Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about Florida, children, stupid teenagers, growing up, stories that go nowhere, growth hackers, hiring a content engineer, unit testing, John Carmack, spending $13,000 on marketing automation software, motorcycles, and baseball tickets.

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Download this episode. Andrey talks about Gone Home and the impact it’s had on his life, but won’t give details!  Voiceovers, Antair is 9 years old, UserScape is almost 9 though Ian considers it 10, the good old days of bootstrapping, the constant re-inventing of Antair, Ian goes on a rant about Growth Hacking, project management apps, Ian rants again about marketing automation tools, remote work, Ian talking at Microconf, beards, Ian ranting about taking his family to Disney

Download this episode, in which Ian and Andrey talk about growing to a point where you have no idea where stuff is in your own company, building mobile clients for Snappy and Quintu, Minecraft, live coding streams, games, client work, system administration with SaaS, the Sturgeon/Laravel argument, the forums, SaaS growth curves, the PHP Book Book, Seinfeld, Bill Gates, and the Gone Home game.

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Special guest Gavin Bowman of RetroDreamer talks about bootstrapping a mobile gaming company. The business of software forums come up… again, expanding a gaming shop and how creativity factors into that, Ian asks too many questions about gaming and such, Being able to be done, revenue fear, ads vs paid, platforms, Apple review controversy

• Gavin Bowman
• Retro Dreamer
• Sneezies – Still a great iOS game
• Ryan Evans – Retro Dreamers first full time hire
• Velocispider
• What Now Podcast
• Andy Brice on Bootstrapped.fm
• Oculus virtual reality headset

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We talk about school lunches, fast food, Ludum Dare, game development, Minecraft, Userscape’s new employee, taking a vacation, 2013 year in review, amount of revenue to have before hiring full-time, the first two years of running a software consultancy, being too open about your employee information, Laracon 2014, and running an online retail shop.

• Gavin Bowman of Retro Dreamer
• What Now Podcast
• Bootstrapped.fm episode on movies for programmers
• Ludum Dare
• Notch live-coding for Ludum Dare 28, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
• The Story of Minecraft – documentary
• Chris Fidao (@fideloper)
• 2013 year in review – forum thread
• Lessons Learned: The First Two Years of Running a Consultancy
• Open salaries at Buffer
• Laracon 2014 in NYC
• Selling an e-commerce store, with a follow-up

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This is one of our best episodes yet. If you’re interested in content marketing be prepared to take notes. We also discuss the SaaS release cycle and lifestyle, working hours, business coaching and Andrey abducting Ruben.

• Ruben’s client proposal software Bidsketch
• Ruben’s personal blog
• Seth MacFarlane’s tweet on the Family Guy Brian stuff
• Ruben’s post on getting to his first 1K a month regarding Andrey’s previous question on Bootstrapped 15
• Keyword Funnel – Adwords keyword finder/organizer
• Old Bidsketch video demo
• Eric Sink’s on the Business of Software

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Ian and Andrey talk about kids’ toys, Uberdeck, making sense of Adwords, Snappy, content marketing, finding a regular job after years of running a bootstrapped software company, selling physical products, Userscape’s new hire, running a conference, and moving to a consultancy.

• Startups for the rest of us, episode 160  – podcast with Rob Walling and Mike Taber
• Andy Brice, his software business training course, and his upcoming Keyword Funnel tool.
• Pusher – Real time messaging service for web and mobile apps.
• Found – Elasticsearch hosting.
• 24ways – Web design and development goodness.
• Founder made $99 from an $82 million dollar exit.
• A year of selling physical products.
• Gavin and Craig of RetroDreamer. 

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Andrey sings Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy, booze, big UberDeck update, marketing, Snappy mobile app, mobile app reviews, VM’s,16 terminals tiled (huh?), everything is noodles (huh?), coworking, healthcare plans, more marketing, doing marketing under your own name, Ian’s idea for a new app

• Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy
• Doc’s Hard Cider
• UberDeck v2 – new push notifications, concierge installation service, great new pricing
• Moz
• Mochibits
• Slideroom – Happy Snappy customer
• PHP Townhall Podcast
• Light Table IDE 
• Festivus
• Healthcare.gov – You probably haven’t heard of this site
• Supportops
• Andy Brice software consulting
• Drip – email marketing via drip campaigns
• Rachel Andrew’s Newsletter – sign up at the bottom of the page
• Ruben Gamaz interview
• Hover.com

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We talk about dollar stores, dogs and babies, the new Helpspot release, support contracts, requiring a credit card at signup, pricing and recurring billing, info-products, SaaS being unsatisfying, digging new holes, the point of growing, all software going to zero.

• Helpspot – Ian’s helpdesk product.
• Snappy – Ian’s newest product.
• Uberdeck – Andrey’s mobile-app marketing product.
• Stripe – payment processing service.
• Star Trek Generations
• Ian’s “all software is going to $0.00” theory
• Edge of My Seat – Perch, Rachel Andrew, Drew McLellan
• Rachel Andrew on Bootstrapped.fm
• SupportOps.co – Chase Clemons
• Chase Clemons on Bootstrapped.fm
• So You Want To Be A Wall Street Programmer? – Andrey’s Book
• Ian’s newsletter
• SuccessfulSoftware.net – Andy Brice
• Andy Brice on Bootstrapped.fm

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We talk about Batman, Software going to $0, Pricing again, Saas sucking, High school/depression, Business of Software Conference, A/B testing, Insurance, Andrey and me opening a coffee shop comic book store, Batman Arkham Origins, how we’re the Seinfeld of bootstrap podcasting, Everpix closing, soup delivery, $7.95 cupcakes, our side projects that make us no money.

We’re going to try to do a Bootstrapped.fm meetup if you’re in the NYC area. Contact us or post to the board if you’re interested.

• Business of Software Conference
• Developers, Entrepreneurs and Depression
• ACT! CRM
• Microconf
• Optimizely
• Track.io
• Lego Star Wars movies
• The Crafted Kup – Ian’s local coffee house
• Everpix – Everpix Verge article
• Backblaze – awesome backup
• Tattly
• Not the guy we talked about, but another selling soup via bike
• Readdle

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