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Founders' retreat
Build Your SaaS
01/18/22 • 19 min
Jon and Justin recorded this episode sitting on the same couch!
- Photo of the Coeur de Boeuf
- The last time we were together in person: April 30, 2019 [Photo]
- 2022 roadmap planning. We're exploring what we'd like to accomplish this year.
- Update and improve the podcast website builder
- Build new podcast website templates based on Liquid
- Add tools that help podcasters promote their show
- Continue to improve our Dynamic Audio Insertion features
- Create new features that help podcasters monetize their show
- Sales/marketing planning:
- Reaching out to major affiliates to see how we can better partner with them
- Looking at ways of rewarding our customers for referring through Rewardful
- Freemium?
- Employees/company stuff
- Options: Carta
- Benefits
- Possible hiring
- Future:
- Long-term, we’re looking at an acquisition: what do we need to do to build up to that?
What should we talk about next?
- Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda
- Leave a review/comment on Podchaser; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.
- Email us: [email protected]
Thanks to our monthly supporters:
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Alex Payne
- Bill Condo
- Anton Zorin from ProdCamp.com
- Mitch
- Harris Kenny, Intro CRM podcast
- Oleg Kulyk
- Ethan Gunderson
- Chris Willow
- Ward Sandler, Memberspace
- Russell Brown, Photivo.com
- Noah Prail
- Colin Gray
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, Fathom
- Dan Buda
- Darby Frey
- Brad from Canada
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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The gang goes to Montréal
Build Your SaaS
10/18/22 • 45 min
The whole Transistor team got together for a retreat in Montréal. Jon, Justin, Helen, and Jason chat about the experience.
What should we talk about next?
- Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda, @jsonpearl, and @helenryles
- Leave a review/comment on Podchaser; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.
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Thanks to our monthly supporters:
- Jason Charnes
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Alex Payne
- Bill Condo
- Anton Zorin from ProdCamp.com
- Harris Kenny, Intro CRM podcast
- Oleg Kulyk
- Ethan Gunderson
- Ward Sandler, Memberspace
- Russell Brown, Photivo.com
- Noah Prail
- Colin Gray
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, Fathom
- Dan Buda
- Darby Frey
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Check out Simon and Volkan’s new bootstrappers podcast: https://shipsaasfaster.com/
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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How Tim worked on side-projects for 10+ years, and finally went full-time (with kids)
Build Your SaaS
06/20/23 • 55 min
Tim reached out after the Aaron Francis episode: "I wanted to pitch you on the idea of coming on the podcast and sharing my journey of building side projects for the last decade while raising a family. I can also share the guardrails I put in place before finally going full-time on T.LY."
Highlights:
- (00:12) - Welcome
- (01:18) - Who is Tim Leland?
- (03:25) - What guardrails did you put in place?
- (06:29) - What's the sales funnel?
- (08:18) - Family as a motivator
- (16:26) - How would you describe your effort during this process?
- (20:11) - What about family boundaries?
- (23:30) - How do you manage your thoughts?
- (31:20) - How have you been able to manage the effort level?
- (34:49) - The pressure of cutting the cord from your job
- (38:21) - What's it been like being full time on t.ly?
- (40:04) - What's your SEO magic touch?
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Thanks to our monthly supporters
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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Landsman on software
Build Your SaaS
11/17/20 • 47 min
Justin is joined by everybody's favorite Twitter Uncle: Ian Landsman (founder of HelpSpot).
- Ian's encounter with his internet hero Joel Spolsky
- Do you get worried that this all going to go away?
- How scared should we be of the competition?
- How do you hedge your bets?
- We prognosticate about what our bootstrapper friends' blind spots are. 🤣
- We both ask for investors live, on air.
- How founders should manage their personal finances.
- How our past experience can make us blind to opportunities.
- How can devs connect with marketers?
- Which startups would we invest in.
What should we talk about next?
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- Take It EV podcast
- Ethan Gunderson
- Helmut Irle
- Colt Borg
- Marc Beinder
- Anton Zorin
- Bill Condo
- Sofia Quintero
- Chris Willow
- Mason Hensley
- Borja Soler teami.io
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Travis Fischer
- Matt Buckley, from NiceThings.io
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Noah Prail, eventOneHQ.com
- Robert Simplicio, Simplicio.com
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith, hellosift.com
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith, dev.transistor.fm
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver, letterjoy.co
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, usefathom.com
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto, thebicrowd.com
- Brad from Canada
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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Build Your SaaS
10/22/19 • 44 min
We shipped our new feature!
