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The Usual SaaS-pects with Ch Daniel

The Usual SaaS-pects with Ch Daniel

By Ch Daniel

SaaS, pricing, business, life, and more. A podcast that goes hand-in-hand with /r/SaaS, hosted by Ch Daniel

Check out Daniel's simple.ink - a website builder for Notion. No-code websites, built in ~30sec.
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🏅 27. Christian Friedland (ex Build.com)

The Usual SaaS-pects with Ch DanielNov 16, 2021

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🏅 37. Patrick Campbell (Profitwell, now Paddle)

🏅 37. Patrick Campbell (Profitwell, now Paddle)

(Bio courtesy of Indie Hackers podcast)

We're talking to Patrick Campbell, an indie founder who just sold his company for $200,000,000. That's an insane nine figure exit for a bootstrapped founder. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about his champagne problems and what indie hackers need to know today to get to where he is more quickly.


Patrick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/patticus

Paddle : https://www.paddle.com/

ProfitWell: https://profitwell.com/


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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://usesignhouse.com/

Jul 05, 202201:39:18
🏅 36. Leo Bassam (Plutio)

🏅 36. Leo Bassam (Plutio)

Leo Bassam is an entrepreneur and the CEO & founder of Plutio.

Their Twitter bio reads: "Founder @plutio_app. Roaming the world with an incredible remote team as we pave the way for anyone to start, run and grow their business from anywhere"

Leo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/loaibassam

Plutio's website: https://www.plutio.com/


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Links


Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://usesignhouse.com/

Jun 03, 202201:10:54
🏅 35. Chris Do (The Futur, Blind)
May 30, 202236:15
🏅 34. Josh Pigford (Maybe Finance, Baremetrics)

🏅 34. Josh Pigford (Maybe Finance, Baremetrics)

Josh Pigford


Josh Pigford is a serial entrepreneur. He is the creator of Maybe.co, Baremetrics.io, Temper.io, PopSurvey.com, PugSpot, Tiny Farmstead and other little bits of internet stuff. Josh's most recent business is Maybe. Their website reads "In 2021 I founded Maybe where we're helping folks take control of their financial future. I also run Laser Tweets because we all need something ridiculous to do."


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Links


Maybe Finance: https://maybe.co/

Josh's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shpigford

Josh's Personal Website: https://joshpigford.com/


Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://simple.ink/notion-forms

Apr 21, 202247:36
🏅 33. Pierre De Wulf (ScrapingBee)

🏅 33. Pierre De Wulf (ScrapingBee)

Pierre's Bio (c/o NoCode Wealth Podcast)


Pierre de Wulf is the co-founder of ScrappingBee, a service that handles headless browsers and rotates proxies for you.

Pierre is bootstrapping ScrappingBee, currently making $1 million ARR with a team of 3, and sharing all the lessons learned along the way.


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Links


Pierre's Twitter: https://twitter.com/PierreDeWulf

ScrapingBee: https://www.scrapingbee.com/


Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Apr 19, 202201:10:14
🏅 32. Pat Walls (Starter Story)

🏅 32. Pat Walls (Starter Story)

Pat's bio (c/o Indie Bites Podcast)

Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started their business and how they grew it, including revenue figures for every business they interview.


Pat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls

StarterStory: https://www.starterstory.com/

Pat's personal website: https://patwalls.com/

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/notion-forms

Apr 07, 202201:32:42
🏅 31. Dennis Hegstad (LiveRecover, OrderBump)

🏅 31. Dennis Hegstad (LiveRecover, OrderBump)

Dennis' bio (courtesy of Ecommerce Conversations podcast)

Dennis Hegstad co-founded LiveRecover, a real-time SMS app, in 2018. He sold the company in 2021. "I became bored," he said. So he purchased OrderBump, a Shopify app for product upsells.

