Throwback: Writing Code to Sell $200,000/Month of Cookies with Sam Eaton of Crave Cookie

I just got back home to Seattle from a special conference for founders I went to in beautiful Bologna, Italy. I went with my brother, Channing, and there were a ton of indie actors there. I think there's only 30 people at the conference, but at least six people were previous guests on the podcast. And we spent just two days breaking out into groups, talking about business challenges, writing books, work life balance, managing employees, and all that good stuff, and also getting drunk and singing karaoke, eating, delicious lasagna and pasta and all sorts of Italian food. It was great until the end, when there was a slight outbreak of COVID. And me and another five or 10 founders got COVID and ended up getting stranded in Italy for way too long. And so I'm finally back, but in the meantime, I've been publishing throwback episodes, and today's episode is no exception. Today's Today's episode is one of my favorites. It's with Sam Eaton, the founder of Crave Cookie. And I guess in honor of me getting COVID, I picked an episode that I recorded way back at the beginning of the pandemic. Enjoy. What's up, everybody? This is Cortland from indiehackers.com, and you're listening to the Indie Hackers podcast. On this show, I talk to the founders of profitable Internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes. How did they get to where they are today? How do they make decisions, both their companies and in their personal lives? And what exactly makes their businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own profitable Internet businesses. If you've been enjoying the show and you want an easy way to support it, you should leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Probably the easiest way to do that if you're on a Mac is just go to ndhackers.com/review, and that will open up Apple Podcasts for you. Today, I'm talking to Sam Eaton, one of the founders of a cookie company called Crave Cookie. I noticed Sam posting just a ton of milestones in indie hackers about how much money his cookie business is making, and it stood out to me because not very many indie hackers are doing food delivery businesses. Not very many indie hackers are baking cookies. So I wanted to talk to Sam to find out, you know, how COVID nineteen is affecting his food business, how a software engineer got involved in in baking cookies and selling cookies in the first place, and, you know, what lessons we can learn from this type of business that has a foot in the real world and isn't purely tech. Enjoy the episode. Yeah. Well, I think the fact that you're doing a cookie business is going to set you apart from pretty much everybody else who comes …