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#243: The End
Nov 11, 2025
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#241: Podcasting
May 14, 2025
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#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry
Apr 21, 2025
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/11/25 | ![]() #243: The End✨ | podcast conclusionfarewell+3 | — | — | — | podcastend+5 | — | 2m 19s | |
| 7/16/25 | ![]() #242: Boredeom✨ | software companybootstrapper boredom+5 | — | Business of Software EuropeKill the Hippo | — | software companySaaS+5 | — | 11m 58s | |
| 5/14/25 | ![]() #241: Podcasting✨ | podcastingbusiness tools+3 | — | Feature UpvoteThe Community Lounge | — | podcastingbusiness networking+4 | — | 15m 51s | |
| 4/21/25 | ![]() #240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry✨ | product positioningfeedback management+3 | — | Feature Upvote | video games industry | Feature Upvotevideo games+3 | — | 18m 21s | |
| 3/1/24 | ![]() #239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast✨ | business heroespodcast interview+3 | James Kennedy | The Gross Profit podcastFeature Upvote+2 | — | business heroespodcast+3 | — | 38m 52s | |
| 6/23/23 | ![]() #238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell✨ | B2B SaaSUX design+3 | Nathan Powell | DescriptNathan's website | — | B2B SaaSUX+3 | — | 33m 39s | |
| 3/12/23 | ![]() #237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii✨ | product developmentrevenue plateau+3 | Michael Koper | Nusii | — | NusiiMichael Koper+3 | — | 25m 41s | |
| 12/2/22 | ![]() #236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote✨ | businessentrepreneurship+3 | Ben Pages | Feature UpvoteWhat I learnt in 2018 while running Feature Upvote | — | Feature Upvotebusiness philosophy+3 | — | 33m 43s | |
| 11/18/22 | ![]() #235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing✨ | SEOcontent marketing+3 | Maeva Cifuentes | Product-led SEOFlying Cat Marketing | — | SEO tipscontent marketing+3 | — | 32m 17s | |
| 10/28/22 | ![]() #234: Ed's marketing catchup✨ | marketingbusiness strategies+3 | Ed Freyfogle | Feature UpvoteOpenCage+3 | — | marketinggeocoding+5 | — | 32m 35s | |
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| 11/13/13 | ![]() #25: Devil’s Advocate | We talk about dollar stores, dogs and babies, the new Helpspot release, support contracts, requiring a credit card at signup, pricing and recurring billing, info-products, SaaS being unsatisfying, digging new holes, the point of growing, all software going to zero.Helpspot – Ian’s helpdesk product.Snappy – Ian’s newest product.Uberdeck – Andrey’s mobile-app marketing product.Stripe – payment processing service.Star Trek GenerationsIan’s “all software is going to $0.00” theoryEdge of My Seat – Perch, Rachel Andrew, Drew McLellanRachel Andrew on Bootstrapped.fmSupportOps.co – Chase ClemonsChase Clemons on Bootstrapped.fmSo You Want To Be A Wall Street Programmer? – Andrey’s BookIan’s newsletterSuccessfulSoftware.net – Andy BriceAndy Brice on Bootstrapped.fmDiscuss this episode with other bootstrappers in the forums. | 1h 07m 45s | ||||||
| 11/8/13 | ![]() #24: Batman Voice | We talk about Batman, Software going to $0, Pricing again, Saas sucking, High school/depression, Business of Software Conference, A/B testing, Insurance, Andrey and me opening a coffee shop comic book store, Batman Arkham Origins, how we’re the Seinfeld of bootstrap podcasting, Everpix closing, soup delivery, $7.95 cupcakes, our side projects that make us no money.We’re going to try to do a Bootstrapped.fm meetup if you’re in the NYC area. Contact us or post to the board if you’re interested.Business of Software ConferenceDevelopers, Entrepreneurs and DepressionACT! CRMMicroconfOptimizelyTrack.ioLego Star Wars moviesThe Crafted Kup – Ian’s local coffee houseEverpix – Everpix Verge articleBackblaze – awesome backupTattlyNot the guy we talked about, but another selling soup via bikeReaddleDiscuss the show over on our forums | 1h 02m 58s | ||||||
