Make Lemonade

By JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy

The show for creators, by creators. Helping inspire today's entrepreneurs to earn money from their own lemonade stand.... more

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The podcast currently has 52 episodes available.

Make Lemonade episodes:

June 27, 2024Indie acquisitions, platform risk and life after selling Tweet Hunter for 8-figures
Today we’re joined by Tibo Louis-Lucas, who is most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for 8 figures. Since then, Tibo has gone on to acquire an AI video creation tool, Typeframes, which he spun Revid.ai, and Feather.so, a Notion blogging platform.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:17 Leaving Lempire and starting from scratch
03:00 Learning from failures
05:29 Growing MRR with influencers
13:38 How Tibo felt selling Tweet Hunter
18:55 Why Tibo will never sell a project again
25:14 Feeling paralysis after selling your startup
27:36 How Tibo has approached acquiring products
29:28 Have Tibo's acquisitions been a success?
34:15 Why Tibo acquired another project for $250,000
36:01 Did Tibo waste $250,000 on buying Feather?
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on X @lmsqueezy.
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42min
June 20, 2024Lemon Squeezy CEO mid-year reflection: funding, features and football
Today we’re doing a a behind the scenes episode with JR. We haven’t looked at what’s going on since December, so it’s about time I posed some questions to JR about everything from features to growth and more.
Links
John O'Nolan episode: https://youtu.be/QXwiTZiO46g
Simon Pittman episode: https://youtu.be/L11ii1qKD5o
Rob Walling episode: https://youtu.be/M_JbjtIYUh0
JR's features tweet: https://x.com/jrfarr/status/1791819342784655760
Product links feature: https://x.com/lmsqueezy/status/1801252160941797848
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Guess that guest quote
06:02 - Reflecting on 1 year since rejecting venture capital
07:57 - Marketing for Lemon Squeezy
11:07 - JR embracing the hat-free life
12:26 - New features launched
14:26 - Do people still want or need merchant of record?
18:38 - Lemon Squeezy JavaScript SDK package going gangbusters
21:25 - Update on feature requests
28:38 - Trends for sellers JR is seeing
30:06 - Was Lemon Squeezy easier to build than Mojo?
34:56 - JR's dream non-founder guest
38:08 - Why JR hates soccer
41:43 - How is life for the CEO of Lemon Squeezy
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on X @lmsqueezy.
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43min
June 06, 2024Taking on Adobe with his bootstrapped tool, Screen Studio - Adam Pietrasiak
Today we're joined by one of the most successful sellers on Lemon Squeezy, Adam Pietrasiak. Adam is the founder of Screen Studio, a beautiful tool for creating and editing screen recordings that he started at the end of 2022 and now has thousands of paying users. In this episode we talk about how Adam made $30k in his first month, his approach to creating a well-polished product, and why he's not planning to take VC funding any time soon.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:47 Adam's background
02:23 Learning from past failures
05:20 Life building from Poland
07:46 Screen Studio founding story
10:25 Building without validating
12:44 Building in a very competitive market
18:44 Being a designer developer
19:53 Making $30,000 in the first month
25:18 Discovering marketing and growth channels
27:50 Adam setting up a powerful affiliate programme
34:23 How Adam designs in code
37:10 VC funding or bootstrapping
39:42 Monthly recurring vs single license pricing
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46min
May 23, 2024Building a $7m non-profit tech company - John O'Nolan
John O’Nolan is the founder of Ghost, an independent publishing platform. John sees Ghost as an experiment in doing the opposite of what every other tech company does. They haven’t raised VC, instead setting Ghost up as a non-profit that can never be bought or sold. The core product is open source, with a simple SaaS model to fund future development. John is opinionated and outspoken but with many views that are hard to argue, so I can’t wait to dive into some of those today.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:48 From music to software
01:50 The benefits of anonymity
06:44 Launching Ghost as a non-profit
14:26 Why launch on Kickstarter
19:12 Is the longevity of blogging susprising?
22:25 What companies is venture capital right for?
23:40 Should more companies follow the non profit model?
25:50 John's approach to making great products
27:45 How John views competition
29:41 How do they ship at Ghost
36:38 The fediverse and ActivityPub
42:15 John's favourite newsletters
43:41 John's hobbies
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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49min
May 16, 2024Building a calm company with a strong financial engine - Justin Jackson
Justin is the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting platform that hosts over 27,000 podcasts. Justin has bootstrapped the business since 2018 and has used it to build a better life for himself and his employees.
Justin was on the pod back in January and we ended feeling like there was left with lots more to discuss, particularly Justin’s thoughts on building a Calm Company and what he plans to do with his life and money.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:40 Having the #1 podcast in the world on Transistor
04:24 Why Acquired is such a top class podcast
08:22 Justin's financial engine metaphor
16:44 Why the market is so important
18:30 Calm companies
27:41 How much the market impacts success
32:03 Justin's family business experiment
41:07 How Justin approaches investing
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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48min
April 19, 2024How Better Creating built a 6-figure Notion template business
Simon is the founder of Better Creating, a business he started in 2020 geared towards simplifying productivity and finding the best ideas tools and tech to help people create the life they want. His YouTube channel has over 130,000 subscribers, where he makes tutorials, tech reviews and more. Simon is another creator who has gone deep on Notion, building a second brain and many other systems that he sells as templates. Today we’re going to find out what it’s like being a full-time creator and why the Notion ecosystem is booming still in 2024.
