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 did they get to where they are today?

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'm talking to Bram Kansstein. Bram, welcome to the show. Thanks, man. Happy to be here. Tell us what you're drinking right now because you seem to be enjoying yourself over there.

I just told you I have wine and I have lemonade, so I'm amped up. Wine and lemonade. Here I am just drinking water like a chump. So you are the creator of StartupStash, which is the highest upvoted product of all time on Product Hunt.

Yes. Tell us about how that got started. What's the story there?

Oh, man. Yeah, the story there is I launched that now five years ago. So it still amazes me

that it's still the number one product on Product Hunt actually. But the story there, yeah,

I was an early user of Product Hunt. I think I'm user like

2000 or something. And now I think, I don't even know, a few hundred thousand people, maybe more

than a million people have an account on Product Hunt. So I was super, super early. And yeah,

at one point when I got access, I stalked Ryan for two weeks asking him, you know, can I please be on

here too? I think I know some cool new products that I can share. And so eventually I started

posting, you know, stuff that I found on product hunt and a lot of them ended up as the number one

for that day. And that way, you know, I got in touch with a lot of founders that were thanking me like, hey, cool that you helped us. We got a lot of attention and, you know, I got in touch with a lot of founders that were thanking me like,

hey, cool that you helped us. We got a lot of attention and investors and users and stuff like

that. So that was really cool to like be active on product hunt. And at the same time, I was

working as an investor here in Amsterdam. And because I was on product Hunt, I was just saving, you know,

interesting tools and resources that I found that I thought could be helpful to the startups

that I was working with, the startups from the, from the portfolio. And so after some time

being active on Product Hunt, I thought, okay, I think I know how to, you know, come up with an

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