Bootstrapped
239 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Running a bootstrapped software company? Looking to start one? Then this is the podcast for you.
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#39: After Dark
April 22, 2014 14:30 - 6 minutes - 2.98 MBAnother few minutes on this weeks podcast where we discuss things to do in New York City.
#38: Special guest: Eric Miller
April 09, 2014 17:14 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Eric Miller, of Eric Miller Design, to talk about Eric’s design studio, his products, UX Kits, bootstrapping physical products, working with your spouse, Dribbble, Facebook and Twitter ads, OpenSSL, Brooklyn, Long Island, Poughkeepsie, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. Eric Miller Design UX Kits Redesigning Solspace Katy Robbins Vector Media Group eecoder ( Visual Chefs) Graffletopia Northside Festival in Brooklyn Unsplash Discuss this ep...
#37: Hush! The grown-ups are talking.
March 27, 2014 17:25 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBIn this episode, we discuss tax credits, branding and positioning, JitBit, John Carmack, Oculus, Zuckerberg, young people running companies, VR, box.com, Snappy, marketing tracking software, naming projects, and growth hackers vs. bootstrappers. Rob Walling – HitTail Section 199 Domestic Production Tax Credit Chasing Product interview with Alex Yumashev – JitBit John Carmack Masters of Doom by David Kushner Oculus Carmack’s 2012 QuakeCon keynote Carmack thanks Notch for inspiration t...
#36: White hat growth hacker
March 24, 2014 01:34 - 1 hour - 34.5 MBWe discuss more growth hacking scum, the podcasts 1 year birthday, building a business for more than money, SaaS vs download, SaaS thriving off dead accounts, code builds, game console emulators, open source doc and design quality, open source vs open source and free, publishing, conference talks. Jason Cohen Monetizing Children Is SaaS the Only Business Model for the Web Arq OSX Backups Unreal Engine 5% deal Popcorn Time – Napster for movies Perch CMS AGPL – the OS license to use if...
#35: Hate the SaaS!
March 10, 2014 03:15 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBIn this episode, we discuss screaming squirrels, being busy, clients, project estimates, VC backed companies, why we hate SaaS, mobile app ickiness, and the value of ideas. “Is 5X the new 2X in SaaS?” “Give me $300 or the website gets it!” The icky mobile apps article Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers
#34: Don’t Shake the SaaS Tree
February 24, 2014 12:42 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBWe discuss confusion over our voices, taxes, vacation, Disney tracking your meat, off topic, doppelgängers, SPF records, Al Bundy/Married With Children, Evernote, pruning your twitter account, Groupon marketing genius, Flappy Bird and the mobile cesspool, Rick Ellis, product first mindset, we’re over SaaS Disney and the Meat Space Laracon Andrey’s Doppleganger ( Doppelgangers) Mobile Developer Weekly SPF Records, SPF on CampaignMonitor Evernote QT Prune Your Twitter Account (Ian’s ar...
#33: This is what happens to growth hackers.
January 30, 2014 13:23 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about Florida, children, stupid teenagers, growing up, stories that go nowhere, growth hackers, hiring a content engineer, unit testing, John Carmack, spending $13,000 on marketing automation software, motorcycles, and baseball tickets. Irene McGee – and her recent article. Userscape is hiring a Content Engineer Ruben Gamez on Bootstrapped.fm John Carmack – The Physics of Light and Rendering Michael Abrash Doom playthrough with John R...
#32: The Full Stallman
January 21, 2014 17:24 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBDownload this episode. Andrey talks about Gone Home and the impact it’s had on his life, but won’t give details! Voiceovers, Antair is 9 years old, UserScape is almost 9 though Ian considers it 10, the good old days of bootstrapping, the constant re-inventing of Antair, Ian goes on a rant about Growth Hacking, project management apps, Ian rants again about marketing automation tools, remote work, Ian talking at Microconf, beards, Ian ranting about taking his family to Disney Gone Home – An...
