Tim Leland is the founder of T.LY, a link shortener with almost half a million users that he recently quit his job to pursue full time. Tim started out building chrome extensions, including a weather extension that grew to 200k users at it’s peak. He then capitalised on Google closing down their link URL shortener and tried to build his own competitor, which is where T.LY was born. Tim has gone for the high volume, low price option for his product, which often isn’t recommended as a good route for Indie Hackers, but Tim has made it work.

00:00 Intro
05:15 Building a portfolio of extensions
07:45 Starting T.LY
10:06 Being the low price option
11:49 Getting users for T.LY
12:51 Quitting his job
15:13 Reccos

Recommendations

Book - Atomic Habits
Podcast - My First Million
Indie Hacker - Rob Walling

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