Indie Bites

Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business


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Arvid Kahl is returning to the podcast for the third time. In 2019, he’d just sold Feedback Panda for a life changing amount of money and then wrote the book Zero to Sold. In 2023, he was in full-on creator mode with The Bootstrapped Founder and had just released The Embedded Entrepreneur. Now, he’s still producing the content but is also spending time on his SaaS Podscan, which is an extremely ambitious tool that transcribes every podcast and let’s you track mentions of your brand.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:27 Arvid's life as a SaaS founder
  • 02:48 Are people still building in public
  • 03:54 No longer being a solo founder
  • 05:24 Raising from Calm Fund
  • 09:17 Keeping The Bootstrapped Founder running
  • 12:10 Wins for 2024
  • 13:36 Parting advice
  • 15:08 Recommendations

Recommendations

  • Book - A Court of Thorns and Roses
  • Podcast - The Economics of Everyday Things
  • Indie Hacker - Tyler Tringas

My links

  • Twitter
  • Indie Bites Twitter
  • Indie Bites YouTube
  • Join the membership
  • Personal Website
  • 2 Hour Podcast Course
  • PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
  • This Indie Life Podcast

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