Dennis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennishegstad

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://simple.ink/notion-forms

Mar 31, 202254:40
🏅 30. Rob Walling: How To Price Your SaaS
Mar 18, 202201:41:19
🏅 29. Brian Casel: How To Get Acquired 10 Times (ZipMessage.com)

🏅 29. Brian Casel: How To Get Acquired 10 Times (ZipMessage.com)

Brian's bio

Brian Casel is a serial founder who currently runs ZipMessage.com. In the past, they've built (and sold many of the following): ProcessKit, Big Snow Tiny Conf, Audience Ops, Productize, Thready, SunriseKPI, Ops Calendar, Restaurant Engine, Hotel Propeller, WP Bids, ThemeJam.

Their website reads: I love the hard, creative work of designing products just as much as my mission to build a business that lasts. Join thousands and follow along.


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Links


Brian's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CasJam

Zip Message: https://zipmessage.com

Brian's website: https://briancasel.com/


Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/notion-forms/

Mar 16, 202201:49:54
🏅 28. Tyler Robertson (DieselLaptops.com)

🏅 28. Tyler Robertson (DieselLaptops.com)

Tyler's Bio (from his Reddit AmA)


"6 Years ago I quit my full time job to start a business. We’ve bootstrapped it to over $50 million/year in revenue and just won Top 25 Fastest Growing in SC for 4th year in a row. AMA!"

We are debt free, 185 employees (trying to hire another 20…), and I started it with less then $1000. We’ve just won Top 25 Fastest Growing Companies in South Carolina for the 4th year in a row, and we are still growing around 30% YoY. We also place on the Inc 5000 every year.

We’ve done it the “hard” way — Boot strapping it. We are also going through a bunch of changes. We are figuring out what it means to be a software company, along with transition from the entrepreneur “shoot from the hip” to the professionally managed company that does strategic planning. Both are difficult.


Tyler's Reddit AmA: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/qa5io3/6_years_ago_i_quit_my_full_time_job_to_start_a

Tyler's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-robertson-diesel

Diesel Laptops: https://www.diesellaptops.com/


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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/notion-forms

Dec 07, 202101:23:39
🏅 27. Christian Friedland (ex Build.com)

🏅 27. Christian Friedland (ex Build.com)

Christian's bio (courtesy of Andrew Gazdecki, Microacquire)


Christian Friedland is a highly successful entrepreneur and EY Entrepreneur Of The Year nominee who founded, bootstrapped, scaled, and sold Build.com, the largest pure-play internet retailer in the home improvement space in the U.S.

During his 15-year tenure at Build.com, he led the company from $1M in annual sales to $1B in annual sales (1,000X+ growth), sourced and closed four strategic acquisitions, delivered consistent annual EBITDA growth, and created a unique, winning company culture.

Christian Friedland:

- https://twitter.com/chrisfriedland

- http://build.com/


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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Nov 16, 202101:35:44
🏅 26. Rob Walling (TinySeed, MicroConf, Drip.com)
Oct 28, 202101:24:20
🏅 25. Daniel Vassallo

🏅 25. Daniel Vassallo

Daniel's bio (c/o The Genuinely Interested Podcast) 

Daniel Vassallo used to work for Amazon. By every measuring standard, he should have been happy & content. He was successful, making a high salary, getting promotions, working with great coworkers - all while working for one of the biggest companies in the world. However, over time, Daniel's motivation to work there decreased, and after a lot of internal deliberations, he decided to quit his high 6 figure job at Amazon to pursue the unknown.

He didn't want to live on someone else’s terms so he decided to take his independence into his own hands. What happened next was completely unexpected...

Daniel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvassallo

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://usesignhouse.com/

Oct 25, 202102:46:42
🏅 24. Andrew Gazdecki (MicroAcquire.com)
Sep 29, 202101:28:35
🏅 23. Derrick Reimer (SavvyCal.com)

🏅 23. Derrick Reimer (SavvyCal.com)

Derrick's bio (from their AmA)

Hey, I’m Derrick Reimer, a full-stack developer. I fell in love with the 37signals ethos back in 2009 and I’ve been bootstrapping ever since. I've built and sold StaticKit (acquired 2020), a toolkit of dynamic components for static sites, Codetree (acquired 2016), a way of managing development tasks across multiple repositories, and Drip (acquired 2016), a lightweight marketing automation tool that grew into a leading automation platform.

