#265 – From Full-Time Job to $30k/Month with Damon Chen of Testimonial

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

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Damon Chen (@damengchen) talks failed side projects, validating your idea, charging higher prices than is comfortable, what makes for a good website testimonial, and growing a bootstrapped startup to $30k/mo with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

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0:00.0	Okay, we're here with Damon Chen.
0:05.0	What's up, Damon? How's it going?
0:10.0	Yo, yo.
0:11.0	Good, what's up, guys?
0:13.0	You are an indie hacker.
0:16.0	You're the founder of a company called Testimonial.
0:20.0	And I think you have a super inspirational story. So you were
0:22.9	like a developer at Cisco for eight years. You saw a lot of other people take lucrative jobs
0:28.2	elsewhere. And you eventually started interviewing all the major tech companies, Amazon, Google,
0:35.6	Facebook, all of them. Today they're all just doing a bunch of layoffs, but at the time they weren't.
0:39.3	They were like hot shit and they turned you down.
0:42.3	But then you started building lots of apps.
0:44.3	I think you put like five apps in 2020 alone, most of which generated zero dollars, but you quit anyway and became an ND hacker.
0:52.3	And you launched testimonial.
0:54.8	And eventually that made like, I think, $3,000 in the first 10 days.
0:57.8	What's your revenue at today?
1:01.2	The market Rukon revenue is at 30K, MR.
1:04.5	And the annual Rukkah revenue is almost approaching half million dollars.
1:10.4	That's crazy.
1:11.6	So from working a corporate job, making apps, aren't making any money to make an almost half
1:16.6	a million dollars on your own.
1:17.6	Do you have any employees?
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