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Two software engineers exploring the facets of developing SaaS businesses while working their day jobs. Hosted by Darby Frey, co-founder of Lead Honestly, and Ethan Gunderson, founder of Glean.
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What we covered in this episode:
Ethan's Training
Code Beam America
LogSnag
Pipedream
Zapier
What we're working on:Darby is building Lead HonestlyEthan is building GleanHave something you want us to talk about?Twitter: @growingsoftware, @ethangunderson, and @darbyfreyLeave us a ZipMessageThanks to our monthly supporters:Clark Kampfe
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What we covered in this episode:
Ethan's upcoming training at Elixirconf
The Pomodoro technique
The SEO tool we reference is Keysearch.co
Copy.ai
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What we covered in this episode:
Writing blog posts, keywords, and being useful.
Ethan failed his homework, or did he? Yes, he did.
Is it coding week or marketing week?
Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $36k MRR. Examples of marketing week ideas is at 23:54.
Building up a product around a conference workshop.
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What we covered in this episode:
Ethan's trip to Disney Word
Chef's Table
The consistently low bar of user experiences
Lead Honestly's new marketing copy
Paying for blog posts
Progress on Glean
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Ethan's conference talk
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Darby looks for marketing help and Ethan shuffles code around
It's book club time again! This week Ethan and Darby talk about Marketing Made Simple. Special guest appearance by a toddler in search of a bowl of cereal.
https://storybrand.com/marketing-made-simple-book/
Darby gets an unexpected traffic boost and Ethan `git init`'s a new Glean.
A note from Ethan: This episode was originally recorded in February, but due to some editing issues is just now being published on March 21st. We'll be back to our normal schedule soon.
You can find Brian at:
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Profit FirstThe application Ethan used to model the accounts and framework outlined in the book is Summit.A screenshot for the Summit canvas that Ethan made can be found here.
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Lets end the year with a retrospective on Growing Software, and laying some plans for next year. Also, Ethan talks about opportunity cost without saying the phrase opportunity cost.
Ethan drinks tea and Darby puts up a job listing!
https://angel.co/company/lead-honestly/jobs/1743870-head-of-marketing
Darby sees some usage on the new Lead Honestly feature and Ethan has a crisis of confidence.
After a short break Darby and Ethan are back to discussing traction channels and Lead Honestlys product launch.
Darby and Ethan talk through being on call as an indie developer, using slack to store time series metrics, and the upcoming launch of Lead Honestly for Google Workspace.
On this exciting episode of Growing Software -- The pros and cons of managed database providers, side project objectives, the story of gathers.us, and Darby figures out his Google API permission scopes.
Darby and Ethan go over the results of the previous episodes mini experiments.
Darby and Ethan talk through some idea validation and customer interview plans, dogfooding products, and how difficult it must be to build medical device hardware.
Darby has some successful onboardings after pivoting and Ethan gets stung by a bee.
Darby changes directions on the new version of Lead Honestly, and then tries to convince Ethan to do the same.
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