Founders' retreat

01/18/22 • 19 min

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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?

Thanks to our monthly supporters:

Thanks to our monthly supporters

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

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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?

Thanks to our monthly supporters:

Thanks to our monthly supporters

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

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jon and Justin reflect on 2021 and get excited about 2022:

What happened in 2021?

What should we talk about next?

Thanks to our monthly supporters:

Thanks to our monthly supporters

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

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We got the whole band together: Helen and Jason join Jon and Justin to talk about what it's really like to work at Transistor

Helen, Jason, Jon, Justin, all squeezed into the podcasting closet to make an episode

0:55 Jason's first podcast ever
1:12 Helen's been on other podcasts: Startups for the Rest of Us, Indie Bites, Indie Worldwide
3:06 Should we invest in the "auto publish to YouTube" feature?
- Tom Webster: why would people listen to podcasts on YouTube?
13:32 The best features the ones that feel like "magic" when a customer uses them
18:46 The "wait and see" product development philosophy
20:15 A new podcast website builder CMS and website designs
23:34 Writing a new templating language in Liquid (Shopify)
26:23 Our new CLI tool: receiver (built with Go)
31:30 Making a few new podcast website themes
31:57 Adding language localization for podcast websites (English, French, Spanish)
34:30 How we run our weekly team meetings
35:44 New podcast website themes are out! (YouTube demo)
40:39 For next week: what questions do you have for @jsonpearl and @helenryles?
42:16 Patreon shout outs