| 10/16/13 | ![]() #23: Clichély doing the cliché thing | We talk about Andrey finally leaving the house, street cred, Quintu, the work that goes into a typical SaaS app, implementing push in Uberdeck, OS X 10.8 update woes, git and distributed source code control, supporting developers vs. supporting end users, downloadable vs. SaaS, playing with SaaS marketing at an early stage of the product, being organized with marketing, tracking the marketing flow, onboarding, pricing based on volume, seasonal stores, celebrities in NYC, the new Panic office, and a day of doing nothing at work.Arq, Crashplan – backup software.VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion – VM software.HipChat – private group chat.Rachel Andrew – Founder of Perch.Chargify, Stripe – Recurding billing and payments services.HubSpot – inbound marketing software.KISSmetrics, Mixpanel – analytics and metrics tools.Trak.io – Ian’s preferred metric app (for now).Optimizely – A/B testing tool.Seasonal storesThe Living Room NYCPanic office – founder’s room. Discuss this episode with other bootstrappers in the forums. | 1h 14m 20s | ||||||
| 9/30/13 | ![]() #22: Meh | We give away an amazing social mobile podcast product idea, Blackberry (sorry), App stores, Andrey’s gripes with Laravel 4 and other techy things, asset management in front end web development, Vi, Breaking Bad finale!!!, Living in NYC, Perch CMS meetup, Business of Software conferenceBlackberry saleNumber TwoAntair Notes on Amazon App StoreTwitter Ads (also great just to see your RT’s/Fav’s even if you don’t buy ads)Laravel 4 PHP frameworkGrunt – JS task runnerSentry Laravel Auth LibrarySublime TextPhpStormFogCreek WasabiBusiness of Software Conference – 10% off with code “bootstrap”Perch CMS meetupDiscuss this episode in our bootstrapper forums | 1h 04m 19s | ||||||
| 9/23/13 | ![]() #21: Special Guest: Andy Brice | Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest, Andy Brice, to discuss Perfect Table Plan, software marketing, creating desktop software vs. SaaS web apps, software pricing, cross-platform development with QT, analytics, measuring how many people are ‘word-of-mouth’ customers, Andy’s 2-day intensive training course on starting your own software business, practical software products, the legacy of shareware, the effect of SaaS apps on lifestyle, A/B testing, Adwords, email vs. helpdesk system for one-person companies, and martial arts.Andy Brice at http://www.successfulsoftware.net, and on twitter at http://twitter.com/successfulswPerfect Table Plan – Andy’s flagship product.Andy’s two-day intensive training course on starting your own software business.QTAndy’s article on software award scams.Andy will be a speaker at MicroConf Europe (Prague) on Oct 5-6Association of Software ProfessionalsThomas Warfield – Pretty Good SolitaireAndy’s Article – “Shareware is Dead – Long Live Shareware”Perry Marshall book on AdwordsCapoeira | 1h 34m 02s | ||||||
| 9/11/13 | ![]() #20: Hard Stop | Ian and Andrey discuss their appearances on other podcasts, depression caused by taking consulting work, how Andrey will structure his day, Apple keynote and how new hardware relates to mobile development, releasing software in the app store, SaaS searching tech and more.Chasing Product podcastDNL ConsultingApple iPhone 5s/5c keynoteFertile Ground – Marco Arment on supporting new mobile API’sNumber Two – Andrew Garrison on his mobile release strategyAntair Sodoku for PlaybookSuccessful Software blogPerfect Table Planner – table seating plannerStart Your Own Software Business training courseFound.no hosted ElasticsearchHack FitconferenceThe ALL NEW HelpSpot.com | 44m 24s | ||||||
