Courtland and Jason Calacanis discussed how to be an indie hacker on 🎙 This Week in Startups

This is what brought me back to Indie Hackers :) forgot about this community and appreciate it.

Yes! This is how I learned about this community!

For me it was very refreshing to hear your entire journey... and frankly some things that are wrong with the YC mentality. I think this indie movement will become more mainstream. You guys are super smart and down-to-earth... again very refreshing... and I hope you inspire a lot of people to start their own entreprrneyeneurial journeys.
As for me--I made enough money in the corporate world that I decided to build something that really matters to me personally (personal finance education) with my wife. It's early days for us, but we're making progress every day. I've never worked harder in my life, and sometimes you need a bit of perspective to recharge your batteries. Your podcast is so instrumental to me get give me the energy for the next phase of my journey!

I’ve watched this whole thing twice already. Great interview.

Glad to see more diversity of thought making it into the startup scene.

Bootstrapping/ raising VC isn’t something to be religious about imo. Certain business models favor one or the other.

This is great! I was just about to suggest Courtland have Jason on the IH podcast since I recently heard him mention wanting opinionated guests.

I've spent the last few weeks dabbling into both bootstrapped founder communities (like IndieHackers) and startup communities (like /r/startups and so on).

I generally found that bootstrapped community is full of smart & ambitious & realistic people, while startup communities tend to attract a bigger % of people who've read about Facebook & created yet-another B2C app/SaaS and have no idea how to grow, or what to do. Wonder if I'm the only one who noticed this.

Listened in. Rather impressive!