Episodes

Ed and Steve talk about recent challenges and successes in their bootstrapped SaaS businesses. Ed tells of the agony of doing enterprise sales. Steve admits to  self-doubt when waiting for SEO results.

Moritz Dausinger, founder of refiner.io, chats about his success as a serial founder of bootstrapped SaaS products. He founded and sold two B2B SaaS apps, and now he's doing it a third time.

Ed and Steve discuss the endless burden of busy-work that comes with running a business - and how we try to minimise it.

Discounts, discounts, discounts! Ed and I discuss how we respond to customers asking for discounts, whether we should offer Cyber Monday offers, and how offering discounts can hurt future sales.

Alex runs a successful help desk software company with only 3 employees, competing in a crowded market.

Robin Warren of Corrello tells me how he finds and recruits freelance developers for his bootstrapped software company.

I seek Ed’s advice on some Saber Feedback stuff. We talk about pricing, free plans, legacy framework woes, and database hosting.

Ed and I discuss knowledge sharing for bootstrappers, and even for one-person teams. How do you make sure the important knowledge for your business gets remembered, shared, and used?

I answer several questions from a loyal listener who wants advice on building a B2B SaaS similar in scope and style to my product, Feature Upvote.

Robert Brandl of ToolTester Network built his company by developing excellent SEO skills. In this episode he turns his skills to Saber Feedback, and gives me awesome advice on how to solve my SEO problems.

Ed Freyfogle is back again. This week he interviews Steve on his progress with Saber Feedback, six months after acquisition.

Ed Freyfogle steps in for me this week and interviews Hrishi Mittal, founder of online learning platform Learnetto.

Laura Roeder talks about why she doesn't do demo calls unlike most other SaaS founders - and how bootstrapping frees you up to run your business the way that works for you.

Kevin McArdle of SureSwift Capital has acquired almost 40 online businesses, most of them B2B SaaS products.

Ed reintroduces himself, Steve shares his experience of making it to the front page of Hacker News, and we discuss Quaderno's 5-hour work day and Wildbit's 4-day work week.

Patrick Hathaway is the cofounder of Sitebulb, a website auditing tool for SEO consultants and agencies. Patrick tells us why he made a desktop app when his competitors offer cloud apps.

When, if ever, should you, should make changes to your product's code that don't change its external behaviour?

We revisit the goals we made in January 2020. We consider what progress we've made despite the current massive global uncertainty.

In April 2020, I acquired Saber Feedback, a small SaaS app, from its owner and founder.

This was a painful episode to record. I had problems getting some customers to pay. How I handled it was a cascade of mistakes. I tell Ed the story, and he gives me advice on what I should have done.