Growing Software
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Two software engineers exploring the facets of developing SaaS businesses while working their day jobs. Hosted by Darby Frey, co-founder of Lead Honestly, and Ethan Gunderson, founder of Glean.
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Episodes
33: No Code, Low Code, Artisanally Crafted Farm To Table Code
September 14, 2022 12:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBWhat we covered in this episode: Ethan's Training Code Beam America LogSnag Pipedream Zapier What we're working on: Darby is building Lead Honestly Ethan is building Glean Have something you want us to talk about? Twitter: @growingsoftware, @ethangunderson, and @darbyfrey Leave us a ZipMessage Thanks to our monthly supporters: Clark Kampfe ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
32: The Employee Satisfaction Index
September 07, 2022 11:47 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWhat we covered in this episode: Ethan's upcoming training at Elixirconf The Pomodoro technique The SEO tool we reference is Keysearch.co Copy.ai Have something you want us to talk about? Twitter: @growingsoftware, @ethangunderson, and @darbyfrey Leave us a ZipMessage Thanks to our monthly supporters: Clark Kampfe ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
31: Do Nothing, A Bold Launch Strategy
August 03, 2022 12:33 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBWhat we covered in this episode: Writing blog posts, keywords, and being useful. Ethan failed his homework, or did he? Yes, he did. Is it coding week or marketing week? Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $36k MRR. Examples of marketing week ideas is at 23:54. Building up a product around a conference workshop. Have something you want us to talk about? Twitter: @growingsoftware, @ethangunderson, and @darbyfrey Leave us a ZipMessage Thanks to our monthly supporters: Clark Kampfe ...
30: Sorry, The Crab Isn't Good Today
July 11, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBWhat we covered in this episode: Ethan's trip to Disney Word Chef's Table The consistently low bar of user experiences Lead Honestly's new marketing copy Paying for blog posts Progress on Glean Have something you want us to talk about? Twitter: @growingsoftware, @ethangunderson, and @darbyfrey Leave us a ZipMessage Thanks to our monthly supporters: Clark Kampfe ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
29: Fractions of a Year
May 24, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBEthan's conference talk ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
28: A Masterclass in Deleting Code
April 07, 2022 18:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBDarby looks for marketing help and Ethan shuffles code around
27: Marketing Made Simple
March 25, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBIt's book club time again! This week Ethan and Darby talk about Marketing Made Simple. Special guest appearance by a toddler in search of a bowl of cereal. https://storybrand.com/marketing-made-simple-book/
26: Ethan Stars Over
March 22, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBDarby gets an unexpected traffic boost and Ethan `git init`'s a new Glean. A note from Ethan: This episode was originally recorded in February, but due to some editing issues is just now being published on March 21st. We'll be back to our normal schedule soon.
25: Brian Casel of ZipMessage
March 03, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBYou can find Brian at: Twitter ZipMessage Bootstrapped Web Questions, comments, or other feedback? Send us a zip message! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
24: Profit First
February 08, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBProfit First The application Ethan used to model the accounts and framework outlined in the book is Summit. A screenshot for the Summit canvas that Ethan made can be found here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
23: Tis the Season for a Retrospective
December 21, 2021 16:41 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBLets end the year with a retrospective on Growing Software, and laying some plans for next year. Also, Ethan talks about opportunity cost without saying the phrase opportunity cost.
22: Two Kinds of Warm Beverages
November 18, 2021 19:45 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBEthan drinks tea and Darby puts up a job listing! https://angel.co/company/lead-honestly/jobs/1743870-head-of-marketing
21: Edge Cases on Top of Edge Cases
November 11, 2021 18:03 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBDarby sees some usage on the new Lead Honestly feature and Ethan has a crisis of confidence.
20: Shaking the Rust Off
October 28, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBAfter a short break Darby and Ethan are back to discussing traction channels and Lead Honestlys product launch.
19: Gearing Up for a Launch
October 15, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBDarby and Ethan talk through being on call as an indie developer, using slack to store time series metrics, and the upcoming launch of Lead Honestly for Google Workspace.
18: An Egg Salad Sandwich With an Instagram Account
September 24, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBOn this exciting episode of Growing Software -- The pros and cons of managed database providers, side project objectives, the story of gathers.us, and Darby figures out his Google API permission scopes.
17: The Best Laid Plans Part 2
September 20, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBDarby and Ethan go over the results of the previous episodes mini experiments.
