Welcome to, Transmits!

Hi, I’m Ryan Hefner (@ryanhefner), and I am in the process of building, Transmits, an audio journaling and distribution app focused on letting you quickly capture and refine your ideas, and easily share them with the world—or not.

In this podcast, I’ll be documenting the building of Transmits, and what it takes to build a modern SaaS application in 2024. I’ll be diving into the technical challenges and tradeoffs made while building the app, exploring the marketing and messaging approaches as I try to position the product properly to support current and future features while trying to find the right early customers and opportunities to set the product up for success, and dig into all the other things that go into taking an idea and turning it into reality—and a company—that can generate either enough money, or notoriety, to help build the foundation to a sustainable life that provides the freedom to work on what I want, when I want.

In addition to documenting life in Transmits, I’ll also be reaching out to friends in the industry—and beyond—to hear about what things they are working on, and share stories and tips that you might find helpful depending on where you are at on your path.

I hope you’ll join me on this journey, and I look forward to sharing the stories—both good and bad—along the way.

In the meantime, sign up for the mailing list to get notified when early access opens up–along with other updates and goodies–on the site, https://www.transmits.io, and follow along on Twitter, @transmitsio, where I plan on hosting some broadcasts of discussions/interviews and live working sessions.

And, if you like this podcast, you might like the other podcast, All Play, where some of these episodes may be cross-posted from, along with other general thoughts and updates on things I am working on beyond Transmits. And follow along on twitter, @allplayfm.