#31: We are Joel, together
January 09, 2014 17:29 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about growing to a point where you have no idea where stuff is in your own company, building mobile clients for Snappy and Quintu, Minecraft, live coding streams, games, client work, system administration with SaaS, the Sturgeon/Laravel argument, the forums, SaaS growth curves, the PHP Book Book, Seinfeld, Bill Gates, and the Gone Home game. Ionic framework Asteroid Jane Phil Sturgeon on The Tribal Framework Mindset Ian’s sideon the ...
#30: Special Guest: Gavin Bowman
January 07, 2014 04:35 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBSpecial guest Gavin Bowman of RetroDreamer talks about bootstrapping a mobile gaming company. The business of software forums come up… again, expanding a gaming shop and how creativity factors into that, Ian asks too many questions about gaming and such, Being able to be done, revenue fear, ads vs paid, platforms, Apple review controversy Gavin Bowman Retro Dreamer Sneezies – Still a great iOS game Ryan Evans – Retro Dreamers first full time hire Velocispider What Now Podcast Andy Bri...
#29: There’s always one more year
December 30, 2013 11:23 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBDownload episode 29, in which we talk about school lunches, fast food, Ludum Dare, game development, Minecraft, Userscape’s new employee, taking a vacation, 2013 year in review, amount of revenue to have before hiring full-time, the first two years of running a software consultancy, being too open about your employee information, Laracon 2014, and running an online retail shop. Gavin Bowman of Retro Dreamer What Now Podcast Bootstrapped.fm episode on movies for programmers Ludum Dare No...
#28: Special Guest Ruben Gamez
December 19, 2013 13:29 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBThis is one of our best episodes yet. If you’re interested in content marketing be prepared to take notes. We also discuss the SaaS release cycle and lifestyle, working hours, business coaching and Andrey abducting Ruben. Ruben’s client proposal software Bidsketch Ruben’s personal blog Seth MacFarlane’s tweet on the Family Guy Brian stuff Ruben’s post on getting to his first 1K a month regarding Andrey’s previous question on Bootstrapped 15 Keyword Funnel – Adwords keyword finder/organi...
#27: Everybody Gotta Hustle
December 04, 2013 23:06 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about kids’ toys, Uberdeck, making sense of Adwords, Snappy, content marketing, finding a regular job after years of running a bootstrapped software company, selling physical products, Userscape’s new hire, running a conference, and moving to a consultancy. Startups for the rest of us, episode 160 – podcast with Rob Walling and Mike Taber Andy Brice, his software business training course, and his upcoming Keyword Funnel tool. Pusher ...
#26: Party All the Time
November 25, 2013 16:52 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBDownload this podcast where Andrey sings Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy, booze, big UberDeck update, marketing, Snappy mobile app, mobile app reviews, VM’s,16 terminals tiled (huh?), everything is noodles (huh?), coworking, healthcare plans, more marketing, doing marketing under your own name, Ian’s idea for a new app Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy Doc’s Hard Cider UberDeck v2 – new push notifications, concierge installation service, great new pricing Moz Mochibits Slideroom – ...
#25: Devil’s Advocate
November 13, 2013 19:26 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBDownload this episode, in which we talk about dollar stores, dogs and babies, the new Helpspot release, support contracts, requiring a credit card at signup, pricing and recurring billing, info-products, SaaS being unsatisfying, digging new holes, the point of growing, all software going to zero. Helpspot – Ian’s helpdesk product. Snappy – Ian’s newest product. Uberdeck – Andrey’s mobile-app marketing product. Stripe – payment processing service. Star Trek Generations Ian’s “all sof...
