Product People
A podcast focused on great products and the people who make them
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I've been trying to learn how to program since 1985. This past year, at 38 years old, I finally figured out how.
Questions we discuss in this episode:
- Is there only "one" way to learn how to code?
- Why is getting started SO HARD?
- How did Justin finally figure out a way to learn programming?
Show notes
- Get the book: Ultralearning
- Scott's blog
- PDF: The science of cycology
The latest from Justin:
James Clear describes how you can improve your life, using small incremental steps that add up to big wins.
Questions we discuss in this episode:
- How does "what you repeatedly do" affect your identity?
- How does someone’s context affect their ability to set and maintain good habits? Are good habits only for people of privilege?
- How can you maintain habits for people with depression, anxiety or attention deficit?
- How to form...
Ben is the co-founder of Tuple.app and is running a new course called Habits for Hackers.
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Jason Cohen asks Justin Jackson hard questions about his startup, Transistor.fm, and what it's going to take to go full-time.
This is the second half of our chat. Part 1 was really just setting the stage. Part 2 digs into the real-life challenges of bootstrapping a business.
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When you're building a startup you have these questions:
- Should I work on my startup on the side, and grow it slowly?
- Should I take investment and go full-time sooner?
These are the questions that have been circulating in my head over the past few months.
Which is why when Jason Cohen, founder of WPengine and someone I respect, replied to my tweet, I took note:
"It’s difficult to find successful companies where founder...Hamish Macpherson is an engineer at Buffer, and was one of the first people to join MegaMaker.
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The latest from Justin:
- My new startup: Transistor.fm
- Join Justin's newsletter justinjackson.ca/newsletter
- Send Justin a message on Twitter: @mijustin
- Send Justin a mess...
This is a great chat with Samantha Geitz, a Senior Developer at Tighten, and the founder of BetaFish.
Topics in this episode:
- Should "business/marketing" people learn programming?
- What's the difference between messing around and being a serious programmer?
- Do regular programmers Google for answers?
- Why English Majors can make great programmers.
- If you want to learn hard things, do you need to be in a classroom?
- Why should ta...
So many great topics in this episode:
- Should developers learn design?
- Derrick's "viral signup" trick
- How important is a personal brand?
- How to promote your project (while you're still building it)
- Do software companies need to become more service oriented?
Announcement:
- I'm having a birthday sale! Go to megamaker.co/birthday and get up to 38% off Marketing for Developers, my books, and Product Validation Checklist! <...
I'm building a new SaaS in 2018 with my buddy Jon Buda called Transistor.fm. Now, we're trying to figure out our pricing. We're trying not to pretend we know everything there is to know about running a SaaS.
So, we wanted to reach out to some experts and get outside opinions about how to create our pricing tiers. So I asked Patrick Campbell, from Price Intelligently, to help give us some direction. He blew my mind. This con...
Mike Taber (Bluetick) and Rob Walling (Drip) started MicroConf in 2011 as a conference for self-funded startups. It's gone from just over 100 attendees to nearly 500. It's become the place for bootstrappers to hang out.
Get $100 off MicroConf Starter Edition
Go to megamaker.co/microconf or text "microconf" to (424) 247-5762.
Show notes
Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and WebRTC. So he started building Zencastr, which gives podcasters the ability to record "double-ender" interviews in the browser.
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"I asked a podcaster I knew how...6 years ago, Bjorn Forsberg built an app called OrderlyPrint for Shopify. His goal was to increase his freedom, and to spend more time with his family. Was able to achieve it? (This is the 5th case study in the Mega Profitable series)
We should measure profitability in other ways. It's not just "financial profitability." There's also "freedom profitability," and "time profitability." Because profitability is really about ...
Back in the early 2000s, Wildbit was an agency building Flash websites for Philly nightclubs.
Then, in 2007, they launched their first product, Beanstalk. Two years later, they quit doing consulting. Natalie Nagele takes us through their story!
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Pippin Williamson started out like a lot of us do: building websites for whoever would pay him. He decided to try selling one of his WordPress plugins. Now, Pippin's Plugins earns over $1 million in revenue a year. This Mega Profitable series aims to help founders, like you, get profitable!
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It's time for another Mega Profitable interview! This series aims to help founders, like you, get profitable. Learn how Draft went from having $21 in the bank (in his first year) to creating a solid, profitable solo-founder business.
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- draft.nu
- Nick's service: Draft Rev...
Introducing a new series: Mega Profitable. What's the difference between a founder who is mega profitable, and a product person who's just making a living? Brennan Dunn joins me to talk about his journey.
This episode sponsored by...
I've just updated my most popular product: the Marketing for Developers book.
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- Leave a review on iTunes!
- doubleyourfreelancing.com
- Brennan's new ...
You'll recognize Mike from Startups for the Rest of Us and the MicroConf conference. He's launching a new product called Bluetick.
This episode sponsored by...
★ I'm updating my most popular product: the Marketing for Developers book.
Relaunches end of August 2017. Grab a sample chapter here.
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- Leave a review on iTunes!
- singlefounder.com
- Mike's product: Bluetick.io
- Mike's conference MicroConf
- Follow Mike on Twi...
"Charge more!" "Use content marketing!" "Start with an ebook!"
There's a lot of folklore in the startup and bootstrapping community. Do they all stand up to scrutiny?
This is my interview with long-time SaaS entrepreneur, Ian Landsman.
Show notes
- Leave a review on iTunes!
- ianlandsman.com
- Ian's product: HelpSpot
- Ian's new product: Thermostat
- Follow Ian on Twitter: @ianlandsman
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How do you find product ideas that resonate?
Hear how Laura knew there was demand for her project, Client Portal.
Everyone was like: "I want that."(This is my special MicroConf 2017 episode!)
Show notes
- Leave a review on iTunes!
- lauraelizabeth.co
- Laura's product: Client Portal
- Laura's other project: Design Academy
- Follow Laura on Twitter: @laurium
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- Join Justin's NEW Indie newsletter justin...
When we last chatted with Adam Wathan he'd just launched his first book.
His next project is a course called Test Driven Laravel. You won't believe his launch results!
You'll hear how he built the course, all his launch numbers, and why he thinks it was such an incredible success.
Happy holidays everyone!
Show notes
- Adam Wathan's blog
- Adam's course: Test Driven Laravel
- Follow Adam on Twitter: @adamwathan
- Follow Justin on T...
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