Jordan Kennedy
Founder, GrowthMap · Indie App Developer · Nashville, TN
I build indie apps and write about growing them. Founder of GrowthMap, Balance Pro, Limelight, and Trivia Party.
Writing on GrowthMap
- How to Get Your First 100 Users Without a Marketing Budget
- Growth Teardown #1: How Carrd Reached $2M ARR Without Spending a Dollar on Marketing
- Growth Teardown #2: How Fathom Analytics Built a $1M+ Business by Timing GDPR
- Growth Teardown #3: How Typefully Grew by Distributing on the Platform It Was Built For
- The Indie Developer's Guide to App Store Optimization in 2026
- The $0 Marketing Stack I Use to Grow 3 Apps
- Growth Teardown #5: How Pieter Levels Grew Nomad List to Tens of Thousands of Members by Doing Everything in Public
- What a $19 GrowthMap Report Actually Tells You (Full Breakdown)
- 5 Free Ways to Find Where Your Customers Hang Out
- Growth Teardown #4: How Finch Grew a Mental Health App on TikTok Without Spending a Dollar on Ads
- How to Do Competitor Analysis Without the $300/Month Tool Stack
- How to Validate a SaaS Idea Before Writing a Single Line of Code
- The Indie Dev Marketing Calendar: Hour 1, Week 1, Month 1, Year 1
- Why Most Indie Apps Fail at Marketing (And What to Do Instead)
- How to Get Your First 100 Paying Customers as an Indie Developer
- How to Use PostHog for Indie App Growth
- The Indie Hacker's Guide to Hacker News Show HN
- Affiliate Marketing for Indie Apps: A Practical Guide
Other articles by Jordan Kennedy
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How to find where any movie is streaming (without checking every app)
Limelight
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Rotten Tomatoes vs. IMDb vs. Metacritic: Which movie score should you actually trust?
Limelight
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How to Build a Budget That Actually Works (Step-by-Step)
Balance Pro
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Letterboxd vs. Limelight: What's the Difference?
Limelight
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How to Track Your Spending (Without a Spreadsheet)
Balance Pro
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How I Track My Indie App Revenue (And Why Most Developers Don't)
Balance Pro