| 9/4/13 | ![]() #19: No Red Candy! | Ian and Andrey discuss Laracon EU, Snappy, web app activity tracking and analytics, Uberdeck, marketing as your primary daily activity, Andrey’s next app, native clients vs. mobile web apps vs. responsive design for a SaaS product, front-end web dev frameworks, annual SaaS billing, getting dumber, Vincent van Gogh, San Francisco, Napa Valley, and Texas.Laracon EUSnappy 3-tier pricingUberdeckiDeveloper.co – podcast for iOS developers.ChasingProduct.com – podcast for consultants looking to move into products.PhoneGapResponsive DesignjQuery MobileBackbone.jsForecast.io – blog post on building their web/mobile appDark Sky app – from the folks who brought you Forecast.ioEmber.jsAngularJSZepto.jsForbes – how much do average apps make?The Other F WordUnfinished Business Podcast – episode 33(Sorry for the crappy audio quality on Andrey’s side in this episode; he’ll get it right one of these days). | 1h 04m 00s | ||||||
| 8/27/13 | ![]() #18: Special Guest: Chase Clemons on Bootstrapped Support | Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest Chase Clemons of SupportOps to discuss customer service for bootstrappers. We also get an Uberdeck update on leaving beta and pricing strategy.This episode is being cross released on both Bootstrapped.fm and Support Ops Podcast. Check them out!37SignalsSupport Ops and the Support Ops PodcastUberdeck is released!Andrey’s Essential Voice Recorder – type notes while you record audio (Android)Basecamp MobileBootstrapped customer service and using self service walls threads on discuss.bootstrapped.fmPingdomAmazon Prime – Love the prime, buy the prime!!!! (Ian)GetSatisfactionCoSupportSupport Ops Hangouts – Watch Chase live every Monday | 1h 33m 36s | ||||||
| 8/6/13 | ![]() #17: Special Guest: Rachel Andrew | Ian and Andrey sit down with special guest Rachel Andrew from EdgeOfMySeat.com, to discuss Perch, the really little CMS, the new Bootstrapped.fm forums, marketing, customer support, product dependencies, how important personal visibility is to your business, content management systems, writing and speaking, and self-publishing.Rachel AndrewPerch: the really little CMS – Rachel’s product.EdgeOfMySeat.com – Rachel’s company.Drew McLellan – Rachel’s husband and business partner. Drew on 24 Ways.The Perch PodcastBootstrapped.fm ForumsThe Perch website was designed by Paddy Donnelly of Lefft. The birds were drawn by Kev Adamson.Rachel will have a workshop on Shipping Your Product at the Future of Web Apps. She also has a version of the workshop available as a Smashing Workshop.Big thanks to Mike Jones, for making http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm come alive.Discourse – forum software.Discussion on serving different sections of the market for one product.Discussion regarding MachForm, and their free installation offer.Rachel’s presentation (video) on Things Learned While Supporting Perch. | 58m 46s | ||||||
| 8/1/13 | ![]() #16: Meat and Attitude | Ian and Andrey discuss Andrey’s new mobile apps, doing press releases in unique cases, HARO, bringing on a partner, Valentino movie, Breaking Bad, Andrey on being abducted, dress code in fancy steak joints, optimal steak restaurant design, Snappy marketing, doing a giveawayNote: this podcast was recorded before we released http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm, next week we’ll discuss that in more detail.Bootstrapped Ep 15 with Special guest Patrick McKenzieBe a source on Help a Reporter OutWe ate a huge steak at http://www.peterluger.com/ with DNLBusiness movie: Valentino: The Last EmperorBlack Books showBREAKING BAD!!ÇingletonMailgunPatrick McKenzie’s drip email seriesRafflecopter – great app for running giveawaysTaylor Otwell’s Laravel bookGuest next week Rachel AndrewDiscuss this episode: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/episode-16-meat-and-attitude/74 | 46m 28s | ||||||
