Bootstrapping SaaS

• Took a few questions from Noah https://twitter.com/noahwbragg/status/1218625288633847808 and Dan https://twitter.com/mrdanmiller/status/1218627320807772161
• New registrations coming in from my sales/marketing efforts
• Bought a new domain for a blog/publication I've been wanting to make for the longest time
• Josh's tweet https://twitter.com/Shpigford/status/1217841243213922310 and positioning/distribution issues
• And a few other things: Thinking about launching on ProductHunt, my NYs resolutions working out so far
• Mac Miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrR_gm6RqCo

A BIG Thanks to my Patreon supporters:

• Jace Richardson
  RepoGuard. Protect your GitHub repositories from common mistakes that cost time and energy to fix. Whether it's force pushes to master or just bad commit messages, RepoGuard can help. Visit RepoGuard.com for more info.
• Merott Mohavedi - xebel.co (spelled with an X)
• Simon Benett - snapshooter.io
• Dean Leyton-James - cloudperiscope.com
• Zoli Veres
• Valon Badivuku

You can support me here https://www.patreon.com/bootsaas

Among other things...

• Running a product in the sea of many competitors
• My readings: David & Goliath, Stillness is the Key, Atomic Habits, Obviously Awesome
• Claritask currently: Lower pricing, new registrations, my sales activity
• New client work
• Personal habits: fasting, working out, 

A BIG Thanks to my Patreon supporters:

• Jace Richardson
  RepoGuard. Protect your GitHub repositories from common mistakes that cost time and energy to fix. Whether it's force pushes to master or just bad commit messages, RepoGuard can help. Visit RepoGuard.com for more info.
• Merott Mohavedi - xebel.co (spelled with an X)
• Simon Benett - snapshooter.io
• Dean Leyton-James - cloudperiscope.com
• Zoli Veres
• Valon Badivuku

You can support me here https://www.patreon.com/bootsaas

• A recap of last year: bad things & good things
• The $20K bank loan I was about to take
• New Pricing and why I did it (the reasoning behind it)
• Healthy habits: Intermittent fasting
• Started Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bootsaas
• More open financials: What else will I be sharing moving forward

Patreon Supporters

• A BIG Thanks to my Patreon supporters:
  • Jace Richardson
    RepoGuard. Protect your GitHub repositories from common mistakes that cost time and energy to fix. Whether it's force pushes to master or just bad commit messages, RepoGuard can help. Visit RepoGuard.com for more info.
  • Merott Mohavedi - xebel.co (spelled with an X)

Support my journey on Patreon

There wont be any ads in the show moving forward. Instead, I will give shoutouts to my maker friends. Want to keep the show ad free

Shoutouts:

• Helen Ryles: NamesAce.com
• Tony Denke
• Dominic St. Pierre

Show notes:

• $20K Investment didn't happen
• Applied to Tinyseed, probably wont get an interview call/email
• Getting a loan of $20K going into 2020
• Claritask is doing well. No growth in new clients, but there's growth with current clients adding more users, which caused the need to up the resources in the server
• How I will market/sell Claritask going forward

Thankful for EP25 supporters:

• Userlist is a tool for sending behavior-based messages to your SaaS customers. It’s great for onboarding users and nurturing them throughout their journey. You can also see who your users are, segment them, and see what they’re doing inside your product. Userlist is much more powerful than building it yourself, and less complex than enterprise tools like Intercom. Start your free trial today at userlist.io/bootstrappingsaas and get 30% off your first three months.

Even though I am excited to come back to Claritask, I still have to find a long-term working model.

Started Cold Emailing and landed the first demo with the first 30 emails sent.

Also, reading Ryan Holiday's book and highlighting most of it.

Thankful for EP24supporters:

• Userlist is a tool for sending behavior-based messages to your SaaS customers. It’s great for onboarding users and nurturing them throughout their journey. You can also see who your users are, segment them, and see what they’re doing inside your product. Userlist is much more powerful than building it yourself, and less complex than enterprise tools like Intercom. Start your free trial today at userlist.io/bootstrappingsaas and get 30% off your first three months.

Other things I talk about:

• My relationship with money
• Stillness is the Key book by Ryan Holiday
• Full Stack Radio Episode 125 — "Rob Walling: Choosing the Right Idea" with Adam Wathan
• Traction book by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
• The worst business I invested in
• Keeping a list of things I want to achieve
• The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping by Rob Walling
• What I am watching right now

Thankful for EP23 supporters:

• Userlist is a tool for sending behavior-based messages to your SaaS customers. It’s great for onboarding users and nurturing them throughout their journey. You can also see who your users are, segment them, and see what they’re doing inside your product. Userlist is much more powerful than building it yourself, and less complex than enterprise tools like Intercom. Start your free trial today at userlist.io/bootstrappingsaas and get 30% off your first three months.

Bootstrapping with client work on one side and Claritask on another is proving to be hard.

Among other things I talk about:

• Bootstrapping is hard in the way I am doing it
• Momentum in product making
• My current client project (consultancy work)
• Sales & direct Emails

Also, as a chapter on its own:

• How to have a killer product
• Moving forward as a company

Thankful for EP22 supporters:

• ColdfeetStudios.com by Shawn Inman — Shawn is offering a 30-minute free consultation wanting to help with a pressing challenge (technical or not) that you are facing in your bootstrapped product/startup. Hurry up, his weekly slots are limited.
• StartupResources.io by Paul Metcalfe — A curated list of the best tools you need for getting your startup off the ground. Startup Resources has a popular weekly newsletter where more than 3000 entrepreneurs — Go to http://startupresources.io to sign up for free

Corey and I have been talking for quite some time on and off. We finally found the time to sit down and talk about this "fancy" bootstrapping life of ours.

Among other things we challenged the bootstrapping way of building and selling a product and what would be the ideal situations of receiving an outside investment.

Corey runs https://blurt.app which helps its users write better.

Thankful for EP21 supporters:

• ColdfeetStudios.com by Shawn Inman — Shawn is offering a 30-minute free consultation wanting to help with a pressing challenge (technical or not) that you are facing in your bootstrapped product/startup. Hurry up, his weekly slots are limited.
• StartupResources.io by Paul Metcalfe — A curated list of the best tools you need for getting your startup off the ground. Startup Resources has a popular weekly newsletter where more than 3000 entrepreneurs — Go to http://startupresources.io to sign up for free