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Product People

Justin Jackson

A podcast focused on great products and the people who make them

Episodes

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EP91 – Josh Nielsen from Zencastr: software for podcasters

Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and Web...

00:01:56Jan 6, 2018

EP90 – "Give yourself time." Building a profitable business on the Shopify apps platform

6 years ago, Bjorn Forsberg built an app called OrderlyPrint for Shopify. His goal was to increase his freedom, and to spend more time with...

00:48:25Nov 18, 2017

EP89 – "We never wanted to fire anyone," Natalie Nagele on Wildbit's journey

Back in the early 2000s, Wildbit was an agency building Flash websites for Philly nightclubs. Then, in 2007, they launched their first produ...

00:54:52Oct 28, 2017

EP88 – Pippin Williamson from beer money to over $1 million in revenue with WordPress plugins

Pippin Williamson started out like a lot of us do: building websites for whoever would pay him. He decided to try selling one of his WordPre...

00:47:05Oct 21, 2017

EP87 – How Nick Disabato built a profitable productized service

It's time for another Mega Profitable interview! This series aims to help founders, like you, get profitable. Learn how Draft went from havi...

00:54:58Oct 4, 2017

EP86 – Mega profitable with Brennan Dunn

Introducing a new series: Mega Profitable. What's the difference between a founder who is mega profitable, and a product person who's just m...

00:54:59Sep 20, 2017

EP85 – Facing your launch fears with Mike Taber of Bluetick.io

You'll recognize Mike from Startups for the Rest of Us and the MicroConf conference. He's launching a new product called Bluetick . This epi...

00:44:14Aug 11, 2017

EP84 – Contrarian bootstrapper Ian Landsman

"Charge more!" "Use content marketing!" "Start with an ebook!" There's a lot of folklore in the startup and bootstrapping community. Do they...

01:24:31May 16, 2017

EP83: Laura Elizabeth – unmistakable product validation

How do you find product ideas that resonate? Hear how Laura knew there was demand for her project, Client Portal. Everyone was like: "I want...

00:44:41Apr 8, 2017

EP82: Adam Wathan is back with a new launch story

When we last chatted with Adam Wathan he'd just launched his first book . His next project is a course called Test Driven Laravel . You won'...

00:59:10Dec 23, 2016

EP81: Behind Adam Wathan's $100k book launch

Adam Wathan has always been passionate about learning new things, and sharing what he's learned with the world. Then he discovered that he c...

01:06:05Nov 1, 2016

EP80: Are we at peak SaaS?

Should you start a SaaS company in 2016? Does it still make sense to run a SaaS as a solopreneur? (Originally posted on the MegaMaker podcas...

00:23:24Aug 12, 2016

EP79: Josh Pigford - "We're all winging it"

Josh is the founder of Baremetrics . But he's also just a normal guy. When a relatively well known investor chastised him, it stung. How doe...

01:01:54Jun 21, 2016

EP78: Nathan Barry - cash flow therapy (Part 2)

This is part 2 of my conversation with Nathan Barry. In the past four months, he’s taken his burgeoning SaaS company (ConvertKit) from $1 mi...

00:31:10Apr 6, 2016

EP77 - Nathan Barry – Three years in the desert (Part 1)

The last time I talked to Nathan, his web app (ConvertKit) had just hit $5,000 in MRR . In this two part series, Nathan describes how they g...

00:34:43Apr 1, 2016

EP76: Tom & Dan get physical with Studio Neat

Tom and Dan had one of the most successful Kickstarters of 2010 when they released the Glif . But was that enough to launch full-time career...

00:40:58Feb 9, 2016

EP75: Jason Zook on why he’s selling his future

Jason Zook has a different perspective on life and business. He’s not afraid to try weird and crazy business ideas. In 2008 he started a bus...

00:42:54Sep 24, 2015

EP74: Tracy Osborn – launching a Kickstarter, a book, a SaaS!

If you want to launch your own Kickstarter, write your own book, or build your own web application you’re going to _love _this episode. Trac...

00:47:20Sep 21, 2015

EP73: Justin Jackson – “How I got into products”

I was recently on the Chasing Product podcast with Chris Hawkins . Chris is a good interviewer: he asked a lot of great questions about my b...

00:43:46Jun 26, 2015

EP72: Nathan Barry – “The hardest thing I’ve ever done is SaaS”

After having great success with books and courses, Nathan Barry has shifted his attention to his SaaS: a web application called ConvertKit ....

00:55:33May 4, 2015