Indie Entrepreneur

Indie Entrepreneurship is the art of building a company without any external investment. Yes! That is possible!

My name is Tiago Ferreira and I'm an Indie Entrepreneur.
I have been collecting my lessons and experiences in my podcast and blog.

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How to send cold emails in 2025

A highly practical step-by-step guide that will enable anyone to create their own email server in less than 10 minutes. Learn how you can create your own server and warm it up so that it can send more than one thousand cold emails per day.

Best Communities for Entrepreneurs

Discover top entrepreneurial communities where you can connect, learn, and grow alongside fellow founders and startup enthusiasts.

Best Business Podcasts to Listen to

Discover top business podcasts packed with insights, advice, and real-world stories to inspire entrepreneurs and startup founders.

How to build backlinks for free

Discover the best platforms to get free dofollow backlinks and boost your SEO without a budget. Perfect for startups and small businesses aiming to improve search rankings affordably.

How to Become an Entrepreneur Podcast

This is a brief description of what I speak on my wannabe entrepreneur podcast

5 Lessons I Learned from Indie Hacking

As someone who has been doing indie hacking for over a year and a half, I've learned a lot about what it takes to succeed in this industry.

My GPT-3 Powered Slack Community

Exploring the potential of GPT-3 API to make their slack channel smarter, resulting in detailed summaries of channel content, automated responses to customer queries, and generated content like blog posts and tweets, leading to more efficient workflows and excitement to continue exploring the possibilities of GPT-3 to benefit the community.

A Movie Script Created by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion

A Movie Script Created by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion. As a human myself I contributed with a few ideas of my own to make this a perfect collbaoration between me and these powerful AIs.

My First Indie Hacker Talk

Here is what I have learned from doing my first Indie Hacker talk on a conference about the future of work. In this post you will learn how I got invited, how the talk went and how I promoted my products within it.

Indie Hacking is NOT a Ponzi Scheme!

Are all Indie Hackers being part of a huge Ponzi Scheme? Some think that this might be true and that most makers build products targeting each other.

Interviews with Successful Indie Makers

Listen to the journeys of these successful Indie Makers that were able to grow their business to make more than $5K MRR

How to get traffic from Indie Hackers Website

Learn how you can get a lot of relevant users visiting your product's landing page by engaging on the indie hackers website.

Top Free Indie Maker Communities

Discover the top free communities that all indie makers are using to meet other like-minded people and to promote their products.

Why Are All Indie Devs Making The Same Mistake?

All starting indie devs make the mistake of building to many features in hopes of getting more paying users. Learn how you can avoid that mistake and follow a much simpler method to succeed.

A 10 Weeks Accelerator for Indie Makers

The WBE Accelerator is a ten week accelerator program for Indie Makers developed inside the WBE Space. Learn more about the accelerator and what the participants were able to achieve in that period of time.

How to Launch on ProductHunt and Succeed

I went from a launch with only 16 upvotes to one with more than 300 in only 3 months. In this post I will share with you 3 tips that immensely improved my ProductHunt launch

How Tony Dinh Became Famous on Twitter

And in dept analysis on how Tony Dinh was able to grow his twitter audience and build black magic to a product that is making him 7K MRR

How to Get an Entrepreneur's Attention

Listen to the journeys of these amazing and talented female entrepreneurs in the Wannabe Entrepreneur podcast

Female Indie Hackers Interviews

Listen to the journeys of these amazing and talented female entrepreneurs in the Wannabe Entrepreneur podcast

How to Automate Your Business

To scale a business as solopreneur you need to start thinking automation first. Here are 4 examples of products I have built and automated so that they can run autonomously

Four Ways To Build Your Side Business

For the past few months, I have been sending automatic welcome messages to all my new Twitter followers and I am not planning to stop any time soon! Here is why and how I am automating my Twitter welcome direct messages.

Why and how I automate my twitter DMs

10 Songs that Only Entrepreneurs will Understand

Here are 10 mainstream pop songs that only entrepreneurs will fully understand because they perfectly describe what is like to be an entrepreneur.

Three Lessons From my Interview with Pieter Levels

A summary about the top 3 lessons given by Pieter Levels in the Wannabe Entrepreneur podcast interview. Read about some reasons behind his entrepreneurial success and life philosophy

Will your product ever become profitable?

Why is it important to determine the breakeven point of your business early on and what tool can one use to help with that

Entrepreneur Virtual Coworking Space Setup

A virtual coworking space for entrepreneurs is a place where indie makers from all over the world can work together on their projects while supporting each other and feeling like part of a team.

How to bootstrap a business for beginners

Here is a step by step written by the entrepreneur community from the wbe space explaining how a small wannabe entrepreneur can start their own business.

3 SEO tips from my podcast interview with SEO expert

A summary about the top 3 SEO tips given by Roberto Robles in the Wannabe Entrepreneur podcast interview

3 Lessons from Cassidoo interview

A summary about the top 3 lessons given by Cassidy Williams in the Wannabe Entrepreneur podcast interview

9 Bootstrapping lessons from my interview with Arvid Kahl

A summary about the top 9 lessons given by Arvid Kahl in the Wannabe Entrepreneur podcast interview

What is an entrepreneur virtual coworking space?

I will share with you the reason why I decided to buil our virtual co-working space for bootstrappers

Free marketing techniques for indie makers

A summary about the interview I had with Alessandra who is a branding and marketing expert for startups

Entrepreneur’s Anxiety

Behind all this glitz and glamor of entrepreneurship is a long list of struggles and challenges. This adventure-driven roller coaster ride does not come to you on a plate.

How can a Millennial Find Purpose at Work?

Finding or discovering the purpose of your work is crucial for an happy life

How can I get 100 followers on Twitter?

Tips and tricks that will land you the first 100 followers on Twitter and help you get started with your own audience.

How to avoid getting stuck when boostrapping a business?

Bootstrapping a business is challenging but rewarding. Becoming an entrepreneur can be intimidating and exhilarating, but it’s a life-fulfilling venture.

Top bootstrapping tools that I use in all my projects

Let's go through the top bootstrapping tools that I use in all my projects and will help small entrepreneurs

Consider This Before Quitting Your Job To Become an Entrepreneur

I recently quit my job to focus on my side projects with the hope of starting my own company and becoming my own boss

Three questions that can help you decide when to terminate a side project

There are no hard rules about when to terminate a project but there are some guidelines that can help us decide when it’s time to pull the plug.

Finding the cheapest tool to build a webstore in 2021

Here are the multiple platforms I investigated before building my webstore

3 tips to successfully raise money on Kickstarter

How I was able to raise more than 500 euros to finance my own music album