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This Indie Life

James McKinven and Dagobert Renouf

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Dagobert spent 5 years and $100K+ to bootstrap a startup and failed with a massive burn out. Every week he invites a new founder to talk about the dark side of entrepreneurship.
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Built This Week

Jordan Metzner, Samuel Nadler

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Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.
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Leveling Up is a weekly interview series with entrepreneurs and marketers on the latest in business and marketing. Learn actionable strategies & tactics on how you can make your business grow and mistakes to avoid during your journey. Learn from individuals who have founded billion dollar companies to best-selling authors. Entrepreneur and host Eric Siu also shares insights and learnings along the way.
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Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

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Courtland and Channing Allen interview the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
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Hacker Anthology

Hacker Anthology

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Hacker Anthology is what happens when you inject fiction into the command line of reality. Faction stories — part fact, part fiction — spun from real-world headlines, startup chaos, cyber leaks, and tech drama. Imagine HackerNews got drunk with Black Mirror, and they started roleplaying historical fiction. That’s us. We take raw internet lore — a GitHub repo flame war, a VC meltdown, an obscure RFC gone rogue — and remix it into cinematic short stories told from the POV of AI misfits, termin ...
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Startup to Something

Marc and Matt

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A weekly podcast by two indie hackers, Marc and Matt. They share their ups and downs of building their bootstrapped online businesses. They prefer to show instead of teach, so you get to see the real story about what it's like to “startup to something” - raw and unpolished.
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Founder Reality with George Pu. Real talk from a technical founder building AI-powered businesses in the trenches. No highlight reel, no startup theater – just honest insights from someone who codes, ships, and scales. Every week, George breaks down the messy, unfiltered decisions behind building a bootstrap software company. From saying yes to projects you don't know how to build, to navigating AI hype vs. reality, to the mental models that actually matter for technical founders. Whether yo ...
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Tools for Scale

Causeartist

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Grant Trahant interviews early stage founders and product creators for insight on features and strategies they use to scale. Topics include no-code, sass, bootstrapping, content creation, solo entrepreneurship, freelancing, and tons more.
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Building a company is hard. We share real, grounded conversations with people doing just that. From solo devs to venture-backed founders. Hosted by Dave Berner (co-founder of Kinde), this podcast skips the playbook talk and gets into what building actually looks like day to day.
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Expert On Tap is a smart, laid-back tech podcast where founders, developers, and startup minds share real stories over a cold drink. Hosted by Sean Hussey, each episode blends tech insight, startup lessons, and honest conversation—served with craft beer, cocktails, or whatever’s on tap. Whether you’re building your first SaaS, scaling a team, or just love a good product story, this show is your casual corner of the tech world.
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The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him "the world's best human guinea pig," and The New York Times calls him "a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk." In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.
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Make better and faster decisions in response to far-reaching market shifts in business and technology. Featuring content from our 6Pages subscription service, a new kind of market intelligence for professional decision-makers. Learn more and sign up for free summaries of our deeply researched briefs on 6Pages.com.
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Startup Hunter

Hunter Peress

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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for startups (also on youtube!) My name is Hunter Peress and I am in the trenches and on the hunt for new and exciting startups....or failed startups with new and exciting founders. Join me on my journey to walk and talk with the people who are not happy with the way things are and are highly motivated to do something about it
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The PR Playbook Podcast

Silver Telegram, Ronjini Joshua

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The PR Playbook is a podcast focused on helping you elevate your brand using modern public relations strategy and tactics including paid/earned media, digital marketing, social media and other forms of marketing. Episodes come from my personal experiences over the past 18 years in high-tech public relations and as an agency owner for the past nine years. This podcast is dedicated to offering you actionable advice and tools that you can apply to your internal comms programs ASAP. Improve your ...
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Career Hacker Secrets

Yannick Kpodar

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If you’re looking to pivot into your next big role, make more impact, increase your salary, or break into a top tech company, this podcast is for you. Yannick Kpodar, a LinkedIn alum, was once a struggling business graduate who couldn’t find a job. Through trial and error, he learned the “secrets” to hacking the job hunt process and leapfrogging in his career. Since then, he’s been able to break into B2B Sales in a Fortune 100 company, pivot into Product Marketing at Linkedin in San Francisc ...
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Biz vs Dev

James Robert and Mik Pozin

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One Hacker. One Business guy. Entirely confrontational. A weekly podcast on the topics of Business, Development, and Business Development.
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Indie Worldwide is where indie hackers come to meet other indie hackers. Every week we interview a successful startup founder, indie maker, or bootstrapper and find out how they did it. Each episode is packed with actionable growth strategies and proven tactics for building your indie startup. Catch our recorded interviews here, or check out one of our multiple monthly live meetups: https://indieworldwide.co/ See you there 🌎🌍🌏 Hosted by Anthony Castrio
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Heresy

