Ed Freyfogle
Co-founder of OpenCage
Appears in 118 Episodes
#197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment
Ed is recovering from an accident, so Steve goes solo in this episode. Ed's accident gets Steve musing on the unpredictability of life, and what we can do to partly pr...
#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
Simon runs SnapShooter, a service that performs scheduled server backups. We discuss:why backups is NOT a dull businesshow the pandemic pushed him to make the jump to ...
#199: Creating a successful podcast with Jane Portman of UI Breakfast
Jane Portman is the host of UI Breakfast, a podcast covering UI/UX design, products, marketing. Jane recently crossed the 2 million downloads milestone. Jane and I d...
#200: Positioning for bootstrappers with April Dunford
April Dunford has a well-deserved reputation as the expert in product positioning within the tech industry. April and I discussed how bootstrappers can go about produc...
#201: Running an email newsletter business, with Peter Cooper of Cooperpress
I chat with Peter Cooper, who runs several email newsletters, including JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, React Status, and Postgres Weekly. These all live under the col...
#202: Bridget Harris, co-founder of YouCanBookMe
Bridget is co-founder and CEO of YouCanBook.me, an online scheduling tool. I chat with Bridget Harris about the 10-year journey of starting and growing her company as ...
#203: A recap of the interview mini-season
I conclude the mini season of interviews with a brief summary of the five interviews I conducted. A few weeks ago, my cohost had a cycling that student that broke his ...
#204: Ed can speak again
Ed tells us about his accident he had, and the impact it had on his life and business. He also talks about how it got him reflecting about his business.
#205: A rapid Saber Feedback update
I give Ed an update on what I've achieved on Saber Feedback in recent months.A new app design, ripping out the SPA architecture, replacing our payment processor with P...
#206: Looking back at our goals for 2021
Back in episode 163, Ed and I set our goals for 2021. In this episode we look back at those goals and we ask ourselves, how well did we do in achieving them?Steve ment...
#207: Our goals for 2022
Ed and I discuss the goals we'd like to achieve in 2022.While we were recording this episode, we had some problems with our recording software. Now I was able to rescu...
#208: The dismal deeds of a desperate competitor
This week I go solo and rant about the dismal deeds of a desperate competitor. I also talk about the freedom that bootstrapping gives us to change our approach, our st...
#209: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 1
Ed Freyfogle shares with us his 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS. This is based on Ed's talk he prepared for MicroConf late last year, but was unable to deliver ...
#210: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 2
Part 2 of Ed Freyfogle's 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS.There was a lot of good content in this recording and we recorded for much longer than usual. So we hav...
#211: Strengthening company culture in a remote team with Peldi of Balsamiq
Frequent guest Peldi, founder of Balsamiq, makes another welcome appearance.We talk about some ways to strengthen company culture in a fully-remote team, we discuss ad...
#212: When, if ever, should we refuse a customer?
We talk about Ed's launch of his new product line.That leads into a meandering conversation about ethics and personal beliefs and values. In particular, when a custome...
#213: Charles Perry, founder of RelaNet
Ed interviews Charles Perry, founder of RelaNet. Charles was the co-host of Release Notes, a long-running podcast that Charles and his co-host recently ended.It's a g...
#214: I hired a marketer
Ed and I chat about my recent experience hiring a marketing manager for Feature Upvote. Amongst other topics, we discuss how I went about finding the right person.
#215: The domain name change that didn't go as planned, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester.com
I chat with Robert Brandl, founder of ToolTester.com. We talk about Robert's recent experience changing the domain name of his website. It was an expensive experience,...
#216: Trademarking your bootstrapped business
Ed tells me why and how he obtained a trademark for his business. We discuss when it is worthwhile to do this. We then talk about the trouble with having competitors c...