#24: Batman Voice
November 08, 2013 03:00 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBDownload this episode, in which we talk about Batman, Software going to $0, Pricing again, Saas sucking, High school/depression, Business of Software Conference, A/B testing, Insurance, Andrey and me opening a coffee shop comic book store, Batman Arkham Origins, how we’re the Seinfeld of bootstrap podcasting, Everpix closing, soup delivery, $7.95 cupcakes, our side projects that make us no money. We’re going to try to do a Bootstrapped.fm meetup if you’re in the NYC area. Contact us or post...
#23: Clichély doing the cliché thing
October 16, 2013 16:30 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBDownload this episode, in which we talk about Andrey finally leaving the house, street cred, Quintu, the work that goes into a typical SaaS app, implementing push in Uberdeck, OS X 10.8 update woes, git and distributed source code control, supporting developers vs. supporting end users, downloadable vs. SaaS, playing with SaaS marketing at an early stage of the product, being organized with marketing, tracking the marketing flow, onboarding, pricing based on volume, seasonal stores, celebr...
#22: Meh
September 30, 2013 17:31 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBDownload this episode, in which we give away an amazing social mobile podcast product idea, Blackberry (sorry), App stores, Andrey’s gripes with Laravel 4 and other techy things, asset management in front end web development, Vi, Breaking Bad finale!!!, Living in NYC, Perch CMS meetup, Business of Software conference Blackberry sale Number Two Antair Notes on Amazon App Store Twitter Ads (also great just to see your RT’s/Fav’s even if you don’t buy ads) Laravel 4 PHP framework Grunt – ...
#21: Special Guest: Andy Brice
September 23, 2013 13:23 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest, Andy Brice, to discuss Perfect Table Plan, software marketing, creating desktop software vs. SaaS web apps, software pricing, cross-platform development with QT, analytics, measuring how many people are ‘word-of-mouth’ customers, Andy’s 2-day intensive training course on starting your own software business, practical software products, the legacy of shareware, the effect of SaaS apps on lifestyle, A/B testing, Adword...
#20: Hard Stop
September 11, 2013 18:52 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss their appearances on other podcasts, depression caused by taking consulting work, how Andrey will structure his day, Apple keynote and how new hardware relates to mobile development, releasing software in the app store, SaaS searching tech and more. Chasing Product podcast DNL Consulting Apple iPhone 5s/5c keynote Fertile Ground – Marco Arment on supporting new mobile API’s Number Two – Andrew Garrison on his mobile release strategy...
#19: No Red Candy!
September 04, 2013 16:31 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss Laracon EU, Snappy, web app activity tracking and analytics, Uberdeck, marketing as your primary daily activity, Andrey’s next app, native clients vs. mobile web apps vs. responsive design for a SaaS product, front-end web dev frameworks, annual SaaS billing, getting dumber, Vincent van Gogh, San Francisco, Napa Valley, and Texas. Laracon EU Snappy 3-tier pricing Uberdeck iDeveloper.co – podcast for iOS developers. ChasingProduct...
#18: Special Guest: Chase Clemons on Bootstrapped Support
August 27, 2013 12:45 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest Chase Clemons of SupportOps to discuss customer service for bootstrappers. We also get an Uberdeck update on leaving beta and pricing strategy. This episode is being cross released on both Bootstrapped.fm and Support Ops Podcast. Check them out! 37Signals Support Ops and the Support Ops Podcast Uberdeck is released! Andrey’s Essential Voice Recorder – type notes while you record audio (Android) Basecamp Mob...
#17: Special Guest: Rachel Andrew
August 06, 2013 21:21 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest Rachel Andrew from EdgeOfMySeat.com, to discuss Perch, the really little CMS, the new Bootstrapped.fm forums, marketing, customer support, product dependencies, how important personal visibility is to your business, content management systems, writing and speaking, and self-publishing. Rachel Andrew Perch: the really little CMS – Rachel’s product. EdgeOfMySeat.com – Rachel’s company. Drew McLellan – Rachel’s hu...
