the site, and also answering

1:14.0

some questions.

1:15.7

So the things that are not automated that I have to answer myself.

1:20.7

But beforehand, I had to spend a lot of time creating the content.

1:25.7

So I probably spent about thousand hours to create the

1:29.0

content and create the website and put it live. And from there, I made everything so that it's

1:35.6

running on autopilot and I don't have to really work that much on this project anymore.

1:41.3

Super cool. So that's like the closest thing to passive income you can get to you.

1:45.2

A day a month is not that much to keep it maintained and keep it up to date.

1:49.1

And even a thousand hours, I think that's about six months of working 40 hours a week,

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