Dimitar Stanimiroff

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Thinkers. Builders. Rebels. Big ideas from the edge of tech and beyond. Hosted by Dimitar Stanimiroff, Heresy started with a simple goal: learn from the sharpest minds in SaaS GTM. It’s grown into a show that follows curiosity across domains—tech, startups, investing, science, and philosophy. Past guests include Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Aaron Ross (Predictable Revenue), Philip Su (ex-Meta, OpenAI) and execs from Uber, Box, Twilio, and Stack Overflow. New episodes drop regularly.
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Welcome to the AI Builders Club. Yeah, it’s a podcast, but it’s also a workshop, a group chat, and your new favorite corner of the internet if you’re trying to build quality automations with AI. This isn’t a snake oil “prompts that print money” operation. It’s hands-on agentic workflows, pro tips, and real talk from two cofounders in the trenches building a new no-code automation platform. Each week, Aaron Dignan and Chase Adams take on one real-world mess, like inbox chaos, scrambled meetin ...
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Rumor has it that China's startup ecosystem is buzzing. I am chatting with founders in China to uncover what entrepreneurship looks like in its various forms and what it takes. On Medium: https://medium.com/@techcelerated
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Onboarding Therapy

Arrows Podcast Network

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Customer onboarding in B2B SaaS is changing fast, but the resources for onboarding teams? Not so much. That's why we're kicking off Onboarding Therapy, a podcast that tackles the real challenges onboarding teams face every day.
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Indie Bites

