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- 016 - Festival Transportation w/ Kristina Lorson
Kristina Lorson taught herself Bubble and turned her clunky spreadsheet into a functioning app successfully transporting bands for 4 music festivals. In this first interview with Kristina we discuss the background pain that Kristina experienced and how she overcame some challenges to build the whole app herself. Traverse is well positioned to take on even more growth in 2023 and we'll be here for a front row seat.
- (00:00) - 016-kristina
- (00:34) - Kristina Lorson
- (03:03) - Traverse, Transportation Management
- (10:56) - Festival Transportation is Massively Overlooked
- (13:19) - When Transportation Doesn't Go Right
- (14:56) - Traverse So Far
- (17:16) - Finding Potential Investors in Your Users
- (18:08) - How Has This Not Been Solved Before?
- (22:00) - How Big Is This Opportunity?
- (23:18) - How Can We Also We Get Volunteers to Want to Invest?
- (25:55) - When a Founder Feels The Pain Their Product Solves
- (29:25) - Deciding to Try Building It Myself
- (31:21) - Goals For The Upcoming Festival Season
- (34:45) - Can Traverse Be Acquired
- (39:41) - Solving Your Own Problems
The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
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Creators & Guests
- Jonathan Bowers (he/him) - Host
- Kristina Lorson Little - Guest
43 min - 015 - Art Galleries
Jonathan, Caleb, and Daila discuss our newest project, raisonne.gallery. What started as a client project has turned into one of our first real products. It aims to solve the needs of art galleries who want to share their collection online and with other galleries.
[01:53] New Product for Art Galleries
[03:28] Building a Custom Database for Kamloops Art Gallery
[08:02] Launching a Landing Page for Raisonné
[09:34] Checking Our Spelling
[12:01] Caleb Groans While He Works
[13:53] Raisonne.galleryCreators & Guests
- Jonathan Bowers (he/him) - Host
- Caleb Sharp - Host
- Daila Duford - Host
The Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
20 min - 014 - Coda Packs with Courtney Milligan
We lucked into getting our first revenue generating Coda pack more-or-less paid for. Listen as guest Courtney Milligan shares how we build packs for Coda that export data to Excel and Google Workspace.
[00:43] What is Coda
[01:51] Tracking a saw mill in Coda
[05:57] Courtney's background
[08:32] Coda Packs
[16:31] Paid packs
[20:48] Working with CodaFind our Coda Packs in the Pack gallery:
Export Tables (free): https://coda.io/packs/export-tables-10648
Export Tables Pro: https://coda.io/packs/export-tables-pro-10652
Export to Google Workspace: https://coda.io/packs/export-to-google-workspace-11813
The Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
25 min - 013 - We Increase our Luck
Jonathan, Caleb, and Daila discuss how turning satellite imagery into animated gifs is like building property management software, in that it's just a bunch of random coincidence and that we can increase our likelihood of luck.
[00:39] Building a dynamic image generator Bubble plugin
[02:57] Can we take screenshots of Google Maps? (No)
[08:51] Accounting and property management
[14:17] Accidentally creating thingsThe Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
22 min - 012 - We Think About a Plugin
Daila couldn't make it on this episode, so Caleb and Jonathan explore some of the details of the free tier of OpenHouse.social, how easy it is to build forms with Tally.so, and if we might re-use the tech for OpenHouse.social to power a Bubble Plugin.
Form builder: Tally.so
The Product: OpenHouse.social
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Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
16 min - 011 - We Are Now Three
For the first time, we now have three co-hosts. We discuss what "free" even means and what features we might want to change for OpenHouse.social to make a free tier and we discuss some light upcoming plans for the property management app.
[03:01] What does free mean?
[05:47] Should we make OpenHouse.social free (as in beer)?
[08:53] We still want Caleb as a co-host
[10:48] Back to property management stuffThe Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
20 min - 010 - We Welcome Daila
Caleb was unable to make it after feeling a bit under the weather. So we introduce Daila Duford as another host of the show. Caleb is still going to be a host, he hasn't been replaced.
We talk about how Daila and the Little Robot team was able to build one of the features for the new property management software in just an afternoon. We also discuss what no-code is and why we are excited about if for new products.
[01:24] Feedback from a listener, we don't have an audience.
[02:39] Building some initial property management features
[05:00] What is Figma and Bubble
[07:02] What is Little Robot
[10:23] Failing faster
[14:58] Back to property managementThe Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
25 min - 009 - We Replace a Host
Fresh off a trip to Disneyland, Caleb discovers he might be replaced as co-host of the podcast. Jonathan and Caleb decide it's probably best to just add more hosts and pivot to property management. We also talk about road signs.
[00:27] Welcome back from Disneyland, Caleb
[01:54] Caleb thinks he's getting replaced
[03:48] We learn about the gap in property management software
[09:31] On road construction signs
[12:56] Tweaking the music for the podcast
[15:33] More ideas about automationThe Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
19 min - 008 - We (maybe) Pivot
Jonathan and Caleb sit down with Brendan Shaw to chat about OpenHouse.social and instead think about a pivot into a different product entirely.
[00:39] Welcome Brendan
[01:51] How does an 18 year old become a real estate agent?
[07:51] On not trading hours for dollars
[09:15] Give us your feedback Brendan Shaw
[19:19] What part of Brendan's business could be automated
[30:00] Does Brendan just want to become a tech entrepreneur?
[36:57] How to get ahold of BrendanFind Brendan Shaw:
Web: bsre.ca
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @brendanshawbc
Instagram: @brendanshawThe Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
38 min - 007 - We Wonder About AI
Jonathan and Caleb discuss how AI might be helpful for content writing and how agencies might use OpenHouse.social. Also, this episode shouts out to the moms that are listening. Hi Moms!
Also, checkout our Instagram page, @therobotfactorypod for a collection of AI generated alternatives to our podcast cover art. If your interested in AI generated art, we mentioned DALL-E but we also recommend checking out Midjourney
[00:30] We can accept payments now
[06:02] What do real estate marketing agencies do
[16:36] What's left to doThe Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
The Product: OpenHouse.social
Newsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.com
Twitter: @twostoryrobot
Instagram: @therobotfactorypod
Follow Jonathan: @thejonotron
Follow Caleb: @calebissharp
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About The Robot Factory
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Follow along as we attempt to build and sell a SaaS company. A build in public behind the scenes journey of a small software agency, Two Story Robot, trying something new.