How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny

Indie Bites

Today I’m joined by Jijo Sunny, who is the co-founder of Buy Me A Coffee, one of the most popular donation and membership platforms on the internet. They’ve processed 10’s of millions for creators and have built a 26 strong team. Since founding Buy Me A Coffee, Jijo has dabbled in all sorts of projects, including a stint in YC with a podcasting app. Now though, Jijo is back building a new product, Voicenotes, a voice driven AI note taking app.

👉 Listen to the full 1 hour conversation with Jijo here: indiebites.com/membership

Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:48 Background
• 02:27 Buy Me a Coffee Origin Story
• 03:37 How did Buy Me A Coffee grow
• 05:35 Jijo on multiple products
• 06:35 Making products cheap to run
• 09:21 Starting voicenotes.com
• 14:02 Parting advice
• 15:56 Recommendations

Recommendations

• Book: Friendly Ambitious Nerd
• Podcast: Dithering
• Indie Hacker: Danny Postma

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

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