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

EndieHackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and making a lot of

money in the process. And on this show, I sit down with these indie hackers to discuss the ideas,

the opportunities and the strategies they're taking advantage of so the rest of us can do the same.

All right, I'm here with John Yongfuk, the founder of Banner Bear. How's it going, John?

Happy to be here.

Every now and then I get someone like you on the show, you're kind of like a prototypical

indie hacker.

You are a solo founder, you're a coder, you're also a designer, I think you do all your design.

Yeah, I do my design, yep.

And your app, Banner Bear is a software as a service app. And you're also like transparent

about everything. You're basically building in public, posting on indie hackers all the time and posting

on Twitter and your blog. How well would you say Banner Bear is doing today in terms of revenue or

whatever other metrics you think are important to measure your success? It's exactly where I wanted it to be.

So, I mean, my initial goal when I kind of became an indie hacker, was to at least kind

of replace my old corporate salary.

I thought, if I could do that, then that would be my kind of main sort of success metric.

And yeah, I'm happy to say that just last month actually it

sort of went over that point so it's currently on 16k MRR and yeah I passed

15k last month so that was the that was like the cutoff point super exciting so

16,000 dollars a month of revenue and It's growing pretty rapidly. I mean,

right now it's May. I think you were at $10,000 a month in revenue in January. And what are

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