Podcast Episodes

The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers

It took me a long while to realize this: AI isn't just something like a chatbot for my customers. AI can work behind the scenes to facilitate getting the right stuff in front of the right people for …

Published on 4 hours ago

411: The Currents of a Founder

I was reading Brandon Sanderson's latest novel, Wind and Truth, when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: "A stronger current makes for stronger fish."

That's it. That's what entrepreneurshi…

Published on 1 week ago

410: Building for the Age of AI Consumers

I think we're at the precipice of a pretty significant change in how we build software products. Obviously, the recent ascent of vibe coding and all the agentic coding tools that we find very useful …

Published on 2 weeks ago

409: James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass

James Phoenix is an expert in agentic coding, particularly Claude code, a tool that I have been using to great effect over the last couple months. I chatted with James just a couple days ago and have…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

408: The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing

Today I'll be talking about a successful marketing project within my software business that turned out to be so successful that it spawned a business built on top of that business.

This episode of The…

Published on 3 weeks ago

407: Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI's Impact on Modern Design

Nick Groeneveld is a designer and User Experience expert who has been a valued collaborator on Podscan, my own software product. Nick works as a freelancer for a lot of companies that have no in-hous…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

406: Making Your Business Sellable (Even If You Never Plan to Sell)

Today, I’ll share how I’ve been preparing Podscan (and long before that, another SaaS business) to be ready to be acquired at a moment’s notice.

This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored b…

Published on 4 weeks ago

405: The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do

Today we’ll talk about how AI systems, particularly the ones that do all the work for us, can both massively amplify and hinder our effectiveness. The good get better, and the bad get worse. It's a p…

Published on 1 month ago

404: The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World

Today we’ll talk about keeping up with an avalanche of audio data and how I built Podscan’s transcription infrastructure.

This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored by Paddle.com

The blog pos…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

403: Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator

Amar Ghose has been growing Zenmaid from idea to market leader as a non-technical founder. Zenmaid is a SaaS platform that's been helping maid service owners grow their businesses since 2013. Amar is…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago