The Indie Worldwide Podcast: Recent Episodes
Indie Worldwide
Indie Worldwide is where indie hackers come to meet other indie hackers. Every week we interview a successful startup founder, indie maker, or bootstrapper and find out how they did it. Each episode is packed with actionable growth strategies and proven tactics for building your indie startup. Catch our recorded interviews here, or check out one of our multiple monthly live meetups: https://indieworldwide.co/
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Hosted by Anthony Castrio
With Chevy Cassar from Web3 Daily: https://twitter.com/chevycassar
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00:00-00:16 Intro
00:00:16-00:02:36 Our secret mastermind
00:02:36-00:10:21 Growth and Monetization
00:10:21-00:11:49 TikTok advertising and tracking
00:12:38-00:14:23 Content creation on TikTok
00:18:34-00:21:00 Personal newsletters and experimental projects
00:21:02 How will I die
00:21:30 YouTube Channel
00:25:22 Starting Web3 Daily
00:31:19 Monetization Path for Newsletters
00:32:51 The Potential of Newsletter Businesses
00:34:24 Comparing Platforms
00:41:57 Taylor Swift
00:43:49 Content Growth Engine
00:50:09 Monetizing parasocial audiences
00:52:37 Billion dollar exits
00:53:25 3 million readers
00:54:32 Competition
01:03:16 Sponsorships
01:05:46 Creating Products for Newsletter Audiences
01:09:19 Word of Mouth and Social Proof
01:14:43 Sales business targeting newsletter owners
01:14:50 Selling ads
01:15:08 Outro
Outseta gives founders the tools to monetize their website, SaaS product, or online community in minutes. https://www.outseta.com/
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I met up with the founder of the Wannabe Entrepreneur Community in Lisbon for an in-person brainstorm on community businesses.
What makes a community centered business work? How can you start your own? Just how tasty is pastel de nata?
Find out here on the Indie Worldwide Podcast x Wannabe Entrepreneur Podcast crossover episode.
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Dan has made a name for himself for quitting his job at Amazon where he made $500k+ per year to become an Indie Hacker and build a portfolio of small bets. Now he works part-time for Gumroad, builds a SaaS called Userbase, has 100k+ Twitter followers, and runs the Tiny Bets Community.
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Indie Worldwide
Watch part 2 here: https://youtu.be/wTNB-BkQSa4
https://100in100.co/
https://microacquire.com/
This is Part 1 of the 100 users 100 days demo day where we had a live Q&A session with Andrew Gazdecki the founder of MicroAcquire.
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• Husband and wife indie hacker team.
• 2k MRR + another 2k non-recurring on average per month
• Ramen profitable but still freelancing
• Going nomadic soon for a year
• Other ventures like a notebook company and a fun online candy shopping experience
https://stagetimer.io/
https://ohcandyworld.com/
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 What came first marriage or product
00:40 What is Stagetimer.io
02:53 How many paying customers do they have
03:41 How is stage timer monetised(An amazing payment plan idea)
05:30 How large is the team
05:30 What is the differentiating factor
07:28 What is the limit of the free plan
08:55 When did it go from project to startup
10:08 Where did the first customers come from
12:06 Opinion on paid ads
14:50 How does being married help the business
17:20 Is stage timer running itself?
18:38 What’s the new side project
19:20 What is OhCandyworld.com
22:22 How to do MVP of a idea
23:52 Fulfilling orders
24:26 Working in different industries
26:30 The Indiehacker Spirit
29:06 The Ultimatum Story
30:22 Profitability
33:32 Ads for Bootstrappers
34:26 Paid Ads Workshop
35:00 Outro
Read Wizen Guides: https://wizenguides.com/
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00:00 Introduction
01:20 How Anthony met Ana for Wizen Guides
02:23 How Introversion effects a founder
05:08 The problems of writing a book
08:14 What advantages do introverts have as startup founders
12:20 The history of Ana
15:40 How the Web influenced Ana’s career
17:05 How Ana entered retail
21:11 Ana’s burnout
25:30 Ana’s temporary retirement
26:20 Ana’s teaching experience
31:50 Why wizen guides was born
33:10 Why is Ana NotechAna
35:30 Advice for someone just getting started
41:10 Outro
Bhanu is a 24 year old Indie Hacker quickly approaching $1,000 MRR just a couple months after launching his blog-on-top-of-Notion platform Feather.
I first met Bhanu through the Indie Worldwide community and quickly fell in love with the product he was building. Now I use Feather for just about everything!
