About
Courtland Allen founded Indie Hackers, an online community for self-funded founders, which was acquired by Stripe in 2017 and later spun back out as an independent company in 2023. He is now building Siasto.
Founder at SiastoYC W11
Intro paths
YC
Courtland went through Y Combinator (Winter 2011) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Courtland can intro founders to Siasto's investors below.
Siasto's investors Β· 1
Experience
- Indie HackersCEOcurrent2023 β presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- StripeIndie Hacker2017 β 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- Indie HackersFounder2016 β 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- Handle, IncSoftware Engineer2014 β 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- Cinch FinancialSoftware Engineer2013
- TaskforceCo-Founder2010 β 2013San Francisco Bay Area
- Syphir LLCCo-Founder2009 β 2010Greater Boston Area
- PeopleBrowsr Inc.Software Engineer2008 β 2009
- BigTentSoftware Engineer Intern2008San Francisco Bay Area
- MIT Media LabUndergraduate Researcher2007 β 2008
Skills & more
Ruby on Rails17MySQL13CSS8jQuery8PostgreSQL6Git6Linux5XML4JavaScript8Amazon Web Services (AWS)3Ruby6Python9
+12 more
DjangoNode.jsMongoDBBackbone.jsSASSPHPEmber.jsFront-endUser Experience DesignSoftware EngineeringEarly-stage StartupsiOS developmentFrom Courtland's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Courtland Allen?
- Courtland Allen founded Indie Hackers, an online community for self-funded founders, which was acquired by Stripe in 2017 and later spun back out as an independent company in 2023. He is now building Siasto.
- Where does Courtland Allen work?
- Courtland Allen is Founder of Siasto.
- What companies did Courtland Allen found?
- Courtland Allen founded Siasto.
- Where did Courtland Allen go to school?
- Courtland Allen studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB, Computer Science).
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Y Combinator mafia8,773
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mafia546
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Stripe mafia91
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Same school
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Shared employers
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Also worked at Stripe186
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