#16: Meat and Attitude
August 01, 2013 14:57 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss Andrey’s new mobile apps, doing press releases in unique cases, HARO, bringing on a partner, Valentino movie, Breaking Bad, Andrey on being abducted, dress code in fancy steak joints, optimal steak restaurant design, Snappy marketing, doing a giveaway _ Note: this podcast was recorded before we released http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm, next week we’ll discuss that in more detail_. Bootstrapped Ep 15 with Special guest Patrick McKenzie ...
#15: Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Selling Software
July 24, 2013 15:45 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest, Patrick McKenzie (patio11), to discuss the “early” days of the Business of Software forums, Patrick’s journey and daily routine, Helpdesk systems and support, Appointment Reminder, systemizing and automating daily tasks, SaaS, B2C vs. B2B, pricing of software, consulting, learning from Blackhats, Hacker News, marketing, Uberdeck, making money from open source, dual-licensing, running a conference, hacker meetups, Pa...
#14: Now you have to do stuff
July 11, 2013 14:48 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest Scott Watermasysk. We get the back story on KickoffLabs Scott’s company, Andrey laments about having to do “stuff”, we don’t get Quora, we go deep on Uberdeck pricing strategy, how Agant went back to being a one person shop, starting solo or with a co-founder, Ship It!, a few landing page tips from Scott. Special guest Scott Watermasysk of KickoffLabs IBM Ideating commercial CampaignMonitor pricing What Next for ...
#13: Boiler Room
June 26, 2013 16:20 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss getting ready to deploy Uberdeck, Snappy progress, what’s next for Snappy marketing, stories of first job interviews, the benefits, if any, of a college education, selling into the consumer space, the experience of buying software in a box, selling software before making software and vetting product ideas. Uberdeck – Andrey’s new product. ( preview screenshot) Fabric – a Python SSH tool. Snappy – Ian’s newest product. SupportOps.co –...
#12: The Analogy
June 19, 2013 15:47 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBDownload this episode, in which Andrey and Ian discuss mistakes with Snappy’s initial website, building multiple products vs focusing on a single product, fixing the app store, recommendations on going into the mobile space, and Derek Sivers new company and how he outsourced it all. FocusLab Slambots – the latest RetroDreamer game Marco on removing mobile app store top lists Spider Web Games CD Baby Sivers article on new company
#11: Bootstrapping a Software Consulting Company
June 12, 2013 16:21 - 1 hour - 33 MBDownload this episode, in which Andrey and Ian sit down with Carl Diesing from DNL OmniMedia, and Chris Hawkins from Cogeian Systems, to talk about bootstrapping a successful software consulting company. Chris Hawkins on Twitter, and his website with lots of good articles and advice. Cogeian Systems – The software consultancy where Chris is the founder. Carl Diesing on Twitter DNL OmniMedia – The software consultancy where Carl is a co-founder. Expensd– DNL’s SaaS product SmallSpec – C...
#10: Gymboree
June 05, 2013 14:30 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBDownload this episode, in which we go over the launch of Snappy, the Laravel 4 release, taking care of kids and kid gym options, Bootstrap conferences, app metrics and Infoproducts! Snappy goes live Eric Sink on pricing Laravel 4 – THE PHP framework Laravel three docs DNL Omnimedia Cogeian The Little Gym Gymboree Imitation Gruel – Andrey referenced this, check it out JDate BaconBizConf – Original announcement Bidsketch Dribbble Focus Lab SmoothMouse Beach Haven, NJ Kissmetr...
#9: Uberdeck
May 22, 2013 13:04 - 1 hour - 37 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss Uberdeck, system administration, pricing strategies, news coverage for startups, Jeff Atwood, Trello, and Snappy. Uberdeck – Andrey’s latest project Alwin Hoogerdijk (collectorz.com) – on email marketing Campaign Monitor – email campaign service DNS Made Easy – DNS service Amazon Route 53 – DNS service Linode – hosting for Uberdeck Trello – project management Coding Horror – Jeff Atwood’s blog Amazon SQS – hosted message queue s...
