Build Your SaaS
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Why there's no episode today
May 26, 2020 23:00 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MB👋 Justin here. This episode is to let you know why there's no episode today. (I've had a few DMs from folks that were worried!) We're good; we had some server trouble this morning that took all our time and attention today. We're hoping to be back next Tuesday with a full episode. Thanks everyone; we appreciate your support! ✌️ Special thanks to Dean Layton James, from CloudPeriscope and Benedikt Evans from UserList for giving us ideas on how to fix our issues today! ❤️ You can ...
Building software for 2030
May 19, 2020 23:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBThis week on the program, Justin and Jon talk about: The new Transistor UI, and how folks are responding to it. "Damn the torpedoes!" – seeing if our update worked in IE11 after we deployed. Tobias Lütke, Shopify: “All the trends have been accelerated. The pandemic has moved everything forward 10 years. So now we need to build 2030 level software in 2020.” Restaurant trends: https://www.exploretock.com/ https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage Bug bounti...
Simon is going full-time
May 13, 2020 00:30 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBThis week on the program: As requested, we're going to start highlighting our listeners who are building their own SaaS. This week: Simon Bennett, a long-time Patreon supporter and a friend of the show. He just went full time on his project https://snapshooter.io, which does automatic backups for Digital Ocean. Simon had just put his kids to bed (he's in the UK) and sat down in his office to have a chat with Justin. You can reply to this podcast here: Twitter: @buildyoursaas,...
They stole our idea!
May 05, 2020 20:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBWhat do you do when a competitor steals your idea? (plus: Justin and Jon have the giggles). People in tech get bent out of shape about who owns certain ideas, UI patterns, and business models. “They ripped off my idea” "They copied us!" This blog post by Justin Mitchell: https://medium.com/@itsthisjustin/no-idea-is-unique-but-this-is-insane-a247ec80f6a7 Good Stackexchange thread: “In the history of science, this is known as "Railroad time". I.e, when the economy has reached a...
What SaaS would we start today if we started over?
April 28, 2020 16:20 - 58 minutes - 40.7 MBCatching up with the real-life stuff that's going on
Starting over again on our SaaS
April 28, 2020 16:20 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBJustin and Justin talk about where they're at. Podcasts like the Project Journey show, are at the beginning of their journey. Marie Poulin is a good example of an entrepreneur who's experienced a breakthrough this year; we should celebrate those! Justin's tweet: "What are we doing this for? Is the purpose of life to "Start business. Make most money. Die." We want to engage with an audience that wants more out of life." "Stay in your lane." The people who listen to this show aren...
What should we build next?
April 21, 2020 15:35 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBThis week on the show: Jon baked bread. Got some sunshine. Avoiding social media, the other disease Justin WAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Read this Andreesen post that everyone’s talking about: https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/ That conversation lead to this tweet: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1251946371050954752 What does the future hold? Dan Price tweet: "After the most recent 15 deadly outbreaks, wages grew over the ensuing 3 decades by a lot." Jamie Lawrence tw...
How coronavirus is impacting revenue
April 14, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBThis week, Justin called up Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics: Baremetrics does analytics for SaaS companies I called him up just to get a sense of how this pandemic (and looming recession) has already started to affect different SaaS companies He's already noticing some trends: "A lot of SaaS companies are seeing the biggest loss they've seen in the past 4 weeks. I've heard from some companies that are seeing a 10-20% decrease in MRR." "Payroll is the biggest challenge over ...
Giuuuuuuuunta
April 07, 2020 16:55 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBToday, we are joined by a very special guest: Dave Giunta! What does Daft Punk look like without their helmets? HomeChef How has demand for meal kits and food delivery increased since coronavirus? You can reply to this podcast here: Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda, @dgiunta Leave a comment on PodHunt; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts. Leave a comment on Breaker, the podcast app for iPhone. Interact on WhatPods. Email us: [email protected] Thanks to our m...
Pants-driven development
March 31, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBJon and Justin, still making sense of life (and business) in a pandemic: Jon put on pants today. Justin is mad at Amazon. You can reply to this podcast here: Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda Leave a comment on PodHunt; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts. Leave a comment on Breaker, the podcast app for iPhone. Interact on WhatPods. Email us: [email protected] Thanks to our monthly supporters: Sofia Quintero Diogo Chris Willow Mason Hensley Borja Soler teami...
How are founders handling the pandemic?
March 24, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBJon and Justin are hunkered down, and reeling from COVID-19: This is moving fast, so this podcast might already be out-of-date. Difference between the restrictions in Chicago and Vernon. "It's hard to focus on Transistor and write any code." "There are all these people out there suffering, it's hard to know what to do." "You see these effects rippling through society, and then rippling towards you." 7:50 – "It'd be nice to donate to everyone, but you just can't." 8:40 – It's ...
