Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker

When the 29-year-old Samuel Rizzon is asked what he does, he answers with a single word: “developer.” While accurate, it’s a modest label for someone whose work has stretched well beyond writing code.

At an age when many engineers are still settling into a single specialty, Rizzon has built products embraced by large enterprises, online classrooms, and the open-source community, three arenas that rarely reward the same instincts. His is a story of versatility, of an engineer who has never been willing to be only one thing.

From a bedroom app to a billion documents

Interested in technology and building software from a young age, Rizzon developed and shipped his first product at 19: a Bible quiz he published to the Play Store and the App Store in 2015. It picked up 22,000 downloads, and that response was enough to convince him that making things people actually used was worth...

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