16: The Best Laid Plans
September 03, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBDarby and Ethan talk through some idea validation and customer interview plans, dogfooding products, and how difficult it must be to build medical device hardware.
15: An Effective Pivot
August 25, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBDarby has some successful onboardings after pivoting and Ethan gets stung by a bee.
14: Changing Directions
August 20, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBDarby changes directions on the new version of Lead Honestly, and then tries to convince Ethan to do the same.
13: Give the people what they want, emails
August 04, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBDarby talks about the experience of on-boarding a new power user, where to find a community for your product, building communities, and a dive into some potential features of Glean.
12: So, you need another checklist?
August 02, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week on Growing Software -- Vacation brain, wildfires, traveling, and an impromptu conversation on personal productivity. Also, talking about software.
11: The Mom Test
July 13, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBLinks Datadog Prometheus Zipkin Metabase Honeycomb The Mom Test Deploy Empathy ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
10: Make Sure the Thing Works
July 02, 2021 14:58 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBThis week Darby and Ethan talk about JavaScript testing, getting feedback from users, and the legality of fireworks.
9: The Many Hats of Indie SaaS
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBDoes Lead Honestly pass the Google security review? Does Ethan finally ship transactions? All of these questions and more are answered in this weeks episode.
8: We Finally Used the Podcast Name in the Episode
June 08, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBJosé Valim's blog post on a authentication solution for Elixir's Phoenix https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-phoenix ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
7: Almost Ready for Launch
June 01, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBEthan gives some details on his debugging complaints from last week and Darby gives an update on the lead honestly code retreat and upcoming MVP launch.
6: The One with Podcast Music
May 25, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBDarby laments their progress on launching the new version of Lead Honestly, but has a plan. Ethan shifts his workflow again.
5: Results of the Great Experiment
May 18, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBEthan gives an update on his day dedicated to working on Glean
4: The Value of Code Retreats and Database Seeds
May 13, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBThis week Darby gives us an update on how his week of focus on Lead Honestly went, Ethan contemplates taking a day off, and they talk about the value of live data in database seeds.
3: Marketing as a Roadmap
May 11, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBDarby gives an update on the new version of Lead Honestly and Ethan talks about his work on the Glean marketing page and how it can drive the product roadmap
Episode 2: It’s not about working faster, it’s about cutting scope
May 04, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBLead Honestly Glean Transcript Ethan: [00:00:00] Good afternoon. Darby: [00:00:00] Hello? Good afternoon. Happy Thursday. Ethan: [00:00:02] Did you get your, your, did it your shot on Friday or on Monday? Darby: [00:00:06] I did. Yeah. Yeah. It was three hours of driving pulled into the parking lot of this little community center. And walked in, they do the barcodes and everything. It's it was like a military run. I guess what is it? It's not the coast guard. The national guard, I ...
2: It’s not about working faster, it’s about cutting scope
May 04, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBLead Honestly Glean Transcript Ethan: [00:00:00] Good afternoon. Darby: [00:00:00] Hello? Good afternoon. Happy Thursday. Ethan: [00:00:02] Did you get your, your, did it your shot on Friday or on Monday? Darby: [00:00:06] I did. Yeah. Yeah. It was three hours of driving pulled into the parking lot of this little community center. And walked in, they do the barcodes and everything. It's it was like a military run. I guess what is it? It's not the coast guard. The national guard, I...
Episode 1: Rewrites and Refactors
April 27, 2021 20:08 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBEthan: [00:00:00] Good afternoon. Okay. Darby: [00:00:02] Happy Friday. Don't normally do this on Friday, but it's kinda nice. Ethan: [00:00:06] It is a little nice. Darby: [00:00:07] Are you done with the day job for the week? Ethan: [00:00:10] no, I'll have probably another hour after we're done here. But it's Friday. So that's a late day anyways. Darby: [00:00:16] Yeah. Things get real quiet for me around Noon. Ethan: [00:00:19] Is that because most of your team is overseas? Darb...
1: Rewrites and Refactors
April 27, 2021 20:08 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBEthan: [00:00:00] Good afternoon. Okay. Darby: [00:00:02] Happy Friday. Don't normally do this on Friday, but it's kinda nice. Ethan: [00:00:06] It is a little nice. Darby: [00:00:07] Are you done with the day job for the week? Ethan: [00:00:10] no, I'll have probably another hour after we're done here. But it's Friday. So that's a late day anyways. Darby: [00:00:16] Yeah. Things get real quiet for me around Noon. Ethan: [00:00:19] Is that because most of your team is overseas? Dar...