How He Hit $10k With Side Project

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Software engineer, indie hacker, and former college soccer player living in Chicago.

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0:00.0	You know, someday it would be great for it to be full-time, but it would need to grow quite a bit.
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0:45.7	Colin McAtee. He's building a great company called ProductiveRecruit.com. It's college athletic
0:50.4	recruiting software. Colin, you ready to take us to the top? Yeah, definitely. Let's get
0:55.0	going. Were you like wanted to be a college athlete, but recruiting was a nightmare and now you're
0:59.9	like sticking it to the building tools to make it easier? Yeah, kind of. I have good product
1:05.6	founder fit. So I did play college soccer. I graduated college in 2015. So I've been out of it for a little while now.
1:13.2	And I wasn't, I didn't study computer science or anything in college, but I started getting
1:17.6	that entrepreneurial age after college. I tried a little consulting thing, I had no idea what I was
1:23.6	doing running a business, started listening to any hackers and reading and all this stuff in this community.
1:28.7	And now here I know how to code. I'm a software engineer full time doing this on the side.
1:33.1	And yeah, I kind of wanted to build a tool that I would have loved using during that process.
1:38.2	So the site looks great. It's very clean. Did you use a no code tech stack to get this live? I did not. It's a tailwind.
1:45.5	So it does use some tailwind UI stuff, but I kind of re-tooled it to not look so generic like the standard tailwind UI stuff that you see.
1:52.5	It looks really, it looks really good.
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