- American Express called Justin twice at 5am
- The new enhanced podcasts feed is live.
- Pete Marcano: “I’ll be honest, when I listened to the Build Your SaaS episode on this feature being launched, I didn’t really think much of it. Listening to this episode connected the dots. This is awesomely game changing.”
- Now we’re technically in a “cool down” cycle” - is this how this should feel?
- When should you push back on customers' feature requests?
- We're looking into SSO - what a rabbit hole!
- What happened to Spots.fm?
- How could we help indie podcasts?
★ Thanks to our sponsors:
- ActiveCampaign. Get the world's most advanced marketing & sales automation platform. Use the code activecampaign.com/buildyoursaas and get two months free + 2 free One-on-Ones!
- Honeybadger. A web developer's secret weapon! Modern error management that gives you more than an email and a backtrace. They also have an amazing podcast: FounderQuest.
Show notes:
- What is Single Sign-On?
- Basecamp "Shape Up"
- Zapier
- The Spots.fm episode
- Art of Product: Becoming a Multi-Product Company (with Amir Salihefendić)
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- Matt Buckley, from Nice Things
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Pradyumna Shembekar (PD)
- Noah Prail
- David Colgan
- Robert Simplicio
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith
- Ivan Curkovic
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett
- Corey Haines
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto
- Dave Young
- Brad from Canada
- Sammy Schuckert
- Dan Ericson
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- ProfitWell
- ActiveCampaign
- Honeybadger
- GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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Build Your SaaS
05/14/19 • 44 min
Jon and Justin are wrestling with thoughts about growth:
- "Our current rate of growth is nice: it feels sustainable." – Justin
- "It feels less sustainable for me, because I'm working a full-time job." – Jon
- We’re able to keep up with demand, and enjoy the process.
- There are all these stories about folks whose companies are growing like crazy. They’re just always adding more people, more process, more stress. Do we want that?
- Peldi tells this story about starting Balsamiq. He said his launch was like “holding on to a rocket ship with his fingernails.”
- Some folks would say we should be capturing more of the market. There’s this idea that you can’t be satisfied with what you have. That you have to juice every bit of growth you can.
- But then you’re building all of these dependencies that you have to keep up even when the market goes down.
★ Thanks to our sponsors:
- Balsamiq: If you’d like to help in make Balsamiq Wireframes better, and help them shape the future of wireframing, join their Customer Advisory Board at balsamiq.com/support/makeusbetter
- Clubhouse.io: Clubhouse is the first project management platform for software development that brings everyone together. It's designed for developers, but product folks, marketing, support folks love using it. Get two months free: clubhouse.io/build.
Show notes:
- Greg Wade, the baker that Jon apprenticed with, just won a James Beard award.
- Peldi's interview on Indie Hackers.
- Paul Jarvis on growth and sustainability.
- Bootstrapped Web podcast: Jordan loves building his team.
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- Miguel Piedrafita
- Shane Smith
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett - SnapShooter
- Corey Haines
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis
- Dan Buda
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto
- Dave Young
- Brad from Canada
- Kevin Markham
- Sammy Schuckert
- Dan Ericson
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Balsamiq.cloud
- Clubhouse.io
- GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: transistor.fm/justin
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Build Your SaaS
11/05/19 • 42 min
What's new with the Transistor team?
- Justin has a Halloween candy hangover.
- Desktops vs laptops for dev work.
- Transitioning from your personal equipment and software to stuff the business pays for.
- Where are we in our Shape-Up cycles?
- Our new marketing website is suffering because it's "un-shaped work."
- The benefits of working with a partner.
- "I'm realizing how single-threaded human beings are."
- What does Jon think of Tailwind CSS?
- At what stage of a customer's business lifecycle should you get them as a customer?
- How many customers did we get because Basecamp switched to us?
- "Make software that will be worth using for ten years."
- New features - how should we communicate those to customers?
★ Thanks to our sponsors:
- New: Postmark. Postmark delivers your transactional email to customers on time, every time. You'll love their lightning-fast email delivery and developer-friendly features. Check out their new podcast: postmarkapp.com/podcast
- Clubhouse. Guess who's back? Clubhouse is the first project management platform for software development that brings everyone together. It's designed for developers, but product folks, marketing, support folks love using it. Now it's free for teams up to 10 people. clubhouse.io/build.