A year after writing the first line of code for SavvyCal in March of 2020, it passed $10k MRR and we've been growing healthily ever since. SavvyCal is mostly bootstrapped as we took funding from TinySeed back in 2019, before SavvyCal was a thing. We're a lean team of 3, with a marketer and support specialist in addition to myself, possibly soon expanding.

I also co-host the Art of Product podcast with Ben Orenstein (Tuple co-founder) where we've chronicled our journeys building products the last 4 years. It hasn't been all sunshine and roses, like when I spent a year building a Slack competitor and then shut it down.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/derrickreimer

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Sep 27, 202102:12:42
🏅 22. Spencer Fry (Podia.com): A how-to on founders and financial aims

🏅 22. Spencer Fry (Podia.com): A how-to on founders and financial aims

Spencer's bio (from their AmA)

Hey everyone 👋

Excited to talk about all things startups and creator economy, and anything else.

A brief bit of bio:

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Sep 23, 202101:41:26
21. Live AmA, AJ (Carrd.co): Accidentally bootstrapped Carrd to $1M ARR, 3m sites, and a funding round

21. Live AmA, AJ (Carrd.co): Accidentally bootstrapped Carrd to $1M ARR, 3m sites, and a funding round

AJ"s Bio, from their AmA


Hi folks! I'm AJ, the guy behind random projects like HTML5 UP, Pixelarity, and for the last few years Carrd, a platform for creating one-page sites for pretty much anything (from personal profiles to landing pages to ... well, a whole bunch of use cases I never anticipated ;)

Carrd began life back in 2015 as an experiment to see if I could tackle a big project (like a site builder) entirely on my own using skills I'd picked up from years of doing smaller projects. After months of work it finally launched on both Twitter and Product Hunt in early 2016 and despite having zero expectations it ... kind of blew up. Since then Carrd has grown into a platform that hosts over 3.3M sites (built by some 2.2M users), generates over $1M ARR, has become a popular tool in the no-code movement, and has even become something of a phenomenon among various subcultures. Despite all this, Carrd has remained lean (just me on product/dev and my now-cofounder Doni on operations/biz), profitable, and continues to grow organically without any paid marketing or advertising. We did, however, close on a small funding round earlier this year (which might sound weird given that we're profitable but we had our reasons -- happy to elaborate though).

Anyway, ask me anything!

PS: Use code RSAAS21 (or go to try.carrd.co/rsaas21) for 30% off your next Carrd Pro Upgrade or renewal


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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/notion-website-builder

Sep 13, 202101:24:09
🏅 20. James McKinven (Indie Bites): How to start a podcast + personal life chat

🏅 20. James McKinven (Indie Bites): How to start a podcast + personal life chat

I'm a podcaster, video creator and marketer. By day, I'm part of the Growth Team at Welder. By night, I run various different side businesses.
Indie Bites is my podcast, Striqo is my podcast editing service and Whitstable Craft Co is what I do when I need to get away from the screen.

I love starting and building side projects (maybe too much) and I'll make some mistakes as I go. I like to share my thoughts on my blog, which contains candid updates on my progress, failures and general musings.

I also listen to a lot of podcasts, here's what I'm listening to currently.

The content I produce is fuelled by coffee, so if you're feeling generous you can buy me one here coffee here 🚀

I spend a lot of time on the internet, so send out a weekly (or so) email containing my finds for the week and updates from my blog. If you're interested in marketing, podcasting, technology and building side-projects, then I think you'll like my newsletter

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Sep 08, 202103:37:07
🏅 19. Marie Prokopets (Nira.com)
Aug 24, 202101:56:28
18. Live AmA, Brian Dean. Founded Backlinko (5.8M visitors last year), Exploding Topics

18. Live AmA, Brian Dean. Founded Backlinko (5.8M visitors last year), Exploding Topics

Brians' Bio, thanks to his AmA

Brian Dean has been called an "SEO genius" by Entrepreneur.com and a "brilliant entrepreneur" by Inc Magazine. Brian's award-winning blog, Backlinko.com, has been listed by Forbes as a top "blog to follow".

