Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid
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Show Notes
Amar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur, having started ZenMaid back in 2013. Amar’s story shows the power of sticking with something through the hard times, and having an unsexy niche (aka not selling to other indie hackers) can lead to a phenomenal indie business.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:53 Scaling in the first 2 years
- 04:38 Growing an indie business in a price sensitive niche
- 06:54 Travelling while indie hacking
- 08:12 Losing 40% of revenue in 6 months
- 13:23 Hustle Porn - Should indie hackers work harder?
- 15:38 Recommendations
Reccos
- Book: The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen
- Podcast: exitfive by Dave Gerhardt
- Indie Hacker: Jesse Hanley
My links
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- This Indie Life Podcast
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