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If you're building a new SaaS in 2024, I'd love to see your landing page (even if it's a "coming soon" page).

Post a link in the replies! 🙏

Almost done writing my 2023 year-in-review post.

(I've been doing these for 10 years now!)

I'll send it to my newsletter list tomorrow or Saturday. 👍

@ruslansteiger 🔥🔥🔥

@shl Why does this chart’s y axis go from $1,500,000 to $20,000,000?

Is that a typo?

@warsh33p I love this finished result!

@paleochef This. I just want to go hang out with people in real life: share some meals, go on walks, hang out in living rooms, listen to music, go on road trips, sit in coffee shops and talk, visit a new city with people, hang out on a beach, hang out at the ski hill, go on some retreats…

Let’s all hang out in person in 2024.

@TaylorHoliday Yup! From my blog post linked above.

@TaylorHoliday “Building a new product is an enormous risk.

You're risking your time and energy, capital, and potentially lost wages.

So before you build a product, you want to see some evidence of demand.”

https://justinjackson.ca/the-market/

Having an amazing time with the fam up at @SilverStarMR.

#vernonbc

@jclermont Congrats! Awesome milestone. 🎉

@KeliWestgate 😔

Another beautiful day on the mountain today.

Happy new year! 🎉

This really is the key to building a successful business in 2024. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1699100683948236893

I use @merott’s app daily. Highly recommended! https://twitter.com/merott/status/1741741890335093051

@typeoneerror @mariepoulin Love it

@CasJam These are great!

I love the prompt of “My best work happens when…”

@zkahn Happy new year! 🎉

@samclaassen This is @SilverStarMR!

Finally back on the mountain.

RT @BrentToderian: IMPORTANT: This ranks a bunch of ways we get around cities, using average carbon emissions by transport type in grams pe…

@cassidoo What a full year!

Great to read your recap.

All the best in 2024! 🙌

@NickADobos This looks good! I’m going for try it out when I get back to the office.

@askwpgirl I love that.

@AmandaMGoetz Yes! The curse of short-term thinking is why @merott built @PolarHabits.

I’ve been loving it. https://twitter.com/merott/status/1706685097582485857

@tavani @alliswell as someone who runs a small non-profit coworking place (@CoWorkVernon), I’m fascinated by your business model.

$100/month!! How do you make that work?

Have you talked about that in a blog post or podcast yet?

@adampatterson https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1665832725993910273

@heyandras Yup!

@typeoneerror Yup. Agreed. 👍

@threehourcoffee Yes! Me too.

@fellowcreative Let’s open one! 🙌

@danshipper I like these vibes

I wish there were real-world places for podcast listeners that felt like a record store.

A place you could go and listen to podcasts, hang out with other podcast enthusiasts, and browse through podcasts the same way you browse through records.

(I think some libraries have…

@daniel_nguyenx The point of the original quote is to point out that a great product is “necessary but not sufficient” for success, and that distribution is the strongest lever.

But your point is true as well!

For indie products, “great product” often leads to more distribution (positive…

@pk_992 @stripe @buildyoursaas Any country / jurisdiction in the world can make up laws, but the idea that they would result in extradition and criminal charges is ridiculous:

“No citizen on earth shall consume fish on Sunday.”

Any city, province, state, country can invent a sales tax law and say that…

@stripe As a background on this topic, listen to our @buildyoursaas episodes on our "collecting SaaS sales tax" woes.

https://saas.transistor.fm/search?query=%22saas+sales+tax%22

This is a positive sign for SaaS companies that use @stripe: they're staffing up their sales tax and remittance team!

https://stripe.com/jobs/search?teams=Tax

@louisnicholls_ I just read @jmduke’s 👍.

I also really enjoyed @typeoneerror’s: https://okidoki.notion.site/2023-Year-in-Review-e6d1590eaa644b5c8a1c3c296a7d1cae https://twitter.com/jmduke/status/1740479922257236340

@typeoneerror @NotionHQ Working on it!

RT @mijustin: 5. A successful business idea will emerge from the experiences, connections, skills, insights, and resources you’ve accumulat…

@joel_stainer You’re in Edmonton now!!?

@typeoneerror @NotionHQ I just finished reading it: thanks for sharing so much (grief, process, joyful moments, impactful learnings).

Wishing you a stellar 2024. ❤️

It’s wild that it’s December 28th and there’s no snow anywhere in town.

#vernonbc

RT @mijustin: 3. Find a good market with good fundamentals.

Look at the sum of demand for the category you're considering:

Number of pote…

@johnspurlock 👀

@WhoWorksThere Yup

@5harath Congrats! 🎉

@AliAbdaal Got my copy yesterday! https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1740161719903928519

@thekitze Yesssssss

RT @mariepoulin: Have you taken an 🔋energy🔋 inventory; looking at the things that ⚡️gave⚡️ you energy and 🪫drained🪫 your energy this past y…

@DanielZarick @iamcoreyg Me too 🙌

I ordered @AliAbdaal’s new book.