He is an SEO expert and the founder of Backlinko and Exploding Topics (SaaS).

Success Magazine has referred to Brian as "the world’s foremost expert on search engine optimization" due to the influence of his blog, which reaches over 5 million people every year.

Along the way, he's helped dozens of SaaS startups get more traffic, trials and customers from SEO and content marketing.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://www.simple.ink/notion-website-builder

Aug 23, 202101:17:44
🏅17. Rohan Gilkes (/u/localcasestudy, Launch27)

🏅17. Rohan Gilkes (/u/localcasestudy, Launch27)

Rohan's Bio

Hi I'm Rohan, serial entrepreneur I guess, but as I've been building businesses I've done it through a ton of transparent case studies here on Reddit.

On the SaaS front I started Launch27, a software company focused on small service businesses like home cleaning, lawncare etc. Bootstrapped it to almost $2 million a year and sold it in 2019.

Happy to answer anything on the process.

I'll be here for the next 3-4 hours.

Proof: https://twitter.com/rohangilkes/status/1422247974193688578

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Aug 19, 202102:00:39
16. Live AmA, James Gill: Spent half my life (15yrs) building GoSquared. Thousands of happy customers.

16. Live AmA, James Gill: Spent half my life (15yrs) building GoSquared. Thousands of happy customers.

James' Bio

Hi everyone! I’m James Gill (@jamesjgill on Twitter).

I started GoSquared in 2006 when at school (aged 15) with two friends, Geoff and JT. See a timeline of our 15 year history.

Having spent over half my life running company, since before the term “SaaS” was common, I have many scars and war stories to share with anyone who wants to hear them.

In some ways, we’ve built ~10 companies but kept our same core team and company all this time.

🐣 What got us started: thinking we could build a better “Million Dollar Homepage”. We could build it, but no one cared.

🗺 What got us on the map: LiveStats (now GoSquared Analytics) – the first real-time website analytics tool.

📈 How we’ve grown: Zero sales. 90% content. Running a blog since 2007. Building a product that doesn’t suck.

🤔 Challenge today: Competing with juggernauts like Intercom, Hubspot in the wider space of growth software with a tiny team.

—— Links 

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Aug 12, 202101:06:46
🏅15. Jason Fried (Basecamp, HEY.com)

🏅15. Jason Fried (Basecamp, HEY.com)

Jason Fried is the Founder & CEO @Basecamp, the project management and team communication tool trusted by millions.

Over an incredible 22 year journey, they have scaled to over 3.5M accounts and in 2020 they went back to being a multi-product company with the launch of their integrated email client & service, HEY.com. Jason is also the co-author of the widely acclaimed, REWORK (but also other books) and has also made several angel investments in the likes of Intercom, Gumroad and Hodinkee to name a few.

Best place to find Jason: world.hey.com/jason  

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Links 

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas 

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel 

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Aug 10, 202101:22:56
🏅14. Rob Fitzpatrick ("The Mom Test" + more)

🏅14. Rob Fitzpatrick ("The Mom Test" + more)

Rob's Bio, from his website: https://robfitz.com/  

Heya. I’ve been running little businesses for the past fourteen years and have written three books about what I’ve learned.  If you’d like to stay in the loop about my projects and thinking, the best place is my youtube channel. Alternatively, you can also receive an occasional email when I’ve got something worth sharing.  My next decade is devoted to serving indie nonfiction authors via a handbook, better tools for beta reading, a nonfiction authors’ community, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to write nonfiction that works for your readers and succeeds for you, then join us.  I live in a teensy tiny mountain village in upper Catalonia 📷

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Aug 05, 202101:14:15
🏅13. Jason Cohen (WPEngine.com)

🏅13. Jason Cohen (WPEngine.com)