| 7/24/13 | ![]() #15: Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Selling Software | Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest, Patrick McKenzie (patio11), to discuss the “early” days of the Business of Software forums, Patrick’s journey and daily routine, Helpdesk systems and support, Appointment Reminder, systemizing and automating daily tasks, SaaS, B2C vs. B2B, pricing of software, consulting, learning from Blackhats, Hacker News, marketing, Uberdeck, making money from open source, dual-licensing, running a conference, hacker meetups, Patrick’s biggest mistake in business, Patrick’s next product, and Facebook games.Special guest Patrick McKenzie (patio11) of Kalzumeus.Business of Software Forums – Joel on Software.Bingo Card Creator – Patrick’s first product.Appointment Reminder – Patrick’s second product.Helpspot – Ian’s first product.Snappy – Ian’s latest product.Antair Spam Filter – One of Andrey’s first products.Uberdeck – Andrey’s latest productAndy Brice, and his Perfect Table Plan product.Jon B and his ViEmu, vi emulator for Visual Studio.Gavin BowmanMichael PryorKalzumeus PodcastTeach for AmericaHacker NewsRuben Gamez, founder of Bidsketch30×500, by Amy HoyMicropreneur AcademyMarco ArmentLaravelLaravel: From Apprentice to Artisan, by Taylor OtwellPaint.netBinpressRails Long Term SupportGail Goodman talk from Business of Software 2012Patrick’s Email ListPeldi, Balsamiq MockupsVisual Website Optimizer | 1h 52m 10s | ||||||
| 7/11/13 | ![]() #14: Now you have to do stuff | Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest Scott Watermasysk. We get the back story on KickoffLabs Scott’s company, Andrey laments about having to do “stuff”, we don’t get Quora, we go deep on Uberdeck pricing strategy, how Agant went back to being a one person shop, starting solo or with a co-founder, Ship It!, a few landing page tips from Scott.Special guest Scott Watermasysk of KickoffLabsIBM Ideating commercialCampaignMonitor pricingWhat Next for AgantRise of the Millon Dollar One Person Business | 1h 16m 53s | ||||||
| 6/26/13 | ![]() #13: Boiler Room | Ian and Andrey discuss getting ready to deploy Uberdeck, Snappy progress, what’s next for Snappy marketing, stories of first job interviews, the benefits, if any, of a college education, selling into the consumer space, the experience of buying software in a box, selling software before making software and vetting product ideas.Uberdeck – Andrey’s new product. ( preview screenshot)Fabric – a Python SSH tool.Snappy – Ian’s newest product.SupportOps.co – a site dedicated to customer support best practices.Helpspot – Ian’s first product; a helpdesk application.SmallSpec.com – Chris Hawkins‘ new product for building functional specs.Boiler Room – movie.Songwriter gets paid $16 for 1 million plays.xkcd – the pace of modern life. | 1h 10m 24s | ||||||
| 6/19/13 | ![]() #12: The Analogy | Andrey and Ian discuss mistakes with Snappy’s initial website, building multiple products vs focusing on a single product, fixing the app store, recommendations on going into the mobile space, and Derek Sivers new company and how he outsourced it all.FocusLabSlambots – the latest RetroDreamer gameMarco on removing mobile app store top listsSpider Web GamesCD BabySivers article on new company | 1h 14m 18s | ||||||
| 6/12/13 | ![]() #11: Bootstrapping a Software Consulting Company | Andrey and Ian sit down with Carl Diesing from DNL OmniMedia, and Chris Hawkins from Cogeian Systems, to talk about bootstrapping a successful software consulting company.Chris Hawkins on Twitter, and his website with lots of good articles and advice.Cogeian Systems – The software consultancy where Chris is the founder.Carl Diesing on TwitterDNL OmniMedia – The software consultancy where Carl is a co-founder.Expensd– DNL’s SaaS productSmallSpec – Chris’ new SaaS productParscale Media – A consulting software company mentioned by Ian during the show.Chasing Product – Chris’ new podcast | 1h 12m 01s | ||||||
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