Excited to dig in!

@asmartbear Do you have an editor that looks at your writing?

@ClausISaidSo I love it.

@mynameis_davis Whoa!!

@digitaltrouble Wow! Finding a secret door (even if it just leads to the hallway) is still exciting.

@AliAbdaal @TheTodayShow Very cool! Congrats!

@mikevardy Merry Christmas to you and your family Mike!

@kwuchu I’ve never had it!

@abigailotwell Merry Christmas to you, @taylorotwell, and the kids! 🙌

@michaeldyrynda Merry Christmas! 🎉🎄

@shawnblanc @p_millerd Came here to mention Shawn’s retreats.

One of the most meaningful experiences of my life. ❤️

@djrosent @gilbert @AcquiredFM @TransistorFM Thanks! It feels like every small business should have a “gallery” page featuring significant photos.

I should do that for @TransistorFM. 🤔

@cpinto @ryanseanbadger @stripe @GeoffTRoberts Why pay more and go with MoR before you hit sales tax thresholds?

If you’re eventually going to go with Stripe, you should just start with Stripe.

RT @mijustin: Amazing chat with @djrosent about how he and @gilbert started the @AcquiredFM podcast.

Key takeaway: "Our goal wasn't to ge…

@ryanseanbadger @stripe It is absurd. The best exploration on this topic is @GeoffTRoberts’ blog post:

https://www.outseta.com/posts/global-sales-tax-compliance-and-remittance

@christianbowens @ryanseanbadger @stripe @PaddleHQ @shoprocket Maybe we’re “Avalara scale”, but we had a terrible time with Avalara and wouldn’t recommend them to anyone.

@jayclouse Congrats! 🎉 🎉🎉

@mattmedeiros @TheWPMinute Oh no! That’s the worst. It’s happened to me multiple times!

@philmmoore Yes! The key is to get in motion.

Momentum is a powerful force: getting started is the key part!

@sunglassesface @djrosent @gilbert @AcquiredFM @TransistorFM @acquiredotcom Nope! The podcast started focused on tech acquisitions, but the focus evolved to “the stories and strategies of great companies.”

Amazing chat with @djrosent about how he and @gilbert started the @AcquiredFM podcast.

Key takeaway: "Our goal wasn't to get sponsors, make money, or get to a certain number of downloads. Our #1 goal was to learn."

Full story will be published soon on the @transistorfm feed.

@rmoestl Yup! I have a good list here: #packages" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/#packages

@troypavlek That's a good point: the editing is easier too!

I wrote a full blog post on this here as well:

https://transistor.fm/video-or-audio-podcast/

Video is having its moment in podcasting right now, but I still think most new podcasters should start with an audio podcast.

In the beginning, you should keep your gear and production complexity low so you can learn how to craft something compelling.

Plus: Appearing on video…

@bramus @freekmurze @riasvdv @driesvints @mattiasgeniar @maybeFrederick Where was my invite? 🤔

@jonnym1ller Congrats!!! 🎉

@jclermont Great looking website! 🙌

@noahwbragg @OutOfBetaPod Me too. Loving this format @mattwensing and @petersuhm!!

@damengchen I’m just getting over it.

Get lots of rest! Feel better soon. 💪

@petersuhm 👀

🎯 Success is compounding effort over time. https://twitter.com/jayclouse/status/1736800175706783975

@gilbert @AcquiredFM @djrosent Awesome news! 🎉🎉🎉

Congrats to both of you.

Which lapel microphone is @AliAbdaal wearing here?

@troypavlek It was really well done - translates to audio beautifully!

How are you feeling at this point of the year, heading into the holidays?

@troypavlek loved the recent Jeopardy episode!

@TransistorFM @iamjeremyenns Jeremy, we need to get a landing page URL (and waiting list) set up for this!

@AliAbdaal We currently have a beta for our automatic podcast transcription feature at @TransistorFM.

If you want, I can add it to your account! 💪

cc @apmparker

@Mattylantz 🙌

@alphacolin cc @mjwhansen

@heyjoshwood Really great episode. 👍

@heyjoshwood @stympy I also just let you a⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on @Spotify.

(Already left you a review on @ApplePodcasts).

Very good bootsrapping podcast episode 👉

@stympy and @heyjoshwood talk candidly about revenue struggles, and then work through a real problem: how they're cutting costs in 2023, and their plans to increase revenue in 2024.

Highly recommended: https://lnkfi.re/9tYQ77

@r00k YESSSS 🕺🔥

@r00k Are we going to see some TikTok dances? 🙏

Yesterday, @iamjeremyenns and I sat down and recorded our first episode for a new show about podcast growth, marketing, and data.

More details are coming soon; here's a preview clip!