Amar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur, having started ZenMaid back in 2013. Amar’s story shows the power of sticking with something through the hard times, and having an unsexy niche (aka not selling to other indie hackers) can lead to a phenomenal indie business.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
02:53 Scaling in the first 2 years
04:38 Growing an indie business in a price sensitive niche
06:54 Travelling while indie hacking
08:12 Losing 40% of revenue in 6 months
13:23 Hustle Porn - Should indie hackers work harder?
15:38 Recommendations

Reccos

Book: The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen
Podcast: exitfive by Dave Gerhardt
Indie Hacker: Jesse Hanley

My links

Twitter
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Join the membership
Personal Website
2 Hour Podcast Course
PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
This Indie Life Podcast

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Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid

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Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid