Bootstrapped

Download this episode, in which we give away an amazing social mobile podcast product idea, Blackberry (sorry), App stores, Andrey’s gripes with Laravel 4 and other techy things, asset management in front end web development, Vi, Breaking Bad finale!!!, Living in NYC, Perch CMS meetup, Business of Software conference Blackberry sale Number Two Antair Notes on Amazon App Store Twitter Ads (also great just to see your RT’s/Fav’s even if you don’t buy ads) Laravel 4 PHP framework Grunt – JS task runner Sentry Laravel Auth Library Sublime Text PhpStorm FogCreek Wasabi Business of Software Conference – 10% off with code “bootstrap” Perch CMS meetup Discuss this episode in our bootstrapper forums

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest, Andy Brice, to discuss Perfect Table Plan, software marketing, creating desktop software vs. SaaS web apps, software pricing, cross-platform development with QT, analytics, measuring how many people are ‘word-of-mouth’ customers, Andy’s 2-day intensive training course on starting your own software business, practical software products, the legacy of shareware, the effect of SaaS apps on lifestyle, A/B testing, Adwords, email vs. helpdesk system for one-person companies, and martial arts.   Andy Brice at http://www.successfulsoftware.net, and on twitter at  http://twitter.com/successfulsw Perfect Table Plan – Andy’s flagship product. Andy’s two-day intensive training course on starting your own software business. QT Andy’s article on software award scams. Andy will be a speaker at MicroConf Europe (Prague) on Oct 5-6 Association of Software Professionals Thomas Warfield – Pretty Good Solitaire Andy’s Article – “Shareware is Dead – Lon

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss their appearances on other podcasts, depression caused by taking consulting work, how Andrey will structure his day, Apple keynote and how new hardware relates to mobile development, releasing software in the app store, SaaS searching tech and more. Chasing Product podcast DNL Consulting Apple iPhone 5s/5c keynote Fertile Ground – Marco Arment on supporting new mobile API’s Number Two – Andrew Garrison on his mobile release strategy Antair Sodoku for Playbook Successful Software blog Perfect Table Planner – table seating planner Start Your Own Software Business training course Found.no hosted Elasticsearch Hack Fitconference The ALL NEW HelpSpot.com

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss Laracon EU, Snappy, web app activity tracking and analytics, Uberdeck, marketing as your primary daily activity, Andrey’s next app, native clients vs. mobile web apps vs. responsive design for a SaaS product, front-end web dev frameworks, annual SaaS billing, getting dumber, Vincent van Gogh, San Francisco, Napa Valley, and Texas.   Laracon EU Snappy 3-tier pricing Uberdeck iDeveloper.co – podcast for iOS developers. ChasingProduct.com – podcast for consultants looking to move into products. PhoneGap Responsive Design jQuery Mobile Backbone.js Forecast.io – blog post on building their web/mobile app Dark Sky app – from the folks who brought you Forecast.io Ember.js AngularJS Zepto.js Forbes – how much do average apps make? The Other F Word Unfinished Business Podcast – episode 33 (Sorry for the crappy audio quality on Andrey’s side in this episode; he’ll get it right one of these days).  

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest Chase Clemons of  SupportOps to discuss customer service for bootstrappers. We also get an  Uberdeck update on leaving beta and pricing strategy. This episode is being cross released on both Bootstrapped.fm and  Support Ops Podcast. Check them out! 37Signals Support Ops and the  Support Ops Podcast Uberdeck is released! Andrey’s  Essential Voice Recorder – type notes while you record audio (Android) Basecamp Mobile Bootstrapped customer service and  using self service walls threads on discuss.bootstrapped.fm Pingdom Amazon Prime – Love the prime, buy the prime!!!! (Ian) GetSatisfaction CoSupport Support Ops Hangouts – Watch Chase live every Monday

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest Rachel Andrew from EdgeOfMySeat.com, to discuss Perch, the really little CMS, the new Bootstrapped.fm forums, marketing, customer support, product dependencies, how important personal visibility is to your business, content management systems, writing and speaking, and self-publishing.   Rachel Andrew Perch: the really little CMS – Rachel’s product. EdgeOfMySeat.com – Rachel’s company. Drew McLellan – Rachel’s husband and business partner. Drew on 24 Ways. The Perch Podcast Bootstrapped.fm Forums The Perch website was designed by Paddy Donnelly of Lefft. The birds were drawn by Kev Adamson. Rachel will have a workshop on Shipping Your Product at the Future of Web Apps. She also has a version of the workshop available as a Smashing Workshop. Big thanks to Mike Jones, for making http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm come alive. Discourse – forum software. Discussion on serving different sections of the market for one product. Discussion regard

