User tracking, Basecamp, $30k
Hot topics
How do you even sleep at night?
A lot of business owners have a hard time sleeping; what can be done about it?
Bootstrapping loneliness
No safety nets – there's going to be some injuries
Is it a good idea to be a transparent startup?
We've started our 6-week dev cycle.
How much MRR is enough?
Also: will paid podcast feeds be a thing?
Change is in the air
Do you feel it?
The constant feature release cycle
How could we enjoy the journey more?
WHO DELETED MY CODE?!?!
Two peanut butter banana sandwiches at 2am
How we're Shaping Up
Lots of feedback on our last episode with Jason Fried
Jason Fried wants to delete our backlog
Also: it's our 1-year launchiversary!
No sleep 'till Brooklyn (what we learned in New York)
Justin visits Spotify, Chartable, and many others. Jon found an office!
Once you launch, you're immediately behind
We want to improve the app, but we're stuck fixing bugs!
Your backlog is making me thirsty
Jon had a bit of anxiety about a growing backlog of new features and ideas.
What if there's an accident?
Also: tips for working on your own.
Jon's big announcement
Jon makes an overdue announcement about the future of Transistor.
I want to work at Transistor.fm
Bootstrapping, starting a software company, getting traction, finding cofounders?
We took funding (from our customers)
How we're going to use investment to fuel Transistor's growth
"I can't believe you're using that in production"
Also: we were wrong about our target market.
How big of a market should you target?
Transistor's launch has felt different than other products we've been involved with
Four different git branches in various unfinished states
How do you prioritize with limited resources?
You can't put me in a box
Software engineer? Marketing? Product person?
Wrestling with our company's growth
Should we aggressively go after the market?
Burn it all to the ground
Would you take $5 million?
Keeping the dream alive in Portland
We visit Oregon to answer some big questions about our business.
The "charge more" debate
Ben Orenstein, Jordan Gal, Patrick Campbell, and I discuss SaaS pricing
Taylor Otwell: "PHP (and a cheap laptop) changed my life"
How Taylor earns a living from a free, open-source PHP framework called Laravel
The market for your startup matters
I phoned up Spencer Fry, founder of Podia
When should bootstrappers get paid?
When should you take a salary from your startup?
Worst day ever
What happens when your app breaks on a Sunday
Pro athletes are mocking me on the internet
Also: have you signed up for your app with your own credit card?
Do startups need specialists or generalists?
Startup Kung-Fu, enterprise customers, status page, podcasting docs
Full-on sweatpants mode
Jon ran into a famous podcasting man
Did we solve our bandwidth cost crisis?
And, our accountant might be a socialist ;)
Counting beans and getting hit by a bus
Justin is worried about bandwidth costs and Jon is worried about getting hit by a bus.
Is this the best time to start a podcasting startup?
The CEO of Chartable calls up Justin to talk about bootstrapping and podcasting
Getting real: sharing our founder struggles
It's a struggle when you're bootstrapping, but you're not yet full-time. Also: Spotify buying Gimlet for $200 million?
How to grow your audience
Want more paying subscribers? More Twitter followers? More podcast listeners?
Should startups worry about their competition?
Are your SaaS competitors keeping you up at night?
Marketing tactics for your SaaS: how to get the word out
Looking for ideas on how to promote your software product?
Our predictions for 2019
Why we're not drinking booze this year, and some new year's predictions for tech, podcasting, and startups