All Episodes
Building a SaaS Website Builder with Volkan from Versoly
Volkan from Versoly is a guest on the pod today. He shares his journey of creating a website builder for SaaS companies. We talk through the ups and downs to get him t...
Making it Official
Noah has gotten Supportman to the point where it is ready to launch. He just has to click the button to release it on the Intercom App Store. Noah also incorporated Su...
Bootstrappers Need Patience
Today, Ben and Noah chat about how bootstrappers need to have patience. It's hard to get a SaaS off the ground and it takes a lot of time. What will Ben and Noah do du...
No Ones Forcing Us
Noah and Ben share updates on how things are going with Supportman and Playgroup. Ben is making some good progress with his first customers and Noah has submitted Supp...
Onboarding the First Community
Another week on the struggle bus. But there isn't too much struggling this time. Ben is enjoying on-boarding his first community to Playgroup! While Noah is finishing ...
How Starting a Business has Changed with Jon Hainstock
We have a guest on the podcast! Jon Hainstock, who started and sold ZoomShift. We had a great discussion around how starting a bootstrapped business has changed in the...
Build It and They Will Come?
Ben is happy with how things are going for Playgroup. He shares how he has been having some great conversations with potential customers and is enjoying it more than c...
Fighting the Pandemic with Spencer Rowland
This week we chat with Spencer who owns an Escape room business as well as a SAAS for Escape room businesses. We talk about the difficulties that Spencer has faced wit...
Where to Go Next with Jesper Bylund
Noah and Ben have a guest (Jesper Bylund) on the podcast. Jesper is a UX designer and developer working on his own business as well as a listener of Product Journey. T...
Discussing Onboarding
Noah and Ben have enjoyed another week of things going well with their businesses. Ben has gotten dumping data over from Discourse into Playgroup working and integrate...
Noah's Old Business Blew Up
Ben had a great week this last week as he was able to focus entirely on Playgroup. He had some frustrations but was able to keep the momentum alive. He worked on a Dis...
Lots of Progress ...and EP 30!
Its been an overall great week for both Ben and Noah! Ben has gotten lots of work done on Playgroup, transitioning it over to communities and Noah has started working ...
Being Pulled to Something Else
Noah and Ben spend a moment on how Covid-19 has affected them, the good and the bad. Then they dive into how potential customers seem to be pulling their businesses to...
5 Factors of Growth with Corey Haines
This episode we have the privilege of talking to Corey Haines from Baremetrics. What are some good practices for customer interviews? How to implement a free plan corr...
Landing on the Right Market
Noah and Ben talk about landing on the right market. Ben has built Playgroup, which could be positioned towards two or more different markets. Similarly, Noah is talki...
Credibility and How to Get it!
Noah and Ben talk how about how things are going. They are both feeling the struggles of finding their first customers. How can they get credibility to make users trus...
Finding Validation with Arvid Kahl of FeedbackPanda
Noah and Ben talk with Arvid Kahl who sold his company FeedbackPanda, that he bootstrapped and started only two years ago! Arvid talks though a little bit of his journ...
No Validation Valley
Noah and Ben have a great talk about the lows and highs of a business as Ben is struggling with getting his first user for Playgroup. It's tough being in those valleys...
Finally Finding a Problem
Noah and Ben have a great chat catching up on their businesses. Ben has launched the new landing pages for PlayGroup after writing some good copy. He also talks about ...
Forecasting the Future with Matt Wensing
This week Noah and Ben are joined by Matt Wensing from Summit. They talk about forecasting in SaaS businesses — What it is, when you should do it and how it can help f...
Fighting Giants with Val Sopi
Noah and Ben are joined by Val Sopi, founder of Claritask. They talk about Val’s journey building Claritask, thoughts on funding, competing with big players in a certa...
Problems Worth Solving
Noah and Ben catch up on the past weeks and their progress. Ben is still building out the MVP for Playgroup, while Noah's recent interviews have led him to question th...
The Early Days and Execution with Noah Labhart
Noah and Ben chat with Noah Labhart, the CTO of Veryable. Veryable is a marketplace of on-demand labor for manufacturing and warehouse work. They talk through the earl...
Being Sneaky
Ben talks about some of his improvements and things that he has learned the last week with PlayGroup. Meanwhile, Noah has multiple meetings setup with very nice bootst...
Private Playgroup Launch
Ben and Noah hope to be charging into 2020! Ben just did a private launch of Playgroup. He is getting feedback from some users and making decisions on what to do next....
Merry Christmas! and Our Goals
Noah and Ben thank their listeners for following them on this product journey! They also share their goals for 2020. There won't be an episode next week as Noah and Be...
Testing Code and People!
Ben is doing some testing on Play Group to make sure everything is up to par. Noah and Ben talk about when testing is worth it and when its not. There is a big debate ...
Market is the First Filter with Justin Jackson
Noah and Ben are happily joined by Justin Jackson, the founder of Transistor and avid podcast creator and listener. They talk through building an audience and how find...