The podcast that helps developers be awesome at launching software products. Hosted by @robwalling.
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Most founders wait years to tell their pivot story, once it's a clean success narrative.
@robwalling caught Nathan Tyler mid-pivot instead, from a scorecard idea that flopped to a new product that found instant market pull.
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Hiring your first developer as a bootstrapped founder is high stakes.
@derrickreimer and @robwalling break down the traits that actually matter: experience, being a generalist, thriving without a team, and knowing when to ship over perfection.
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Do you know how to find your next 1,000 customers?
@DesignliCo does growth engineering: every campaign is a hypothesis with a number on it. Beat your CAC and it gets more budget, miss it and they cut it that week. designli.co/growth
Thanks Designli for sponsoring this ep!
Would you stay at a startup if the founder still hasn't gone full time?
@robwalling doesn’t think an employee can bring founder level activation energy if the founder themself won't go all in.
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Would you stay at a startup if the founder still hasn't gone full time?
@robwalling doesn’t think an employee can bring founder level activation energy if the founder themself won't go all in.
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Can you validate a product before it even exists?
@robwalling breaks down how Liquid Death's founder validated a fake product before ever manufacturing a single can. The same mental models work for bootstrapped software.
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Most founders on their third or fourth startup don't build ten things and see what sticks.
In this week’s episode, @robwalling answers listener questions on filtering ideas, pricing AI agents, and slow enterprise sales cycles.
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Letting your nervous system make your decisions keeps your life small. You won't take the risk or do the scary thing you know you need to do.
@RobWalling on separating feelings from reality, snail mail for SaaS, and cold calling from scratch.
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"Is it possible? Yes. Is it probable, or should you do it? Probably not."
@robwalling revisits lifetime deals with fresh context from @mynameis_davis of Youform, and explains when a one-time offer actually makes sense.
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Thanks to @DesignliCo for sponsoring this episode.
What if you could go from idea to your first real user in 30 days? Their TractionLab guarantees v1 of your app is in users' hands by Day 30, or your next month is free.
designli.co/gettraction
Is no-code viable for a real SaaS?
Brian Henderson rebuilt his laundromat POS on Bubble during COVID and hit a clear revenue inflection point.
Possibly the largest true no-code SaaS @robwalling knows of.
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Is no-code viable for a real SaaS?
Brian Henderson rebuilt his laundromat POS on Bubble during COVID and hit a clear revenue inflection point.
Possibly the largest true no-code SaaS @robwalling knows of.
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What got you to $1M won't get you to $10M.
@robwalling talks with coach Julien Marzouk about the identity shift every founder must make: from operator to leader.
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The real SaaS apocalypse isn't coming for bootstrappers.
It's coming for the big, slow, overpriced incumbents. And AI just lowered the cost of building their replacement.
@robwalling on why this is a huge opportunity. Ep 842 👇 startupsfortherestofus.com/e…
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Thanks to @DesignliCo for sponsoring this episode.
What if you could go from idea to your first real user in 30 days? Their TractionLab guarantees v1 of your app is in users' hands by Day 30, or your next month is free.
designli.co/gettraction
Should you use one-time payments to validate a SaaS idea faster?
@robwalling answers this and other listener questions this week in Episode 841👇
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Should you use one-time payments to validate a SaaS idea faster?
@robwalling answers this and other listener questions this week in Episode 841👇
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Getting 80-90% done and abandoning projects isn't a productivity problem. It's a mindset problem.
@robwalling breaks down why founders don't ship and what actually fixes it.
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15 years. $35M ARR. $28M raised.
Nick Francis says he wouldn't raise a dime if he could do it over again.
The full story of Help Scout with @robwalling in Ep 839 👇 startupsfortherestofus.com/e…
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~80% of founders in every TinySeed batch have an issue with their pricing.
@robwalling shares 6 takeaways from the most recent batch kickoff, including why pricing is still the biggest lever in SaaS and what the second biggest lever might be.
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Some PE firms in 2026 won't show your deal to their investment committee without at least one AI moat.
@einarvollset and @robwalling break down all five and what they mean for SaaS founders in this market.
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Thanks to @DesignliCo for sponsoring this episode.
Afraid to touch parts of your codebase? That's a scaling problem. Their Engineering Intensive gives you a full audit and prioritized roadmap in two weeks.
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Using AI for marketing?
If you're a bad copywriter, it feels like magic. If you're good, you see how flat it is.
@robwalling + Taylor Hendricksen on using AI the right way.
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Using AI for marketing?
If you're a bad copywriter, it feels like magic. If you're good, you see how flat it is.
@robwalling + Taylor Hendricksen on using AI the right way.
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