Links
Better Creating YouTube Channel
Simon’s Notion Templates
The Generalist Co
How to make your first 5 hires podcast
James Recommendations
Shoe Dog
Podcastage
Hamilton
JR Recommendations
Charlie Munger handbook
Hard Thing About Hard Things
Erik Anders Lang (Adventures in Golf)
Cirque Du Soleil
Simon Recommendations
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Anything You Want (James has some spare copies of this. DM him if you’d like a copy for free)
Into the Woods
Scott Yu-Jan
Sleep No More
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:15 From theatre director to content creator
05:47 Choosing to make content not based on his career
07:36 Staying consistent creating content as a side project
12:47 Making money with small audiences
22:38 Keeping up a production schedule
24:53 The Notion template business
27:07 Are Notion templates a waste of time?
31:38 Is the template space too crowded?
34:53 Platform risk building on top of Notion
38:54 Coming up with template ideas
41:58 How to price Notion templates
45:27 Building a team
54:41 Book, YouTube and Theatre recommendations
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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1h
April 04, 2024Building side projects as layoff insurance - Aaron Francis
On the 6th March 2024, Aaron Francis was part of layoffs at Planet Scale, where he was an educator. Since then, Aaron has had a hard decision to make: find another job, or take the leap to full-time entrepreneur. Now the job offers came in thick and fast for Aaron, with almost 600,000 people seeing his layoff tweet, but after documenting his thoughts on his own podcast, Mostly Technical, Aaron announced what he was doing next. He launched his own content studio, Tryhard Studios.
Links:
Follow Aaron on Twitter
Aaron's Tuple Page
Tryhard Studios
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:28 What it's like being laid off
02:05 Building a studio in an apartment
04:24 Why PlanetScale laid off people
05:06 The reaction to being laid off
07:26 How to increase your chance of getting a new job
09:12 Side projects as layoff insurance
12:29 Do side projects make you more hireable?
15:09 Aaron's existing money making side projects
18:24 Deciding to go all in and not find another job
23:11 Aaron's new thing, Tryhard Studios
28:01 Why the name "Tryhard Studios"
30:15 The business model
32:08 Dealing with the course promotion treadmill
33:29 What things haven't gone so well
34:53 Building a pipeline of new work
37:13 Preparing for burnout
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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42min
March 28, 2024How Statamic founder Jack McDade stands out with radical design
Jack McDade is the creator of Statamic, a content management system for Laravel. He’s just launched his new course, Radical Design, which teaches people Jack’s unique approach to design and building products. And when unique approach, I mean it. All you have to do it scroll through Jack’s sites, his personal, Statamic, the Radical Design landing page to be immediately entertained by the little nuggets of flair dropped in throughout. In a world of boring landing pages and everyone doing the same thing, it’s nice to have a bit of Jack out in the world.
Follow Jack:
Twitter
YouTube
Statamic
Personal website
Radical Design
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:12 JR's question to Jack
03:00 Starting Statamic
04:03 Statamic growth over the years
07:04 Jack's approach to the product
10:03 What does Jack's day look like
11:20 When to hire as a CEO
15:22 Launching a course 4 years after annoucning it
21:49 What is Radical Design and why make a course
26:23 The secret sauce for Radical Design
30:26 Embracing AI as a designer
36:06 How did the launch of the course go
38:59 Where do future sales come from after launching?
45:57 Dabbling in fun projects
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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50min
March 14, 2024How to build a business on top of Notion - Sara Loretta
Today we're joined by Sara Loretta, who is the 10th US Certified Notion Consultant and Founder of SYSTMS™, an operations agency for agencies and small startups. She previously owned a design studio, 99 & Saint Claire, and spent nearly a decade before that in the nonprofit sector working in business development.
Follow Sara:
Website
YouTube
Twitter
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:43 How Sara Discovered Lemon Squeezy
02:4 1From Non Profits to Notion Consultant - Sara's journey
08:31 Having the confidence to career pivot
15:37 The Notion Ecosystem
18:58 Notion consultant program
23:49 Why Sara hasn't gone all in on Notion templates
27:24 Launching the Productized AF bundle
29:05 Getting confidence charging for large retainers
31:09 What systems Sara builds for clients
33:32 Running an agency as a solopreneur
36:31 The future for Sara
38:21 Sara's schedule and embracing siestas
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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43min
March 07, 2024Project $100k Ep. 2 - Domains, positioning and course delivery
Today we’re back with an episode of our Project 100k series, which is all about my journey as a creator going from 0-$100k selling through Lemon Squeezy. I’ve been a podcast producer for years but would like to stop trading my time for money and find a way to build an asset that makes me money while I sleep. In this episode we give our first update on the progress I’ve made on the name, positioning, course outline and distribution.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:08 James being stuck on Guernsey
02:42 Deciding on the course name
08:41 Delivery and pricing
11:27 Pricing of cohort vs self paced
17:00 Competitor research
24:37 Monetization through affiliates
26:25 Curriculum Continued
31:36 Workshops
35:28 Marketing
41:01 Wrap up
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
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43min

FAQs about Make Lemonade:

How many episodes does Make Lemonade have?

The podcast currently has 52 episodes available.