James McKinven

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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.
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Welcome to the Code and Conquer Podcast, hosted by Tobias Arweiler, indie hacker and founder of Ice Bear Labs. Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of indie hackers, exploring their journeys, challenges, and triumphs. Every episode features a one-on-one conversation with a unique entrepreneur, focusing on their experiences, wisdom, and insights. From $0 MRR to successful startups, learn from these inspiring stories and discover what it takes to turn your dreams into reality. Grab a ...
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In a world where technology and business intersect, the 'Product Led Growth Leaders' podcast was born out of a desire to bridge the gap between innovation and leadership in the SaaS industry. Our founder, Thomas Watkins, recognized a need for a platform where the brightest minds in business and technology could converge. This podcast is more than just a series of conversations; it's a beacon for CEOs and product owners who are shaping the future of SaaS products. It's a space where ideas are ...
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Do you want to learn how to master all areas of your life? If yes, this is the podcast for you! Through in-depth conversations, you will learn from those who are mastering a specific area of their lives, whether it be business, wealth, health, relationships, social leadership, or spirituality. Each episode features one successful leader who is an expert in a particular area of his or her life. Through their backstories, you will uncover the mistakes and lessons they made along their journey ...
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A podcast every Asian should’ve had growing up, and probably still needs. A podcast for Asian/Asian diaspora untangling family expectations, cultural guilt, and the myth of perfection. Hosted by Crystal Ren, who brings her own messy, magical story to the mic, so you don’t have to figure it out alone. This podcast is a mix of honest conversations, cultural unlearning, emotional plot twists, and slow rebellion. Each episode helps you break free from cultural pressures so you can finally make d ...
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Future Secured brings you in-depth conversations with Australian and global cyber security leaders, founders, CEOs, and co-founders. Hosted by Jason Murell and Tom Finnigan, each episode delves into the personal journeys of these experts as they navigate the challenges of building and scaling successful cyber security businesses. From critical industry issues to hard-learned lessons, the podcast explores the competitive global market and offers valuable insights on how to start, grow, and su ...
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We're living through a fascinating moment in software development. AI coding tools can build features faster than ever before. They can scan entire codebases, spot things we might miss, and implement changes across dozens of files in seconds. It's incredible. But there's something we need to talk about. Something that's quietly accumulating in our …
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse of the "first of many" massive Nvidia AI systems it is rolling out, starting now. a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Richard H. Thaler is the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Nudge: Improvi…
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-The U.S.' top auto safety agency said it had identified more than 50 reports of FSD running red lights, crossing yellow lines, or making illegal turns. -Apple speaks out about how the Texas age assurance law was written, saying it affects the privacy of users. -SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with new features like playlists bas…
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Your host, Thomas Watkins, talks with the Co-Founder and CEO at PolyAI, Nikola Mrkšić. Nikola discusses the evolving challenges of customer service, especially as demand rises and human agents decrease. He explains how PolyAI uses advanced, lifelike AI to automate complex customer interactions with empathy and brand alignment. Nikola emphasizes the…
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Ali Mitchell has backed more than half a dozen unicorns — but his story starts with failure. Before co-founding Huddle and later leading EQT Ventures, one of Europe’s most successful VC funds, Ali was a founder who learned firsthand how hard it is to build and scale. In this episode, we unpack what those early failures taught him about resilience, …
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Japanese investing conglomerate SoftBank Group is buying a robotics company as the financial behemoth says physical AI is its next frontier. SoftBank announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Zurich, Switzerland-based ABB Group’s robotics business unit for more than five billion dollars. The deal is subject to regulatory approval; SoftBank predic…
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Sanjoy Chowdhury reveals AI's hidden weakness: while systems can see objects and hear sounds perfectly, they can't reason across senses like humans do. His research at University of Maryland College Park, including the Meerkat model and AVTrustBench, exposes why AI recognizes worried faces and thunder separately but fails to connect them—and what t…
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Your host, Thomas Watkins, talks with the Co-Founder and CEO at Appknox, Subho Halder. Subho discusses Appknox’s unique approach—analyzing app binaries, integrating AI for vulnerability detection, and providing actionable security insights. Subho also previews upcoming features, including an AI-powered ethical hacker bot and expanded fake app detec…
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In this episode I discuss the boring marketing strategies guaranteed to boost your bottom line in 2025. Discover time-tested tactics like hosting in-person events and leveraging email marketing, plus modern essentials such as short-form video, search everywhere optimization, and podcasting. Whether you’re a CMO, founder, or marketer, learn how to c…
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Yale says AI isn't displacing jobs. Stanford says it's destroying junior roles. Here's why they're both right - and what it means if you're young, building a company, or hiring right now. The AI job displacement debate - Yale vs Stanford: Yale report (33 months of labor data): No proof AI is displacing jobs, we're very early in cycle Stanford repor…
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid eight hundred twenty five thousand dollars earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement, including fake cellphone towers known as “cell-site simulators,” which can be used to spy on nearby phones. Also, hackers working for the North Kor…
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Governments are giving away ChatGPT Plus subscriptions for free to entire populations. Private companies are bundling AI tools to close productivity gaps. If your startup isn't doing this for employees, you're already behind. Governments subsidizing AI access for citizens: UAE planning to give all citizens free ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) - tens of mi…
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California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed anyways. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of…
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A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who store their customers’ data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. Apple has removed ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that allow users to anonymously report sight…
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Hi everyone – welcome to your 3 Shifts Edition [AI-generated audio version]. First, Apple is letting developers use its local AI model for free, and the app updates are rolling in fast. The model may be just 3B parameters but it runs locally, preserves privacy, and, most importantly, costs nothing, which is hard to beat. Next, Stripe just launched …
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Episode 15: Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data Tool This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler debut Tix LAX, a new platform that visualizes parking tickets across Los Angeles using city APIs, from officer leaderboards to the surprising car colors that rarely get ticketed. Then, they dive into Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest …
