Why Built This Week Is the Indie Hacker Podcast You’ve Been Looking For

If you’ve ever launched a side project, wrestled with Stripe’s API at midnight, or tweeted a product update hoping someone cares—welcome, you’re one of us.

The indie hacker movement is more alive than ever. Every week, thousands of makers ship products, test ideas, and try to carve out small wins on the path to financial freedom and creative control. These aren’t VC-funded unicorns—they’re solo developers, designers, and builders doing it the scrappy way.

But here’s the thing: most podcasts in the startup world focus on big success stories—acquisitions, fundraises, and billion-dollar exits. And while those are exciting, they’re not always relatable for someone trying to ship a landing page this weekend.

That’s where Built This Week comes in.

A Podcast for Makers Who Actually Build

Built This Week is a short, sharp, and honest podcast for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and curious builders. Every episode shares what we—and other makers—have actually built in the past 7 days. No hypotheticals. No fluff. Just real progress.

Each episode is structured in three parts:

• What We Built This Week
  We talk about the apps, experiments, and features that actually got shipped. Whether it’s a new micro-SaaS, an AI-powered side project, or a one-page MVP, we break it down: what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned.
• Tool of the Week
  Every builder loves a good tool. Each episode spotlights a product, API, framework, or no-code platform that’s useful, underrated, or just plain cool. We don’t just name-drop—we explain how it fits into a real workflow.
• News That Matters
  AI breakthroughs. Stripe updates. Indie success stories. We curate the most relevant tech and startup news, stripped of hype, and explain why it actually matters to indie hackers.

Built for Builders, Not Just Listeners

Our goal isn’t to impress you. It’s to inspire you to open your code editor or Notion doc and start building. Whether you’re a part-time indie hacker, a full-time solopreneur, or just someone curious about product creation, Built This Week gives you the motivation and momentum to keep going.

We’re not looking back on a success that happened five years ago—we’re showing you what’s being built right now.

🎧 Ready to listen?
Subscribe to Built This Week on your favorite podcast platform—Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever you tune in. New episodes drop every week.

Because building is better when you’re not doing it alone.

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