All Episodes

#243: The End

#242: Boredeom

#241: Podcasting

#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry

#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast

#238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell

#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii

#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote

#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing

#234: Ed's marketing catchup

#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it

#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9

#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures

#230: Introducing Pushing to Production

#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter

#228: How to get backlinks (without feeling dirty)

#227: Joining TinySeed with Nick Swan of SEOTesting.com

#226: Sponsoring events, podcasts, and newsletters with Peldi @ Balsamiq

#225: BoS Europe 2022 retrospective

#224: Recalibrating prices, and Postmark got acquired

#223: When customer payments fail

#222: Pierre de Wulf, co-founder of ScrapingBee

#221: Brian Sierakowski of Baremetrics

#220: Adventures in Abandonware and WordPress

#219: Leaving bootstrapper life to be an employee again, with John Ndege

#218: London, in-person events, crowded pubs

#217: Brian Casel of ZipMessage

#216: Trademarking your bootstrapped business

#215: The domain name change that didn't go as planned, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester.com

#214: I hired a marketer

#213: Charles Perry, founder of RelaNet

#212: When, if ever, should we refuse a customer?

#211: Strengthening company culture in a remote team with Peldi of Balsamiq

#210: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 2

#209: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 1

#208: The dismal deeds of a desperate competitor

#207: Our goals for 2022

#206: Looking back at our goals for 2021

#205: A rapid Saber Feedback update

#204: Ed can speak again

#203: A recap of the interview mini-season

#202: Bridget Harris, co-founder of YouCanBookMe

#201: Running an email newsletter business, with Peter Cooper of Cooperpress

#200: Positioning for bootstrappers with April Dunford

#199: Creating a successful podcast with Jane Portman of UI Breakfast

#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter

#197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment

#196: Our Mental Wellbeing as Bootstrappers, with Robin Warren

#195: Back to School

#194: We talk about our vacations

#193: The fine details of the Saber Feedback acquisition

#192: How the pandemic overturned my business, with Mark Littlewood of Business of Software

#191: On quietly successful SaaS businesses, and saying goodbye to our forum

#190: Resellers and product-based podcasts, with Peldi of Balsamiq

#189: The agony of the enterprise sale process, with Ed Freyfogle

#188: Switching from Bootstrapped to Investor-Funded, with Craig Hewitt of Castos

#187: A Saber Feedback update

#186: Marketing to Developers with Adam DuVander

#185: Selling a small stake of your company, with Moritz Dausinger of Refiner.io

#184: When team members quit, with Ed and Steve

#183: Feeling bored and stuck in your business? With Peldi and Ed

#182: Responsible product design with Trine Falbe

#181: Conducting customer interviews for the reluctant, with Asia Orangio of DemandMaven

#180: Managing the mental ups and downs with Geraldine DeRuiter and Rand Fishkin

#179: (Peldi) The GDPR 3 years later with Aleth Gueguen of GDPR for SaaS

#178: The Hungry Time, with Ed Freyfogle

#177​: When life is turned upside down, with Nick Swan of SEOTesting

#176: Tips for self-publishing a book, with science fiction writer Aidan Doyle

#175: Riskiness of being a side project's customer

#174: Corey Haines, founder of the Swipe Files community

#173: Reducing the support workload with Ed Freyfogle

#172: Getting rid of Google Analytics, with Alex Yumashev

#171: Nick Franklin, founder of ChartMogul

#170: "Be so good they can't ignore you", with Peldi of Balsamiq

#169: Email newsletter or no email newsletter? The great debate.

#168: Twitter for Marketing, and Zombie Customers

#167: The blog gets posts once every 13 years

#166: Making an Open Source business work with Allan Jardine of DataTables

#165: Finding and hiring freelancers

#164: A Saber Feedback update 9 months after acquisition

#163: Our goals for 2021

#162: Reviewing our 2020 goals

#161: The inglorious launch of my first product

#160: Creating great email onboarding sequences, with Liz Painter of Comma Comma

#159: Enterprise sales hell, SEO frustration and self-doubt

#158: Not 1, not 2, but 3 bootstrapped SaaS successes with Moritz Dausinger of refiner.io

#157: Dealing with your business's endless administration burden

#156: "May I have a discount?"

#155: Competing in a crowded market with Alex Yumashev of Jitbit

#154: Finding and recruiting freelance developers with Robin Warren of Corrello

#153: "What should I do with Saber Feedback?"

#152: Practical knowledge sharing for bootstrappers

#151: Advice on validating and building a bootstrapped B2B SaaS

#150: How to solve my SEO problems, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester Network

#149: A Saber Feedback update six months after acquisition

#148: Hrishi Mittal, founder of Learnetto, on the struggle to get traction

#147: "You get to do this however works for you" with Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar

#146: Selling your business at any revenue level, with Kevin McArdle of SureSwift Capital

#145: The Hacker News front page experience, 5-hour workdays and 4-day workweeks

#144: Patrick Hathaway, cofounder of Sitebulb on selling a desktop app with subscription pricing

#143: When should you refactor your product's code?

