#153 – Quick Chat with William Candillon of Start React Native

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Tech, Startups, Bootstrapping, Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Online, Indiehackers, Hackers, Business, Bootstrappers, Indie, Makers, Founders, Technology

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

William Candillon (@wcandillon) didn't plan to become an indie hacker when he first started making coding videos on YouTube. He just wanted to learn more efficiently and hold himself accountable. Three years later, he's built an audience of tens of thousands of viewers, and he's making over $6,000/month teaching what he's learned about React Native. In this episode, Will and I talk about why building in public, sharing transparently, and being vulnerable make it easier to succeed as an indie hacker.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/153-quick-chat-with-william-candillon

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:08.4	This is Cortland from Indiehackers.com, and you're listening to the IndieHackers podcast.
0:13.0	This is a quix chat episode of the podcast where I bring on a founder who's been posting
0:16.8	milestones about their progress to the IndieHackers website.
0:20.1	And we get to see what it's like to actually be in the trenches, trying to build something
0:23.9	from scratch as an indie hacker.
0:25.9	Today, I'm talking to William Candleyn, the founder of Start React Native, where he sells
0:30.8	courses and starter kits for programmers who are trying to learn React Native.
0:34.8	And in the latest milestone that he's posted to his timeline, he explains how he
0:38.3	reached 20,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. So I'm sure we'll talk about that. William, welcome
0:43.4	to the show. Hello, Cortland. Thank you for having me. Thanks for coming on. Your product page on
0:48.2	Andy Hackers says you're making about $6,000 a month. Is that accurate? That's correct, yes.
0:53.8	And are you full time on this and just
0:55.2	working for yourself? Or are you still working another job? I do still do some consulting.
1:01.1	At the moment, I consult for Shopify. Recently Shopify made an announcement that they're
1:06.6	baiting on React Native as a technology for their mobile apps, and I consult for them on the
1:12.2	theme of gestures and animations and making sure that things are performing okay and runs
1:18.7	smooth as well. That's a cool role. Shopify is a great company, and since it's consulting,
1:24.0	it's almost like that's your side hustle now, and making the courses and YouTube videos that you make is now your real job.
1:30.0	That's a great way to put it.
1:32.6	My side hustle is my mind hustle and vice versa.
1:35.8	Well, you're basically living in the indie hacker dream.
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