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@Clew_less @BillShaw8 Hi Bill! 👋 I'm one of the owners of @TransistorFM. Happy to help you migrate over.

(You can host multiple podcasts with us, for one price.)

The instructions are here:
https://help.transistor.fm/article/2-importing-your-podcast-from-a-different-provider

@m1guelpf Hahaha. Yeah, that’s the bootstrap route. You on a log, with a bed sheet. 🤣

@_rchase_ Yes! @kylefox and @getRewardful are ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@justinvincent Lots of evidence for current behaviour around this:

- Product demo videos
- Animated demonstrations
- Slideshows

@thatsathingYEG @lizzyraptor @KarenUnland omg. This killed me:

"Ok, now it's time to praise our overlords at ATB."

@thatsathingYEG @lizzyraptor @KarenUnland Lol!!! I love Jon on the show:

"I'm not a boomer, I'm gen-x!"
"Boomer is a mindset."

🤣

@dmfj @songmashapp @ProductHunt Oh sweet!

@DrewRoberts @m1guelpf @pjrvs Yup! We met today! 🙌

@pjrvs @IronMaiden 🤣 and satanic.

@bobbybouwmann 🙌

@venikunche HAPPY BIRTHDAY VENI! YOU'RE AWESOME!

@incredimike @porterairlines yup! I’m in Seattle. Flight is delayed 2+ hours

@jayacunzo Twitter still feels great to me, personally.

But I rarely check FB anymore. Same with IG.

The full talk ("How to make your podcast stand out") is available on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHWpqov1Rvk

@clairejlew @indievc Great piece Claire! 🙌

@corey_gwin 2004: Podcast

@RamliJohn This is really great @aprildunford! 🙌

@Swizec best part

@jitbit Best answer so far. Thanks Alex!

@halarewich yikes! 😱

I’m still holding on to my late-2013 MBP.

Can’t hold on much longer! 😅

@TheEricAnderson Definitely reach out to @CorbettBarr if you're interested.

Beyond building a great product, Corbett is just a smart human. 👌

@Jus10McGill Oh sweet. I just told @jonbuda; he was surprised!

@MattGiovanisci https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/bullet/id1464117391

@m1guelpf @UnderTale my son ❤️ that game!

I asked my newsletter that question this morning, and I'm already getting some great responses:

Really digging this interview with @DavidEpstein (on the @jaltucher show).

@vernbot @RJFradette I bought a Ghost SL AMR 2.7 at MEC for $2900 and really like it.

Right now it’s on sale for $2320!

https://www.mec.ca/en/product/5061-806/SL-AMR-2-7-Bicycle

@ugmonk Jeff these are so dope! https://ugmonk.com/pages/tee-story

You should meet my hometown friend @stephen_kenn. It feels like you two would get along. 👌

@EspreeDevora @ConvertKit I’m mostly trying to remember, and connect with, folks like this:

https://twitter.com/sethchaffee/status/1146535280448421888?s=21

@vpego @pjrvs @studiofellow 🤣 what is happening?!?

Our business account is with Spark:
https://www.capitalone.com/credit-cards/compare/?filter=business

“Who benefits from automation, and who loses, is ultimately a consequence not of robots themselves, but of who owns them.”
— @pefrase, Four Futures

@flybayer is that in the RV?

@TimenBaart @TransistorFM For live chat, our site says: "responses within 2 hours" but generally I try to respond immediately if I'm at my computer (9am-5pm Pacific).

@DanPierson @sivers Crazy! Did that give you some comfort? (Nice that a stranger would try to help!)

@nbashaw @bentossell wow. Really well done! 🙌

@m1guelpf 🙌

@jmckinven @buildyoursaas @jonbuda yes! that’s @iChris’ work! He’s awesome.

@JoeRguy @jayclouse @upsidefm @AmyNelsonVFA Another great show hosted on @TransistorFM! 💪

@asmartbear @wpengine @HeyFlywheel Whoa! That's huge news. 🙌

@raspberrysarah i think you’re going to be friends with a plant for real

@adamwathan the man is onto you man

@RamliJohn @brennandunn @TransistorFM honestly, nowadays it’s best to use something like Overcast, Castro, or @bulletaudio to make these.

