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Part two of our talk with Brandon Kelly about Craft CMS, pricing, support, and Pixel and Tonic.

Part one of our talk with Brandon Kelly about Craft CMS, politics, domains, and Pixel and Tonic.

#79: (Part 2) Patrick Pohler on Starting an API Based Real Estate SaaS

#78: Patrick Pohler (Part 1) on Starting an API Based Real Estate SaaS

Our guest in this episode is JD Graffam, owner of two agencies, Clear Function and Simple Focus, and several SaaS products, including Sifter, Pulse, and Ballpark.

We discuss the passing of Andrey's dog Cleo, moving company business models, standing desks, where you can find real news, founder vacation time needs, Ian's new ebook, Ian's hackentosh, autonomous cars. Unpakt Autonomous.ai standing desks Ian's ebook, Securing the Five Figure Sale River Raid Sky Force Reloaded Monsters and Monocles Thanks to Linode for sponsoring this episode. Sign up today and get $20 off.

In this episode we talk about Ian's trip to Laracon, politics, working on multiple projects simultaneously, working on web apps vs other types of products, The Hive, changes at Userscape, dogs, naps, contractors, Twitch, board games, and kids growing up.

We're joined by our friend Matt Weinberg to chat about growing a large consultancy, software, hiring, and more. A lot of great insights in this one, don't miss it!

In this week's episode, Ian and Andrey talk about going to the gym, living on Long Island, Andrey's car buying adventures, Richard Stallman's speaking requirements, new iOS APIs, Twitter, Facebook, VR, game development, customizing products for individual customers, consulting work. Richard Stallman speaker visit Craft/ExpressionEngine NYC meetup Star Trek Bridge Crew in VR Batman Arkham VR "It’s been 6 weeks since I gave up on ever doing product again, and I feel great."

We discuss naps and meditation, new HelpSpot pricing, business ideas, is Andrey and introvert?, BaconBiz conf, Butov goes to Buffalo, new product work and ideas, and car leasing.

In this episode, Ian and Andrey talk to Jane Portman about her company, UI Breakfast, her new book for SaaS founders, building a business, and UI/UX for SaaS web applications.

Hating snow blowers, BaconBiz, going to the gym, driving to places you should be flying to, Rocket League, Quintu, Scribbleton, profit-generating companies and VC backing, seeing the path of a company as an outsider, favorite songs.

Andrey has never seen Breaking Bad, SaaStr review, Butov does PR and advertising, adventures in email, Ian drops an idea for a product you should steal but probably won't, Butov's Brooklyn, A Chef's Life.

In this episode, we talk about Mr. Rogers, releasing How Are Sales Today, writing desktop apps in C++, Parse closing and Uberdeck, Scribbleton, Userscape's new office, Userscape's partner program.

In this episode, we talk about Star Wars, how much Ian loves it and how much Andrey hates it, synchronizing hardware between home and office, code signing and certificate confirmation, international currencies and writing currency exchange code for How Are Sales Today, direct sales, the Userscape marketing plan for 2016, tracking advertising, adding more features vs releasing software earlier, and on-premise vs. software in the cloud. How Are Sales Today? Sales and SaaS metrics for Stripe The Joker: Mark Hamill Brad Bell's talk from Peers 2015 Andrey's talk from Peers 2015 Thanks to Backup Pro for sponsoring this weeks show. Get 50% off with coupon code bootstrapped.fm Also thanks to Linode for sponsoring this weeks show. Get $20 off your first month with code: bootstrapped20

This week Andrey doesn't tell me I'm on the wrong mic until half way through and we also cover acronyms, Jessica Jones, babysitter acquisition strategies, How Are Sales Today update, HelpSpot update, we go through Andrey Butov's favorite movies and TV shows.

In this episode, we talk about the new app from Quantic Insights, opening up a business bank account, meditation, mellowing out with age, new Userscape office, and Fallout 4. Deploy PHP How Are Sales Today? (or QiBar). The new app from Quantic Insights Jerry Seinfeld talks Transcendental Meditation