#8: Bizarro Week
May 07, 2013 14:24 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBDownload this episode, where Ian and Andrey discuss sweet games, SaaS downtime, UserScape Bizarro Week, Brooklyn, Microconf and more. Bioshock Infinite – Andrey says this is one of the great games of all times with perhaps the best ending of all time Heavy Rain – Another great game Rainbow Six – Classic The Secret of Monkey Island – I assume you’ve all heard of and played this Supervisor – A process control system DB Tenancy Information EngineHosting – Private resource clusters for yo...
#7: Just wasting my time!
April 30, 2013 15:07 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBDownload this episode, where Ian and Andrey discuss the Apple app store release process, making video games for a living, people and companies that “get it”, fonts for web development, trademarks and names, Helvetica – Documentary about the typeface (and design, in general). Indie Game the Movie – Documentary that follows several indie game developers. What Now podcast – Gavin’s and Andrey’s podcast about making mobile apps for a living. Typography.com – the site Andrey was referring to ...
#6: Authorize This
April 23, 2013 16:46 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBDownload this episode, where Ian and Andrey discuss screen real estate, hiring a part time developer, Apple II parts, a segment which went way too long on Authorize.net, funding open source projects and code naming. See Andrey’s setup Divvy – Mac windows manager Antair part time developer position – 20-30 hours a month Hacker News – Hacker New Popular Twitter stream Vienna RSS – Andrey’s choice for a Mac desktop RSS reader Dave Winer discusses the concept of a River of News – (audio) ...
#5: Let’s all go to the movies!
April 17, 2013 17:46 - 1 hour - 45 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about a gauntlet of client work, consulting, competitors, talking about your product early, stock options and bonuses, a little bit on wall street programming, hiring, contributing to open source, life after programming, and movies! Links: Bitsplitting Podcast – episode 2, with Erika Hall of Mule Design Studio. Shipping an Empty Box – Andrey’s blog post about supporting large companies. Helpspot – Ian’s product. Snappy – Ian’s newest p...
#4: The customer is seldom right
April 10, 2013 14:14 - 1 hour - 37.4 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey cover a host of issues, including an apology of sorts to Patrick McKenzie, a discussion on if in fact the customer is always right, how you support .99 cent apps, non-mistakes from Ian’s past, VC funding and an extremely important tax tip! Links: Appointment Reminder – by Patrick McKenzie Patrick McKenzie Interview Podcast with Patrick & Amy Hoy Freckle Shutting down Charm – Interesting look at shutting down a SaaS app before it launches ...
#3: Pivoting all over the place
March 31, 2013 18:02 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about not being able to remember anything that happened before today, Ian’s rules for the practical entrepreneur, having so many products that you can’t list them all, entering a fragmented market, preferring B2B, The Pivot, Andrey not having any kind of strategy for choosing which products to make, damned phones, when selling to a business is not really selling to a business, clear and simple revenue model, bridging the internet world with...
#2: Lollipop Sticks
March 25, 2013 14:32 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBDownload this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about software version numbers, SaaS apps, hiring, modern web application development, server hosting, what to do with old servers, monitors and hard drives, doing what it takes to fund your business, Andrey’s psychological state, physical world products vs software. Links: Eric Barnes – Laracon 2013 talk Laravel – The awesome PHP framework CodeIgniter BackBone – JS front end framework Coffeescript – A little language that compiles to...
#1: Bootstrapped and Profitable
March 19, 2013 05:12 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MBTwo software companies, Userscape, founded in 2004, and Antair, founded in 2005. Both companies, bootstrapped and profitable. Join Ian and Andrey, the founders, as they share their experiences in running their companies. Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about running a web-app company vs. running a mobile-app company, having one large product vs. many smaller products, starting out by making products ‘because you can’, instead of products that have a market, SaaS and re...