All Episodes

36 mins #71 Aug 13, 19

How we're Shaping Up

Lots of feedback on our last episode with Jason Fried

50 mins #70 Aug 06, 19

Jason Fried wants to delete our backlog

Also: it's our 1-year launchiversary!

50 mins #69 Jul 30, 19

No sleep 'till Brooklyn (what we learned in New York)

Justin visits Spotify, Chartable, and many others. Jon found an office!

44 mins #68 Jul 23, 19

Once you launch, you're immediately behind

We want to improve the app, but we're stuck fixing bugs!

45 mins #67 Jul 16, 19

Your backlog is making me thirsty

Jon had a bit of anxiety about a growing backlog of new features and ideas.

54 mins #66 Jul 09, 19

What if there's an accident?

Also: tips for working on your own.

48 mins #65 Jul 02, 19

Jon's big announcement

Jon makes an overdue announcement about the future of Transistor.

43 mins #64 Jun 25, 19

I want to work at Transistor.fm

Bootstrapping, starting a software company, getting traction, finding cofounders?

47 mins #63 Jun 18, 19

We took funding (from our customers)

How we're going to use investment to fuel Transistor's growth

46 mins #62 Jun 11, 19

"I can't believe you're using that in production"

Also: we were wrong about our target market.

49 mins #61 Jun 04, 19

How big of a market should you target?

Transistor's launch has felt different than other products we've been involved with

46 mins #60 May 28, 19

Four different git branches in various unfinished states

How do you prioritize with limited resources?

36 mins #59 May 21, 19

You can't put me in a box

Software engineer? Marketing? Product person?

44 mins #58 May 14, 19

Wrestling with our company's growth

Should we aggressively go after the market?

49 mins #57 May 07, 19

Burn it all to the ground

Would you take $5 million?

37 mins #56 Apr 30, 19

Keeping the dream alive in Portland

We visit Oregon to answer some big questions about our business.

59 mins #55 Apr 23, 19

The "charge more" debate

Ben Orenstein, Jordan Gal, Patrick Campbell, and I discuss SaaS pricing

58 mins #54 Apr 16, 19

Taylor Otwell: "PHP (and a cheap laptop) changed my life"

How Taylor earns a living from a free, open-source PHP framework called Laravel

47 mins #53 Apr 09, 19

The market for your startup matters

I phoned up Spencer Fry, founder of Podia

45 mins #52 Apr 02, 19

When should bootstrappers get paid?

When should you take a salary from your startup?

51 mins #51 Mar 26, 19

Worst day ever

What happens when your app breaks on a Sunday

49 mins #50 Mar 19, 19

Pro athletes are mocking me on the internet

Also: have you signed up for your app with your own credit card?

46 mins #49 Mar 12, 19

Do startups need specialists or generalists?

Startup Kung-Fu, enterprise customers, status page, podcasting docs

47 mins #48 Mar 05, 19

Full-on sweatpants mode

Jon ran into a famous podcasting man

44 mins #47 Feb 26, 19

Did we solve our bandwidth cost crisis?

And, our accountant might be a socialist ;)

49 mins #46 Feb 19, 19

Counting beans and getting hit by a bus

Justin is worried about bandwidth costs and Jon is worried about getting hit by a bus.

51 mins #45 Feb 13, 19

Is this the best time to start a podcasting startup?

The CEO of Chartable calls up Justin to talk about bootstrapping and podcasting

43 mins #44 Feb 05, 19

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?

42 mins #43 Jan 29, 19

How to grow your audience

Want more paying subscribers? More Twitter followers? More podcast listeners?

44 mins #42 Jan 22, 19

Should startups worry about their competition?

Are your SaaS competitors keeping you up at night?