Bootstrapped

By Ian Landsman

This is the archive of Bootstrapped.fm. A seminal Bootstrapper-oriented podcast started in 2013 by Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov. The first iteration ran for 104 episodes. In 2019, Steve McLeod took o... more

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Bootstrapped episodes:

June 05, 2014#42: Let’s get Wil Wheaton
This week we talk about Scribbleton, Sponsor us!, Rails apps, The Bootstrapped.fm Conference, semi-obscure Seinfeld references, Apple WWDC, Beats and Jimmy Ionvine, and much much much more!
Scribbleton
Apple WWDC Keynote
Sponsor Bootstrapped.fm!
Bootstrapped.fm Conference!
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
The Boyfriend (Seinfeld)
Recode/Jimmy Iovine interview
Wil Wheaton

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55min
May 29, 2014#41: 90% good looks. 10% ideas.
In this episode, we talk about Laracon, holding a conference in New York, Snappy Concierge, experimental coding, Scribbleton, the Mac app store, the Bootstrapped.fm conference, managing product websites, and disruptive businesses.
The Bootstrapped.fm Conference
Snappy Concierge
Scribbleton
Ada Lovelace and Edsger Dijkstra
Dijkstra – Discipline in Thought (video)
Cliffski’s strategic risks and opportunities (for Positech)

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1h 15min
May 07, 2014#40: Andrey Butov’s Fizzilization
In this episode we discuss talking at conferences, Star Wars, and sci-fi, video games, Ludum Dare and game dev competitions, the current Antair project list, user interfaces for kids’ apps, Scribbleton, multi-platform development, Snappy, domain registrars, and the Oculus Rift for virtual offices.
Laracon
Rachel Andrew – Conference speaking, transparency and fairness.
Draplin Design Co. — the talk Ian referred to in the show.
Mike Rowe TED Talk
Rendezvous with Rama
A Dark Room (web version) – and the iOS version
Pug vs. Nemo – Andrey’s Ludum Dare entry.
#LOWREZ JAM 2014
Scribbleton
Snappy
Gail Goodman – The Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death
Heavy Rain – and the VR glasses video.

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1h 5min
April 22, 2014#39: Take them to Hooters
This week we discuss profanity, Microconf, Peersconf, business evolution, Andrey Do-gooder, product trials, Notch and motivation beyond money, Minecraft, multiple saas apps, acquiring products and building vs buying, coder vs marketer, Andrey should do an ebook
Stampy Minecraft videos
UI Breakfast
Ian’s Microconf slides
@sil
MicroISV From Vision to Reality
Andrey’s Dr.Dobbs article
NYT Now
Long Island Herald
Drip email marketing
So You Want to Be a Wall Street Programmer
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1h 13min
April 22, 2014 #39: After Dark
Another few minutes on this weeks podcast where we discuss things to do in New York City.
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7min
April 09, 2014#38: Special guest: Eric Miller
In this episode, we sit down with Eric Miller, of Eric Miller Design, to talk about Eric’s design studio, his products, UX Kits, bootstrapping physical products, working with your spouse, Dribbble, Facebook and Twitter ads, OpenSSL, Brooklyn, Long Island, Poughkeepsie, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island.
Eric Miller Design
UX Kits
Redesigning Solspace
Katy Robbins
Vector Media Group
eecoder ( Visual Chefs)
Graffletopia
Northside Festival in Brooklyn
Unsplash

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46min
March 27, 2014#37: Hush! The grown-ups are talking.
In this episode, we discuss tax credits, branding and positioning, JitBit, John Carmack, Oculus, Zuckerberg, young people running companies, VR, box.com, Snappy, marketing tracking software, naming projects, and growth hackers vs. bootstrappers.
Rob Walling – HitTail
Section 199 Domestic Production Tax Credit
Chasing Product interview with Alex Yumashev – JitBit
John Carmack
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
Oculus
Carmack’s 2012 QuakeCon keynote
Carmack thanks Notch for inspiration to jump to Oculus
Notch’s blog post on the Oculus/Facebook situation
Michael Abrash’s presentation on presence and VR
Palmer Luckey on Reddit

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1h 16min
March 24, 2014#36: White hat growth hacker
We discuss more growth hacking scum, the podcasts 1 year birthday, building a business for more than money, SaaS vs download, SaaS thriving off dead accounts, code builds, game console emulators, open source doc and design quality, open source vs open source and free, publishing, conference talks.
Jason Cohen
Monetizing Children
Is SaaS the Only Business Model for the Web
Arq OSX Backups
Unreal Engine 5% deal
Popcorn Time – Napster for movies
Perch CMS
AGPL – the OS license to use if you want to use GPL
Laracon
Andrey’s first open source project
Ian’s talks at Microconf and Peers
Failconf
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1h 16min
March 10, 2014#35: Hate the SaaS!
In this episode, we discuss screaming squirrels, being busy, clients, project estimates, VC backed companies, why we hate SaaS, mobile app ickiness, and the value of ideas.
“Is 5X the new 2X in SaaS?”
“Give me $300 or the website gets it!”
The icky mobile apps article

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1h 16min
February 24, 2014#34: Don’t Shake the SaaS Tree
We discuss confusion over our voices, taxes, vacation, Disney tracking your meat, off topic, doppelgängers, SPF records, Al Bundy/Married With Children, Evernote, pruning your twitter account, Groupon marketing genius, Flappy Bird and the mobile cesspool, Rick Ellis, product first mindset, we’re over SaaS
Disney and the Meat Space
Laracon
Andrey’s Doppleganger ( Doppelgangers)
Mobile Developer Weekly
SPF Records, SPF on CampaignMonitor
Evernote
QT
Prune Your Twitter Account (Ian’s article)
Groupon Marketing
Flappy Bird download analysis article
Bill Gates can’t install Windows 8.1

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1h 22min

FAQs about Bootstrapped:

How many episodes does Bootstrapped have?

The podcast currently has 243 episodes available.