Maker Spotlight - Makerlog Stories

Bootstrapping a hosting service to $500 MRR w/ Philip Baretto ✅

Today we're interviewing Philip Baretto, a maker building tiiny.host–a simple hosting website for developers and freelancers.

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Selling clothing online with Lachlan Kirkwood 👕

We interview Lachlan Kirkwood, a maker shipping a high-quality clothing line for 🛠 makers.

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Growing a SaaS from Zero To Sold with Arvid Kahl 💸

Entrepreneur & writer Arvid Kahl tells his journey & lessons selling startups & writing a hit book, Zero to Sold.

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Pouring Herself to Success: Dianna Allen from Terra 🕯

Dianna Allen shares all about building Terra, an eco-friendly candle company - and bootstrapping to $25k.

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Painting a better life through side hustles with Micah Iverson ✨

Micah tells all about his journey making and being a parent.

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The Lady Has Arrived

Leilany Casillas is joining us at Makerlog as researcher + storyteller for our blog! ✅

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Building a content creation machine for developers with Jorge Ferreiro

This week we interview Jorge Ferreiro, a maker from Spain that has built a content creation machine to help inspire developers to pick up careers in tech.

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From Miss Universe to Indie Hacker with Isis Casalduc

In this edition of the Maker Spotlight we chat with Isis Casalduc, a Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2002 turned indie hacker. She's a web designer and digital marketer working on a variety of projects, working to build sustainable businesses.

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How I bootstrapped a React codebase generator to $2k MRR with Gabe Ragland

Gabe Ragland from Divjoy tells his journey from being in YCombinator to $2k MRR as an indie bootstrapper.

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Bootstrapping to 2k MRR with Mike Slaats from Upvoty

Mike Slaats from Upvoty talks about his journey to $2k MRR and how you can do it too!

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From open source to first MRR with student maker Miguel Piedrafita

A student maker, Miguel Piedrafita tells us his journey from building OSS to generating their first MRR.

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Maker Spotlight: Good Vibes with Keenen Charles

Keenen Charles is a 25-year old maker from Trinidad & Tobago. He is a software developer who also writes about a variety of topics, such as making products, self-development, and culture. Keenen has several side-projects under his belt, including InboxReads and TapTag. His main focus right now is his latest

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Makerlog Spotlight: Joseph Maxim from Stock Heed

Joseph Maxim started developing an interest in computers early on. Growing up playing video games, his curiosity led him to give programming a try: he wanted to build video games to share them with his friends. But distribution is never easy. Video games required a compact disc to install, which

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Maker Spotlight: Streaking with Basile Samel

Hello there! My name is Basile Samel, but my friends call me Bazbaz, or baz for short. I’m a Frenchman who just celebrated his 25th birthday. I’m currently working as a full-time nomad maker, I make indie tech products remotely while traveling the world.

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Maker Spotlight: Booligoosh

Welcome to this week’s Maker Spotlight, with our featured guest, Ethan! Today he launched KanbanMail, and joined us to talk about how it became an overnight Hacker News success — and much more. Settle down, get some coffee, and I hope you enjoy the interview! ✨ Hey Ethan, welcome to this

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Maker Spotlight: Mubaris NK

In this edition, we feature Mubaris NK, an indie hacker and maker of Eternity.