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Indie Maker Journey
by Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez
Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses.
Episodes
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20: A bit of everything
Recorded on March 22, 2022. Legos are fun and timeless. Mario’s business entity is finally formed and a business bank account is in place. Alan wants to play around a bit with the pricing model for DotPlan. We talk about the original idea for DotPlan, creating a short video pitch, dealing with...
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19: Legalize it
Recorded on March 8, 2022. New Fusioncast features, plus other minor improvements and bug fixes. Mario will start working on things to prepare for launching, filed for a legal business entity, and is working on terms of use and privacy policy using iUbenda.com. We talk about pricing and figuring...
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18: Taking the Elixir and Paddling to revenue
Recorded on February 23, 2022. Alan got the booster covid vaccine. React is good but more verbose than Vue. Playing around with Alpine.js. Mario’s continued working on refining how Fusioncast.fm handles some edge cases. Upgrading to TailwindCSS 3. Dealing with challenges building with Elixir.…
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17: Progress updates and some of the tools we use
Recorded on February 1, 2022. Fixing some challenging issues in Fusioncast recording workflow, dealing with a participant’s sudden loss of network connection. Alan talks about adding a time-card feature to DotPlan for a specific customer, the reasons behind it, and dealing with Japanese time-card...
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16: DotPlan has launched! Plus other updates
Recorded on January 18, 2022. Happy New Year! Back after a long break. Alan had some nice time off for the holidays. Alan also shares that he launched DotPlan and has a paying customer. Also added a timer feature to DotPlan, and pitched his app to a Japanese audience. Finding ways to work on...
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15: The credit card upfront dilemma
Recorded on September 21, 2021. Alan continues integrating Paddle to handle billing for his SaaS. Update on Alan’s participation in Kobe mentorship program. Thoughts on pricing options for DotPlan. To require credit card up front or not, and handling the transition from trial to paid subscription...
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14: Paddling in a kanuu
Recorded on August 31, 2021. Alan was accepted to a startup mentorship program with Kobe city for early stage founders. Alan is integrating Paddle using another service called Kanuu.io. Mario started a new day job, working remotely. Fusioncast backup recordings are now started/stopped at the same...
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13: Off the grid and back
Recorded on August 17, 2021. Taking time off to disconnect and go camping. Climate change. Design work and learning design principles. Tailwind UI has been very helpful to Alan. Working with TailwindCSS. UI design challenges. Marketing and onboarding for Japanese market. Alan was advised to…
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12: Why we do this
Recorded on July 28, 2021 In this episode we talk about starting a new full time job (Mario), problems with editing the podcast in Garage Band, which lead to trying Descript, and Alan participating in two business/founder mentorship events, and pitching DotPlan in Japanese instead of English. We...
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11: IMJ × Justin Jackson
Mario and Alan are joined by a very special guest! Justin Jackson, co-host of Build Your SaaS, co-founder of Transistor.fm and founder of the MegaMaker community talks about the state of the Indie SaaS world and the importance of choosing the right market. We talk about the growth of…
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10: Product Manager Think
Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan. In this episode, Mario and Alan discuss the difficulties of choosing which product features to prioritize, problems with overheating MacBooks and options for Product Adoption platforms.
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9: Remote Work Reflections
We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts! Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan. Alan and Mario talk about their experiences of remote working and Alan talks about his reasons…
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8: Landing Page Learnings & Onboarding Observations
We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts! Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan. Alan talks about the difficulties of launching a product with lots of different use cases,...
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7: Obfuscation Investigations & Time Picker Pickles
We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts! Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan. In this episode, Mario discusses his JavaScript debugging nightmares and Alan complains about...
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6: Life, Challenges, and Progress
In this episode we talk about life challenges while trying to make progress with our products, technical challenges, UX/UI, tools, cloud services, and more.
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5: To unit test, or not to unit test
We're back after a short break! We talk about how we tackle testing of their applications and Mario details the latest updates to fusioncast. We also discuss the difficulties of knowing when to let users in, what are the requirements for releasing and how to approach onboarding. Along with the...
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4: Introductions (finally!)
A little late, but better late than never - Alan and Mario introduce themselves and their products. They talk about why they've picked these products, and what motivates them to build them. Mario is building https://fusioncast.fm, a web-based podcast recording tool. Alan is building...
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3: 99 Seconds of Pitch
In this episode, Alan talks about his Founder’s Live pitch and the difficulties of getting your message across in 99 seconds and we discuss the benefits of talking about your product development on twitter. We also contemplate about the time constraints of bootstrapping and application while...
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2: Nuggets of Wonder
In this episode, Alan talks about showing (and hiding!) primary keys in URLs, Mario shares all the new feature updates that he's made to fusioncast. We discuss our options for billing services and the difficulties of deciding pricing for our applications. We also ponder the length of an ideal...
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1: It Worked!
In this episode Mario shares about some technical issues developing Fusioncast's recording feature, some UI/UX design mistakes, and more. Alan shares about building his business in Japan, and the challenge of reaching different types of audience. We also talk about the difficulty we have of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses.
HOSTED BY
Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez
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