On the desktop Headliner is your best bet!

@robwalling YESSS! So glad you wrote this down. This framework has been really helpful for me as a founder. ❤️

@SamanthaGeitz bring that dog to laracon

@deadcoder0904 It’s very difficult to build a software company as one person.

(especially if you’re bootstrapping)

Almost everyone I know who has done it successfully has cofounders.

@deadcoder0904 My experience so far:

- 2002: opened a snowboard shop with co-founders (did not turn out well)
- 2008-2018: ran a little solopreneur business.
- 2018: started Transistor with Jon

There’s not one size fits all, but for software biz I’ve seen how having a cofounder is helpful.

@levelsio I've seen that study too; but doesn't it just look at crowdfunded companies?

@bryce Reference: 🇨🇦

Home of Slack, Shopify, and others! 🙌

@juliaborgini 👋 I'm an amateur webmaster too! Still learning tons.

@Statamic is the CMS (like WordPress).

Tailwind is a CSS framework (kind of like Bootstrap). I used it to build a custom Statamic theme for my website. 👌

@theandreboso @statamic @tailwindcss Those are the mobile tests! 🔥

@statamic is great for devs, but also has an amazing dashboard / editing interface for regular users. 👍

@conorgil @TransistorFM Oh man, so hard to say. So much of it depends on a podcaster's existing audience.

If you're building a new podcast from scratch, really difficult.

The average podcast gets less than 1,100 downloads per episode in its first 30 days.

@chrisvickers It’s taken me way less time to rebuild the site on @statamic. WordPress has so many finicky bits.

@lovevalgeisler @dohertyjf I've actually done this for all my books. When you buy @marketingdevs or @joltbook, you get a secret podcast feed with the audio book!

@tristanbailey @brianfbenton 👋 I’ve had a few people ask me why http://Transistor.fm isn’t on this list. Happy to show you around!

@thepodcasthost @jonbuda Totally. It’s scary to think: is this all just a bubble? Is there a big churn cliff coming?

I think all we can do is keep building the best product, and giving the best service.

@swissmiss Thanks! I quite drinking Jan 1st.

I’m realizing that so much of “social drinking” is just having a drink in your hand and feeling like you belong. 👌

Club Soda + Lime / Cranberry / etc saved me!

@JamesClear Related:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1137314953113821184?s=21

@nloadholtes don't do that!

@tuacker I agree with the spirit; but disagree with the implementation.

Feels like we should control privacy settings and permissions at the browser level.

@david_l991 @patrickbjohnson I think we should be able to go to `/privacy` on any website and see what they're using for tracking.

(Also: isn't it better to control privacy settings and permissions at the browser level?)

@ugmonk oh this every day ever damn time

@pjrvs @mattdavella Beauty. 👌

A real sit-down with Paul Jarvis is a rare thing! This was great.

@coreyhainesco @Baremetrics Great thread!

ARE DONUTS BIG IN CANADA!?!?! 😱

https://twitter.com/iChris/status/1135948987519909889

@songadaymann @marcoarment @caseyliss @siracusa @austinnotduncan @film_girl @WIRED @veitchtweets @dajager @Stammy @lexysavvides Love it! 🙌

@mubashariqbal @tylertringas “# of customers” x “avg yearly spend” is your SAM:

10 x $1,000 = too low
1000 x $10 = too low

It’s not unti a bootstrapper gets into this range that it becomes baseline worthwhile:

1000 x $100
100 x $1000

“Size of niche” and “$ they spend” are both important variables.

@louisnicholls_ In that post (http://justinjackson.ca/niche), I highlight one of those niche companies: Moraware.

They're awesome! They've built an incredible company.

But they admit that it was probably harder (and took longer) than it should have.

@louisnicholls_ Are we talking about "small markets" or "smaller niches within larger markets?"

I'm not opposed to targeting a small niche initially within a larger market.

My point is that if your total addressable market is only 10,000 worldwide, that's going to be difficult to bootstrap in.

