Bootstrapped

In this episode, we talk about Laracon, holding a conference in New York, Snappy Concierge, experimental coding, Scribbleton, the Mac app store, the Bootstrapped.fm conference, managing product websites, and disruptive businesses. The Bootstrapped.fm Conference Snappy Concierge Scribbleton Ada Lovelace and Edsger Dijkstra Dijkstra – Discipline in Thought (video) Cliffski’s strategic risks and opportunities (for Positech)   If you’d like to sign-up to be notified about the details of the Bootstrapped.fm conference, you can do so on the conference page at http://conference.bootstrapped.fm If you’d like to participate in the discussion surrounding the conference dates, venues, speakers, location, etc, we’ve set up a forum thread for that.   Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers »  

In this episode we discuss talking at conferences, Star Wars, and sci-fi, video games, Ludum Dare and game dev competitions, the current Antair project list, user interfaces for kids’ apps, Scribbleton, multi-platform development, Snappy, domain registrars, and the Oculus Rift for virtual offices.   Laracon Rachel Andrew – Conference speaking, transparency and fairness. Draplin Design Co. —  the talk Ian referred to in the show. Mike Rowe TED Talk Rendezvous with Rama A Dark Room (web version) – and the iOS version Pug vs. Nemo – Andrey’s Ludum Dare entry. #LOWREZ JAM 2014 Scribbleton Snappy Gail Goodman – The Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death Heavy Rain – and the VR glasses video.   Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers »  

This week we discuss profanity, Microconf, Peersconf, business evolution, Andrey Do-gooder, product trials, Notch and motivation beyond money, Minecraft, multiple saas apps, acquiring products and building vs buying, coder vs marketer, Andrey should do an ebook Stampy Minecraft videos UI Breakfast Ian’s Microconf slides @sil MicroISV From Vision to Reality Andrey’s Dr.Dobbs article NYT Now Long Island Herald Drip email marketing So You Want to Be a Wall Street Programmer Discuss this weeks episode on the forums Also, don’t miss the short After Dark episode this week.

Another few minutes on this weeks podcast where we discuss things to do in New York City.

In 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 episode with other bootstrappers »  

In 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 to jump to Oculus Notch’s blog post on the Oculus/Facebook situation Michael Abrash’s presentation on presence and VR Palmer Luckey on Reddit   Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers »  

We 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 you want to use GPL Laracon Andrey’s first open source project Ian’s talks at Microconf and Peers Failconf Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers

In 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  

We 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 article) Groupon Marketing Flappy Bird download analysis article Bill Gates can’t install Windows 8.1   Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers.  

Download 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 Romero Pardot Infusionsoft Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja   Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers.    

Download 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 – Andrey’s new all time favorite game Heavy Rain Spec Ops: The Line Don Quixote God Emperor of Dune – Dune series Sia – Breathe Me Sarah Grayson – voiceover actress The Last of Us Bioshock Infinite Tony Baker – voiceover in Bioshock Lost Planet 3 Bill Watterson – voiceover Lost Planet OUR FORUMS, YOU SHOULD BE CHECKING THIS OUT Coffice – mmkkk Cold email thread – growth hacking spam Hubspot Recurly Chargify Kanban The Year Without Pants – Book about remote work Microconf – Ian is speaking at this, too late for tickets if you d

Download 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 Sturgeon/Laravel discussion. Amy Hoy – 5 years of SaaS growth. Seinfeld – Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Gone Home    Discuss this episode.

Special 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 Brice on Bootstrapped.fm Oculus virtual reality headset Discuss this episode

Download 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 Notch live-coding for Ludum Dare 28, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. The Story of Minecraft – documentary Chris Fidao (@fideloper) 2013 year in review – forum thread Lessons Learned: The First Two Years of Running a Consultancy Open salaries at Buffer Laracon 2014 in NYC Selling an e-commerce store, with a follow-up   Discuss this episode in our Bootstrapper forums  

This 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/organizer Old Bidsketch video demo Eric Sink’s on the Business of Software   Discuss this episode on our Bootstrapper forums.  

Download 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 – Real time messaging service for web and mobile apps. Found – Elasticsearch hosting. 24ways – Web design and development goodness. Founder made $99 from an $82 million dollar exit. A year of selling physical products. Gavin and Craig of RetroDreamer.   Discuss this show over on our Bootstrapper forums.

Download 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 – Happy Snappy customer PHP Townhall Podcast Light Table IDE  Festivus Healthcare.gov – You probably haven’t heard of this site Supportops Andy Brice software consulting Drip – email marketing via drip campaigns Rachel Andrew’s Newsletter – sign up at the bottom of the page Ruben Gamaz interview Hover.com Discuss the show over on our Bootstrappers forum

Download 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 software is going to $0.00” theory Edge of My Seat – Perch, Rachel Andrew, Drew McLellan Rachel Andrew on Bootstrapped.fm SupportOps.co – Chase Clemons Chase Clemons on Bootstrapped.fm So You Want To Be A Wall Street Programmer? – Andrey’s Book Ian’s newsletter SuccessfulSoftware.net – Andy Brice Andy Brice on Bootstrapped.fm   Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers in the forums.  

Download 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 to the board if you’re interested. Business of Software Conference Developers, Entrepreneurs and Depression ACT! CRM Microconf Optimizely Track.io Lego Star Wars movies The Crafted Kup – Ian’s local coffee house Everpix – Everpix Verge article Backblaze – awesome backup Tattly Not the guy we talked about, but another selling soup via bike Readdle Discuss the show over on our forums

Download 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, celebrities in NYC, the new Panic office, and a day of doing nothing at work.   Arq, Crashplan – backup software. VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion – VM software. HipChat – private group chat. Rachel Andrew – Founder of Perch. Chargify,  Stripe – Recurding billing and payments services. HubSpot – inbound marketing software. KISSmetrics, Mixpanel – analytics and metrics tools. Trak.io – Ian’s preferred metric app (for now). Optimizely – A/B testing tool. Seasonal stores The Living Room NYC Panic office – founder’s room.   Discuss this