#142: Revisiting our pre-pandemic yearly goals

#141: A Saber Feedback update three months after acquisition

#140: How NOT to handle customer payment problems

#139: Selling to Developers with Peter Suhm of Branch CI

#138: "Epic Guide" Marketing

#137: Derrick Grigg - Founder of PageProofer

#136: Website security for bootstrappers

#135: How to improve Saber Feedback's website content, with Hannah Adcock of Contented Strategy

#134: Why I chose to acquire Saber Feedback

#133: Why Matt Bearman chose to sell his bootstrapped product, Saber Feedback

#132: COVID-19 and our businesses

#130: A brief hiatus

#129: Driving to Mongolia while running a mission-critical SaaS

#128: Dealing with bootstrapper stress

#127: SaaS products we use to run our businesses

#126: Why Dave Rodenbaugh acquired an existing business instead of starting from scratch

#125: Tracking what you spend on your business

#124: Goals for 2020

#123: "Why I sold my SaaS" - with Courtenay Farquharson, founder of Parserr

#122: My desktop app got acquired!

#121: Handling cancellations in a subscription product

#120: Small team habits part 2: Steve's turn

#119: Small team habits part 1

#118: Should your product go Freemium?

#117: Selling to Developers

#116: Pricing your product in multiple currencies, with Ed Freyfogle from OpenCage

#115: Living Abroad While Bootstrapping, with Craig Hewitt

#114: "The Tables are Turned", with Craig Hewitt

#113: "The idea of public speaking fills me with unspeakable terror", featuring Craig Hewitt

#112: Three ways to use podcasts for marketing. Featuring Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos

#111: "Should I apply for TinySeed?" with Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos

#110: "Living the Bootstrapper dream" with Robin Warren, founder of Corrello

#109: Andy Brice - Founder of EasyDataTransform

#108: Hannah Adcock - Owner of Contented Strategy

#107: Robert Brandl - Founder of WebsiteToolTester

#106: Sylvestre Dupont - Co-founder of Parseur

#105 - A new iteration of Bootstrapped

#104 - I Don't Want To Talk About GDPR The Whole Time w/ Natalie Nagele from Wildbit

#103 - There's No Scarcity On Piñatas

#102 - I'm Running On Fumes

#101 - All About Landsman

#100 - All About Butov

#99 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi w/ Taylor Otwell (SPOILERS!)

#98 - The Landsman Game Challenge

#97 - ButovOrBust.com

#96 - It's All Possibility.....And Work

#95 - I Started Fresh, and It's Glorious

#94 - Franchise Friends

#93 - Thinner, Leaner, Meaner

#92 - Elevator Algorithms

#91 - I'd Wear A Full Face Mask

#90 - Butov Plus Plus

#89 - It's The Open Desert That Got Me

#88 - Charles Perry (Part 2) - Founder of Metakite

#87 - Charles Perry (Part 1) - Founder of Metakite

#86: Garrett Dimon (Part 2) - Founder of Sifter, Currently at Wildbit

#85: Garrett Dimon (Part 1) - Founder of Sifter, Currently at Wildbit

#84: You’re on an Air, Butov - an Air!

#83: Brian Casel (Part 2) - Founder of Audience Ops

#82: Brian Casel (Part 1) - Founder of Audience Ops

#81: Brandon Kelly (Part 2) - Founder and CEO of Craft CMS

#80: Brandon Kelly (Part 1) - Founder and CEO of Craft CMS

#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

#77: "... is somebody being bombed?"

#76: "Cleo"

#75: "Don't you worry about Dave. You worry about Butov!"

#74: "Nobody ever got fired for hiring Vector Media Group" with special guest Matt Weinberg

#73: ”If you can find an agreeable parrot, ...”

#72: "It's all going to $0, but in the meantime, we can make some money"

#71: "Jane Portman from UI Breakfast"

#70: "I made a lot of money off Twitter"

#69: "You always pay for sticking to your principles."

#68: "Butov's Brooklyn"

#67: Stuff

#66: I'm Done Doing

#65: Star Wars is the 'Dora the Explorer' of science fiction.

#64: A Carl Sagan Joint

#63: How Are Sales Today?

#62: I have the flu

#61

#60: Pump the hotness

#59

#58

#57

#56: Rated R

#55: It’s all part of the game

#54: This is worse than Seinfeld

#53: $1000 join

#52: Dead Man’s Switch

#51: Special Guest: Matt Stauffer

#50: 50

#49: A new product from scratch

#48: Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo

#47: Anchor Celebrities

#46: Jeffrey Way of Laracasts

#45: Adventures in Hacker News

#44: I’m Recording Now

#43: The Userscape Developers

#42: Let’s get Wil Wheaton

#41: 90% good looks. 10% ideas.

#40: Andrey Butov’s Fizzilization

#39: Take them to Hooters

#39: After Dark

#38: Special guest: Eric Miller

#37: Hush! The grown-ups are talking.

#36: White hat growth hacker

#35: Hate the SaaS!

#34: Don’t Shake the SaaS Tree

#33: This is what happens to growth hackers.

#32: The Full Stallman

#31: We are Joel, together

#30: Special Guest: Gavin Bowman

#29: There’s always one more year

#28: Special Guest Ruben Gamez

#27: Everybody Gotta Hustle

#26: Party All the Time

#25: Devil’s Advocate

#24: Batman Voice

#23: Clichély doing the cliché thing

#22: Meh

#21: Special Guest: Andy Brice

#20: Hard Stop

#19: No Red Candy!

#18: Special Guest: Chase Clemons on Bootstrapped Support

#17: Special Guest: Rachel Andrew

#16: Meat and Attitude

#15: Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Selling Software

#14: Now you have to do stuff

#13: Boiler Room

#12: The Analogy

#11: Bootstrapping a Software Consulting Company

#10: Gymboree

#9: Uberdeck

#8: Bizarro Week

#7: Just wasting my time!

#6: Authorize This

#5: Let’s all go to the movies!

#4: The customer is seldom right

#3: Pivoting all over the place

#2: Lollipop Sticks

#1: Bootstrapped and Profitable