Jack McDade is the creator of Statamic, a content management system for Laravel. He’s been running it since 2012 and making a few million a year with a team of 6. But what I love about Jack is how he approaches all of his projects, including Statamic, to just be different. There is so much cookie cutter content out there and everything just ends up looking the same - but not if Jack has anything to do with it. Just take a look at his personal website, his Radical Design course and Icons and you’ll see what I mean. I love it.

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Timestamps:

- 00:00 Intro

- 01:27 Why Jack started Statamic

- 02:58 Taking 6 years before going full time

- 04:20 What would Jack have done differently?

- 05:14 How to be different

- 07:40 The unfair indie hacker advantage

- 08:26 Radical Design Course

- 12:45 Learning with Jack

- 15:07 Recommendations

Recommendations

- Book: Steal Like an Artist & Extreme Ownership

- Podcast: Friendship Onion & Darknet Diarys

- Indie Hacker: Adam Wathan

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My links

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- Personal Website

- 2 Hour Podcast Course

- PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)

- This Indie Life Podcast

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