Marie Poulin: Maybe you shouldn't start a software company
March 17, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThis week, Justin is joined by Marie Poulin, co-founder of Oki Doki. They discuss: Chatting with Marie Poulin, Oki Doki 3:40 – "I used to be in the 'Ra Ra! Everyone should build a web app' crowd." 4:18 – "Now there's this feeling that maybe everyone shouldn't start a SaaS?" 9:30 – When you're starting a business, there are so many dynamics you need to get right. 13:40 – Why so many people fail to go from zero to one in business. 16:20 – Why are you starting a business in the f...
Maybe you shouldn't start a software company
March 17, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThis week, Justin is joined by Marie Poulin, co-founder of Oki Doki. They discuss: 3:40 – "I used to be in the 'Ra Ra! Everyone should build a web app' crowd." 4:18 – "Now there's this feeling that maybe everyone shouldn't start a SaaS?" 9:30 – When you're starting a business, there are so many dynamics you need to get right. 13:40 – Why so many people fail to go from zero to one in business. 16:20 – Why are you starting a business in the first place? What's driving you? 23:41...
All that he wants
March 10, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBThis week, Jon and Justin celebrate 100 episodes: Jon was on the Cody Story podcast awhile back. Justin, on the other hand, loves writing testimonials: Jack McDade's new course Tailwind UI Fathom Analytics "We are in our mid-life crisis of SaaS building. I think, for me, the problem is not quite knowing what's next." Is this the time we hire a business coach? Where does your personal motivation for work come from? What difference are we trying to make in the world? Derek ...
Should you start a startup with your spouse?
March 03, 2020 09:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBThis week, Justin is joined by Michele Hansen (co-founder of Geocodio). We explore a bunch of questions: What it's like to bootstrap with your spouse 6:30 – where Michele and Mathias found the idea for their company 7:00 – when you have kids you need diapers at 1am Why people start companies 7:55 – how getting pregnant motivated them to build a product 10:15 – Matthias initially built a really basic geocoder for their purposes 11:30 – a lot of bootstrappers get motivated to s...
What's driving you now?
February 25, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBThis week, Justin is joined by Ward Sandler from MemberSpace (launched in 2015). We explore a bunch of questions: How do you find a cofounder? Ward explains to Justin (a Canadian) what a fraternity is. What it's like doing enterprise sales. How two sales guys ended up learning design and programming. "Everybody needs to build a website for Uncle Larry" Justin and Ward go through a sample sales phone call. How they found the idea for MemberSpace through their consulting compan...
Clearing the air
February 18, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThis week, Jon and Justin discuss: Justin's office is under construction 🛠️. How to talk about things that are hard. A review exercise from the book: The Great CEO Within (as recommended by Ben on Art of Product). It gives each founder the ability to say: "This bugs me." We've hired Helen (NamesAce) as a part-time contractor. Switching out our UI framework: Jon is rebuilding the Transistor app with Tailwind. How do you move to V2 of your app? Should you rebuild? Joel on Soft...
Anxiety about what might happen with the business
February 11, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week, Jon and Justin discuss: What makes a good podcast for product people? New American Dream: building, owning, selling a SaaS (Tyler Tringas) What do you worry about when you own your own software company? How would we handle an economic downturn? Why do software founders not sleep well at night? You can reply to this podcast here: Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda Leave a comment on PodHunt; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts. Leave a comment on Breaker,...
A cloudy feeling of dread
February 04, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week, Jon and Justin discuss: Repeating calendar item: "Jan 5th, GTFO." How are you doing with the winter blue? The Transistor Volkswagen bus, surfboards, and snowboards. Monolithic vs mico-services https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1222966700913479681 https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future Pushing ahead with our “switch from Semantic UI to Tailwind CSS" cycle. "Retargeting is like squeezing the last drop of juice out of the lemon. Is it worth it?" "We were ...
Who gets paid, and who doesn't?
January 28, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBJon is back! This week, we discuss: This book, The Timeless Way of Building, that Justin is reading. When you work for yourself, there can be sense of not being grounded. What do you do? What's better than meditating? Why co-founders should have a weekly phone call. How the environment we're in influences our actions. Jon's been rebuilding our dashboard using Tailwind CSS + Alpine JS. Tutorial: Rails and Tailwind People complaining about Webpack "What's that Rails gem that ...
What's your sustainable competitive advantage?
