#266 – Lessons Learned Building a $37k/mo Business in 2.5 Years with Mat De Sousa of WideBundle

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

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Mat De Sousa (@DsMatie) talks having million-dollar ambitions as a child, learning from numerous failed startups, why Shopify apps are great for indie hackers, the proper way to find a business idea, and growing from $0 to $37k/mo in 2.5 years with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, Matt?
0:07.0	Hey, what's up?
0:09.0	Welcome to the show.
0:10.0	Let me introduce you, Matt.
0:12.0	You're Matt DeSouza.
0:13.0	You are an Andy Hacker, and you tweeted,
0:17.0	on July of this year, you tweeted,
0:19.0	I built five Shopify apps, and it makes me over $340,000 a
0:25.2	year, which is amazing.
0:27.2	Yeah, it makes me more today.
0:29.8	But yeah, that was that.
0:30.4	Oh, yeah.
0:30.8	What are your revenue numbers?
0:31.8	How much?
0:33.2	$450,000.
0:34.7	Wow.
0:35.5	Yeah, yeah, I see you on your Twitter profile now.
0:37.9	You updated your bio.
0:38.6	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
0:39.9	37K a month. How long did it take you to get there? That's crazy. Like, was this like, if you've been working on these apps for like 10 years? Yeah, two years and a half, something like that. Because I started in, two and a half years. Yeah, I started in May 2020. So that's it.
0:35.0	Wow.
0:36.1	That's amazing.
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