Indiedotes Podcast
Sharing the stories of indie creators
Suzan Bond
Show overview
Indiedotes Podcast launched in 2017 and has put out 40 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 30 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 45 min and 55 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Business show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 7.9 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Suzan Bond.
From the publisher
Stories of indie creators
Latest Episodes
View all 40 episodesEp 40Episode 40: Lynn Fisher
Artist, web designer Lynn Fisher is a serial creator. Her projects include: A Single Div, AirportCod.es and Why.AZ among others. Lynn specializes in light-hearted projects. Lynn shares why she started A Single Div, why she loves using constraints for her creative projects and why she finds CSS an expressive medium to experiment with.
Ep 39Episode 39: Kate Ray
Shares her experience of working on Crying in Public, a community-based map based in New York City. The project was one of her more technically complicated ones. We talked about the aspect of the project she focused on the most, getting labeled as “offensive content” by Facebook’s API, how she knew she was on the right path when designing the project, the unifying element for all her side projects, how she determined when to launch Crying in Public, and her working style.
Ep 38Episode 38: Avdi Grimm
The creator of the popular series Ruby Tapas and MOOM shares how he determined what to delegate, the importance of taste when creating something, how he determines pricing of a product and how he markets is products.
Ep 37Episode 37: Leah Culver
Leah Culver talks about building Breaker, iOS app focused on podcast discovery. She shared the one test she uses to know when it’s time to bring in others, the approach they took to get users, how she picked Erik Berlin to work with, the two week product process they use to build features, how to determine what tasks to give to others vs trying to do it all yourself.
Ep 36Episode 36: Sean Griffin
Sean Griffin talks about why he writes detailed commit messages, how the Diesel core team was formed, how he grew the community and how he decided what features to put into Diesel 1.0
Ep 35Episode 35: Elizabeth Narramore
Building a photography community site
Ep 34Episode 34: Tracy Osborn
How to run a successful kickstarter, why you might choose to self-publish your book and the downsides of using Amazon for self-publishing
Ep 33Episode 33: Seth Louey
Seth shares: his advice for launching on ProductHunt, why Botlist’s launch was so successful, how the site makes money and why Botlist transitioned from a directory to a community
Ep 32Episode 32: Brian Hogan
The creator of Codecaster on creating a product to solve your own problem, why he built it in a language he’d never used before and the features he shipped in the beta version.
Ep 31Episode 31: Andy Croll
Software developer Andy Croll on the impermanence of software, how closing down a project helped him figure out his technological preferences and helped his career.
Ep 30Episode 30: Robby Russell
The creator of Oh My Zsh talks about his popular open source project, how a rescinded verbal job offer changed the course of his career and the legacy he wants to leave.
Ep 29Episode 29: Lara Hogan
The process of writing a book including the writing routine, the role of feedback and how she figured out the angle of her book.
Ep 28Episode 28: Ryan Luikens
An illustrator with a day job, Ryan shares how he wrote his first picture book in two weeks, how he creates minimum viable habits and his creation process.
Ep 27Episode 27: Eric Holscher
An upfront conversation about how he settled on a business model and developed ethical advertising standards.
Ep 26Episode 26: Lynne Tye
The creator shares why she created {key : values}, how she was able to go full time, what to do after launch and how to keep driving traffic.
Ep 25Episode 25: Vaidehi Joshi
How a job interview inspired Vaidehi to understand Conway’s Game of Life and other computer science problems by creating a weekly series, basecs.
Ep 24Episode 24: Jake Sutton
Side projects as a means of exploring different types of media
Ep 23Episode 23: Justin Weiss
Learning to be a manager for the first time, how he knew when it was time to make a change, the question he asked himself to get back happiness in his career and how open source helped him get a new role.
Ep 22Episode 22: Andrew Nesbitt
Podcast RSS Show Notes:Andrew Nesbitt, creator of Libraries.io, Dependency CI and 24 Pull Requests, cares deeply about solving the problems of discoverability and sustainability in open source. He created Libraries.io to help developers find new open source libraries, modules, frameworks, and keep track of the ones they depend on.“You are not your code.”We talk about Libraries.io, which has indexed 30 million open source projects. Our discussion covers the trouble of single points of failures in projects, how they developed attributes to assess repositories, how they got funding and how to make decisions about the risk of a transitive dependency. Show Links:About Andrew NesbittLibraries.io24 Pull RequestsManifest podcastNadia Eghbal: Roads and BridgesSustain Open Source ConferenceGiving open source projects life after a developer's deathWhat a sustainable OSS project looks like
Ep 21Episode 21: Michael Eaton
Behind the scenes look at how the conference was named, how one talk changed the course of the conference and what it really take to run a conference.