Jason's Bio

Jason is the founder and CTO of WP Engine (http://wpengine.com), the 7th-largest public website host in the world (and the largest that focusses on WordPress), serving 150,000 customers with 1000 employees, both distributed and with major offices in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Australia. As a successful, repeat entrepreneur (Smart Bear, sold 2008; IT WatchDogs, sold 2004), Jason became a founding mentor and angel investor with Austin's top incubator, Capital Factory, in 2009. He has written about startups for more than a decade at http://blog.asmartbear.com; Twitter is @asmartbear.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Aug 03, 202102:26:35
🏅12. Vlad Magdalin (Webflow.com)
Jul 08, 202101:22:44
🏅11. Chris Frantz (Snazzy.ai, acquired by Unbounce)
Jul 08, 202102:16:52
🏅10. Emmanuel Straschnov (Bubble.io)

🏅10. Emmanuel Straschnov (Bubble.io)

Emmanuel (https://twitter.com/estraschnov) is the Founder and Co-CEO of Bubble, a visual programming language for web and mobile applications whose goal is to make code obsolete. Born in Paris, Emmanuel studied computer science and mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Emmanuel is committed to breaking the economic limits of technology and devising solutions that enable innovation and product development without coding software.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jul 08, 202101:23:05
🏅 9. Hiten Shah (Nira.com)

🏅 9. Hiten Shah (Nira.com)

Their bio (from the AmA post)

I'm Hiten, @hnshah on Twitter. Signed up for Twitter in 2006, lucky to be in the first batch of 5,000 users. I tweet about growing startups into businesses and the occasional gif or meme. (example)

Founded three SaaS startups (Crazy Egg, KISSmetics, and now Nira), 150+ startup investments, many failed SaaS products, 18 years later, ask me literally anything about SaaS.

My biggest monetary failure: Back in the early 2000s I lost $1 million trying to start a SaaS company that never ended up launching.

I created a product management course while building Nira with my co-founder. We used to charge $1,600 for it. If you ask me a question, direct message (DM) me, I'll give you an account at no cost to you.

Fun fact about me: I’m obsessed with finding the best content on the Internet using Google. So, I might reply to your question(s) with my favorite link that has the answer.

Pro tip: Search my tweets using Google. Use this Google search and replace [fill in the blank] with your startup question or related keywords. This trick can be used for any account on Twitter.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 30, 202102:03:10
8. Live AmA, Marie Ng (Llama Life): Bootstrapped a productivity SaaS, taught myself how to code

8. Live AmA, Marie Ng (Llama Life): Bootstrapped a productivity SaaS, taught myself how to code

Marie's Bio (from the AmA)

I’m Marie.

I spent 10yrs in a career of branding/advertising and went from knowing no programming to launching my first SaaS in a year (if anyone is thinking of switching careers or learning to code, I can highly recommend it!)

Llama Life started off as a side project, something to help practice my coding skills. But it also came from a very personal need. I’d been chipping away at this concept that productivity is “not so much about time management, it’s about attention management”, ever since I got diagnosed with ADHD over 10yrs ago.

Llama Life is a productivity tool that helps you work THROUGH lists, not just make them.

I'm a solo founder and bootstrapped it to around 500 paid customers, and I recently got into the LAUNCH Accelerator which is run by Jason Calacanis.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 30, 202101:03:50
🏅7. Paul Jarvis (Fathom Analytics)

🏅7. Paul Jarvis (Fathom Analytics)

 Their bio (from the AmA post)

Hi all, I’m Paul Jarvis.

I’ve worked for myself in tech since 1999. I started out as a freelance designer working with companies like Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Yahoo, Warner Music and even Shaquille O’Neal.

I’ve also written several books, including Company of One, which has been translated into about 20 languages so far.

Several years ago I had an idea: “What if website analytics weren’t ugly and didn’t invade anyone’s digital privacy”. So I spent a few hours in Photoshop and mocked something up, tweeted it, and the tweet took off like wildfire (queue: Fry from Futurama “TAKE MY MONEY” memes). From there, I worked with a cofounder to build Fathom Analytics, which started out open-source (1+ million downloads), and then moved to a hosted, paid SaaS.

📊 usefathom.com

Fast forward to today: that original cofounder left in 2018 and my new cofounder Jack Ellis has been working with me to get Fathom to where it is today: 1000s of customers, profitable enough to be infinitely sustainable and pay us both salaries, and enjoyable enough to work on every day and still love doing it.

