What happens when a touring blues musician burns out, teaches himself to code on YouTube, and decides to challenge the App Store from a four-star hotel in Vietnam? In this episode of SaaS That App - Building Tech-Enabled Businesses, Milan Milutinovic, Founder of Conference Cowboy, joins Aaron Marchbanks and Justin Edwards to explore his unconventional journey.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to leverage geographic arbitrage to extend your startup runway indefinitely
• Why progressive web apps (PWAs) are a superior alternative to native apps for many B2B use cases
• How to maintain product focus without becoming bloated
• Why pain-driven product design creates immediate user value
• How to build brand personality into your product to humanize high-pressure workflows
  
  

Milan Milutinovic is the Founder of Conference Cowboy, a progressive web app designed to transform how event organizers and attendees connect at conferences and festivals. With a unique background spanning professional blues music, digital nomadism, and self-taught web development, Milan brings unconventional thinking to the event technology space. His expertise in building lean, focused products positions him as a distinctive voice on solving real problems in the events industry.

This podcast is brought to you by Delta Systems, your one-stop shop for front-end, back-end, and full-stack software development. At Delta, Justin and Aaron share the same philosophy when it comes to clients: they treat people like colleagues, not just customers. Maybe that’s why Delta typically spends years working with the same companies: how many software engineering firms can you say that about? So, if you’ve got a big SaaS project in mind but have no idea where to start, come and get a free scope and estimate from Delta Systems on their website.

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Highlights:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [02:33] From Blues to Coding
• [16:28] Geo-Arbitrage and Founder Runway
• [23:56] What Is Conference Cowboy?
• [26:54] Fighting Feature Creep
• [31:53] Why Aligning Revenue with Organizer Success Matters
• [36:29] The Value of Focused Software
• [44:18] “This Is a Priceless Company”

Episode Resources:

• Milan Milutinovic on LinkedIn
• Conference Cowboy Website
• Aaron Marchbanks on LinkedIn
• Justin Edwards on LinkedIn
• Delta Systems Website

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