What's up everybody?

This is Cortland from andyhackers.com and you're listening to the Andy Hackers podcast.

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

How do 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 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 Sergio Matei Diaz. Sergio, welcome to the show. Hi, everybody. I'm Sergio Matei. I'm an entrepreneur and student and of course an indie hacker.

And you're to the show. Hi, everybody. I'm Sergio Matei. I'm an entrepreneur and student, and of course, an indie hacker. And you're also the founder of MakerLog, a community that helps makers very similar to anti-hackers. So we're kind of related products. We're both catering their makers. We're both helping to inspire them and pump them up and help them to be more productive. So it's pretty cool to have you on the show and I'm sure we're going to have a lot to talk about. Absolutely. I've been watching what

Indie Hackers has been doing. It's also been a constant source of inspiration. I remember when I first

added the MakerLog product to Indie Hackers and I had no stats to go along with it. So yeah,

it has been fundamental in my progress as an indie hacker.

Tell me about why you started MakerLog, because when I started indie hackers, it was primarily to help myself.

I knew that I really wanted stories about founders that would inspire me and teach me how to do what everybody else was doing.

Why did you start MakerLog? Well, MakerLog

was all started when I first found the maker community per se. So since I was a child, I had

been building little things for me and my friends. I started out, in fact, I've always had a knack

for like business and technology. So I grew up watching Facebook and all these

huge companies coming up and I wanted to make my own versions of them. So I started making

little products when I was a kid. I thought I made Facebook killers and whatnot, which were

obviously not true. But yeah, so eventually after a while building startups and, you know, slowly progressing,

I found out about the maker community through very curious memes.

So there was, there's this very famous marker that everybody knows,

levels, Peter Levels.

Go follow him on short of you don't.

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