Typeshare's $34k MRR bootstrapped journey - Sam Shore

About this episode

Sam Shore discusses his journey in building Typeshare, a successful writing platform, and shares insights on entrepreneurship and startup strategies.

Sam Shore is the co-founder of Typeshare , a writing platform made to create and publish text across the internet. Typeshare has made over $1m in revenue since it was started in 2021, with over 80,000 user, currently $34k MRR I’m speaking to Sam to find out how he started Typeshare as the first of 12 startups he was planning to build, and what made this stick. 00:00 Intro 01:10 Sam's entrepreneurial background 02:03 Failed past projects 03:31 12 startups in 12 months 04:16 The idea for Typeshare 05:38 Getting traction with Typeshare 06:50 Getting to $15k MRR in 1 year with infuential partnerships 09:52 How is Sam making sure he has fun with the business 12:18 How to get better at writing online 14:09 Recommendations Recommendations Book - Poor Charlie’s Almanack Podcast - Rework Indie Hacker - Dmytro Krasun My links Twitter 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 Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 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…

People in this episode

Host: James McKinven

Guest: Sam Shore

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• bootstrapping
• writing platforms
• startup journey
• revenue growth
• marketing strategies

Keywords

• Typeshare
• bootstrapped journey
• MRR
• entrepreneurial background
• startup
• revenue
• writing online
• EmailOctopus

Sponsors

EmailOctopus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Typeshare

Books & works: Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Rework

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