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AI will copy your MVP in three weeks (maybe less). This is why I never build single product companies anymore. Revenue diversification beats revenue projection - here's the ecosystem model that actually survives. The new brutal reality of building software: Claude 4.5 Sonnet just dropped - experienced developers rebuild 80% of products in days, not…
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A couple of years ago, I tweeted that “the best tech stack is the one you already know.” To this day, this is one of my most resonating tweets. People keep bringing it back, and founders who've been around for a while seem to particularly agree with it. But AI changes things. Or does it? This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored by Paddl…
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Google says hackers associated with a prolific ransomware group are sending extortion emails to executives at “numerous” large organizations after claiming to have stolen their sensitive information from a suite of business software products developed by Oracle. Also, OpenAI has sold 6.6 billion dollars in shares held by current and former employee…
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London-based actress Tilly Norwood has about 40 thousand Instagram followers. One thing to know though is she’s not real. She is an AI-generated character created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6. Also, Apple is sidelining plans to overhaul its Vision Pro VR glasses to focus on developing AI smart glasses that can comp…
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Your host, Thomas Watkins, talks with the Group Manager of Product Management at Box, Adarsh Subramanian. Adarsh shares his journey from engineering to product management, discusses Box’s evolution into an AI-first enterprise content platform, and explains how Box delivers end-to-end solutions for enterprise workflows. He explores the challenges st…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Asian Rebel Club podcast, I sit down with Swan Chen (SwanVR): an artist, technologist, and cultural disruptor who walked away from Wall Street to design a radically freer life. Born in New York City but raised by her grandmother in rural China before being air-dropped into suburban Ohio, Swan’s story is full of…
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-Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple’s new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with a 60 percent decrease in drop-offs. On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. The U.S. Department of Energ…
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Your host, Thomas Watkins, talks with the Founder at EcoCycle Ng, Daniel Falodun. Daniel discusses founding EcoCycle, a blockchain-based waste management system that rewards users and pickup agents with tokens for recycling, making waste collection more efficient and fair. He shares insights on his other ventures, Erase (a green AI e-commerce platf…
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I have a friend who makes $500K at Google. He's worked there 15 years, made Managing Director, and he told me: "I've basically given up and I'm just collecting my paycheck." This is what happens when you trade freedom for money. The pattern I keep seeing across industries and countries: Waterloo classmate at Microsoft making $250K base - quit becau…
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Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, has blocked an effort to pass legislation that would have extended data privacy protections for federal lawmakers and public officials to everyone in the United States. On Monday night, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, asked the U.S. Senate for unanimous consent from fellow senators to pass his legis…
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On Tuesday, DoorDash unveiled Dot, a small robot it built in-house that can autonomously drive on roads, bike lanes, and sidewalks to deliver food and small packages at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. Dot is designed to look friendly and even cartoonish — painted bright red, with big LED eyes and a mouth that swings open to reveal where it holds yo…
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In this episode of Future Secured, Michael Gianarakis, Co-founder of Assetnote and now Chief Product Officer at Searchlight Cyber, unpacks the full startup journey: from bootstrapping a company in Australia to leading enterprise product strategy after a global acquisition. With over 17 years in offensive security and a regular speaker at DEFCON, BS…
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James Nestor is a science journalist and the author of the international bestseller Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, with more than three million copies sold in 44 languages. This episode is brought to you by: Helix Sleep premium mattresses: https://HelixSleep.com/Tim (27% off all mattress orders) Momentous high-quality creatine for cognitive…
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Your host, Thomas Watkins, talks with the CMO at Groflex, Eric Berkman. Eric shares his startup journey, discussing the challenges of founding Groflex and the evolution from a niche accounting tool to a broad operational intelligence platform. He discusses how Groflex integrates and analyzes data across business functions, moving beyond traditional…
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Three stories from this week reveal something fundamental changing about how you build businesses in 2025. The old VC playbook is dead - here's what's actually working now. Story 1: Founders walking away from traditional VC (and it's strategic, not desperate): Mercury surveyed 1,500 early-stage startups about funding in 2025 66% of founders changed…
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies. The bill, which passed the state legislature two weeks ago, requires large AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind, to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblow…
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Automotive giant Honda and lunar startup Astrobotic are teaming up to explore how a regenerative fuel cell system could help keep the lights on during long nights on the Moon. On Monday, the companies partnered up to study whether Honda’s regenerative fuel cell can be integrated into Astrobotic’s LunaGrid, a scalable power service built around sola…
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I sit down with Flo Crivello, CEO of Lindy, to talk about how AI agents are transforming workflows, saving hundreds of hours, and opening new growth opportunities. We cover everything from automating LinkedIn engagement to building agents that handle SEO, influencer marketing, and even team management. If you’re serious about the future of business…
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Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier noted that video game companies are moving towards consolidation and that the deal could reflect EA executives’ broader concerns over the future of the industry. Following a period of rapid growth in the 2010s and during the pandemic, Schreier said gamers in recent years have “tended to stick with old favorites rather tha…
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In 2025, SpaceX stops renting spectrum and buys it—flipping AWS‑4/H‑block into a 2 GHz MSS backbone and lighting a 15,000‑satellite LEO/VLEO swarm with optical links that behave like dark fiber in orbit. Ordinary phones see the sky as Band 23; terrestrial small cells mirror the band on the ground. The pitch is ruthless and elegant: route around bor…
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Vienna, present day. Anonymous Komplandt applies for an electricity contract and is shut out in the time it takes a cursor to blink. No reason. No human. Just a black‑box score from KSV1870—data points she never agreed to, stitched into a verdict she can’t contest. She walks into noyb’s offices with a notebook full of timestamps and meter photos; M…
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Hi everyone – welcome to your 3 Shifts Edition [AI-generated audio version]. First, Trump’s $100K H-1B visa has companies and workers scrambling. While the $100K fee won’t apply to renewals or existing H-1B holders, the administration is signaling that H-1Bs will be fewer, more expensive, and skewed toward higher-paid roles. Next, the US deal for T…
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