Side Hustles with Courtland Allen from Indie Hackers

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk all about side hustles with special guest Courtland Allen, from Indie Hackers! They talk about the story behind Indie Hackers, how to start your own side hustle, where to find ideas, listener questions, and more. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at LogRocket. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at Freshbooks and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 1:05 - What’s the back story behind Indie Hackers? 5:30 - What is a side hustle? 11:21 - How do you validate your idea? 13:15 - What are some different types of side hustles? 31:55 - What about people who don’t like marketing? 33:57 - What are some important pieces of side hustles? 39:04 - How do you sell a business? 42:40 - Listener Questions: Q: How do you stop the side hustle from affecting your main job in regards to things like overtime, sleep and commitment? Q: Should you frame yourself as a one-man-band or as a company? Q: Have you heard stories of people living in cheap places, making bank? Are there any white whales you have been chasing to interview? Links Carrd Balsamiq Mockups Flickity Nomad List Evan You Evan You Patreon Park.io Making $125,000 a Month as a Solo Founder with Mike Carson of Park.io Patreon Drift Stripe ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Courtland: Post-it Notes and Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Scott: Akimbo Wes: Elastic Wallet Shameless Plugs Courtland: IndieHackers Podcast Scott: Animating React Wes: CSS Grid Course Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.7	Hello everybody and welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest
0:14.6	web development treats out there today we are going to be talking all about
0:19.2	side hustles so you're a developer you've got some you've got your tech skills and you want to make a little bit of side money or you've got some ideas as to something you want to build and we're going to be talking all about that.
0:31.0	So with me today is Scott Tolinskyinsky as always. How you doing today
0:34.2	Scott? I'm doing good. Getting over a little something. I think you're getting a little
0:38.5	over a little something. I think we're all getting over a little something so we are
0:42.3	all getting over a little something so we are all getting over a little something but probably what's most exciting is today we have a
0:47.2	guest on the show which is Cortland Allen who runs the Indie Hacker's podcast. Welcome, Gortlin.
0:53.5	How's it going, Wes?
0:54.3	How's it going, Scott?
0:55.0	Oh, pretty good.
0:56.0	Thanks for having me on.
0:57.0	Yeah, thanks for coming on.
0:59.0	I'm a big fan of the Indie Hackers Podcast,
1:01.6	and I know Scott is as well. Do you want to give us a just sort of a quick rundown of what is Indie hackers what it is that you do and so on?
1:10.0	Yeah, as Scott said he's getting over something so am am I. So apologies in advance if I just devolve
1:14.4	into a terrible coughing fit in the middle of this episode.
1:18.8	Andy Hackers is an online community of developers mostly who are interested and making money from their side projects or just making money online and general.
1:28.6	And so we've got a whole bunch of different parts of the website.
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