January 21, 2020 18:40 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBJustin is interviewed by Nathan Baschez to talk about business strategy: "Every strategy is really just a theory: “We bet if we do x, then y will happen. In business, the 'y' that people are usually aiming for is some sort of sustainable competitive advantage." – Nathan Baschez This is a long episode, but it's a good one! What made Jon and Justin feel like they had an advantage in podcasting? Original hypothesis: "Maybe we could be to podcasting, what WPengine was to WordPress ho...
The challenges of being in (the wrong) business
January 14, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBJustin is joined by podcast producer Chris Enns to talk about: How do you get Alexis Ohanian (cofounder of Reddit, married to Serena Williams) as a client? Getting out of the wrong business, into something better. Why you should get out of your comfort zone (and your town!) "We're all running the same race; how come that person is so far ahead of me?" Links: Hire Chris to edit your podcast: www.lemonproductions.ca Alexis Ohanian's podcast: businessdad.initialized.com When to...
What happens tomorrow?
December 31, 2019 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBJustin does a solo New Year's Eve episode where he shares: Then (Jan 1, 2019) vs now (Jan 1, 2020) Justin's tweet: "Going all-in on Transistor in 2019!" Advice for new founders: "What products get bought every day?" Every day, millions of people wake up and buy a cup of coffee. Every day, there are people who wake up and sign up for web hosting. Will there be people lining up tomorrow morning to buy your product? And the next day? What's still going to be true tomorrow, six m...
A Christmas Eve SEO scare
December 24, 2019 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBJustin and Jon talk about: What's happened this year. "You shouldn't be worried about that, but you should be worried about THIS." The SaaS gold rush: “Building, Owning (& possibly Selling) a profitable remote SaaS business is the new American Dream.” – Tyler Tringas It’s harder to get the American Dream these days. “Productivity has increased by 80 per cent, but median compensation (that's wages plus benefits) has risen by just 11 per cent during that time. The middle-income jo...
Should you build an audience first?
December 17, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBJustin is interviewed by Noah and Ben from the Product Journey podcast: Should you build an audience first? Why finding the right market is the first filter you should use on your idea. Justin also shares some stuff he's changed his mind about this past year. ★ Thanks to our sponsors: Postmark. Postmark delivers your transactional email to customers on time, every time. You'll love their lightning-fast email delivery and developer-friendly features. Get one month free when you ...
How did we do on last year's predictions?
December 10, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBJon and Justin talk about: The new corporate condo in the french alps, Crazy to think about where we were last year when we recorded this episode. Spotify's growing market share What happened to our dynamic content feature? A big rant about Apple Podcasts ★ Thanks to our sponsors: Postmark. Postmark delivers your transactional email to customers on time, every time. You'll love their lightning-fast email delivery and developer-friendly features. Get one month free when you us...
What should we do in 2020?
December 03, 2019 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBJon and Justin talk about: American Thanksgiving Is it better for a product to be simple? The benefits of having a "smaller menu." Why we started a private podcast for our advisors and trusted friends "My opinion is you need to grow fast and become THE platform for managing your podcast. Consider raising venture money." But, if we add investment money and a bunch of employees, and then our company is no longer simple. Tired before the holidays; a break will be good. What sho...
Why we stopped sharing our revenue numbers
November 26, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBJon and Justin talk about: New albums from DJ Shadow and Beck Why we aren't sharing our revenue metrics publicly anymore "Sometimes, you can worry more about your public image, more than actually focusing on the problem in a safe place." Why did Buffer stop sharing their revenue numbers? Three questions we ask: Who is this for? What is it for? How will we evaluate success? New podcast analytics features "The numbers on their own don't really mean anything." ★ Thanks to ou...
Throwing computers off a tall building
November 19, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBJon and Justin talk about: A stressful Rails 6 upgrade (and how it broke the app). We often use data to make decisions, but we don't often examine the underlying data we're using to make decisions. How do we know if our marketing efforts are effective? "What's happened to your data since last quarter?" "If a billion people are listening, but not reacting, does it matter?" ★ Thanks to our sponsors: Postmark. Postmark delivers your transactional email to customers on time, ever...
Why did this take so long?
November 12, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBJon and Justin talk about: The launch of the new marketing site: transistor.fm Built using Statamic CMS and with Tailwind CSS Got tons of help from Jack McDade, Adam Wathan, Ben Furfie "Tailwind is really nice. I have to hand it to Adam." Why working in tandem is better than working independently. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. NO. What's the next thing we're going to focus on? ★ Thanks to our sponsors: New: Postmark. Postmark delivers your transactional email to customers on time,...
