#260 – Growing Multiple Products to $18k/mo Revenue with Tony Dinh

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

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

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Tony Dinh (@tdinh_me) talks growing up in Vietnam, quitting his job working for the man, failed vs successful side projects, growing via Twitter, and managing multiple projects that add up to $18,000 in monthly revenue with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

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0:00.0	Hey man, what's up?
0:08.0	I should not be awake right now. I feel terrible. I barely got any sleep outside. I'm like the living dead right now.
0:15.0	Hey, what's up, Tony? Hello, hello, Tony. Hello, Channing. Hello, Colin.
0:20.0	Welcome to the chef.
0:21.6	Thank you. Thank you for having me. What time is it where you are? You're in in Hochemen City, right? Yeah, I'm in Hocchemen City. It's 11 p.m. now. Yeah. And are you like typically a night owl? Like, what kind of hours do you work? I usually stay up at late until midnight and then go to work at around that hour.
0:43.4	So this is the last hour of my usual day.
0:46.4	But for today, I think we can go a little bit further than that.
0:49.2	It's totally fine.
0:50.7	Yeah, I appreciate you making the time.
0:52.7	Channing, I pitched Tony.
0:54.5	I was like, hey, we can do the episode anytime between like 1 to 3 p.m. Pacific time because I'm just an arrogant American. It just assumes everybody lives on Pacific time. Everyone should get on that time. Tony's like, I'm in Vietnam. That's going to be like 3 a.m. for me. Like, I can't do that Yeah, but I am glad that it's 9 a.m. for you, right?
1:14.6	Are you also a night old or early bird?
1:18.6	I'm like a both. I have an excellently healthy sleep schedule where I stay up super late and then I wake up really early.
1:25.6	Wow.
1:26.6	Get like four or five hours of sleep every night. It's actually horrible. Wow. Wow. You're still doing that now? You're still doing it now? I remember you mentioned that in one of the earlier episode, but still now you're still doing it. I've got a whoop, which is like, do you see this lifespan? I don't know. It's kind like a fitness device, like a Fitbit or an Apple Watch that records all your stats. And I can go through and I can see like my average sleep every week or every month. And it's horrible. So like yesterday I got four and a half hours of sleep. What? This month I'm at this month I'm averaging.
2:03.2	What am I averaging?
2:06.6	We're in a group, Channing's in my whip group with me, along with his girlfriend and some of my friends.
2:09.2	I'm averaging five hours and 11 minutes of sleep.
2:10.5	No, man.
2:12.3	I know.
2:13.7	Five hours and five in July.
2:19.1	And I don't even have any sort of like bragging, like,, I'm, I can't say like this is like hustle porn.
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