Show notes:
- Zoom H4N
- Leaked images from the 16" Macbook Pro
- New Transistor marketing site (unreleased)
- Current Transistor marketing site
- Why you need a co-founder
- Multiple computing threads
- Bootstrapped Web: product brain vs marketing brain
- Tailwind CSS
- Basecamp switched to us (episode)
- Rework podcast: some marketing things they're going to try
- Feature announcement newsletter
- How WebSub for podcasts works
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- New: Eric Lima
- James Sowers with UserInput.io
- Travis Fischer
- Matt Buckley, from Nice Things
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Pradyumna Shembekar (PD)
- Noah Prail
- David Colgan
- Robert Simplicio
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith
- Ivan Curkovic
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto
- Dave Young
- Brad from Canada
- Sammy Schuckert
- Dan Ericson
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- ProfitWell
- Postmark – use coupon code BUILDYOURSAAS to get a free month of sending
- Clubhouse
- GetRewardful.com
Clearing the air
Build Your SaaS
02/18/20 • 40 min
This week, Jon and Justin discuss:
- Justin's office is under construction 🛠️.
- How to talk about things that are hard.
- A review exercise from the book: The Great CEO Within (as recommended by Ben on Art of Product).
- It gives each founder the ability to say: "This bugs me."
- We've hired Helen (NamesAce) as a part-time contractor.
- Switching out our UI framework: Jon is rebuilding the Transistor app with Tailwind.
- How do you move to V2 of your app? Should you rebuild?
- Joel on Software: Things you should never do
- Interview with Mike from Freshbooks on Founders Talk.
- "It's possible that you build something new that's worse."
- Justin built a public changelog: transistor.fm/changelog
- A contest announcement at 23:20
- Jon needs a hat education: this is a 5-panel cap.
- Good option for startup swag: Printful.com.
- Print-on-demand fades differently than screenprinting.
- Interview with Ryan Holiday (on Noah Kagan's podcast)
- Funny Panic podcast episode
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- Mason Hensley
- Borja Soler teami.io
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- Eric Lima
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- Travis Fischer
- Matt Buckley, from NiceThings.io
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Pradyumna Shembekar (PD), pradyumna.dev
- Noah Prail, eventOneHQ.com
- Robert Simplicio, Simplicio.com
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith, hellosift.com
- Ivan Curkovic
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith, dev.transistor.fm
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett, snapshooter.io
- Michael Sitver, letterjoy.co
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, usefathom.com
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto, thebicrowd.com
- Dave Young, magnusrush.com/
- Brad from Canada
- Sammy Schuckert
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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Build Your SaaS
01/28/20 • 41 min
Jon is back! This week, we discuss:
- This book, The Timeless Way of Building, that Justin is reading.
- When you work for yourself, there can be sense of not being grounded. What do you do?
- What's better than meditating?
- Why co-founders should have a weekly phone call.
- How the environment we're in influences our actions.
- Jon's been rebuilding our dashboard using Tailwind CSS + Alpine JS.
- Tutorial: Rails and Tailwind
- People complaining about Webpack
- "What's that Rails gem that everyone buys?" "Sidekiq"
- People have gotten so used to free software!
- Justin's advice for Statamic.
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- Mason Hensley
- Borja Soler teami.io
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Eric Lima
- James Sowers (like Flowers) with UserInput.io
- Travis Fischer
- Matt Buckley, from NiceThings.io
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Pradyumna Shembekar (PD), pradyumna.dev
- Noah Prail, eventOneHQ.com
- Robert Simplicio, Simplicio.com
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith, hellosift.com
- Ivan Curkovic
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith, dev.transistor.fm
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett, saasreality.com
- Michael Sitver, letterjoy.co
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, usefathom.com
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto, thebicrowd.com
- Dave Young, magnusrush.com/
- Brad from Canada
- Sammy Schuckert
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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Build Your SaaS
04/07/20 • 76 min
Today, we are joined by a very special guest: Dave Giunta!
- What does Daft Punk look like without their helmets?
- HomeChef
- How has demand for meal kits and food delivery increased since coronavirus?
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- Diogo
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- Eric Lima
- James Sowers (like Flowers) with UserInput.io
- Travis Fischer
- Matt Buckley, from NiceThings.io
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Pradyumna Shembekar (PD), pradyumna.dev
- Noah Prail, eventOneHQ.com
- Robert Simplicio, Simplicio.com
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith, hellosift.com
- Ivan Curkovic
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith, dev.transistor.fm
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett, snapshooter.io
- Michael Sitver, letterjoy.co
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, usefathom.com
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto, thebicrowd.com
- Brad from Canada
- Sammy Schuckert
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
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Build Your SaaS currently has 160 episodes available.
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