Best indie hacking podcasts

Podcasts in this scene are interviews and operator arguments, not a newsroom. The ones worth a subscription have years of episodes you can still open, about people charging for products without a venture round as the plot. That is the pick rule. A show that interviews a new AI wrapper every week, with no archive worth citing later, does not make the list. Nobody paid for a mention. No affiliate codes.

Indie Hackers Podcast

The Indie Hackers Podcast, hosted by Courtland Allen. Episodes are conversations with people running profitable internet products: how they charged, how they found customers, what failed. It is the spoken version of the site that named the scene. Early episodes are as useful as new ones, because the tactics that aged badly are visible in hindsight. Listen for the customer’s path. Skip the impulse to copy the guest’s niche.

Startups for the Rest of Us

Startups for the Rest of Us, Rob Walling and, for a long stretch, Mike Taber. The show’s own line is bootstrapped SaaS, from before launch through companies that are much larger than a typical side project. It was still putting out weekly episodes in August 2026. Walling’s world includes MicroConf and a preference for customer funding over a pitch deck. That is adjacent to indie hacking and sometimes more ambitious about scale. The overlap is the interesting part: recurring revenue, small teams, no assumption that a fund is the next step.

Episode 659, with Courtland and Channing Allen, is the crossover on Indie Hackers going independent again. Use episodes as primary conversation. A guest’s revenue claim on a podcast is still a claim.

The Bootstrapped Founder

Arvid Kahl turns the same questions over in audio that he turns over in essays: audience, a sold company, what “indie” means after the hack is no longer scarce. The 2023 interview with Pieter Levels is the one this site cites when it separates a dead playbook from a dead scene. If you read his newsletter, the podcast will repeat some arguments. That repetition is the archive working, not a reason to skip it.

Mixergy, when you need the interview

Mixergy is Andrew Warner’s interview show. It is older and wider than indie hacking. It earns a place here because founders in this record sometimes say the precise thing there. Nevo David’s March 2026 Mixergy conversation is one of the Postiz checkpoints, around a founder-reported $45k MRR, between the early grind and the later Stripe-connected print. Use Mixergy as a place a number was said out loud. Do not use it as a filter for what counts as indie. Many guests are ordinary venture stories.

What this list skips

Lenny’s Podcast is a strong product and growth show. The guest list is mostly larger tech companies. It is a poor default if the question is a one-person price and a first customer. Listen if that is the craft you need. It is not an indie hacking podcast.

Shows that exist to sell a cohort, and that do not publish a durable archive, fail the pick rule even if the host is a founder. Courses are a separate shelf. A podcast that is a trailer for a course should be judged as a course.

Revenue brag compilations are the audio version of a screenshot account. They are bad data and thin craft. Prefer a host who asks what the customer did.

The written siblings of these shows are on newsletters. The faces are on who to follow. If you would rather read a room than a host, start with communities.

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