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Oct 2020
1h 12m

#177 – Mastering the Lifestyle-First App...

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen
About this episode

When Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) quit his job to become an indie hacker, he was making over $500,000 per year. It could have been a disastrous choice. Instead, less than two years later, he's built a suite of products that most founders would envy. In this episode we discuss how Daniel minimizes risk by running multiple projects simultaneously, how he turns time into a friend instead of an enemy by lowering his costs, and how a lifestyle-first business mindset can make you both richer and happier.

  • The Good Parts of AWS, Daniel's eBook: https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/#MsVlG
  • Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience, Daniel's video course: https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/#PBkrO
  • Userbase, Daniel's platform for building end-to-end encrypted web apps: https://userbase.com
  • Follow Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvassallo
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