Anywhere I want to lower the barrier between thought and blog post I reach for Feather.
In this interview we discuss how Bhanu quit his job, became a startup founder, tried, failed, and pivoted his way to his current product which is now growing like crazy.
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00:00 Introduction
01:40 Life before Indie Hacking
03:33 Building in public on Twitter
03:52 The failure of MDX.one
06:57 What is UseNotionCMS
08:29 How did Bhanu market feather
10:22 Why Bhanu pivoted to Twitter
11:11 How did feather grow so fast
11:44 Future distribution Plans
12:22 Learning SEO
13:39 How did Anthony find Bhanu
14:14 Motivating other Indie Hackers
14:56 The feedback process
15:43 The 100 in 100 Challenge
17:51 Plans for the next month
18:07 Advice for someone new to Indie Hacking
18:47 Outro
Zach Burau runs a dev shop, he develops software to run airport time bulletin boards, he bought a website off the founder of Kayak, and now he's building a niche-gaming empire.
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https://axe.studio/
Play Gomoku! https://gomoku.com/
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00:00 Introduction
01:39 Hidden niches
03:19 Selling to airportsÂ
04:52 Airport tech
05:43 When to pivot
06:20 How Flyline solved the airline data problem
07:21 Selecting the right business
09:19 Does cold calling work every time?
10:49 Contract size for Flyline
12:08 When to raise prices
14:45 How gomoku.com started
18:04 How much traffic is Gomoku getting
20:10 What is Pente and how it matters to Gomoku
23:43 How monetization works for game sites
25:26 How to figure out development for multiple businesses
27:09 Subsidize your business ideas with contracting
29:12 How to find problems to solve
31:24 How Zach allocates his time
32:00 Expanding the gaming empire
34:14 How to build in public
36:13 Advice for new Indie Hackers
37:35 Recap
38:33 Outro
Dana is the founder and CEO of Balodana, a curated marketplace of bespoke tailors. When you sign up for Balodana they take your measurements so that you can shop for clothes that fit you perfectly, every time. Their collection is curated from around the world and they work directly with the makers of your clothing to get each piece tailored to fit your exact dimensions.
In this interview we talked about the clothing industry, artificial intelligence, pivoting during the pandemic, sustainable fashion and a whole lot more.
https://www.balodana.com/
Dana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danatodd
I met Dana through the Indie Worldwide community. If you're interested in meeting founders from around the world working on game-changing startups, you should consider joining too.
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Where does the name balodana come from
01:58 what is balodana
4:04 Fast Fashion vs Slow Fashion
6:24 What is the the order process
08:43 how does balodana make money
11:20 how does sizing work
12:39 balodana’s technology approach
16:03 Web3 Integration in Beladana
18:11 How many vendors are on balodana
20:53 What is balodana sales volume
22:16 How to tackle the pandemic
23:16 Is it a solo founded business
24:08 Is it profitable yet?
24:15 Have there been any formal investment rounds
26:35 The 1000 bars story
28:45 How are people finding out about balodana
29:50 How to find vendors
31:40 Marketing ideas for balodana and other clothing businesses
35:18 The future for balodana
36:38 Fashion as a engineering discipline
37:11 The futuristic smart mirror tech
37:43 Advice for fashion entrepreneurs
39:50 Outro
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Why did Weekend Club change to Ramen Club
02:53 Why should one join Ramen Club
05:06 Behind the scenes of Content Creation
07:00 Secrets of the Youtube Game
08:08 how do people find out about Ramen Club
09:02 Is Ramen Club ramen profitable
09:28 What does the growth graph look like
10:38 Is it full-time right now?
11:25 What’s the growth plan now
13:00 The grind of content creation
16:01 The unfair advantage leading to ranking on google
16:43 What are Ramen Club goals for rest of 2022
17:45 Studio Ramen : The community builders hub
20:00 How to find out if a community is valuable
21:43 How can a community create stuff in the best way possible
26:53 Advise for Indie community builders
29:04 Timeline of Weekend Club and Ramen Club
30:52 Outro
This is the Q&A follow up from https://youtu.be/VnUa20D0BAA
Trevor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrevorLongino
CrowdTamers: https://crowdtamers.com/
Big thanks to Mash and Sparrow's startup advisors for connecting us to Trevor to make this event possible.
