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

NDHackers 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 ND 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, well, I'm here with Val Hinaf, the founder of a company called Thanksbox. How's going, Val?

It's going pretty great, Cortland, thanks for inviting me over.

I'm looking at your revenue graph on your Andy Hackers product page right now.

And it's saying that you passed, what, like $18,000 a month as of the end of July. Is that

accurate? Yeah, that's pretty spot on. It has been the best month so far. Yeah, that's huge, especially

considering that your growth's been kind of crazy. Like, back in April, your revenue was $9,000 a month.

So you basically doubled in the last four months. Yeah, yeah. It has been a wild ride. You know,

it's sometimes weird to realize that it's only been 15 months or 16 months since launch.

You know, when I first launched it, I thought, oh, you know, it would be awesome if a year from now it's making like 5K a month.

And it's passed out by so much that, you know, if you come to me a year ago and tell me it'll be making this much, I'll say you're

lying. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. And you're bootstrapping this, right? You haven't raised any money

from investors? Yeah, yeah, completely bootstrapped from the beginning. And what about other people

helping you out? Do you have a co-founder? Do you have any employees you're paying? So I have a

small group of really great freelancers that have been with me since the beginning.

I've been lucky that from the very beginning, I have a very good designer.

I was lucky enough to work with her on a previous startup I did.

And when I shared the idea of Thangbox with her, she jumped on board.

And she's been treating it as her own project ever since.

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