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Indie Hackers

#244 – Building Gradually to Grow Suddenly with Shahed Khan of Hyper

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

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

4.9 β€’ 606 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm talking to Shahed Khan (@_shahedk), the co-founder of Loom and investor at Hyper. In this episode we talk about his first business failure at 16 and the many iterations Loom went through before catching on fire.

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0:00.0

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

0:11.6

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

0:16.2

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

0:20.3

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

0:29.2

I'm here with Shahid Khan, the co-founder of Lume and Prolog. Shaheed, how's it going?

0:35.5

It's going good. Thanks for having me, Cortland.

0:37.2

Thanks for coming. So you are working on Prologue, how's it going? Going good. Thanks for having me, Cortland. Thanks for coming.

0:38.3

So you are working on Prolog right now, which is sort of like a, how would you describe,

0:43.3

like a parent company, a holding company?

0:45.3

Yeah, yeah.

0:46.3

Prolog is a holding company of both media and tech brands.

0:51.3

And our starting brands are hyper and early stage accelerator as well as

0:56.8

product hunt, the home of a lot of the early beginnings for some of the most promising

1:03.2

companies of our time.

1:04.6

Yeah.

1:05.6

I think everybody listening will know what product hunt is.

1:07.9

It's kind of like the best place to launch your startup.

1:10.3

Probably half the people listening have launched their startup on product hunt, whether it went well

1:14.0

or not. I've done, I think, three different launches on product hunt. But not many will know what

1:18.2

Hyper is. How would you describe Hyper? Hyper is a early stage accelerator. We call it a founder

1:26.1

program. It's a $ million dollar fund. And we are

1:31.7

typical offering is 300K for 5% of any startup that goes through our program. And it's a very

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