@louisnicholls_ Nope! That’s not what i’m saying at all!

I’m recommending finding a good market first!

I’ve been writing about this forever: https://justinjackson.ca/niche

@louisnicholls_ @mubashariqbal There are many.

One, that @asmartbear has mentioned in the past is that small bootstrapped startups tend to give better customer support than big enterprise companies.

@mubashariqbal @tylertringas Hyperbole aside, if we believe their version of history, their initial target market was definitely “people who would normally book hotel rooms.”

@tylertringas @mubashariqbal I think you’re misunderstanding my point. 😉

The opportunity existed because all the hotel rooms were booked up.

Their history, from the beginning, is about being in the same market as hotels.

@smithtimmytim NICE!!!

@iamashley @scratch_posts Did she buy it from Pete at @blackpinecoffee? 😉

@taylorotwell happy birthday!!! 🎉🎉🎉

@stauffermatt Nice! Congrats. 👌

@sachinrekhi Thanks for sharing it!

@meet__chopra 1. This week's took me a lot longer (and the are themes I've been wrestling with for years). Probably 5-6 hours of focused work.

2. Nope, I just write them based on what feels the most clear.

3. Content is almost always decided by what I'm thinking about / wrestling with.

@tylertringas Yes, one example there was the "marketing for devs" market. "Programmers" is a huge market, but the % who want to learn marketing is (comparatively) tiny. And the % who wanted to learn marketing from me was tinier still. 😉

@kevindees @corymiller303 I like Seth a lot. I'm trying to add nuance to what he's saying.

He's asking us to identify the "smallest viable market."

My point is that the "smallest viable market" is bigger than you think. 👌

@Evanish @nbashaw Podcasts *are* being indexed by Google now:

https://youtu.be/3WwH3l_guCw

@itsdavemartin I think you could get over that hurdle. 😉

"The only way to get good at making money is to practice, just like playing the piano takes practice." – @jasonfried

To know if your money ideas are good, you've got to put them into practice.

@kirillzubovsky @jonbuda @2centdad @sudyk @TransistorFM Oh awesome! Thanks! 🙌

Oh god. Now I'm down a grunge rabbit hole:

"There's a lot of Black Sabbath in Nirvana that people don't hear. In fact, 'Come as You Are' was [copied from] Killing Joke's song called 'Eighties', and Killing Joke was very influenced by Sabbath." - Corgan

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/eighties/714822155?i=714822366

Pumpkins were really metal. Listen to that opening riff!

@meet__chopra @ConvertKit @nathanbarry @TransistorFM 🙌

@hunterwalk @anuaimi @MediaRadar @Casper @WarbyParker @birchbox @brooklinen Wish I could see their podcast spending on that list too. 🙏

@kudapara @derrickreimer yup! Just made it the PS. 👍

@evanlapointe Great thread! 👍

How long should you wait for that to happen? That's up to you.

It usually depends on how much time, money, and energy you have left.

The internet has definitely given us the ability to test ideas faster.

@drewwilson Haha. I'm turning 39 next month! 😄

@davidhemphill is this what u wear while refactoring

@steveschoger @michaeldyrynda @adamwathan @tailwindcss YES!!!!!! Adam mentioned this on the stream today. 😍

@r00k Ah yes, users have to add those manually right now. Working on auto- generating from iTunes.

@joshuap @DashBarkHuss @thejonanshow @derrickreimer @r00k @jmcharnes @tenderlove @molly_struve @jhooks @alexhillman @hnshah ❤️

@spencerfry @chadtomkiss @PairWithTuple My guess? Most apps don't go the extra mile and get "closer to the metal" like @r00k and his team has. I believe most of the app is built in C++.

@ArtBoiko 1. I really believe in @smithtimmytim.
2. I miss Path. Path was privacy-focused but venture-funded.
3. A subscription for a private photos app (that can also make photos public if I want) feels right.

@valsopi Whoa! Nice!

@louisnicholls_ @TransistorFM I wrote this back in July. A few things have changed since then, but the broad themes are still true.

https://transistor.fm/anchor-vs-transistor/