Build Your SaaS
Interested in building your own SaaS company? Follow the journey of Transistor.fm as they bootstrap a podcast hosting startup.
Throwing computers off a tall building
Jon and Justin talk about:
- A stressful Rails 6 upgrade (and how it broke the app).
- We often use data to make decisions, but we don't often examine the underlying data we're using to make decisions.
- How do we know if our marketing efforts are effective?
- "What's happened to your data since last quarter?"
- "If a billion people are listening, but not reacting, does it matter?"
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Show notes:
- Justin's tweetstorm about using data.
- Libsyn's quarterly financial results.
- Facebook inflated video views
- Daniel Ek (Spotify) interview
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Thanks to our monthly supporters:
- Eric Lima
- James Sowers with UserInput.io
- Travis Fischer
- Matt Buckley, from Nice Things
- Russell Brown
- Evandro Sasse
- Pradyumna Shembekar (PD)
- Noah Prail
- David Colgan
- Robert Simplicio
- Colin Gray alitu.com
- Josh Smith
- Ivan Curkovic
- Brian Rhea (Pronounced “Ray”)
- Shane Smith
- Austin Loveless
- Simon Bennett
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis
- Dan Buda danbuda.com
- Darby Frey
- Samori Augusto
- Dave Young
- Brad from Canada
- Sammy Schuckert
- Dan Ericson
- Mike Walker
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- ProfitWell
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- Clubhouse
- GetRewardful.com
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