Best Founder/Company Story: Transistor.fm
The Story of Transistor.fm is formidable. On the frontier of boutique podcast hosting with founders true to the maker community, the journey that Justin Jackson and Jon Buda have taken has been chronicled Build Your SaaS. As iconic contributors to the bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped SaaS community, the J’s take an honest look at entrepreneurship within Transistor.fm.
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Best Episode
Indie Hackers: Writing Code to Sell $200,000/Month of Cookies with Sam Eaton of Crave Cookie
When Sam Eaton hears a new idea, it's all he can do to contain his excitement and dive right into the code. So when his sister told him she wanted to start a cookie delivery business, there was never any question that he'd apply his indie hacker skills to help out however he could. And to great effect — today they're selling hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of cookies every month. In this episode, Sam and I discuss the advantages of target your local community as a niche, ways to leverage scarcity and social proof to increase sales, and how software engineers can best apply their skills to selling products in the real world.
Best Host: Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers
The wunderkind of Makers and Indie Hackers, Courtland Allen has truly made a name for himself through his storytelling prowess and commitment to the success of bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders. Courtland has created not only one of the most popular podcasts in the space, but spent 2020 putting together a podcast network featuring many of the nominees you’ve seen for the SaaS Podcast Awards.
Check out Courtland on Twitter.
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Best Podcast: The Art of Product Podcast
It’s hard to imagine the last 5 years of bootstrapped SaaS without thinking of Derrick Reimer and Ben Orenstein, co-hosts of The Art of Product Podcast.
Follow the stories of Ben and Derrick as they publicly build their bootstrapped SaaS companies, SavvyCal and Tuple.
Showcasing the clear juxtaposition between repeat success and earnest enthusiasm to build excellent products and The Art of Product Podcast is an refreshing example of relatable storytelling and process that provides an inside look into building successful SaaS businesses from the ground up.
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