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss Andrey’s new mobile apps, doing press releases in unique cases, HARO, bringing on a partner, Valentino movie, Breaking Bad, Andrey on being abducted, dress code in fancy steak joints, optimal steak restaurant design, Snappy marketing, doing a giveaway _ Note: this podcast was recorded before we released http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm, next week we’ll discuss that in more detail_. Bootstrapped Ep 15 with Special guest Patrick McKenzie Be a source on Help a Reporter Out We ate a huge steak at  http://www.peterluger.com/ with DNL Business movie: Valentino: The Last Emperor Black Books show BREAKING BAD!! Çingleton Mailgun Patrick McKenzie’s drip email series Rafflecopter – great app for running giveaways Taylor Otwell’s Laravel book Guest next week Rachel Andrew Discuss this episode:  http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/episode-16-meat-and-attitude/74

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest, Patrick McKenzie (patio11), to discuss the “early” days of the Business of Software forums, Patrick’s journey and daily routine, Helpdesk systems and support, Appointment Reminder,  systemizing and automating daily tasks, SaaS, B2C vs. B2B, pricing of software, consulting, learning from Blackhats, Hacker News, marketing, Uberdeck, making money from open source, dual-licensing, running a conference, hacker meetups, Patrick’s biggest mistake in business, Patrick’s next product, and Facebook games.   Special guest  Patrick McKenzie (patio11) of  Kalzumeus. Business of Software Forums – Joel on Software. Bingo Card Creator – Patrick’s first product. Appointment Reminder – Patrick’s second product. Helpspot – Ian’s first product. Snappy – Ian’s latest product. Antair Spam Filter – One of Andrey’s first products. Uberdeck – Andrey’s latest product Andy Brice, and his Perfect Table Plan product. Jon B and his ViEmu, vi emulator for Visual S

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest Scott Watermasysk. We get the back story on KickoffLabs Scott’s company, Andrey laments about having to do “stuff”, we don’t get Quora, we go deep on Uberdeck pricing strategy, how Agant went back to being a one person shop, starting solo or with a co-founder, Ship It!, a few landing page tips from Scott. Special guest  Scott Watermasysk of KickoffLabs IBM Ideating commercial CampaignMonitor pricing What Next for Agant Rise of the Millon Dollar One Person Business

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss getting ready to deploy Uberdeck, Snappy progress, what’s next for Snappy marketing, stories of first job interviews, the benefits, if any, of a college education, selling into the consumer space, the experience of buying software in a box, selling software before making software and vetting product ideas. Uberdeck – Andrey’s new product. ( preview screenshot) Fabric – a Python SSH tool. Snappy – Ian’s newest product. SupportOps.co – a site dedicated to customer support best practices. Helpspot – Ian’s first product; a helpdesk application. SmallSpec.com – Chris Hawkins‘ new product for building functional specs. Boiler Room – movie. Songwriter gets paid $16 for 1 million plays. xkcd – the pace of modern life.      

Download this episode, in which Andrey and Ian discuss mistakes with Snappy’s initial website, building multiple products vs focusing on a single product, fixing the app store, recommendations on going into the mobile space, and Derek Sivers new company and how he outsourced it all. FocusLab Slambots – the latest RetroDreamer game Marco on removing mobile app store top lists Spider Web Games CD Baby Sivers article on new company

Download this episode, in which Andrey and Ian sit down with Carl Diesing from DNL OmniMedia, and Chris Hawkins from Cogeian Systems, to talk about bootstrapping a successful software consulting company. Chris Hawkins on Twitter, and his website with lots of good articles and advice. Cogeian Systems – The software consultancy where Chris is the founder. Carl Diesing on Twitter DNL OmniMedia – The software consultancy where Carl is a co-founder. Expensd– DNL’s SaaS product SmallSpec – Chris’ new SaaS product Parscale Media – A consulting software company mentioned by Ian during the show. Chasing Product – Chris’ new podcast  

Download this episode, in which we go over the launch of Snappy, the Laravel 4 release, taking care of kids and kid gym options, Bootstrap conferences, app metrics and Infoproducts! Snappy goes live Eric Sink on pricing Laravel 4 – THE PHP framework Laravel three docs DNL Omnimedia Cogeian The Little Gym Gymboree Imitation Gruel – Andrey referenced this, check it out JDate BaconBizConf – Original announcement  Bidsketch Dribbble Focus Lab SmoothMouse Beach Haven, NJ Kissmetrics Mixpanel – recommended So You Want To Be a Wall Street Programmer Authority by Nathan Barry

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey discuss Uberdeck, system administration, pricing strategies, news coverage for startups, Jeff Atwood, Trello, and Snappy. Uberdeck – Andrey’s latest project Alwin Hoogerdijk (collectorz.com) – on email marketing Campaign Monitor – email campaign service DNS Made Easy – DNS service Amazon Route 53 – DNS service Linode – hosting for Uberdeck Trello – project management Coding Horror – Jeff Atwood’s blog Amazon SQS – hosted message queue service EngineHosting – hosting for Snappy Snappy – Ian’s latest product PG Experts – PostgreSQL expert services BugSnag – real-time bug intelligence AsyncHttp – HTTP library for Android James Smith – creator of BugSnag and AsyncHttp for Android. Discourse – Jeff Atwood’s forum software Eric Sink – on the business of software

