Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product


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We're joined in this episode by the founding team of Scatterspoke, John Samuelson and Colleen Johnson.

What started as a lark to learn new technology has now turned into a successful business with more than $12k MRR. In this episode, we learn how they turned a side project into a successful fulltime business.

The topics we cover

[02:09] The launch story behind Scatterspoke

[10:02] Shifting to enterprise customers

[16:17] The toll of working fulltime while trying to bootstrap Scatterspoke

[18:01] Hiring out for development

[26:00] Free plan and raising prices

Links from the show
  • Scatterspoke | Twitter
  • Scatterspoke | Website
  • Colleen Johnson | Twitter
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