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 How to pitch honestly
02:00 What stops a business from growing faster
04:22 How to cold start a business
08:06 Two most common misdates of founders
09:50 Opinion about social media presence
11:04 Owning a community vs being a part of one
12:46 How to market a new product properly
16:02 Is the first client the ideal client
19:04 How to validate a idea
20:30 Conclusion
Trevor Longino is the founder of CrowdTamers, a former thespian, and a master marketer. He's helped over a dozen startup scale their marketing efforts to multiple millions in ARR.
Trevor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrevorLongino
CrowdTamers: https://crowdtamers.com/
Big thanks to Mash and Sparrow's startup advisors for connecting us to Trevor to make this event possible.
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00:00 Introduction
01:47 Basic of getting to 2M ARR in Revenue
02:23 Why a marketing funnel is not the best optionÂ
03:41 How to attract people towards your business
07:04 How to construct a brand image
08:26 How to read statistics
09:18 How to convert your audience
11:10 Basics to retain customers
11:40 Overview of the flywheel
13:02 The growth flywheel introduction
14:07 Why is data important
15:19 The three key numbers
16:38 Products for data gathering
17:44 The Growth Mindset
20:08 Conclusion
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00:00 Introduction
01:04 Amar’s Story
03:44 Initial years of zenmaid
05:35 How the digital nomad journey started
08:28 How the community started
11:05 The worst time for a entrepreneur
14:58 How to cold start a community and a summit
19:20 How to allocate money
20:50 How to do cold email correctly
24:12 Why only maid services are being solved by zenmaid
27:02 How to make a cold email list
27:40 Cold calling formula
31:17 How to find a non technical cofounder
32:29 Is zenmaid still full-time for Amar?
34:56 What are two of biggest marketing challenges for indie hackers
38:49 Is hiring a CEO better?
40:09 Conclusion
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Want to avoid getting banned from your email marketing tools?
We invited Michael Greenberg (@gentoftech) to run an introductory workshop for any founders who send emails.
Michael has built three different 6-figure ARR productized services, and sold one of those. Currently he's writing & podcasting about digital operations, entrepreneurial strategy, & content creation.
The session was recorded and everyone in attendance had the opportunity to ask questions.
This was a members only event. If you're not yet a member of Indie Worldwide you can apply here:
https://indieworldwide.co/founders-club/
What's Indie Worldwide?
We're a social group and virtual incubator for bootstrapped startups.
What you'll find at Indie Worldwide:
- Passionate founders and indie hackers to bounce ideas off of.
- Business partners, clients, and beta testers.
- Motivation and support from people going through the same journey.
- A global network impossible to create if you only meet people in your own city.
Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gentoftech
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00:00 Introduction
01:10 Different email tools and their use cases
03:50 Steps before sending a Cold Email
09:26 Cold Email Troubleshooting Checklist
11:55 What’s the CTA if there’s no link?
12:55 Does twitter also need warming up?
14:00 Monthly limit for emails
14:20 How does email outreach work for a large sales team
15:30 What causes domain to be spam blocked?
16:00 How to find out if you are in a spamlist and how to get off it?
16:00 What type of domain to use
17:50 Perfect tool for Transactional Emails
21:40 What timing to use for sending Emails
22:45 Can subject lines be customized
24:50 Which is the best email tool
26:00 Why cold email is the best place to start
27:45 Marketing Emails vs Cold Email
28:10 Words to avoid so that the email is not marked as Spam
30:50 Content Suggestions
32:05 Best Email I ever sent
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Why’d you decide to build on top of Google Sheets?
“I'm a developer, a long time developer. I'm not that great at marketing. I was looking for a marketplace that had some existing leverage that I could use.”
Vance, you joined Indie Worldwide as part of the 100 in 100 challenge last year. Why?
“That leaderboard gaming kind of mentality, it made me want to focus more on new sign-ups “
You already have a highly paid full-time job. What inspired you to start this in the first place?
“It's just something I wanted to exist. I tried three or four budgeting apps before I built this, but I got to a point where it was like five clicks to edit a transaction category. And I was just like, oh my gosh, if this was in a spreadsheet, I could just do this in seconds.”
Have you made any friends at Indie Worldwide?
“There’s a couple people who reached out with other Google Sheets add-ons. One in particular helped me with an issue and gave me their sample code. I did not expect that! I’ve had some offers to buy BudgetSheet too, but I’m not interested in selling.”
Everybody has a number. What would you sell for today?
“If someone offered me an insane number that wouldn't even be worth paying for what it is right now, then maybe, but the market is big enough. I think there's an opportunity for this to be a multimillion dollar business. I have the money that I need right now from my full-time job. So for now I'm growing it on the side until I can kind of step over. And that's my plan. I want to work for myself.”
