95: Strength of the Absurd w/ Kyle 'Kamal' Scott of Sari Bari

05/18/15 • 64 min

The Artsy Now Show: Creative Entrepreneur Maniacs!

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—> Download the FREE mp3 of “Blind” from Kyle’s album “Strength of the Absurd” here! Download the FREE mp3 of “Blind” from Kyle’s album “Strength of the Absurd” here!

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94: The Viral Launch of Startup Stash w/ Bram Kanstein

Get the step by step sequence Bram used to get 35k website visitors upon launch in just 48 hours!

Overnight success takes ten years in the making, but it sure as hell peaks its head out a little early on some occasions.

Bram Kanstein is in the aftermath of one of the most successful Product Hunt launches of all time, and he's here to tell you exactly how he did it.

Bram is the founder of StartupStash.com, a website of goodies for startups and entrepreneurs that hit 290 up votes on ProductHunt.com and 2.6k unique visitors within the first four hours. At one point, Business Insider wrote a story about Startup Stash and it triggered over 300 views/minute.

All of this didn't just happen by chance. Bram used his mastermind to devise a plan for his launch with a relentless pursuit of any success. Hold onto your boxers and panties because he's dropping value bombs left and right in this episode. (free-ballers.. we've got love for you too :) )

Cheers, Bram.

To defeat Godzilla with his talents...

"Do something with his short hands. Take him down with his handicap."

Advice...

Some people spend too much time looking for something when that something is right below their noses.
Anyone looking to build an app should really understand how to do it because it is simply expanding one’s own solution.
The best way to get feedback is by leveraging your own possibilities.
Don’t be afraid to ask; you never know what that person may know or who he knows
You don’t want to build an app that resembles a big app and you know you will never be bigger than that app.
Be involved so you know the people and you have a base.
Most ideas start when you are not behind your computer.
Bram’s personal favorite tools: MailChimp.com, Twitter.com, Slack.com, Trello.com and Marvelapp.com

Interview Links

Highlights

9:40: What Startup Stashis: an for app builders to use when starting an app and initially conceived as an app that anyone can basically click with 10 suggestions on what to use,
12:01: How Startup Stash came about including that it was a result of an idea for a directory that would make information more manageable, very much like a list of tools and resources,
14:15: How Startup Stash started by outlining 50 categories for its tools and filling out 40 categories with 10 products per category,
15:50: WhatBetaList.com was used for including sending out feelers through the use of excel sheets and though time consuming, why it was worthwhile because data can be imported to the website and it got them 700 subscribers,
17:02: The way Startup Stash was made, which was mainly through focusing on its content and then creating a landing page for it, when it was launched and how it immediately went viral,
22:40: The unexpected reaction of companies and sites which brought about a surprise bonus of adding companies and sites to the tool list in Startup Stash (The companies thought it was great being featured in Startup Stash and Tweeted the app to their members and their members tweeted it to their friends),
24:33: The amazing numbers Startup Stash garnered after 4 hours of launching: 290 uploads, 26,000 unique visitors and 60,000 page visitors,
26:00: The press Bram was able to garner including Business Insider and ProductHunt.com,
32:08: The best ways to get feedback, why timing is a big part of launching a product and mistakes people make when starting to make an app, and
39:28: Why Twitter is the best starting point for anyone looking to build a course.

Next Episode

96: Auphonic, Audio Domination, and Arnold Schwarzenegger w/ Georg Holzmann

www.artsynow.com/georgholzmann

If you are interested in podcasting..today is your lucky day!

I’ve been anticipating this conversation for a while, and I’m proud to have finally connected with Georg Holzmann, the founder and creator of Auphonic.com.

Georg has accomplishments that blow most dreams out of the water. He is from Graz, Austria and is the mastermind behind the development of the super sweet podcast and audio tool called Auphonic. Georg develops next generation audio algorithms using a combination of music information retrieval, machine learning, signal processing and big data to create automatic audio post production software for broadcasters, podcasts, radio shows, movies, audio books, lecture recordings, screencasts and more.

To defeat Godzilla with his talents...

“I would play a very loud tone to smash his brain.”

Advice...

If it’s done, it is not too difficult anymore.

Interview Links

Highlights

7:09: About Georg, the creator of Auphonic, the very system that I use for my podcasts and how he been fascinated with sounds and sound processing even as a child. How his love of music, the advent of new technology and easy access to information via the Internet have taken Georg and to new heights of creativity to improve sound production,
11:48: How being an enthusiastic podcast listener has enabled Georg to recognize the challenges faced by podcast users and how it dawned on him that he could do something about this in a really significant way, hence, the conceiving of Auphonic,
14:28: What Auphonic is: the actualization of Georg’s desire to enhance the quality of the delivery of sound to the listener, to save time on uploads and generally making it easier for the user to work on his show – just as I discovered to my delight,
19:00: The increase in volume of users which dismayed Georg the first time because he suddenly realized the amount of service required until he got the scales right and reacted accordingly;and how Georg ran into trouble when radio stations start to use a big amount of files, and just keeping abreast of the service would require endless working hours, and
27:20: Georg’s future plans, which sounded like a Herculean list of tasks, including more enhancements for Auphonic such as adding more languages and more new algorithms, a desk version of the system and about a hundred other innovations with me doing my best to convince Georg to turn his brilliant mind to an app like “podclear” and add or combine it with Auphonic to save me a lot of time when doing my podcasts.