Download this episode, where Ian and Andrey discuss sweet games, SaaS downtime, UserScape Bizarro Week, Brooklyn, Microconf and more. Bioshock Infinite – Andrey says this is one of the great games of all times with perhaps the best ending of all time Heavy Rain – Another great game Rainbow Six – Classic The Secret of Monkey Island – I assume you’ve all heard of and played this Supervisor – A process control system DB Tenancy Information EngineHosting – Private resource clusters for your big app needs Review of Google Play on Nook Google 20% time explained Fogcreek remote work position Park Slope, Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Setting up an office for a software company – Details on Andrey’s office setup for Antair Microconf – Ian will eventually make it to this conference Summary of Jason Cohen Microconf 2013 talk Microconf take away summary Jason Cohen: Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: MRR/25 – Interesting article on how to determine what you should be willing to bid for your cost per click ads

Download this episode, where Ian and Andrey discuss the Apple app store release process, making video games for a living, people and companies that “get it”, fonts for web development, trademarks and names, Helvetica – Documentary about the typeface (and design, in general). Indie Game the Movie – Documentary that follows several indie game developers. What Now podcast – Gavin’s and Andrey’s podcast about making mobile apps for a living. Typography.com – the site Andrey was referring to when he mentioned “typeface.com” in the episode. Google Fonts Typekit Snappy Focus Lab – The design team behind Snappy. Bloomberg by Bloomberg PasteVault WordPress open source terms of service and privacy policy. Tom Pitegoff – Ian’s (Userscape’s) corporate lawyer. Patrick McKenzie Lean Startup Uberdeck Antair Snippets TechZing podcast Tim Ferriss –

Download this episode, where Ian and Andrey discuss screen real estate, hiring a part time developer, Apple II parts, a segment which went way too long on Authorize.net, funding open source projects and code naming. See Andrey’s setup Divvy – Mac windows manager Antair part time developer position – 20-30 hours a month Hacker News – Hacker New Popular Twitter stream Vienna RSS – Andrey’s choice for a Mac desktop RSS reader Dave Winer discusses the concept of a River of News – (audio) Temperature in David Letterman’s studio is 58 degrees ( ref) Apple II store – This is awesome Wall-E Description of Andrey’s first app – sadly no actual zip provided Authorize.net – (please use Stripe or other modern solutions) Merchant Accounts Stripe Brian Kernighan’s “Advanced Programming Techniques” PasteVault.com – expiring text/passwords Gittip Info on Shareware, for you kids OpenJDK – open source Java Go to UberDeck and sign up for the beta Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about a gauntlet of client work, consulting, competitors, talking about your product early, stock options and bonuses, a little bit on wall street programming, hiring, contributing to open source, life after programming, and movies! Links: Bitsplitting Podcast – episode 2, with Erika Hall of Mule Design Studio. Shipping an Empty Box – Andrey’s blog post about supporting large companies. Helpspot – Ian’s product. Snappy – Ian’s newest product. Uberdeck – Andrey’s upcoming product. Snappy on Dribble Bill Cosby, “Himself” – full stand-up special Code Rush – full documentary Jamie Zawinski Viola web browser Eric Sink – wrote the browser that eventually became Internet Explorer DNA Lounge – nightclub owned by Jamie Zawinski DNA Pizza – pizza joint owned by Jamie Zawinski The Living Room in NYC Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee – Seinfeld’s online show Startup.com – full movie 12 Weeks with Geeks – full movie Pirates of Silicon Valley – full movie Triumph of the N

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey cover a host of issues, including an apology of sorts to Patrick McKenzie, a discussion on if in fact the customer is always right, how you support .99 cent apps, non-mistakes from Ian’s past, VC funding and an extremely important tax tip! Links: Appointment Reminder – by Patrick McKenzie Patrick McKenzie Interview Podcast with Patrick & Amy Hoy Freckle Shutting down Charm – Interesting look at shutting down a SaaS app before it launches History of “the customer is always right” What Now Podcast – Andrey’s other podcast Retro Dreamer Automattic Hosting – WordPress hosting Spiderweb Games – RPG games (not $.99!) Ian’s ChatSpot Live non-mistake – Glad I didn’t build it, but still like the logo by Mike Rohde Creating a Business Logo – history of UserScape & HelpSpot logo’s Mixergy Paul Singh Interview Spryfox Rob Walling Stackoverflow initial VC funding Startup.com Movie Stardock Figure53 Atlassian financing Section 199 Domestic Production Tax Credit – this

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about not being able to remember anything that happened before today, Ian’s rules for the practical entrepreneur, having so many products that you can’t list them all, entering a fragmented market, preferring B2B, The Pivot, Andrey not having any kind of strategy for choosing which products to make, damned phones, when selling to a business is not really selling to a business, clear and simple revenue model, bridging the internet world with the real world, not using your own products, doing support, how recent the 90’s were, dealing with criticism, competitors who are clearly doing it wrong, Steve Jobs being brilliant at what he does, customers not caring about which technology you use, being the perfect developer for your own company, bootstrapping a company when you have kids, the sense of being continuously rushed, BioIsChanged.com, DAS Keyboard, and customer-hosted vs. SaaS. Links: Ian’s 4 Rules for the Practical Entrepreneur $10,000 – Ian’s sale number