Working towards life-changing outcomes as an indie hacker - Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery
In this episode I’m joined by Colleen Schnettler, which a lot of you would have heard from through her Software Social podcast she co-hosts with Michele Hansen. Colleen has been on quite the journey over the past few years, going from years of contracting to launching her first product, Simple File Upload, then getting a large contracting gig with Hammerstone, landing a separate full-time job to then quit 3 weeks later to rejoin that Hammerstone as a co-founder. Now Colleen is working on a product called HelloQuery, a reporting tool for SQL queries which has been accepted into a recent TinySeed batch.
What we covered:
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:03 Why start the Software Social podcast?
- 02:59 Why start building products
- 04:04 Colleen's first product: Simple File Upload
- 05:07 Why they stopped the podcast
- 06:37 Joining Hammerstone
- 08:50 Being a solo founder
- 10:16 Hello Query
- 11:47 Closing down a successful product
- 13:50 Reccos
Reccomendations
- Book: The Mom Test
- Podcast: Boostrapped Web
- Indie Hacker: Corey Haines
Follow Colleen
My links
- Indie Bites Twitter
- Indie Bites YouTube
- Join the membership
- Personal Website
- 2 Hour Podcast Course
- PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
- This Indie Life Podcast
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