Courtland AllenVerified account

@csallen

MIT 09 🏛 YC 11 🚀 developer 💻 designer 🎨 avid reader 📚 casual traveler ✈️ StarCraft fan 👾  at ⚡

San Francisco
IndieHackers.com
Joined June 2008
Born on March 22
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  1. Oct 5

    "I'm just wildly optimistic. I was just like, I'm just going to build this app. I didn't even know that investment existed as an option." I talked to Christy Laurence of about how she bootstrapped to $1M in revenue as a non-technical founder 🙌

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  2. Oct 4

    Thanks to everyone who came out in Boston, had a blast and hopefully I'll be back more often!

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  3. Oct 3

    Hosting an meetup in Boston tonight, would love to see you if you're nearby!

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    Sep 25

    . Lagos meetup! FRI, OCT 5 AT 4:00 PM,

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  5. Oct 1

    "Most companies don't make it through a transition like this. It's something really unique about our team. We're now battle-hardened." I talked to on the podcast about bringing her company back from the brink. Give it a listen!

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    Sep 26

    This is great news for makers and entrepreneurs. Plug: I’m recording a podcast () with and next week. 😊

    Breaking on and momentarily on . Stripe has raised $245 million and is valued at $20 billion. The has all the deets.
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    Sep 19
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    Indie Hackers is what inspired me to write my book and focus on building out my other projects as well. I have been working on my own things for about 2 months now and I have enjoyed it.

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    Sep 19

    This week of the podcast with was one of the first times I've been really inspired to maybe try and do my own thing at some point in my career! The Indie Hacker movement is fascinating!

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    Sep 17

    Season 5, Episode 7 of the Podcast is LIVE!! shares lessons he's gathered over the years on what it takes to live off of your own product and how you can do it too in “What's an Indie Hacker?”

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  10. Sep 14

    Talked to about how he was able to build a massive audience and userbase by giving himself the time to really empathize with users and understand what they find valuable. Give it a listen!

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    Sep 12

    📅 8 months in 🚀 10 products launched 🤑 >$50k gross ⏳ 14 products left

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  12. Sep 7

    "I hustled, and I think that's the only way to go." I talked to , the creator of , about how she's grown her company to 100 happy employees and over 3600 happy customers as a first-time founder. 🙌

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  13. Sep 5

    Optimism is underrated. If you're going into a job, a book, a meeting, a relationship, a chore, a trip, or any experience really, the best parts aren't always obvious. They might require some digging. And optimistic people are diggers.

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    Sep 4

    I’m recording a podcast on in-depth growth tactics with Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers. Leave a reply with what you want me to dive into. I’ve grown startups in many verticals and across many business models. (I run .) Facebook ads? Snap ads? SEO?

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  15. Sep 4

    Just talked to Christy Laurence of . She bootstrapped her way to $1M in revenue in a year working alone as a non-technical founder. Didn't even know fundraising was an option! Love finding stories like this.

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    Sep 4

    . regularly blows my mind. Just read a comment where a community member said "One of my friend has grown his SaaS business from $2k/m to $150k/m ... in just 9 months"

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  17. Sep 2

    Networking = aimlessly talking to random people. If you have an actual purpose or goal, then it ceases to be "networking" and instead becomes selling, pitching, hiring, making intros, mentoring, raising money, partnering, etc.

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  18. Sep 2

    To the extent that stories are persuasive and syllogisms aren't, we should absolutely master storytelling. But to the extent that we care about discovering and understanding truth ourselves, we should seek to be persuadable via syllogism.

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  19. Sep 2

    "In that case, if arguments convince nobody, a man may be convinced by parables or fables or what? Or fictions. Those are far more convincing than the syllogism"

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  20. Aug 31

    "I'm fortunate that I like what I do, so work for me is oftentimes fun. In fact, it's my favorite thing to do." and I had a fun convo about and building/running online communities on the podcast. Enjoy! 🤗

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