First published
Sep 04, 2020
Format
1 - 1 Interviews
Schedule
Weekly
Total Episodes
111
Average duration
00:15:44

Indie Bites

Business Entrepreneurship Marketing

Growing Frontend Mentor to 500k users and $30k MRR - Matt Studdert

<p>Matt Studdert is the founder of <a href="https://www.frontendmentor.io/">Frontend Mentor</a>, which helps people level up their front-end coding skills by building projects. They have over 500,000 users and are hovering around $30k MRR. Matt didn’t start out wanting to run a SaaS, starting out playing poker, then became a personal trainer, before changing his career and learning to code when he was 28.</p><p><strong>Timestamps:</strong></p><ul><li>00:00 Intro</li><li>02:16 Playing Poker full time</li><li>02:58 Becoming a personal trainer</li><li>04:24 Learning to code with General Assembly</li><li>06:33 Front End Mentor</li><li>08:33 Building a scrappy MVP</li><li>11:29 Growth for Front End Mentor</li><li>15:03 Reccos</li></ul><p><strong>Recommendations</strong></p><ul><li>Book - <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjqg9vksb_8AhWEQcAKHX6gCJQQFnoECCkQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FBadass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra%2Fdp%2F1491919019&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Q4yb_nbzASwB0m8gtmz7Q">badass make users awesome</a></li><li>Podcast - <a href="https://www.acquired.fm/">Acquired</a></li><li>Indie Hacker - <a href="https://twitter.com/arvidkahl">Arvid Kahl</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/valentin_wln">Valentin Wallyn</a></li></ul><p><strong>Follow Matt</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/_mattstuddert">Twitter</a></li></ul><p><strong>My links</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jmckinven">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/indiebitespod">Indie Bites Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://youtube.com/@indiebites">Indie Bites YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://indiebites.com/membership">Join the membership</a></li><li><a href="https://jamesmckinven.com/">Personal Website</a></li><li><a href="https://2hourpodcast.com/">2 Hour Podcast Course</a></li><li><a href="https://podpanda.co/">PodPanda</a> (hire me to edit your podcast)</li><li><a href="https://indielife.fm/">This Indie Life Podcast</a></li></ul><p><strong>Sponsor - </strong><a href="https://emailoctopus.com/"><strong>EmailOctopus</strong></a><strong> 🐙</strong></p><p><em>EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can </em><a href="https://emailoctopus.com/"><em>start today</em></a><em>, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.</em></p>
Published Apr 30, 2023