Desktop life
November 05, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBWhat's new with the Transistor team? Justin has a Halloween candy hangover. Desktops vs laptops for dev work. Transitioning from your personal equipment and software to stuff the business pays for. Where are we in our Shape-Up cycles? Our new marketing website is suffering because it's "un-shaped work." The benefits of working with a partner. "I'm realizing how single-threaded human beings are." What does Jon think of Tailwind CSS? At what stage of a customer's business lif...
Limitless growth!
October 29, 2019 08:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBThis is a heavy one! Let us know at @buildyoursaas if you listen to the whole thing. On a micro-scale many folks believe "how much MRR is enough?" is a silly question, because, in our current global economic model, your business has to keep growing (or it will eventually die). (CHURN will kill you) But on a macro-scale, our economic system relies on perpetually increasing: resource extraction population growth energy usage (Not sustainable) As founders, it's hard enough to wr...
"Launched" with quotation marks
October 22, 2019 08:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBWe shipped our new feature! American Express called Justin twice at 5am The new enhanced podcasts feed is live. Pete Marcano: “I’ll be honest, when I listened to the Build Your SaaS episode on this feature being launched, I didn’t really think much of it. Listening to this episode connected the dots. This is awesomely game changing.” Now we’re technically in a “cool down” cycle” - is this how this should feel? When should you push back on customers' feature requests? We're loo...
What's threatening our business?
October 15, 2019 17:30 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBJon and Justin talk turkey: "I'm not used to all this attention. it’s weird. not bad, just…not used to it." "If you're doing anything interesting out in the world, you're gonna have people get mad about something at some point." – Rob Walling "There's a bit of imposter syndrome; like, do we deserve this?" It's more about the way you orient yourself than setting a specific destination. Bootstrapping podcasts: Art of Product, Bootstrapping SaaS, Slow & Steady, Bright & Early, Bui...
$30k in MRR – how does this feel?
October 08, 2019 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBJon and Justin have a bunch of hot topics this week: Podcast advertising, user tracking, turning away customers? Basecamp switched their podcast (Rework) to us Why Marco Arment gave up on his #1 app $30k in MRR – how does this feel? Shape Up updates: “Small enough to wing it” ★ Thanks to our sponsors: ActiveCampaign. Get the world's most advanced marketing & sales automation platform. Use the code activecampaign.com/buildyoursaas and get two months free + 2 free One-on-Ones!...
How do you even sleep at night?
October 01, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBSleep. We never get enough: Justin consistently wakes up between 2am-4am and can’t get back to sleep. Jon woke up at 4am. Often reports bad sleeps. Justin asked on Twitter and got tips: Josh Pigford, Baremetrics, says: “CBD oil. Previously I was a very "active" sleeper...talking, getting up, etc. It'd also take me upwards of 30 minutes to get to sleep and I'd regularly wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to get back to sleep. Haven't had any of those issues since ...
Bootstrapping loneliness
September 24, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBJon and Justin discuss a variety of things. Warning: Justin says the f-word twice. 80s trampolines Jon's new microphone: mic + pop filter = $65 USD Transistor's history: 💻 March 2017: first-line of code ✍️ Feb 2018: signed partnership docs ✉️ March 2018: invited first paying (beta) customers 🎉 Aug 2018: official launch 👨💻 April 2019: I go full-time [kind of] ($10k MRR) 👨💻 July 2019: Jon goes full-time ($19k MRR) Bootstrapping loneliness. What do you do when you're indep...
Is it a good idea to be a transparent startup?
September 17, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBJon and Justin discuss: Good mics for podcasters. Justin recommends the Samson Q2U and the ATR2100. Make sure you get a pop filter! Starting our 6-week cycle (based on Basecamp's Shape Up) Working through unknowns for software projects: "Where do we start?" What's it been like being a transparent startup? Is it still a good idea? "It feels less and less comfortable, and I don't know why." – Jon "All people see is the revenue numbers; they don't understand what's happening unde...
How much MRR is enough?
September 10, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBThis week Jon and Justin answer a few questions: From Jason Zook: "How much MRR is enough for Transistor?" From Yaz: "What do you think of this new Supercast thing that helps podcasters start a paid podcast?" How many people are really asking for this? Looking for evidence: "I just bought X." "I just started doing X." "I just switched from X to Y." "My friend uses X, so I tried it." "Using X, but want something like Y." "X is better than anything else I've tried." "It see...
Change is in the air
September 03, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBHear what's new from Jon and Justin on their bootstrapping journey: Nothing like throwing yourself down a mountain when you're tired We're seeing a big increase in support tickets here at the end of August Justin has a theory: more support tickets is leading indicator for an increase in revenue "When people have 'summer brain' they don't want to think about work." Jon's learned some things about how enterprise sales really work Listener Sarah McMullin gave us some great advice...
