The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication
Discover how to communicate your product's value effectively, catering to diverse audiences with unique needs in the podcast industry.
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The Bootstrapped Founder · Page 6
Your API Documentation is Not For Developers Anymore
I had this really interesting experience with a customer of Podscan recently. They reached out saying they were having trouble integrating our API. Now, this wasn’t unusual – we get these requests occasionally. But what happened next comple
Read the essay →One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions
Explore Podscan's growth from an experiment to profitability. Discover the tech and business choices that drove its success and lessons learned.
Read the essay →The Balancing Act: Free Trials, Value Demonstration, and Business Sustainability
I’ve been running into an interesting challenge in the last few days with Podscan. I have to make a choice that is both technically feasible, scalable, and balanced—a balance between giving my trial customers precisely what they want and be
Read the essay →Podscan’s Profitability Milestone: What’s Next?
It is the beginning of April 2025—it’s been almost a year to the day that Podscan got its bootstrapper-compatible funding, and it has taken me this long to reach the very first goal that I set for myself that day: becoming profitable before
Read the essay →Repositioning Podscan: From Monitoring to Data Platform
Coming out of MicroConf, I’ve gained clarity about something I’ve been feeling for a while. It’s time to reposition Podscan.fm, shifting away from alerting and monitoring as main features, and moving more decisively toward what it’s already
Read the essay →I went to MicroConf in New Orleans
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd I have a few things to say. In one of my rare directly-from-the-hotel-room-to-you episodes, I’ll dive right into the many wonderful experiences of this uniquely amazing conference, and I’ll share my biggest learn
Read the essay →How AI Changes Famous Laws in Software and Entrepreneurship
The way we build software is changing fundamentally. Through AI systems, the process of creation is transforming into something different – almost a managerial thing, even for technical people. When you build software with AI assistance, yo
Read the essay →Experiment Report: Trying New Things
Since I talked to Anne-Laure Le Cunff, the neuroscientist and author, on my Wednesday episode this week, we had a conversation about goal setting, running experiments, and trying to deal with uncertainty. It made me want to take some time t
Read the essay →Anne-Laure Le Cunff — Tiny Experiments
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne) is a neuroscientist and author of the book Tiny Experiments, where she shines a scientific light on how we set goals, what experiments we should think about, and how we can deal with u
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