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37: Live from Gavin's kitchen
In this episode, Mitch and Gavin are finally recording together in person from the Gold Coast – live from Gavin’s kitchen, no less. They dive into their huge week delivering the Volunteering WA conference, prep for Laracon AU, and share some honest lessons learned from the front lines of building SixSides.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Intro and live from the Gold Coast
In this episode, we cover:
- Volunteering WA: what went right and what we learned
- The emotional moment seeing SixSides on three massive screens
- A weird iPhone bug with photo uploads and how we fixed it
- How one event turned into nine real leads for 2026-2027
- The magic of notifications and user momentum
- The upcoming push at Laracon AU (and the 1,000 photo challenge)
- Designing themes that don’t look amateur
- Shipping check-in functionality just in time
- Why we’re shifting towards a SaaS model instead of one-off events
- Using events as marketing content and lead gen flywheels
- Our first international simultaneous event use – in Cambodia!
- When it's time to get a CRM
- The future of SixSides as a community-building platform
- Lessons from last year’s EventKit vs this year’s SixSides
- Getting people to connect with structured networking prompts
- Gavin’s new podcast: The Leap by the Founders Collective
- Our upcoming conference as exhibitors (gulp, $$$)
Expect a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to launch a B2B SaaS company from scratch – completely bootstrapped.
Got questions or topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating and a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps us reach more people!
Connect with us
- SixSides: sixsides.co
- Book a call with Gavin: call.sixsides.co
- Mitchell on Bluesky: mitchdav.is
- Mitchell on LinkedIn: mitchdav
- Gavin on LinkedIn: gavintye
- Gavin on YouTube: gavintye1
- SixSides on LinkedIn: sixsides
- SixSides on X: sixsidesevents
- SixSides on Bluesky: sixsides.co
- SixSides on Youtube: sixsidesco
- SixSides on Substack: sixsides
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By SixSidesIn this episode, Mitch and Gavin are finally recording together in person from the Gold Coast – live from Gavin’s kitchen, no less. They dive into their huge week delivering the Volunteering WA conference, prep for Laracon AU, and share some honest lessons learned from the front lines of building SixSides.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Intro and live from the Gold Coast
In this episode, we cover:
- Volunteering WA: what went right and what we learned
- The emotional moment seeing SixSides on three massive screens
- A weird iPhone bug with photo uploads and how we fixed it
- How one event turned into nine real leads for 2026-2027
- The magic of notifications and user momentum
- The upcoming push at Laracon AU (and the 1,000 photo challenge)
- Designing themes that don’t look amateur
- Shipping check-in functionality just in time
- Why we’re shifting towards a SaaS model instead of one-off events
- Using events as marketing content and lead gen flywheels
- Our first international simultaneous event use – in Cambodia!
- When it's time to get a CRM
- The future of SixSides as a community-building platform
- Lessons from last year’s EventKit vs this year’s SixSides
- Getting people to connect with structured networking prompts
- Gavin’s new podcast: The Leap by the Founders Collective
- Our upcoming conference as exhibitors (gulp, $$$)
Expect a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to launch a B2B SaaS company from scratch – completely bootstrapped.
Got questions or topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating and a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps us reach more people!
Connect with us
- SixSides: sixsides.co
- Book a call with Gavin: call.sixsides.co
- Mitchell on Bluesky: mitchdav.is
- Mitchell on LinkedIn: mitchdav
- Gavin on LinkedIn: gavintye
- Gavin on YouTube: gavintye1
- SixSides on LinkedIn: sixsides
- SixSides on X: sixsidesevents
- SixSides on Bluesky: sixsides.co
- SixSides on Youtube: sixsidesco
- SixSides on Substack: sixsides