Our model has been very similar to my book (obviously the title was never meant be literal, since we’re a company of TWO 😂): question growth, focus on retention over acquisition, and never outspend our revenue.


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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 28, 202101:18:03
6. Live AmA, Baird Hall + Nick Fogle: We bootstrapped multiple $1m+ ARR SaaS, one was acquired at $150k/mo MRR by Calm Capital, and now we are working on a B2B SaaS

6. Live AmA, Baird Hall + Nick Fogle: We bootstrapped multiple $1m+ ARR SaaS, one was acquired at $150k/mo MRR by Calm Capital, and now we are working on a B2B SaaS

Their bio

👋 Who we are

You can find us on Twitter here: Baird Hall, Nick Fogle, Rob Moore

📘 Our Story

I’ll try to be quick about our story over the last 6 years...

u/Nickfogle and u/lofi-baird started our journey in 2015 when we tried to build a community-platform based on audio called uTalk (yeah, they were wayyy too early). Long story short, it didn’t work out and we spun out an internal marketing tool we built into Wavve.co.

We lucked out while searching for engineers on Upwork and found u/robmoo_re, who would later become an equity holding partner in Wavve and a fellow co-founder in our new companies.

5 years later, Wavve.co hit 145k MRR and was acquired by CalmCapital.com.

Over those five years, u/lofi-baird also started Zubtitle.com (which he still runs and does 114k MRR) and @nickfogle became a founding engineer at Casa. We all also started Duplikit.co.

Most recently, we built a suite of internal tools as a way to reduce churn across all of these SaaS companies. It worked so well that we packaged them up and released them as their own product, Churnkey. We now help other SaaS companies cut churn by deploying optimized cancellation flows.

You can check out a few articles that explain our journey with Wavve.co below.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 25, 202152:09
5. Live AmA, Chris Messina: Inventor of the hashtag. Product therapist. #1 Product Hunter and 2,782 hunts.

5. Live AmA, Chris Messina: Inventor of the hashtag. Product therapist. #1 Product Hunter and 2,782 hunts.

Chris Messina: inventor of the hashtag, product therapist. #1 Product Hunter

In 2007, Chris invented a little thing called the hashtag, galvanizing popular social revolutions & forever changing the world. He’s been living on the edge of social technology for over a decade, designing products & experiences for Google & Uber, co-founding a conversational social AI company (YC’18).

Chris created movements both online & offline & acted as a catalyst for change in large & small organizations. In 2004, he helped organize the grassroots movement that propelled Mozilla Firefox to its first 100 million downloads. In 2005, he co-organized the first BarCamp & then popularized the unconference event model to over 350 cities around the world. In 2006, he opened the first coworking spaces in the world, giving rise to a global movement.

He spent a year as a digital nomad, travelling & speaking all around the world and now finds himself back in the Bay Area, focused on coaching makers and founders on how to nail their launches on Product Hunt.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 25, 202101:15:55
4. Live AmA, Fabrizio + Francesco: Our journey to $12k MRR, $3k in pre-sales (Mailbrew & Typefully)

4. Live AmA, Fabrizio + Francesco: Our journey to $12k MRR, $3k in pre-sales (Mailbrew & Typefully)

Their bio

Hi, my name is Francesco.

My co-founder Fabrizio and I have been creating products on the Internet for the past 3 years.

It has been a bumpy ride with many ups and downs, but lately, Mailbrew’s and Typefully’s growth has started to compound and we are blasting past some milestones that seemed HUGE as recently as 12 months ago:

  • $12,000 MRR with Mailbrew
  • $3,000 in pre-sales for our new product Typefully

💌 Mailbrew lets you unplug from the Internet with a personal daily newsletter.

🐦 Typefully makes you grow on Twitter by crafting tweets and threads in a distraction-free editor, scheduling them, and (soon) analyzing how they impact your account growth.

What made it work for us?

