Startup to Something

Startup to Something

By Marc and MattBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Startup to Something episodes

  • 110: Free and untethered

    Marc's post-acquisition support of PowerImporter is over, and he's running wild and free. Matt is setting out to submit Email Wonderful this week to the monday.com marketplace. The guys discuss pricing and how to keep it simple, and technical issues around CSS in emails.

    Mentions:

    • dashdashHARD
    • emailwonderful.com
    • JudoHacker.com

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter


    1 hr 4 min
  • 109: The right kind of rest

    The guys are back!
    Matt is fighting with the HTML editor he's using for Email Wonderful, and is coming up with a go to market strategy. Marc is doing support according to his PowerImporter acquisition terms and they are coming to an end. Marc gives Matt his opinions on getting his app into the hands of his customers.

    Topics:


    Mentions:

    • dashdashHARD
    • emailwonderful.com
    • JudoHacker.com

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    55 min
  • 108: Sometimes garbage is actually garbage

    Marc's AI-powered domain buying bot is drawing to a close. Matt is gaining momentum with his product EmailWonderful and is onboarding beta users!
    The guys talk through Matt's go-to-market plan and tips and tricks for getting potential clients on the phone.

    Mentions:

    • dashdashHARD
    • emailwonderful.com
    • JudoHacker.com

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    49 min
  • 107: Finding early traction

    Matt has found early traction in the monday.com ecosystem and is building a quick MVP for a niche problem to solve.  Marc is building an AI bot to buy expired domain names to feed his addiction.  

    Topics:

    • Finding business problems to solve on Upwork
    • How to win Upwork jobs with a brand new account... with this one trick 
    • Using LLMs and GPT as an intelligent filter
    • The benefits of expired domains vs new domains
    • The gotchas of sending emails on behalf of your users (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)

    Mentions:

    • dashdashHARD
    • JudoHacker.com

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    56 min
  • 106: A purely creative act

    Marc is hacking on new technology, but building in public is killing his creativity. Matt is having a lot of fun playing in the monday.com marketplace and learning about Zapier and make.com.
    The guys discuss creativity and how to just enjoy hacking and how to think through problems we see in the world.

    Mentions:

    • dashdashHARD
    • JudoHacker.com

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    1 hr
  • 104: PowerImporter ACQUIRED

    It's all about Marc this week because he has sold PowerImporter! This is the story and some highlights

    Mentions:

    • (One more backlink!) PowerImporter
    • MemberRow
    • dashdashHARD

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    47 min
  • 103: Matt gets users, Marc goes serverless

    Matt's momentum journey continues- he has published his free tool and has users! Matt has goal related questions for Marc about how to get stuff done outside of work.
    Marc is doing a deep dive into serverless and he and Matt have a long conversation about it.

    Mentions:

    • PowerImporter
    • MemberRow
    • dashdashHARD

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    1 hr 6 min
  • 102: Rebuilding the right muscles

    Marc is having a tough time with his shipping muscles after being disappointed with his performance with a recent hackathon. Matt is making good headway on his render blog.
    The guys discuss dealing with discomfort, and working the right muscles to ship in public and how do decide where experiments should take us when deciding to invest time into them

    Mentions:

    • PowerImporter
    • MemberRow
    • dashdashHARD

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    57 min
  • 101: Keeping momentum and keeping books

    Matt has lots of momentum on his new blog about render.com and is publishing articles with a goal of shipping a free product.
    Marc has taken control of the financials of his company and is doing his own books, and is finding it fun.
    The guys talk about financial operations when doing business, difficulties with it and an idea Matt has around bookkeeping.

    Mentions:

    • PowerImporter
    • MemberRow
    • dashdashHARD

    Marc's Twitter
    Matt's Twitter

    58 min

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A weekly podcast by two indie hackers, Marc and Matt. They share their ups and downs of building their bootstrapped online businesses. They prefer to show instead of teach, so you get to see the real…