The constant feature release cycle
August 27, 2019 06:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBJon and Justin share their SaaS journey: "There's so many great feature ideas, but we can't do them all." Jon's wondering about the constant feature request/release cycle “You’re doing a good job if you’re enjoying the journey” - Jason Cohen (on Art of Product) Tweet: “Any other SaaS companies seeing that revenue generally drops in the summer? I thought it was just me.” Nathan Barry: “The summer is historically really slow for us.” Justin is wondering: are enterprise customers...
WHO DELETED MY CODE?!?!
August 20, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBJon and Justin are tracking a bunch of stuff this week: We're moving from WordPress to Statamic CMS "I had no idea how to set up PHP on my laptop." We want to treat our marketing site the same way we work on our product We're trying to optimize our PageSpeed (our current mobile score is 63, we want to get over 90) "And then you came in a like a magician and lazyloaded the JavaScript" "Collaborative software work is egalitarian. It doesn’t matter who did what, as long as the te...
How we're Shaping Up
August 13, 2019 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBJustin and Jon have started the process of implementing Shape Up. Lots of folks feel like it’d be hard to implement in their team "This would be hard at my agency." “What about feature requests? Is the idea that you also don't write those down?” “Hmm no backlogs? Maybe I am not understanding some backstory/context? Where do they put ideas, comments, quick bits that they might look at later on” Some backlash against the “cult of Basecamp” But the majority of folks were really i...
Jason Fried wants to delete our backlog
August 06, 2019 08:00 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBJustin and Jon are joined by Jason Fried to talk about: The philosophy behind their new book Shape Up. Does Basecamp's approach to 6-week cycles differ for smaller teams? "Long projects destroy morale. When things don't ship, you get frustrated." – Jason Fried Why projects ship late (it's human nature). Why work is like a hill. How they make product decisions at Basecamp. How do you know what you should work on next? Why they don't believe in backlogs. "That feeling of 'the...
No sleep 'till Brooklyn (what we learned in New York)
July 30, 2019 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBBig week. Justin was in New York and Jon found an office! Justin lost his voice. Jon doesn't work from home or coffee shops anymore. Jon found an office: "It’s inexpensive, but quiet, with nice people in a nice area. Inexpensive enough to where I won’t feel bad if I do want to work elsewhere once in a while." Justin's Spotify visit (very interesting). Laracon conference on Times Square (Justin was the MC and gave a talk) Met with a few customers: Jess & Jmac – The BaseCode Po...
Once you launch, you're immediately behind
July 23, 2019 08:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBJustin and Jon are starting to feel that stress. We start with an unscripted bit. Our backlog and todo list are still stressing us out. We want to improve the app, but we get stuck fixing bugs. Justin is going to be at Laracon, NYC. Should we fly less? ★ Thanks to our sponsors: ProfitWell gives you free subscription metrics for your SaaS. Just plug in your billing system (Stripe, Zuora, Braintree, Chargebee, Recurly are all supported) and get free access to your MRR, churn, c...
Your backlog is making me thirsty
July 16, 2019 21:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBJustin and Jon dive into the growing backlog of features, bugs and tasks, and talk about how they might better manage it as a two-person team. A big new milestone is reached! Jon had a bit of anxiety over the growing backlog in Clubhouse New ideas were being thrown into an unscheduled list, but weren't yet actionable. Some ideas can be left alone for awhile and revisited to see if they're still worthwhile. Ben Orenstein wants to delete your entire backlog. 6 week cycles like Ba...
What if there's an accident?
July 09, 2019 08:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBNow, Justin and Jon share are both focused full-time on Transistor. This week they discuss: Emotionally processing what it's like leaving a full-time job. What was it like working at the Cards Against Humanity office? What's it like now? Contextual zones: “I noticed that when I entered the library, I was already thinking about reading and writing.” - Kunal Shandilya. Why you need local and online community. What happens if one of us goes hiking in the woods, and there's an acc...
Jon's big announcement
July 02, 2019 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBJon had some personal news for Justin this week. This week they discuss: What does this mean for the product? What does this mean for us as a team? ★ Thanks to our sponsors: ProfitWell gives you free subscription metrics for your SaaS. Just plug in your billing system (Stripe, Zuora, Braintree, Chargebee, Recurly are all supported) and get free access to your MRR, churn, cohorts. Sign up for free at profitwell.com. Redash is is a BI tool for people who love SQL. Connect your da...