  • Crafting products with an insane level of quality
  • Building an audience on Twitter by being an open startup.
  • Keeping our heads down and improving our products every day.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 25, 202101:07:36
3. Live AmA, Arvid Kahl: I built and sold a $55k MRR SaaS, built an engaged audience, and wrote two books about those journeys

3. Live AmA, Arvid Kahl: I built and sold a $55k MRR SaaS, built an engaged audience, and wrote two books about those journeys

Arvid's Bio

Hey everyone,

I'm Arvid Kahl, I am a software engineer, a founder, and a writer.

In 2017, I founded the EdTech SaaS FeedbackPanda with my partner Danielle Simpson. We bootstrapped the business from nothing to $55.000 MRR within two years. At that point, we sold the business to a Private Equity company for a life-changing amount of money.

Right after that, I started blogging about that journey. That blog turned into an online guide, which turned into a book — mostly because people asked me for it. The book Zero to Sold chronicles the FeedbackPanda journey from start to finish.

While all of this happened, I became much more active on Twitter and in other bootstrapping communities. Over time, I gathered a sizeable following, which in turn lead to me writing about honest and empowerment-based audience-building. The Embedded Entrepreneur is my latest book, aimed at founders who want to find their audience and build a business with & for them.

I've worked for VC-funded software businesses, agencies, mid-size software shops, and even bootstrapped a few SaaS businesses.

Ask me anything about starting, running, growing, and selling bootstrapped SaaS businesses, how to build audiences without being selfish, and anything else.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 25, 202101:29:42
2. Live AmA, Hiten Shah: Lifelong multi-time SaaS founder here to help you avoid costly mistakes

2. Live AmA, Hiten Shah: Lifelong multi-time SaaS founder here to help you avoid costly mistakes

Their bio (from the AmA post)

I'm Hiten, @hnshah on Twitter. Signed up for Twitter in 2006, lucky to be in the first batch of 5,000 users. I tweet about growing startups into businesses and the occasional gif or meme. (example)

Founded three SaaS startups (Crazy Egg, KISSmetics, and now Nira), 150+ startup investments, many failed SaaS products, 18 years later, ask me literally anything about SaaS.

My biggest monetary failure: Back in the early 2000s I lost $1 million trying to start a SaaS company that never ended up launching.

I created a product management course while building Nira with my co-founder. We used to charge $1,600 for it. If you ask me a question, direct message (DM) me, I'll give you an account at no cost to you.

Fun fact about me: I’m obsessed with finding the best content on the Internet using Google. So, I might reply to your question(s) with my favorite link that has the answer.

Pro tip: Search my tweets using Google. Use this Google search and replace [fill in the blank] with your startup question or related keywords. This trick can be used for any account on Twitter.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel


Jun 25, 202159:21
1. Live AmA, Justin Jackson: I'm 40 years old and I finally bootstrapped Transistor.fm to millions in revenue

1. Live AmA, Justin Jackson: I'm 40 years old and I finally bootstrapped Transistor.fm to millions in revenue

Timestamps + transcript, by @RohanKochhar.

A Twitter thread with notes+lessons from this AmA, made by Elisheva Marcus (@Elisheva Marcus)

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Justin's Bio

Hi, I'm Justin Jackson.

I started in tech relatively late: I was 28 years old when I switched from the non-profit world, to working for a SaaS startup (2008).

The week I started, I discovered Getting Real by 37signals, and it changed my whole perspective on building a business.

After 10 years of building an audience, podcasting, blogging, and experimenting with other digital products, I finally launched a successful SaaS product with my friend Jon Buda:

🎙️ Transistor.fm – podcast hosting and analytics.

Starting in 2018, we documented our whole journey on the Build your SaaS podcast.

We launched August 2018, and by August 2019 both of us had quite our full-time gigs and were working on Transistor full-time. 🙌

Today, Transistor does millions in annual recurring revenue.

Throughout the whole process, our focus has been the same: building a small, calm, profitable company.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel


Jun 25, 202102:40:06
Trailer: What The Usual SaaSpects is all about

Trailer: What The Usual SaaSpects is all about

Links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Jun 10, 202106:07