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Greg originally joined Indie Worldwide as part of the 100 in 100 challenge which he successfully completed, gaining over 100 new paying customers over the course of the challenge.
Quote from Greg:
“Indie Worldwide is phenomenal…I've been able to find almost everything that I could need as a startup founder there, and some of my most active users that are constantly giving me feedback on what is good, what is great, what they love, and what sucks. As a startup founder, I don't know that you could really ask for more than that.”
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Jamie Tam is a Shopify merchant turned app maker. He previously ran a profitable drop-shipping business but realized there was no great ways to track his profitability within Shopify, so he built Profit Calc. His app is now making more than $10,000 per month with no employees and 80% margins.
Links:
https://apps.shopify.com/profit-calc Understand Your Profit With: Dashboards, Analytics, & Insights
https://www.ecommerceeducated.com/ Jamie's new blog
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Shar is the Founder & CEO of Billflow. Focusing on SaaS pricing, billing, and no-code. http://billflow.io
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Ganesh participated in the 100 in 100 challenge and finished at the top of the leaderboard. Now they're well past 100 customers and have already hit $15,000 in MRR with the audacious goal of growing to $10 Million in ARR in the next two years and hitting a $150 Million evaluation (based on a 15x multiple). Not outrageous at all if you consider their recent growth of 40% MoM.
AiHello AutoPilot automates Amazon PPC to reduce ad costs, increase revenues and decrease your time spent on managing Amazon Ads.
https://www.aihello.com/
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00:00 Intro
05:00 What is AB Testing AI work?
07:00 Multi Armed Bandit
10:00 Landing Marquis Partners
12:30 Growth through white labeling
15:30 Enterprise Sales
20:25 Growth Goals & SEO
Alternate title: "Marketing God Makes 7 figures in less than a week (you won't believe...)"
Charlie Ward is the founder of Weekend Club, a remote co-working club for bootstrapped founders. Over the last few years he's grown the club to ramen-profitability and scaled to host multiple events every single week (weekdays too!). In this interview we discuss how to start your community, how to scale it, and how to empower your members to become leaders.
Topics we cover:
- Member led events
- Indie Hacking w/ a job
- Indie London
- Weekend Club
- processes of scaling community systems, growth as we'll
- Navigating going in and out of a lockdown
- Plans for coming out of the lockdown
Charlie Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlierward
Join the club: weekendclub.co
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Indie hacker since 2011, full-stack web developer since 1997, Marc LG aka The Judo Hacker is the founder of PowerImporter — the easiest nocode tool for updating your Webflow CMS.
Build in public to market your brand, keep yourself on task, and grow your audience as a maker. Learn from two makers building in public on Twitch and on Twitter and apply their learnings to your own startup journey.
Noah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/noahwbragg
About Noah Bragg:
Building @potion_so in public. Co-host of @pjourneypod. Transparently tweeting about what he's building and the journey to get Potion to 5k MRR.
Indie Worldwide is an online meetup group for indie hackers, makers, and bootstrapped founders.
What you'll find at Indie Worldwide:
- Passionate founders and indie hackers to bounce ideas off of.
- Business partners, clients, and beta testers.
- Motivation and support from people going through the same journey.
- A global network impossible to create if you only meet people in your own city.
Dan aka “Roxkstar74” building in public on Twitch
Dan is the founder of TwitchToTIkTok and is currently building a new startup live from Thailand on Twitch.
https://twitter.com/roxkstar74
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1031807181
Build in public to market your brand, keep yourself on task, and grow your audience as a maker. Learn from two makers building in public on Twitch and on Twitter and apply their learnings to your own startup journey.
Q&A w/ Dan
Questions:
Which came first stream or startup?
What is the startup?
What were you working on before?
logistics of a Twitch stream.
Who do you follow on Twitch?
On the go streaming?
What should a brand new startup streamer do to get viewers?
Software developer by background, Paulina Masson is now focused on marketing and growing her startups through SEO. In this episode we talk about her previous success selling Shopkeeper and how she's planning to grow CreatorBooks.
Follow Paulina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonlightpaulina/
CreatorBooks: Most creators hate logging into multiple affiliate networks to check how much money they made. We aggregate your earnings from YouTube ads, Patreon donations, affiliate programs and product sales, so you can ditch your manual spreadsheets and focus on what you do best - creating new content.
