#277 – Addictive Products, Embracing A.I., and Crossing $26k/mo with Lane Wagner of Boot.dev

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

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Lane Wagner (@wagslane) talks hitting $26k/mo in revenue, why A.I. disruption is a good thing, the ethics of addictive products, surviving after a first year of no traction, why most business writing sucks, and how to grow revenue by making your product smaller with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

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0:00.0	We might as well jump into it.
0:08.0	We're here with Lane Wagner.
0:09.2	What's up, Lane?
0:10.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:11.0	Doing great.
0:11.9	Yeah, same here.
0:13.0	You are the founder of boot.dev where basically anybody can go to learn backend development
0:20.0	what you call the addictive way.
0:21.9	So you've got over 34,000 students
0:24.1	who've basically signed up to start learning
0:26.4	modern back-end development skills like Python and Go.
0:29.2	And it takes, what, six months, you said?
0:32.0	Just working on this part-time to get to the point
0:33.5	when people have completed your coursework.
0:35.5	And they are now at what level of back-end
0:38.3	developer?
0:39.8	Entry level.
0:42.2	Six months is the aggressive estimate, right?
0:45.3	That's the marketing.
0:46.7	Yeah, exactly.
0:47.6	It's the marketing.
0:48.0	Only for the real addicts.
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