Shopkeeper: Most Amazon sellers hate combining 72 types of fees from Seller Central spreadsheets, to check if their products are profitable. We do the boring part of aggregating it for you, so you can focus on the fun part - making important decisions based on this data, to grow your Amazon business.
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Altera Staffing mentioned at 22:00 https://www.alterastaffing.com/
Timestamps:
00:00 - 1:00 Intro
1:00 - 4:45 Why was MicroAcquire started
4:45 - 6:50 Who gets a 10x multiple?
6:50 - 13:15 Why to hire a CFO as soon as possible
13:15 - 15:50 How to hire a CFO?
15:50 - 20:10 Who should sell on MicroAcquire?
20:10 - 23:10 Outsource recruiting
23:10 - 26:43 The best time to sell a startup.
26:43 - 27:50 Why choose MicroAcquire?
27:50 - 30:00 Types of businesses that are doing well?
30:00 - 31:06 Outro
Indie Worldwide:
The online meetup group for indie makers. Video chats and 1-on-1 matching with makers around the world.
Micro Acquire:
Startup acquisition marketplace. Free. Private. No middlemen.
Start the right acquisition conversations at your own pace. Get free and instant access to 30,000+ trusted buyers with total anonymity. Say goodbye to brokers and meet your ideal buyer today.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gwHUgMMOJY
Get Your Community Dashboard: https://orbit.love/?ref=indieworldwid...
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Rosie Sherry has previously worked at Indie Hackers as a community manager, is the founder of the Ministry of Test, and currently runs community for Orbit.
Orbit:
Build relationships, not spreadsheets
Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, mission control for your community.
Ministry of Testing:
MoT is community of 25,000+ software testing and quality professionals.
A place to learn, connect, attend, and contribute as we co-create better testing.
Most of the budget spent on conferences isn't returned. The content isn't why people go to conferences. They're a moral booster and a networking opportunity.
Speakers are the hook, community is what keeps people coming back.
In-person conferences are still more profitable (for DesignX), mostly because they're charging less for tickets. Even though there are less costs.
Sponsors also are able to justify a higher-budget for the in-person conferences. The idea that they get a physical booth makes it easier to sell that higher price point.
When building a community, improve constantly. Focus on values. Axe people or aspects of the community that don't fit those values or goals.
Day 1 of starting a new community: identify what unites the community. To build a room you need the walls and a door. Some kind of constraint. Go as niche as possible, you can always go broad later. Find out how people are already connecting. It's not that different than building a Saas company, but it's a longer-term value play.
Start with an event. Not every group needs a Slack group. Start with a one time thing and grow from there.
Don't be afraid of collaborations and existing communities. See if there's some way you can work together with them to build your own unique vision. You can go farther together.
Start with great content when creating a conference. Make sure the speakers are great. Have a good delivery mechanism. Allow time for natural interactions. Optimize for authenticity. People are more forgiving of live-events, the flaws make it interesting and authentic.
Community building is an art not a science. Lean in to your own personal style.
Takeaways for virtual conference organizers:
- Get big name and interesting speakers to draw people in
- Create a sense of community to keep people coming back
- Address sponsorship concerns to get a higher price-point, why do they want a physical booth? How can you deliver that same value?
- Point out the money they save on hotel and flight
- Guarantee a similar number of one on one interactions with conference-goers
Connect with Preet and the DesignX community:
https://twitter.com/DesignSingh
https://designx.community/
Connect with Indie Worldwide:
https://twitter.com/indie_worldwide
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indie.worldwide/
Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio
Q&A w/ Preet Singh from the Design X Community
00:00 Intro
03:30 Going Virtual
06:50 Why do people pay for conferences
09:40 User psychology of conference-goers
12:02 Which is more profitable: virtual or in-person?
15:30 What makes a community worth joining?
18:11 How to bootstrap a community from scratch
21:30 Grow faster with collaborations
29:35 There's no rules, do what makes sense for your group
34:22 How to host a great conference
40:25 Closing remarks
Nak on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/Nakkeeran/history
Anthony https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio
Founders' Club https://indieworldwide.co/founders-club
Indie Worldwide
https://indieworldwide.co/
https://twitter.com/indie_worldwide
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indie.worldwide/
Founders' Club: https://indieworldwide.co/founders-club
Mubs: https://twitter.com/mubashariqbal https://mubs.me/ https://iworkedon.com/@mubashariqbal
FounderPath: https://founderpath.com/
Indie Worldwide: https://indieworldwide.co/ https://twitter.com/indie_worldwide https://www.facebook.com/groups/indie.worldwide/
Anthony: https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio
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